Chatty guy!
The County Executive was chatting again! Stevie Wonder
was on the radio Monday with someone named Barry.(Was it Barry Cheney?-is he the
grandson of Lon Cheney? Or is he related to Dick Cheney?) Steve promised that “We
will save Valley View” and then he and Barry went on to extoll the virtues of
selling Valley View and how the LDC was the best way to do that. (Assuming that
one wanted to sell Valley View). Steve then stated that “…it is out of the
legislators and (his) hands.”
Explain this: How do you, in one breath declare that you
will save Valley View and then in the next breath state how it is out of your
control?
That’s funny. Real funny, but not to the people who live
in Valley View who are now scared out of their wits because they don’t know what
is going to happen and such indecisive declarations do nothing to inspire
confidence in anyone.
And we have asked before and ask again now: Who really
benefits from the sale of Valley View?
And we don’t want to hear that it is to save the county
from the $60 million mythological deficit.
You know, we haven’t talked about it for a while, but I f
you remember our proposal for a TV show:
“The other star of the show
is a County Executive with the robotic voices in his head. He has a super-
obsession to sell off the county run nursing home no matter what. It turns out
that the voices have been telling him that the residents of the nursing home
are actually pod people (ala “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”) from another
planet posing as Senior Citizens, Veterans and persons in need of rehab! So he
MUST sell the nursing home to a private company, Billy Big Bucks Enterprises,
who is fully equipped to eliminate these infiltrators! BUT he cannot do it
outright because that will wake up the pod people who ears are trained to
listen for the words: “sale” or “selling”. So they come up with the idea of
forming a company to “oversee” the nursing home all the while getting ready to
sell it to the Billy Big Bucks Company. Only then will this CE feel safe. Oh!
Imagine the episodes as each POD Senior is rolled out in a garbage can! What
hi-jinks!”
In this next
episode, the County Executive is now convinced that even though he is no longer
responsible for the Nursing Home, the inhabitants are still after him and the
voices in his head are now telling him that he not only has to sell the nursing
home, but he must sell it to the Special One, the one with the power to stop
the pod people from completely taking over the CE’s mind. This Special One supposedly has “dark
side powers”, which are the only powers the CE believes could control the "podsters". The Special One has convinced the CE and everyone else of his powers
but is laughing all the way to the bank, where he cheerfully deposits monies
received for his non-existent magical services.
The Special One
has many names including Joseph and Daniel, but we just call him Billy.
Our CE and OCL Cheney were in such good spirits on his radio broadcast yesterday, extolling each others virtues and what really good friends they are, family talk, Warwick talk, talk about using the FEMA money ($2.7M to buy goodies) OCGB talk (the CE almost sounded giddy at the new 'bombshells' that have been brought into the open) the thought of a NEW OCGB must be making him so joyous. And he even was pleasant taking two calls from men who were oh so agreeable and gave him some excellent insights. But things then took a downward spiral. A caller from the dreaded place called VVC asked him some painful questions and all at once his happy tone changed and his spiteful voice came out. He called VVC an 'institution', the caller said "the members of the LDC have no knowledge of nursing homes"... he replied, "after the meeting why don't you teach them". The caller than queried "how long will VVC remain a nursing home" the CE replied "I believe it will remain a nursing home". The caller not happy with BELIEVE pressed on and the CE said, the "LDC will have to ask the potential buyers what their placement record in other homes they own is". PLACEMENT !!! Is he trying to tell us something??? Like BELIEVE in there is a Santa Claus, like BELIEVE the resident's HOME, which he calls an institution, is no longer to be their HOME for long. He was not very nice to this caller. He did not thank her for calling in like he did the other callers. Our CE did not make anyone BELIEVE he is a nice man or really cares about the residents in VVC who are causing an alleged $60M deficit (he still will not give the figures). But talking about the casinos and the NEW OCGB makes our CE very, very happy. I wonder how happy selling off VVC will make him feel... or should I say 'his friends'.
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