The Langster has no plans, and he and DeFruscio have blocked those expressed by Mary Ann Matters and Deb DiMartino during the campaign. DeFruscio wants to be Maney for a while. I doubt for long. Langley doesn't have the capacity to lead. Just look at his closest "advisers."
Excellent point. Does that mean Deb and Maryann are content to sit back and let Def and the Langster ruin everything? Or ....is there hope for those two yet ? If we'd only voted in Cheryl, we wouldn't be in this mess !
I agree to a point. Would a victory by Cheryl have turned Mangold and Malone into thinking that governmental reform was a good thing? Don't think so. They needed to be in the minority for a while. Tonight's Ethics Board appointment of Ed Gilbert as Chair will go a long way to discredit Langley/DeFruscio. DeFruscio is on an ego trip and wants to "run things." And "pride goeth before a fall."
The forcing thru of a political failure such as Ed Gilbert as chairman of what is arguably something important to the voters, shows how important it is for Def. and Langley to bully their way thru Town Hall and basically shut off the peoples right to complain. Time to remove Langley and send Def. packing and allow the Town Hall to heal from all the damage of the past 90+ days.
I will never forgive him for his tasteless drivel he posted on Duhfruscions Duhmands blog. It showed Gilberts true colors and how little he actually cares about EG as a whole.
Demands did stink but the thing I will never overlook is the public disrespect that Gilbert showed Ginny O'Brien on two different occasions. Agree with Mrs. O'Brien or not, but she deserves respect after her many years of service to the Town.
If the soon to be new Majority had a problem with Ms. O'Brien sitting on the Town Board during the process of her move out of Town, they should have addressed the matter in a professional manner, rather than having Gilbert mouth off at a Board meeting.
They should have consulted competent legal counsel to determine the definition of an "elector" in the context of NYS Town Law and then determined whether Ms. O'Brien's actual situation fit the facts.
I don't think they're smart enough to ask those kinds of questions or develop appropriate strategies.
The disrespect that Defruscio/Mulvey/Tirino ALL showed during Board meetings with their little snide comments and outbursts. And this Town elected people to give these three stooges a say in the day to day operations of East Greenbush ! What a total shame.
East Greenbush Deputy Supervisor Ed Gilbert is listed as the Vice Chairperson of the Rensselaer County Conservative Party. He is also a member of the Town Ethics Board, appointed by his direct boss, Supervisor Langley. Last night, the very same Langley/SWF appointed Town Ethics Board elected Ed Gilbert to serve as its Chairperson. Didn't anyone bother to read the Town of East Greenbush Code of Ethics? What an embarrassment for the Town of East Greenbush and what a terrible situation for those hard working employees of the Town who are required to file financial disclosure forms with the Langley/Gilbert Ethics Board by April 15th.
Why should ANY town employee comply with an illegally appointed Ethics Board ? What or how will they enforce it ? What are the ramifications for those employees who chose to NOT provide the info.?
It is incredible to me that anyone, including Ed Gilbert, thinks it's okay for him to serve on the Ethics Board. Two of the sitting TB members were elected to serve as they see fit. They cannot rely on the Ethics Board for advice or reliable opinion if the EB is Chaired by their most recent political opponent. When Ed Gilbert decided to run for office in opposition to the candidacy of Sue Mangold and Phil Malone he pretty much lost all opportunity to be their trusted statesman and advisor. If 2/5 of the TB can't depend on the EB then the EB is unreliable for all.
Ed Gilbert has been involved as a candidate in direct opposition to two people he now wants to serve as an advisor to. These folks faced him in their most recent election.
The Code of Ethics says that copies of the Code must be posted in all town offices and all employees must receive training to understand its provisions. I wouldn't comply with the financial disclosure provision until that happens. If they push for financial disclosure before everyone is trained it says to me they're more interested in targeting a single member of the town board than actually implementing a fair and impartial mechanism to monitor and eliminate conflicts of interest. Boards of Ethics can be a safe haven for whistleblowers or a witch hunt to discredit political opponents, but they can't be both. Appointing the supervisor's political hatchet man to the board gives a pretty fair glimpse where this one's headed.
Dear Jack, I couldn't agree more. Town employees should not be required to disclose until they AND the legitimately serving members of the Ethics Board receive the required training. The selection of the Deputy Supervisor as the Ethics Board Chair by the members of the Ethics Board manifestly demonstrates the clear need for such training.
Ed Gilbert acts like a guy who is running for office. His political aspirations will interfere with him gaining any credibility as an Ethics Board member. If I am wrong and he is not running, he should immediately make that pledge to the public. There is no way anyone can consider him fair and unbiased if he is also considered a candidate in the next election.
Phil Vecchio - washed up , has been. Thrown off the school board. Now the new satirist for SWF. Your article reeks of political doubletalk and SWF kool-aides ! Give Commander Clueless more time ? For what reason. He's had 90+ days to drive us down the wrong road already. He's made patronage/nepotism the hallmark of EG employment thus far. Really Phil, go pander to people who really are deaf, dumb and blind !
Ercole, does your sister even know she wrote in to the Advertiser? Most people don't know it, but Deanna Reckner is Chrissie's sister. Is this the sister that sued you? Here we go again, let the Martha games begin.
Ercole and Gilbert wrote that little bit of fanfare ! All these businesses being readied for renting?? Really - which ones under Commander Clueless? You people are drunk on the Cristo-Kool-Aides. These little propaganda articles are nothing more than drivel for the morons who voted for the SWF b~s !
Does the 9 and 20 restoration mentioned in the Advertiser letter include the hazardous, falling down, broken windows building behind Ercole's used car lot? Is that building also part of Supervisor Langley's "primary focus?" Does Ercole's cousin, the building inspector, have any concerns about its unsafe condition? And if not, why not?
Of course NOT ! Joe has no intentions of doing anything about it! He and the nephew-(cousin Randy) are up too their ears in Ercoles little plan to decimate our tax base to benefit the Duhfruscio family and friends. There's a reason that Ed Gilbert is where he is. There's a reason that Anthony Corellis is where he is. Ercole is a court jester for a reason. The grand SWF manifesto is slowly starting to reveal its ugly truth! And for the average homeowner in EG- its not good! Keep your eyes open people, the best- is yet to come !
Chris doesn't seem to be using that lot and house for car sales any more. Is he "making his property ready" for the new business of a big fat contract stemming from the Town's sewer bond. Insider contract?
I just finished reading the latest (April 3rd) report from Supervisor Langley's desk on the Town website. In it, the desk writes that a new breakfast and lunch restaurant has already opened and that a burger and hot dog stand will be opening in late April. That's good news for EG residents looking to expand their culinary choices, but bad news for EG residents hoping to meet with Supervisor Langley after lunch during normal business hours at Town Hall. Thanks to a recent report by NewsChannel 13's Bill Lambdin, we do know that Supervisor Langley's desk remains at Town Hall throughout the work day even though its elected occupant does not. As always, the door to the Supervisor's desk is always open if you have any questions.
I stopped by the restaurant near Jazzercise Supervisor Langley mentioned in his Supervisor's Report and noticed there were two vacant business locations in the same complex, one of them on the corner of Sherwood Avenue.. Are they part of Langley's 9 and 20 improvements? Talk about misleading the public in your taxpayer paid for Supervisor's Reports Mr. Langley.
Is it possible that Chris Defruscio neglected to tell Phil Vecchio that Supervisor Langley and Councilperson RICK Matters voted against a reasonable proposal by Councilperson Mangold, which would have prevented the Langley 2014 Tax Increase from being imposed on the taxpayers of East Greenbush?
@ 11:03 PM, You are correct, the tax increase wasn't imposed by Malone, Mangold, DiMartino and Mary Matters. It was voted for by Keith Langley and then Councilperson Rick Matters. Rick Matters is no longer on the Town Board by order of a Federal Judge. The voters will have the chance to remove Supervisor Langley from the Town Board in November, 2015.
Langley has no idea what he's doing. The man is so horribly unprepared or educated enough to handle the Supervisor job and he should step down. His inadequacies are beyond obvious and his inability to handle even the slightest controversy are red flags for ALL of us. Time for a public showing of disgusted and cheated residents , demanding he step aside.
If you guys are interested in discrediting Langley and the SWF, take a look at Dwight's piece that the Fly linked on what's going on on Thompson Hill. It looks like Langley's Planning Board Chairman signed off on a Plat approval for which there is no approved final Plat Plan. And he did it after a meeting which never happened pursuant to a resolution which was never passed. And the PB secretary is saying that Dwight has to FOIL for the minutes of the meeting that never happened. Now there's a corruption nugget for you.
Wow that's some serious revisionist history. Langley's budget had a zero tax increase the budget that MOM put forward had a tax increase and is the one the tax payers are supporting. Langley gave MOM one more chance to approve his budget before the deadline and they didn't like the language ( the truth ) and voted it down. They "claimed" that if Langley removed the historically accurate language they would approve it but why should anyone believe or trust them. And why did an accurate portrayal have to be removed? That's how it happened I wonder if you all will have the integrity to publish the truth for once.
Let me get this straight. If Langley removed some historical language we wouldn't have had a tax increase this year? Seems like a no brainer. Why wouldn't Langley remove the language? This tax increase fiasco makes Langley look really stupid.
Either Duhfruscions new friend Phil vecchio or Eddie Gilberry are trying to stir the sh*tpot. Just remember boys - sooner or later you'll be licking the spoon !
So what you're saying is that Langley and Matters' refusal to take out a superfluous phrase was reason enough to give us all a tax increase???? All that phrase did was assign blame, a classless political inclusion in a resolution to begin with. How did trust figure in? The vote was taken 30 seconds after Sue Mangold made the offer. She was ready to vote for the Langley budget. Let's put the matter straight: Langley and Matters were responsible for a tax increase so that the democrats wouldn't get credit for ending their term with a no tax increase budget. For political purposes they want to say they were the first ones to do it. Political revenge and Langley's re-election campaign are the reasons we have a tax increase, plain and simple. That's not vision or leadership, it's spite and politics as usual. SWF means the 'Same Wasted Futility.' Should the chairman of the Board of Ethics be mounting a political defense of one party? Sounds pretty partisan to me. Talk about integrity.
Pardon me, The so called "historically accurate language" you cite should have been removed under commonly established parliamentary procedure, because it wasn't germane to the overall Budget Resolution. On the "trust" issue. I trust Mangold and Malone far more than Keith Langley on this. Mangold and Malone took the time to publicly explain the reasons for their votes and they also offered a no tax increase compromise. Sadly, for the taxpayers of East Greenbush, Keith Langley wasn't interested in discussing a reasonable compromise. Keith Langley just wanted a tax increase in place prior to his organizational meeting in January. Keith Langley didn't, and still won't, explain why he was the deciding vote in favor of the Langley Tax Increase of 2014. Let's remove Keith Langley in November, 2015 and make sure he isn't given "one more chance" to again raise our taxes without any explanation whatsoever.
Dear PM But @10:45 - If Langley can't figure out what to vote for here is a little tool he can use - which of these actions will be best for the people. In this case, no tax increase would have been better than the silly, one-up-manship point that he attempted to make. They should have been trusted because the votes were back to back!!! the compromise would have been achieved 20 seconds later for all to see!!!! The language should have been removed because in adult negotiations each party gives in a little. This was a small concession...we could have no tax increase. Shameful, Mr. Langley, shameful.
You're kidding me right? Langley and Matters put forth a resolution but Malone and Mangold wouldn't pass it unless language was removed. Because Matters and Langley wouldn't agree the resolution gets voted down by... You guessed it MALONE AND MANGOLD! now everyone is upset that Langley wouldn't agree to the change but no one seems to care that Malone and Mangold were the ones to vote it down because of a sentence they didn't like. The fact is the budget we have is the one that MOM passed and that Malone and mangold when given the opportunity refused to fix. It's at their door plain and simple.
To Pardon Me But. No kidding, Keith Langley and Rick Matters refusal to accept a reasonable compromise proposed by Sue Mangold resulted in a tax Increase for the Taxpayers of East Greenbush. Keith Langley and Rick Matters chose crass partisan politics over leadership and that's too bad for all of us who have been forced to pay for this unnecessary tax increase. Mangold and Malone showed us some leadership. Mr. Langley showed us nothing but hypocrisy by pushing the tax increase door wide open.
Much like you, the sentence was full of political BS. Had no place being in a resolution.
On the other hand, maybe the resolution awarding Eileen Grant $65,000 should have said something like
Due to Supervisor Langley's stupidity and arrogance, the taxpayers of the Town of East Greenbush have to pony up $65,000.00 due to claims brought by Eileen Grant, even though Supervisor Langley accepts absolutely no responsibility for his actions
If Langley truly wanted the tax cut he said he did, he could have easily taken the language out. He probably isn'tt smart enough to know how to do it and he was afraid to ask anyone else how because it would show his ignorance in front of everyone.
You make an excellent point about the Eileen Grant resolution.
Once again Sue Mangold offered a very reasonable amendment to require all town employees involved in making personnel decisions to be trained on how to make those decisions lawfully.
One would think Langley, as the town's chief financial officer, would have voted for this amendment in order to prevent the town from having to make future taxpayer paid settlements.
Instead, Langley voted against this reasonable amendment, probably because he's too stupid and arrogant to pass any required training.
65k is beans compared to what could possibly be coming. Langley will have subjected this Town to potentially hundreds of thousands in awards if the rumors are true. Bad people skills + incompetent,childish input = Clueless Keith !
No, no one is kidding you about the Langley tax increase. Every homeowner in East Greenbush was saddled with a tax increase because R Matters and Langley were more interested in bickering language than good government.
DearJack,
You give Keith too much credit. He didn't have an ulterior motive for increasing our taxes. He is simply too dim witted to analyze a fast moving discussion.
I agree with 8:33. Keith Langley is as sharp as a marble when it comes to being a Town Supervisor. Look at what he's done. He's Increased our taxes through a misguided political ploy, he's appointed his political flunky and deputy supervisor to the Ethics Board and he's appointed his chief political hack as a Court Attendant. Keith Langley always puts politics over good government. And that's very, very sad.
Don't ya just love that the nasty little scam Ercole pulled has been exposed as the fraud it truly is ?! SWF will be long remembered as the biggest JOKE ever in East Greenbush politics. When wash-up has beens like Phil Vecchio, (yup the very same Phil Vecchio that was tossed off the EG School Board years ago), are being coerced into writing political banter by Duhfruscion just proves all the more that the Republican Party in EG is a bunch of scammers ! MAM - give it up before you lose total credibility. Your a bush leaguer in an adult game. Dimartino - do you even exist ?
I know its been asked previously, but is there any way we can demands Langleys removal from office ? It is my understanding that there is more lawsuits pending against the Town due to his lack of management skills. Is that true? How much will these suits cost the taxpayer?
How about the double DJs. Everybody in town is corrupt but them. One of them is living in luxury because of land sold to developers by his in laws the other one fighting against every thing in town, even the Miracle League in the past. To bad thier partner left town that cherubic fellow was thier water carrier. They have no answers they just want to scare you
When elected and appointed officials don't follow the law, it ought to scare you. And there's a culture around here which just ignores the requirements of the law. Remember "it's the way we've always done it?" There's a long list from the previous administration, and the current one has a good start on its own.
The previous administration pales in comparison to this group currently in there plunging our Town into financial ruin ! Never before has this Town seen an arrogant thief such as Defruscio continually make decisions to benefit only his personal friends and relatives. Langley is nothing but a puppet for Ercole and it is beginning to look alot like Gilbert isn't far behind !
Dear Pardon Me But on 4/5 @ 5:37 PM - You say "now everyone is upset that Langley wouldn't agree to the change" and you couldn't be more wrong! I am upset that I have a tax increase. The various little ego skirmishes are meaningless to me. Langley gets paid to lead and achieve results. He should settle down and work.
Just an FYI to all you complaining about Rich Benko being @ the Thompson Hill project;
There is no rules or law being broken by him. He is a "former" town employee , which means he has no binding anything to this farce of an ethics board. So basically, Ed Gilberry can go jump off a bridge, Benko is entitled to private employment - period ! If the morons in Town Hall today wanted to do anything, they should have afforded the man a decent "exit interview" - but NO - the a-holes of SWF are the most ignorant group of jackbutts I've ever seen !
The issue is more complicated than these posts suggest. To say that Rich Benko is entitled to private employment period is to misunderstand how government jobs work. If Rick is working on the Thompson Hill project - and I don't know that he is - one of two provisions of the Code of Ethics apply depending on whether he did any work on that project before he left town service. If he worked on that project as chair of the planning board or town engineer he is banned by the Code of Ethics from working on that project for all time. If he didn't work on it he only has to wait 60 days before it's okay for him to work there.
But the issue is still more complicated. Since Rich doesn't work for the town any longer he can ignore its Code of Ethics and there's nothing the town can do about it. It's up to the units of town government, be it the planning board, town board or anyone else, to refuse to see or talk to him about the project or THEY are in violation of the Code. But without clear and careful training no one's going to know any of this.
Also, as a point of information these provisions were written and passed by the democrats. No one has been harder on Ed Gilbert or Keith Langley on this subject than me but this is not a situation of their doing unless they are negotiating directly with Rich on this project. But as I said, I don't know if Rich is even working there. In my experience he has always acted in an ethical and professional manner and I wouldn't expect anything different now.
Dear Mr. Conway, Due to Keith Langley's "silent" running policy, the non connected taxpayers know little about this project. I agree with you about Rich Benko. The major issue for me is that I don't believe Ed Gilbert or Keith Langley understand the major provisions of the Code of Ethics. If they did, Mr Langley would not have been able to appoint his Deputy Supervisor and Vice Chair of the Rensselaer County Conservative Committee to the Ethics Board and Mr. Gilbert would not have been able to accept this unlawful appointment.
And since its been at least 90 + days since he was dismissed from Town employment and also that he was never the chair of the planning board. The only question is if he actively assisted as a Town Engineer.
@1:22PM Agreed. That's the difference between Mr. Benko and Mr. Langley. If asked, Mr Benko will give an honest answer! If asked, Mr. Langley, well ...not so much!
How can he give you an answer? He can't look at people cause he knows he's a liar affiliated with a best friend who's also, come on! A LIAR. It takes one to know one Chrissy!!
Thank you Jack for your support, I am not working on that project in any way shape or form. I stopped by to look at the view and progress and ran into the developers who were there. Apparently there was a conflict with the location of a water meter pit with one of the driveways. I did not comment on it nor did they ask for any advise. I am a resident of the Town and have a right to drive on a Town road. I would certainly be available for questions on this project. I am aware of professional codes of conduct contrary to the opinions of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jenkins.
You can take the chip off your shoulder, Mr. Benko. To my knowledge, neither Mr. Jenkins nor I have commented anywhere as to your knowledge of professional codes of conduct.
No but you clearly inferred interference over on the fly in your post regarding elected and appointed officials . If that was not your intention, please feel free to set the record straight !
Mr. Johnson is responsible for what gets posted on his blog. What he posted uses specific names and insinuations that cause the hate and discontent in this town. The best thing for East Greenbush would be for him to disappear. I don't blame Mr. Benko for commenting as he did. Its Johnson that is responsible.
Hey Donnie Boy, read your own blogs. Its you that are causing trouble in East Greenbush. Things would be a lot better if you stopped your BS and throwing rocks at people.
Again, the issue is certainly not Rich Benko. The issue is the secretive manner in which Supervisor Langley (DeFruscio) insists on conducting the taxpayers business. Why is Langley afraid of public scrutiny and discussion? What is Mr. Langley trying to hide? What is Langley up to that he doesn't want people to find out about?
Hey Anony.....All I posted was a comment saying that a resident and his wife saw Mr. Benko at the site on Thompson Hill. Mr. Benko elaborated to say that he was having a conversation of no substance with the developers. Which comment has more content? Seems to me that folks are awfully touchy on this one, aren't they?
All this talk about Mr. Benko is just a deliberate distraction. If people are interested in this they should be concerned about the public silence of the supervisor and the planning board chair. Why won't they explain what is happening?
Ah yes ! The slow, simmering death of our town. All at the hands of clueless Keith and his mentor - Chris the thief ! People, we'd all better wake up before its too late. We've got Defruscio the outright criminal making decisions and using his puppet-( Langley) to push thru his childish and immature plan. Lest we all forget that the Town Payroll has grown significantly since SWF has taken over. ALL the defruscio people got substantial pay increases- ALL of them ! DPW is in shambles. We just pissed away tens of thousands of dollars to Defruscios friends by purchasing a USED boom truck and USED trash trailer...both that we payed too much for....bought thru a friend of Defruscio, The taxpayers of EG - yup , ALL of us , are pawns in this funy little game and Chris Defruscio is throwing it straight in your face -daring you to say something ! Stupid Langley is along for the ride. Gilbert, the washed up, can't win an election , is on a run to make the people of EG pay for his trouncing at the polls. He's out to exact revenge at ALL costs to the town work force, hence his chair of the Ethics Committee. His decisions will amount to nothing but political vengeance. This too will cost the Town thousands in lawsuits. You were all warned prior to November 2013- most of you ignored the warning. Defruscio thanks each of you ! 21 months won't go by fast enough for most of us.
Luv it. Donnie and Dwight never do anything wrong it's always someone else. Like his elderly neighbor, the supervisors, the board the lawyers,the planning board , the zoning board,the Miracle league, the super market. Amen and good grief
Keith Langley thinks it's his town and the rest of us should just pay taxes in it. "Thanks" for the tax increase Keith. A lot of us are planning to "thank" you in person on election day November 3, 2015.
So, exactly what political/managerial/leadership experience did Langley, MAM or Dimartino have prior to election? Zip-notta-NONE ! And they look to E.Christopher Defruscioo and Ed Gilbert for guidance and leadership?! There's the problem ! We have no experience worthy of public office in Town Hall ! Unless I miss my guess, Langley has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he is completely clueless at his job. Gilbert needed to be placed as Deputy Clueless Commander and Ethics Chair because there was no chance in hell he could win an election in town. MAM and Dimartino are simply faces/pawns for Defruscio to use like marionettes in his sonnet ! SWF ? What a complete joke ! Wait til the good weather rreally sets in ad then we'll see how short-handed DPW really is....listen for the b*tching and complaining then. No summer help and reduced staffing are sure to make for a long summer in EG.
Another reason your going to see more and more people putting their houses on the market. East Greenbush offers nothing now. No road work done; very few DPW workers; the bottom line is Supe wants to make himself look good while saving all this money. All well in good - but let the TOWN look like shit because of it. Your one smart COOKIE, Langster! N O T. Look who your taking your orders from. Think like a man, do your own thing. Hire more help and get these GD roads fixed, will ya - for one. As far as the businesses on Columbia Tpk go, that's a lost cause. Rt. 4 is the place to be to shop. Why come to the desolate part of Town when you don't have to. Shape up Langley, you've only got a short time!
Plain and simple; you are either against Defruscio/Langley and the rest of SWF or your against East Greenbush ! There is NO coexisting with those who wish to destroy us all from within !
Most people would need assistance in the new position of TB member regardless of past training or experience. The problem here is they show no interest learning the job. Was there any reason given for SWF blowing off the Association of Towns where they could have learned something? There were 2 sessions, 1 for newly elected members and 1 large conference for all officials.
:Judges, elected officials and attorneys from around the state attend, learn, and conntribute. Do Mary Ann and Deb think they are to 'smart" to associate with their colleagues? If so, they are wrong. Following Langley's shallow isolationist policies is not serving them well. It shows.
refreshing !
ReplyDeleteTime for the Langster to refresh and rethink his plans for 2014-15 !
ReplyDeleteThe Langster has no plans, and he and DeFruscio have blocked those expressed by Mary Ann Matters and Deb DiMartino during the campaign. DeFruscio wants to be Maney for a while. I doubt for long. Langley doesn't have the capacity to lead. Just look at his closest "advisers."
DeleteExcellent point. Does that mean Deb and Maryann are content to sit back and let Def and the Langster ruin everything? Or ....is there hope for those two yet ?
DeleteIf we'd only voted in Cheryl, we wouldn't be in this mess !
I agree to a point. Would a victory by Cheryl have turned Mangold and Malone into thinking that governmental reform was a good thing? Don't think so. They needed to be in the minority for a while. Tonight's Ethics Board appointment of Ed Gilbert as Chair will go a long way to discredit Langley/DeFruscio. DeFruscio is on an ego trip and wants to "run things." And "pride goeth before a fall."
DeleteEd Gilbert is on a mission to bring this town to its knees. He's also determined to show us all that the Leisure Suit is still in style !
DeleteThe forcing thru of a political failure such as Ed Gilbert as chairman of what is arguably something important to the voters, shows how important it is for Def. and Langley to bully their way thru Town Hall and basically shut off the peoples right to complain.
ReplyDeleteTime to remove Langley and send Def. packing and allow the Town Hall to heal from all the damage of the past 90+ days.
What you allow is what will continue.......
DeleteI will never forgive him for his tasteless drivel he posted on Duhfruscions Duhmands blog. It showed Gilberts true colors and how little he actually cares about EG as a whole.
ReplyDeleteDemands did stink but the thing I will never overlook is the public disrespect that Gilbert showed Ginny O'Brien on two different occasions. Agree with Mrs. O'Brien or not, but she deserves respect after her many years of service to the Town.
DeleteIf the soon to be new Majority had a problem with Ms. O'Brien sitting on the Town Board during the process of her move out of Town, they should have addressed the matter in a professional manner, rather than having Gilbert mouth off at a Board meeting.
DeleteThey should have consulted competent legal counsel to determine the definition of an "elector" in the context of NYS Town Law and then determined whether Ms. O'Brien's actual situation fit the facts.
I don't think they're smart enough to ask those kinds of questions or develop appropriate strategies.
The disrespect that Defruscio/Mulvey/Tirino ALL showed during Board meetings with their little snide comments and outbursts.
DeleteAnd this Town elected people to give these three stooges a say in the day to day operations of East Greenbush ! What a total shame.
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ReplyDeleteEast Greenbush Deputy Supervisor Ed Gilbert is listed as the Vice Chairperson of the Rensselaer County Conservative Party. He is also a member of the Town Ethics Board, appointed by his direct boss, Supervisor Langley. Last night, the very same Langley/SWF appointed Town Ethics Board elected Ed Gilbert to serve as its Chairperson.
ReplyDeleteDidn't anyone bother to read the Town of East Greenbush Code of Ethics?
What an embarrassment for the Town of East Greenbush and what a terrible situation for those hard working employees of the Town who are required to file financial disclosure forms with the Langley/Gilbert Ethics Board by April 15th.
Why should ANY town employee comply with an illegally appointed Ethics Board ? What or how will they enforce it ? What are the ramifications for those employees who chose to NOT provide the info.?
ReplyDeleteIt is incredible to me that anyone, including Ed Gilbert, thinks it's okay for him to serve on the Ethics Board. Two of the sitting TB members were elected to serve as they see fit. They cannot rely on the Ethics Board for advice or reliable opinion if the EB is Chaired by their most recent political opponent. When Ed Gilbert decided to run for office in opposition to the candidacy of Sue Mangold and Phil Malone he pretty much lost all opportunity to be their trusted statesman and advisor. If 2/5 of the TB can't depend on the EB then the EB is unreliable for all.
ReplyDeleteEd Gilbert has been involved as a candidate in direct opposition to two people he now wants to serve as an advisor to. These folks faced him in their most recent election.
The Code of Ethics says that copies of the Code must be posted in all town offices and all employees must receive training to understand its provisions. I wouldn't comply with the financial disclosure provision until that happens. If they push for financial disclosure before everyone is trained it says to me they're more interested in targeting a single member of the town board than actually implementing a fair and impartial mechanism to monitor and eliminate conflicts of interest. Boards of Ethics can be a safe haven for whistleblowers or a witch hunt to discredit political opponents, but they can't be both. Appointing the supervisor's political hatchet man to the board gives a pretty fair glimpse where this one's headed.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, your right on point Jack ! The witch hunt was exactly what I was thinking.
DeleteDear Jack, I couldn't agree more. Town employees should not be required to disclose until they AND the legitimately serving members of the Ethics Board receive the required training. The selection of the Deputy Supervisor as the Ethics Board Chair by the members of the Ethics Board manifestly demonstrates the clear need for such training.
DeleteEd Gilbert acts like a guy who is running for office. His political aspirations will interfere with him gaining any credibility as an Ethics Board member. If I am wrong and he is not running, he should immediately make that pledge to the public. There is no way anyone can consider him fair and unbiased if he is also considered a candidate in the next election.
ReplyDeletePhil Vecchio - washed up , has been. Thrown off the school board. Now the new satirist for SWF. Your article reeks of political doubletalk and SWF kool-aides !
ReplyDeleteGive Commander Clueless more time ? For what reason. He's had 90+ days to drive us down the wrong road already. He's made patronage/nepotism the hallmark of EG employment thus far.
Really Phil, go pander to people who really are deaf, dumb and blind !
Ercole, does your sister even know she wrote in to the Advertiser? Most people don't know it, but Deanna Reckner is Chrissie's sister. Is this the sister that sued you? Here we go again, let the Martha games begin.
ReplyDeleteErcole and Gilbert wrote that little bit of fanfare ! All these businesses being readied for renting?? Really - which ones under Commander Clueless?
DeleteYou people are drunk on the Cristo-Kool-Aides. These little propaganda articles are nothing more than drivel for the morons who voted for the SWF b~s !
Does the 9 and 20 restoration mentioned in the Advertiser letter include the hazardous, falling down, broken windows building behind Ercole's used car lot? Is that building also part of Supervisor Langley's "primary focus?" Does Ercole's cousin, the building inspector, have any concerns about its unsafe condition? And if not, why not?
ReplyDeleteOf course NOT ! Joe has no intentions of doing anything about it! He and the nephew-(cousin Randy) are up too their ears in Ercoles little plan to decimate our tax base to benefit the Duhfruscio family and friends.
DeleteThere's a reason that Ed Gilbert is where he is. There's a reason that Anthony Corellis is where he is. Ercole is a court jester for a reason.
The grand SWF manifesto is slowly starting to reveal its ugly truth! And for the average homeowner in EG- its not good!
Keep your eyes open people, the best- is yet to come !
Chris doesn't seem to be using that lot and house for car sales any more. Is he "making his property ready" for the new business of a big fat contract stemming from the Town's sewer bond. Insider contract?
DeleteI just finished reading the latest (April 3rd) report from Supervisor Langley's desk on the Town website. In it, the desk writes that a new breakfast and lunch restaurant has already opened and that a burger and hot dog stand will be opening in late April.
ReplyDeleteThat's good news for EG residents looking to expand their culinary choices, but bad news for EG residents hoping to meet with Supervisor Langley after lunch during normal business hours at Town Hall.
Thanks to a recent report by NewsChannel 13's Bill Lambdin, we do know that Supervisor Langley's desk remains at Town Hall throughout the work day even though its elected occupant does not.
As always, the door to the Supervisor's desk is always open if you have any questions.
I stopped by the restaurant near Jazzercise Supervisor Langley mentioned in his Supervisor's Report and noticed there were two vacant business locations in the same complex, one of them on the corner of Sherwood Avenue.. Are they part of Langley's 9 and 20 improvements?
DeleteTalk about misleading the public in your taxpayer paid for Supervisor's Reports Mr. Langley.
Google Phil Vecchio - look what pops up ! Coincidence that Vecchio writes in support of Defruscio?? I think not !
ReplyDeleteQuotes@2x
“Thank you for being honest”
Very professional and personal I highly recommend Mr Vecchio
Posted by: Ercole, about 3 years ago.
Curious that Phil Vecchio forgot to write anything about this year's LANGLEY TAX INCREASE in his letter to the Advertiser.
ReplyDeleteMostly because it wasn't, You can thank MOM for passing that budget and Phil and Pete for the fine piece of fiction they produced putting it together.
DeleteBut MOM didn't pass that budget - Langley,Dimartino and MAM did.! Langley was given an "out" but chose to ignore it !
DeleteIs it possible that Chris Defruscio neglected to tell Phil Vecchio that Supervisor Langley and Councilperson RICK Matters voted against a reasonable proposal by Councilperson Mangold, which would have prevented the Langley 2014 Tax Increase from being imposed on the taxpayers of East Greenbush?
Delete@ 11:03 PM, You are correct, the tax increase wasn't imposed by Malone, Mangold, DiMartino and Mary Matters. It was voted for by Keith Langley and then Councilperson Rick Matters. Rick Matters is no longer on the Town Board by order of a Federal Judge. The voters will have the chance to remove Supervisor Langley from the Town Board in November, 2015.
DeleteLangley has no idea what he's doing. The man is so horribly unprepared or educated enough to handle the Supervisor job and he should step down.
ReplyDeleteHis inadequacies are beyond obvious and his inability to handle even the slightest controversy are red flags for ALL of us.
Time for a public showing of disgusted and cheated residents , demanding he step aside.
If you guys are interested in discrediting Langley and the SWF, take a look at Dwight's piece that the Fly linked on what's going on on Thompson Hill. It looks like Langley's Planning Board Chairman signed off on a Plat approval for which there is no approved final Plat Plan. And he did it after a meeting which never happened pursuant to a resolution which was never passed. And the PB secretary is saying that Dwight has to FOIL for the minutes of the meeting that never happened. Now there's a corruption nugget for you.
ReplyDeleteToo bad we don't have a Planner or Engineer to ask ... maybe $18K Planning Attorney Danaher could offer his learned opinion?
Deleteisn't there a planning board meeting Wednesday? might be a good time to address the chairman or attorney.
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DeleteWow that's some serious revisionist history. Langley's budget had a zero tax increase the budget that MOM put forward had a tax increase and is the one the tax payers are supporting. Langley gave MOM one more chance to approve his budget before the deadline and they didn't like the language ( the truth ) and voted it down. They "claimed" that if Langley removed the historically accurate language they would approve it but why should anyone believe or trust them. And why did an accurate portrayal have to be removed? That's how it happened I wonder if you all will have the integrity to publish the truth for once.
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight. If Langley removed some historical language we wouldn't have had a tax increase this year? Seems like a no brainer. Why wouldn't Langley remove the language? This tax increase fiasco makes Langley look really stupid.
DeleteEither Duhfruscions new friend Phil vecchio or Eddie Gilberry are trying to stir the sh*tpot.
DeleteJust remember boys - sooner or later you'll be licking the spoon !
Pardon Me But:
ReplyDeleteSo what you're saying is that Langley and Matters' refusal to take out a superfluous phrase was reason enough to give us all a tax increase???? All that phrase did was assign blame, a classless political inclusion in a resolution to begin with. How did trust figure in? The vote was taken 30 seconds after Sue Mangold made the offer. She was ready to vote for the Langley budget. Let's put the matter straight: Langley and Matters were responsible for a tax increase so that the democrats wouldn't get credit for ending their term with a no tax increase budget. For political purposes they want to say they were the first ones to do it. Political revenge and Langley's re-election campaign are the reasons we have a tax increase, plain and simple. That's not vision or leadership, it's spite and politics as usual. SWF means the 'Same Wasted Futility.' Should the chairman of the Board of Ethics be mounting a political defense of one party? Sounds pretty partisan to me. Talk about integrity.
Once again Jack - your right on point !
DeletePardon me,
ReplyDeleteThe so called "historically accurate language" you cite should have been removed under commonly established parliamentary procedure, because it wasn't germane to the overall Budget Resolution.
On the "trust" issue. I trust Mangold and Malone far more than Keith Langley on this. Mangold and Malone took the time to publicly explain the reasons for their votes and they also offered a no tax increase compromise. Sadly, for the taxpayers of East Greenbush, Keith Langley wasn't interested in discussing a reasonable compromise. Keith Langley just wanted a tax increase in place prior to his organizational meeting in January. Keith Langley didn't, and still won't, explain why he was the deciding vote in favor of the Langley Tax Increase of 2014. Let's remove Keith Langley in November, 2015 and make sure he isn't given "one more chance" to again raise our taxes without any explanation whatsoever.
Dear PM But @10:45 - If Langley can't figure out what to vote for here is a little tool he can use - which of these actions will be best for the people. In this case, no tax increase would have been better than the silly, one-up-manship point that he attempted to make.
ReplyDeleteThey should have been trusted because the votes were back to back!!! the compromise would have been achieved 20 seconds later for all to see!!!!
The language should have been removed because in adult negotiations each party gives in a little. This was a small concession...we could have no tax increase. Shameful, Mr. Langley, shameful.
You're kidding me right? Langley and Matters put forth a resolution but Malone and Mangold wouldn't pass it unless language was removed. Because Matters and Langley wouldn't agree the resolution gets voted down by... You guessed it MALONE AND MANGOLD! now everyone is upset that Langley wouldn't agree to the change but no one seems to care that Malone and Mangold were the ones to vote it down because of a sentence they didn't like. The fact is the budget we have is the one that MOM passed and that Malone and mangold when given the opportunity refused to fix. It's at their door plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteBottom line - LANGLEY-DIMARTINO and MATTERS ALL VOTED IN FAVOR OF THIS TAX INCREASE !
DeleteMalone and Mangold did NOT. Period-
To Pardon Me But.
DeleteNo kidding, Keith Langley and Rick Matters refusal to accept a reasonable compromise proposed by Sue Mangold resulted in a tax Increase for the Taxpayers of East Greenbush.
Keith Langley and Rick Matters chose crass partisan politics over leadership and that's too bad for all of us who have been forced to pay for this unnecessary tax increase.
Mangold and Malone showed us some leadership.
Mr. Langley showed us nothing but hypocrisy by pushing the tax increase door wide open.
Pardon Me But
DeleteMuch like you, the sentence was full of political BS. Had no place being in a resolution.
On the other hand, maybe the resolution awarding Eileen Grant $65,000 should have said something like
Due to Supervisor Langley's stupidity and arrogance, the taxpayers of the Town of East Greenbush have to pony up $65,000.00 due to claims brought by Eileen Grant, even though Supervisor Langley accepts absolutely no responsibility for his actions
If Langley truly wanted the tax cut he said he did, he could have easily taken the language out. He probably isn'tt smart enough to know how to do it and he was afraid to ask anyone else how because it would show his ignorance in front of everyone.
DeleteDear 8:50 am,
DeleteYou make an excellent point about the Eileen Grant resolution.
Once again Sue Mangold offered a very reasonable amendment to require all town employees involved in making personnel decisions to be trained on how to make those decisions lawfully.
One would think Langley, as the town's chief financial officer, would have voted for this amendment in order to prevent the town from having to make future taxpayer paid settlements.
Instead, Langley voted against this reasonable amendment, probably because he's too stupid and arrogant to pass any required training.
65k is beans compared to what could possibly be coming.
DeleteLangley will have subjected this Town to potentially hundreds of thousands in awards if the rumors are true.
Bad people skills + incompetent,childish input = Clueless Keith !
Dear PM But,
ReplyDeleteNo, no one is kidding you about the Langley tax increase. Every homeowner in East Greenbush was saddled with a tax increase because R Matters and Langley were more interested in bickering language than good government.
DearJack,
You give Keith too much credit. He didn't have an ulterior motive for increasing our taxes. He is simply too dim witted to analyze a fast moving discussion.
I agree with 8:33.
ReplyDeleteKeith Langley is as sharp as a marble when it comes to being a Town Supervisor. Look at what he's done. He's Increased our taxes through a misguided political ploy, he's appointed his political flunky and deputy supervisor to the Ethics Board and he's appointed his chief political hack as a Court Attendant.
Keith Langley always puts politics over good government.
And that's very, very sad.
Don't ya just love that the nasty little scam Ercole pulled has been exposed as the fraud it truly is ?!
ReplyDeleteSWF will be long remembered as the biggest JOKE ever in East Greenbush politics.
When wash-up has beens like Phil Vecchio, (yup the very same Phil Vecchio that was tossed off the EG School Board years ago), are being coerced into writing political banter by Duhfruscion just proves all the more that the Republican Party in EG is a bunch of scammers !
MAM - give it up before you lose total credibility. Your a bush leaguer in an adult game. Dimartino - do you even exist ?
I know its been asked previously, but is there any way we can demands Langleys removal from office ?
ReplyDeleteIt is my understanding that there is more lawsuits pending against the Town due to his lack of management skills. Is that true? How much will these suits cost the taxpayer?
Keith Langley, worst Supervisor ever!!!!
DeleteHow about the double DJs. Everybody in town is corrupt but them. One of them is living in luxury because of land sold to developers by his in laws the other one fighting against every thing in town, even the Miracle League in the past. To bad thier partner left town that cherubic fellow was thier water carrier. They have no answers they just want to scare you
ReplyDeleteThe DJs don't scare me nearly as much as clueless Ercole Langley and his tax increase.
DeleteWhen elected and appointed officials don't follow the law, it ought to scare you. And there's a culture around here which just ignores the requirements of the law. Remember "it's the way we've always done it?" There's a long list from the previous administration, and the current one has a good start on its own.
DeleteThe previous administration pales in comparison to this group currently in there plunging our Town into financial ruin !
DeleteNever before has this Town seen an arrogant thief such as Defruscio continually make decisions to benefit only his personal friends and relatives.
Langley is nothing but a puppet for Ercole and it is beginning to look alot like Gilbert isn't far behind !
Dear Pardon Me But on 4/5 @ 5:37 PM -
ReplyDeleteYou say "now everyone is upset that Langley wouldn't agree to the change" and you couldn't be more wrong! I am upset that I have a tax increase. The various little ego skirmishes are meaningless to me. Langley gets paid to lead and achieve results. He should settle down and work.
A tax increase with no financial plan = Junk Bond Government, Langley style.
ReplyDeleteNot good Mr. Langley, not good at all!!
Just an FYI to all you complaining about Rich Benko being @ the Thompson Hill project;
ReplyDeleteThere is no rules or law being broken by him. He is a "former" town employee , which means he has no binding anything to this farce of an ethics board. So basically, Ed Gilberry can go jump off a bridge, Benko is entitled to private employment - period !
If the morons in Town Hall today wanted to do anything, they should have afforded the man a decent "exit interview" - but NO - the a-holes of SWF are the most ignorant group of jackbutts I've ever seen !
Couldn't have said it better.....bravo to you 214 !
DeleteThe issue is more complicated than these posts suggest. To say that Rich Benko is entitled to private employment period is to misunderstand how government jobs work. If Rick is working on the Thompson Hill project - and I don't know that he is - one of two provisions of the Code of Ethics apply depending on whether he did any work on that project before he left town service. If he worked on that project as chair of the planning board or town engineer he is banned by the Code of Ethics from working on that project for all time. If he didn't work on it he only has to wait 60 days before it's okay for him to work there.
ReplyDeleteBut the issue is still more complicated. Since Rich doesn't work for the town any longer he can ignore its Code of Ethics and there's nothing the town can do about it. It's up to the units of town government, be it the planning board, town board or anyone else, to refuse to see or talk to him about the project or THEY are in violation of the Code. But without clear and careful training no one's going to know any of this.
Also, as a point of information these provisions were written and passed by the democrats. No one has been harder on Ed Gilbert or Keith Langley on this subject than me but this is not a situation of their doing unless they are negotiating directly with Rich on this project. But as I said, I don't know if Rich is even working there. In my experience he has always acted in an ethical and professional manner and I wouldn't expect anything different now.
Dear Mr. Conway, Due to Keith Langley's "silent" running policy, the non connected taxpayers know little about this project. I agree with you about Rich Benko.
DeleteThe major issue for me is that I don't believe Ed Gilbert or Keith Langley understand the major provisions of the Code of Ethics. If they did, Mr Langley would not have been able to appoint his Deputy Supervisor and Vice Chair of the Rensselaer County Conservative Committee to the Ethics Board and Mr. Gilbert would not have been able to accept this unlawful appointment.
It's hard to argue these points. Ed shouldn't have been appointed and he should have known not to accept the position.
DeleteAnd since its been at least 90 + days since he was dismissed from Town employment and also that he was never the chair of the planning board. The only question is if he actively assisted as a Town Engineer.
ReplyDeleteI would very simply ask Mr. Benko. He is an openly honest man who would give you an answer if asked.
Delete@1:22PM Agreed. That's the difference between Mr. Benko and Mr. Langley. If asked, Mr Benko will give an honest answer! If asked, Mr. Langley, well ...not so much!
ReplyDeleteHow can he give you an answer? He can't look at people cause he knows he's a liar affiliated with a best friend who's also, come on! A LIAR. It takes one to know one Chrissy!!
DeleteThank you Jack for your support, I am not working on that project in any way shape or form. I stopped by to look at the view and progress and ran into the developers who were there. Apparently there was a conflict with the location of a water meter pit with one of the driveways. I did not comment on it nor did they ask for any advise. I am a resident of the Town and have a right to drive on a Town road. I would certainly be available for questions on this project. I am aware of professional codes of conduct contrary to the opinions of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jenkins.
ReplyDeleteYou can take the chip off your shoulder, Mr. Benko. To my knowledge, neither Mr. Jenkins nor I have commented anywhere as to your knowledge of professional codes of conduct.
ReplyDeleteNo but you clearly inferred interference over on the fly in your post regarding elected and appointed officials . If that was not your intention, please feel free to set the record straight !
ReplyDeleteIf you're putting Mr. Benko in the category of those I was referring to, speaks volumes. I didn't do it. You did.
ReplyDeleteMr. Johnson is responsible for what gets posted on his blog. What he posted uses specific names and insinuations that cause the hate and discontent in this town. The best thing for East Greenbush would be for him to disappear. I don't blame Mr. Benko for commenting as he did. Its Johnson that is responsible.
ReplyDeleteHey Donnie Boy, read your own blogs. Its you that are causing trouble in East Greenbush. Things would be a lot better if you stopped your BS and throwing rocks at people.
ReplyDeleteAgain, the issue is certainly not Rich Benko. The issue is the secretive manner in which Supervisor Langley (DeFruscio) insists on conducting the taxpayers business. Why is Langley afraid of public scrutiny and discussion? What is Mr. Langley trying to hide? What is Langley up to that he doesn't want people to find out about?
ReplyDeleteHey Anony.....All I posted was a comment saying that a resident and his wife saw Mr. Benko at the site on Thompson Hill. Mr. Benko elaborated to say that he was having a conversation of no substance with the developers. Which comment has more content? Seems to me that folks are awfully touchy on this one, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteseems like the own could use an engineer and a planner instead of a deputy stupervisor, eh Keith?
ReplyDeleteAll this talk about Mr. Benko is just a deliberate distraction. If people are interested in this they should be concerned about the public silence of the supervisor and the planning board chair. Why won't they explain what is happening?
ReplyDeleteAh yes ! The slow, simmering death of our town. All at the hands of clueless Keith and his mentor - Chris the thief !
ReplyDeletePeople, we'd all better wake up before its too late.
We've got Defruscio the outright criminal making decisions and using his puppet-( Langley) to push thru his childish and immature plan.
Lest we all forget that the Town Payroll has grown significantly since SWF has taken over. ALL the defruscio people got substantial pay increases- ALL of them !
DPW is in shambles. We just pissed away tens of thousands of dollars to Defruscios friends by purchasing a USED boom truck and USED trash trailer...both that we payed too much for....bought thru a friend of Defruscio,
The taxpayers of EG - yup , ALL of us , are pawns in this funy little game and Chris Defruscio is throwing it straight in your face -daring you to say something ! Stupid Langley is along for the ride.
Gilbert, the washed up, can't win an election , is on a run to make the people of EG pay for his trouncing at the polls. He's out to exact revenge at ALL costs to the town work force, hence his chair of the Ethics Committee. His decisions will amount to nothing but political vengeance. This too will cost the Town thousands in lawsuits.
You were all warned prior to November 2013- most of you ignored the warning. Defruscio thanks each of you !
21 months won't go by fast enough for most of us.
Luv it. Donnie and Dwight never do anything wrong it's always someone else. Like his elderly neighbor, the supervisors, the board the lawyers,the planning board , the zoning board,the Miracle league, the super market. Amen and good grief
ReplyDeleteKeith Langley thinks it's his town and the rest of us should just pay taxes in it. "Thanks" for the tax increase Keith. A lot of us are planning to "thank" you in person on election day November 3, 2015.
ReplyDeleteSo, exactly what political/managerial/leadership experience did Langley, MAM or Dimartino have prior to election? Zip-notta-NONE !
ReplyDeleteAnd they look to E.Christopher Defruscioo and Ed Gilbert for guidance and leadership?! There's the problem !
We have no experience worthy of public office in Town Hall !
Unless I miss my guess, Langley has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he is completely clueless at his job. Gilbert needed to be placed as Deputy Clueless Commander and Ethics Chair because there was no chance in hell he could win an election in town.
MAM and Dimartino are simply faces/pawns for Defruscio to use like marionettes in his sonnet !
SWF ? What a complete joke !
Wait til the good weather rreally sets in ad then we'll see how short-handed DPW really is....listen for the b*tching and complaining then. No summer help and reduced staffing are sure to make for a long summer in EG.
Another reason your going to see more and more people putting their houses on the market. East Greenbush offers nothing now. No road work done; very few DPW workers; the bottom line is Supe wants to make himself look good while saving all this money. All well in good - but let the TOWN look like shit because of it. Your one smart COOKIE, Langster! N O T. Look who your taking your orders from. Think like a man, do your own thing. Hire more help and get these GD roads fixed, will ya - for one. As far as the businesses on Columbia Tpk go, that's a lost cause. Rt. 4 is the place to be to shop. Why come to the desolate part of Town when you don't have to. Shape up Langley, you've only got a short time!
DeletePlain and simple; you are either against Defruscio/Langley and the rest of SWF or your against East Greenbush ! There is NO coexisting with those who wish to destroy us all from within !
ReplyDeleteMost people would need assistance in the new position of TB member regardless of past training or experience. The problem here is they show no interest learning the job. Was there any reason given for SWF blowing off the Association of Towns where they could have learned something? There were 2 sessions, 1 for newly elected members and 1 large conference for all officials.
ReplyDelete:Judges, elected officials and attorneys from around the state attend, learn, and conntribute. Do Mary Ann and Deb think they are to 'smart" to associate with their colleagues? If so, they are wrong. Following Langley's shallow isolationist policies is not serving them well. It shows.
they saved the town money after all how difficult is it to thoughtlessly follow direction and say yes or no on command?
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