Auntie Alibi was
waiting for the dust to settle. Our county Executive has been quite busy
regarding many issues including Valley View and the Government Center.
As you all know,
Justice Slobod ruled in favour of the ones who brought the Article 78 to her
court seeking to invalidate the formation of the LDC to sell Valley View. In
what appears almost as a retaliatory move, after receiving the disappointing news,
Stevie Wonder announces the lay-offs. He initially plans on laying off 50-100
county workers going for over 600 by year’s end. His rationale is to offset the
$60 million deficit, which he claims is his reason for selling Valley View.
Didn’t we go over
this already, Steve?
You have a deficit
looming large (which still has not been proven) AND YOU TRY TO SELL Valley View,
claiming that would do the trick. BUT you gave your executive team RAISES and
then make cuts to the salaries of the ‘Regular Guys’.
Executive salaries up,
Regular workers salaries down
Regular workers lay-offs ( but not the unfilled but funded positions.)
Shows your
priorities, doesn’t it?
And subsequently,
Steve, you try to play the ’blame game’ including Legislators Brescia and
Berkman (who said that he knew nothing about it, BTW) by insinuating that it
was their idea. (Note to Brescia: this would not be the first time Stevie threw
a pal ‘under the bus’. Recall, if you will, Karlapoolza and how Steve confirmed that
his good buddy, Karl was there when the invites were passed out, despite Karl
claiming he knew nothing about it. He could do the same to you! Are you sure
you want to stick your neck out for him?)
Lazy Langdon is
touting the idea because he thinks that because the court ruling doesn’t apply
to the formation of the LDC only to the property transfer. So he plans to continue with the sale, which
is a property transfer.
On what PLANET can
you possibly think such lopsided reasoning would work? Do you think Justice
Slobod is an idiot? Do you think Michael Sussman is a moron? (If you
underestimate either one then you are the moron.)
And now we have Shawn
Griffin of Harris Beach PLC, Mr. LDC and IDA lawyer setting the scene for the
transfer through appeal or by re-vote of the legislature. SHAWN SAID: “...has done nothing more than hardened the
resolve of the county and LDC to sell the nursing home to a qualified buyer.”
WAH, WAH!!! I WILL GET MY WAY!!!
So we have two
attorneys working for the County Executive who do not do their homework,
present arguments in court without submitting any data to support their claims,
set up an LDC illegally and we are supposed to just sit back and watch this triumvirate
skip around the law and common decency? ARE YOU KIDDING?????
NOT ON OUR WATCH.
As for the Government
Center, remember Steve’s goal was to “have construction underway within six
months”.
Could this be the
next “WAH WAH”?
But what we really
need to find out is WHY?
Auntie,
ReplyDeleteWould you refresh my memory and tell the name of the publication and the date wherein Nuehaus and Chapman stated they are proceeding with the LDC and the sale of VV regardless of Judge Slobod's decision? Would this be considered "contempt of court?" As always Auntie, thank you for your expertise!!!
Hey previous poster, tt was in the Times Herald Record last Thursday. Don't you read the paper?
ReplyDeleteI think this is just about little boys trying to pretend they are big boys. Going in, how could a CE and his team of lawyers not know the law, the charter and proceed anyway on an LDC.How did the CE and lawyers not know about the FEMA money and the historical status of the OCGB (we all did) and if I read the paper correctly,(don't want to be accused of not reading) didn't our former CE get reamed for not disclosing the FEMA status with his legislators. Tired of being on this merry-go-round with all these operatives elected on false campaign promises and now even falser information being doled out to the taxpayers. They are all college educated, have years of political service under their belts, but all I can think of is that they are all out to 'get us' one way or the other. My question is 'what is really going on in all those special committee meetings"? Transparency went out the window on 01-01-14. Between Valley View and OCGB, Amy's Kitchen (a convention center for some tax-free group comes with it) I sincerely hope Mr. Neuhaus gets a grip on himself and should maybe clear his way too busy schedule and starts reading up on the manual of "How to Be A CE 101" instead of the one he has been reading on "How to Move Up Without Being Moral". (tried to be original and use my name but there seems to be a problem).
ReplyDeleteHi Auntie. O.C. EX. Steve Neuhaus, enlisted in the NYS National Guard then either transferred from the guard and joined the NYS Naval Militia then transferred to the NYS Naval Reserve. Being assigned to a Sea Bee unit. And receiving the rank of Lieut. After reading comments in the Chronicle attacking Neuhaus ability to lead and questioning his mental stability also attacking his family Mr. Neuhaus, is fair game but not his family. Thru Lt. Neuhaus’ service in numerous services i would think he underwent a full field background investigation as well as having some type of clearances necessary to attended classes at the war college etc. Lt. Neuhaus, extolls his service rightfully so. He should make public his DD214 plus his background inv. If one was executed this would perhaps silence his critics as to his mental stability an accusations he is a chronic liar. The political arena should be Public vs C.E. Neuhaus not his Dad, Mom or Sister that is only fair.
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