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Blacks and Wimins Can't Drive; Black Wimins Can't Park (Won't Park Legally)
on our exposé of corrupt local dentists (in Greene county, NY): We are informed that our efforts and support of a reader who was a victim of Coxsackie Dental Arts, "Dr" Kurt Froehlich, have paid off. The reader's credit card company has found in favor of the patient and has denied CDA and Frohlich payment, crediting the amount back to the patient. CDA and Froehlich can appeal the credit card company's decision within 45 days, but Froehlich still got to deal with possible court action and possible investigation by the insurance company and the Greene County DA and NYS Attorney General for possible fraud for double-billing, billing the insurance company for services never rendered, and trying to collect from the patient!
Back to our main story:
Yeah! It's an awful statement of a stereotype because it's not true everywhere and always; in other words, it can't be generalized to the entire population. But if people don't like stereotypes or don't like being forced into a stereotype, why do they insist on acting out the stereotype and giving it new life?
It's An Election Year, A Big One! Shouldn't Our Politicians Be Answering These Questions?
Do your part to put an end to "Sanctuary Cities" that ignore the law. Sign the petition at "Senate Must Act on Sanctuary Cities".
Here's an example from one of our readers:
Why does (it shouldn't) color allow you to be inconsiderate, unsafe, uncivil, violate the law?
"I thought you'd enjoy this.
I shop at the Glenmont Pricechopper and sometimes use the BankAmerica ATM next door. I can't tell you how many times I've seen vehicles parked in front of the BankAmerica facing the wrong direction and forcing buses and other vehicles to go around them, risking a mishap in the oncoming lane.
I can't tell you how many times I've had the pleasure of noting that almost all of those lazy, inconsiderate scofflaws were "persons of color", actually blacks.
"Today, I got a taste of "stereotype" behavior all of the PC correct whities are so careful to avoid noticing.
"I stopped and parked properly in the parking lot across from the ATM and noted a minivan type vehicle parked directly in front of the ATM on the wrong side of the street, facing oncoming traffic. A bus and a couple of cars had to maneuver around it to continue their trips. When I crossed the street I must have shot it a displeased look (no one was inside), but when I entered the ATM lobby, a black woman with alien locks was looking at me and says, "I saw that judgmental look at my car." I couldn't believe my ears. I responded, "It's parked illegally and forcing people to go around it. Can't you park properly?" She then launched into a tirade only a black could do to a white person, yelling that she saw my "judgmental look" at her car, and who did I think I was. I told I was the one obeying the law and parking properly and that she should save her paranoia for someone else. So she tells me to go "fuck" myself to which I responded, "Bitch! Get your money and leave so I don't have to share this space with you." She again told me to "fuck" myself.
Imagine if I, a whitie, started off on her like that and spoke to her like that. Or if I parked like that? Wonder if the Bethlehem Police would have ignored the white boy doing that?
Just thought you'd enjoy this after seeing "Black lives matter" until I want to puke!"
Thanks! You can print this if you want. It's all true.
[Name withheld at author's request.]
Before you get all self-righteous and politically correct, let us just agree on one point before you read on: This post is not about hate or racism or anything like either. This is a post that very clearly and honestly looks at a situation and how it came to be what it is. Very few of our readers will be able to deny having a similar experience. So let's get on with it.
Another reader writes about his/her experience when attempting to get a price on a simple sewing job:
This is the place! Just look at those prices! Why is he charging those prices? Because he can!
"I read your blog about the dentists and I thought you'd be interested in this recent experience. [Editor's Note: The reader is referring to our recent article, "Local Dentists. Are you being abused, taken for a ride in the chair?", in which we discuss local dentists, especially Coxsackie Dental Arts (Kurt Frohlich) and Marvin Gertzberg (formerly of New Baltimore Family Dentistry), and their scams.]
"I had a small sewing job I needed done and figured I'd try a smallish place that had put up some signs at the four-corners in Glenmont, feeling it's better to support a local small business than go to one of the larger establishments. It was a disappointing experience but taught me a great lesson in where we are in this country.
"I walked in and stood there watching a middle-aged man of color fussing with some garments. He didn't say a word, or even look up at first but after a minute or two he came over and said, "What can I do for you."
"I explained what I wanted done–seemed really simple since all I felt needed to be done was slip the thing under the sewing machine needle and stitch the material, that's all I was asking for.
"The man started a mini-course in sewing and how this needed to be done and that had to be done. I clarified that all I wanted was for him to stitch the material. He continued, telling me that he charged for every 15 inches; there was a charge for every 15 inches of stitching. He continued by telling me that this length would be $45 and this another about $30, etc. until I was completely mindboggled that this job was already more than $100. I told him that if it was more than $25 I just was not going to have do it. I jokingly said I could get a surgeon to stitch for less money, and that he should be a doctor.
"Well, the little man then got downright insulted and told me that I was "rude and being smart," for making such a comment. He told me that every profession has its rates of charge and that I was "ignorant" for not knowing that. I was shocked at his attitude and left saying, "Have a nice day and good luck, you'll need it."
"For your information if you want to print it, I'm talking about
Delmar Custom Tailor & Cleaners
http://www.delmarcustomtailor.com/
365 Feura Bush Rd, Glenmont, NY 12077
"P.s. I'm white middle class, well educated, a decent person and well-liked, and I don't feel I deserve this sort of treatment from anyone, white or of color.
"P.p.s. Several days after this experience, I was at Joanne's in Northway Mall and they recommended a local seamstress, formerly a manager at David's Bridal, who does wedding gowns and custom clothing. I called her and described what I needed done, she asked me to make and appointment to come to her shop to show her. We met. She did the work beautifully for $20.00!!! Less than 1/5th of what that nasty little man wanted to charge. I guess his customers from Elsmere and Delmar have more money than dignity or brains."
After all, immigrants can come here and take advantage of the "market economy," but oddly they're not subject to our laws, or our customs, or our ethics. But they have rights.
We're not singling out Delmar Custom Tailor & Cleaners but this guy is a good example of what we are talking about when we talk of retroracism and abuse of the white foundation of this country. Rather than be tolerant and tactful, this immigrant chose to be arrogant, abusive, and disrespectful. He seems to have forgotten that in his own native country he probably wouldn't be earning in a month what he charges now to shorten a pair of trousers! But is the little troll grateful? No! He, like so many others, leaves the squalor and corruption of their native countries to take advantage of the let-me-kiss-your-colored-ass-please juicebags of this country. Why is it we're such pushovers?
All of the great nations, empires of history, were very careful to secure their borders and to take care of their own.Why is it this country lets the homeland spiral into depravity and opens its borders to let every parasite imaginable cross over and infest this country? Forget about the crapola we're being fed by the ass-kissing liberals that this country was founded on the contributions of immigrants; they were an immigrant of a vastly different kind, they had values, morals, and a work ethic. Anyone who has had great grandparents who come to the United States LEGALLY can attest to that fact. We now have immigrants who make a joke of our federal laws and cities and states that aid and abet their criminality.
"White lives count!"
Yes! They do!
We are all born into a native culture; some people have moral and civil values, others do not. Some people are born into a loving, caring and nurturing family others are born into a vicious cycle of abuse. Some people are poor but dignified others are trash. We have white trash, Black trash, Oriental trash, and just trash trash. You can decide for yourselves where you fit in. One thing is certain, though: each and every one of us has the freedom and the liberty to be better and not simply be lazy and go with the flow. It just happens that some people are born into ignorance and prefer to stay ignorant; same applies to trash.
So when we look at what's going on in this country, it's all about choices: What you choose to do and what you choose to be. Simple.
I have the freedom and the liberty to choose and I choose not to accept the behavior…
Here's an example: Today, we made a rare trip to Walmart in Glenmont. There was quite a variety of types there ranging from trashy to middle-class, and you could see right then and there that you are born into a culture, you are raised in that culture and you're likely to stay in that culture and raise your children in that culture. I thought about this when I passed a very loud group of 4 persons, including two small children. Yelling, banging, the boom box was blasting. One couldn't help thinking "stereotypes." There is a reason for stereotypes and the reason is that the stereotypes perpetuate the stereotype. Does that make us, the others, evil or unjust for admitting that they created the stereotype, and we are just acknowledging it. It wasn't us that created the behavior that pegs them for what they are, and puts them in the box labeled "whatever." So why get all in a huff when someone honestly admits that they're what they are: stereotypical of their group. Why? Because they like it there; they have no desire to leave their place in the world. Does that make them bad people? Not at all. But I don't need them setting the conditions for how I live, or for invading my space with their behavior. I have the freedom and the liberty to choose and I choose not to accept the behavior; I also choose to admit that it exists and not to live in denial.
We're just plain sick and tired to the point of puking when we have to listen to all the talk of "racism" even by our racist president, Mr Obama, who is quick to play the race card when it comes to a white-on-black issue but is eerily silent when it comes to the execution-style shootings of our law enforcement people. We'd like to start a counter-movement, "White lives count!"
They use any excuse to destroy and to use racism as an excuse for criminality!
Anyone who watches the antics of the carjackers and the other urban criminals can form their own opinions. There was a video of a car-chase and then an on-foot pursuit of a [black] perp the other day just in the wake of the execution-style shooting of a law-enforcement officer, in the wake of the shooting of a state trooper, in the wake of the on-air execution of two talk-show hosts, in the wake of the shooting of two police officers, and the list goes on. Does anyone dare mention the color of the perps? The media doesn't have the balls to say "black" but the majority–we say the majority because in a couple of the instances no arrest has been made and we haven't seen the pix of the perps (the media tends to avoid mentioning color or, in some instances, even showing a picture of the perpetrator(s)–were, Guess what? blacks. Not Hispanic, not Chinese, not Asian, not Native American, not Irish; read our lips BLACK! And we don't mean African black! We mean American Blacks; the product of American Black culture. The same ones that will use any excuse to destroy and to use racism as an excuse for criminality! How long do you think the self-deception, the denial, the blindness of mainstream America is going to go on before it reaches the flash point and a reaction occurs?
Racism? The American people are kept in the darkest of dark closets when it comes to the truth about racism, slavery. Anyone with any knowledge of American history cannot avoid the example of the indentured servant, or non-landed whites, or women in this country. Much of that discrimination didn't change until the 20th century!
White people can't save Black people from themselves!
At some point in time people have to choose to stop being victims and stop riding the same old hackneyed slogans to death. White people can't save Black people from themselves. Black people have to take charge and clean up their own acts, clean up their own neighborhoods, create new, more positive stereotypes of themselves. It's about time someone admitted that.
And has anyone done the history of the Italian, Irish, even Catholic Americans in this country. Did you know that plenty of Italians and Irish were LYNCHED because they were Italians or Irish! Look it up, you ignorant liberal asskissers. In the West, until the 20th Century, Chinese and Sikhs, for example, were discriminated against and their property confiscated violently. What about the Japanese and German concentration camps IN THIS COUNTRY? Anyone talk about racism in those contexts? Why not?
And so we have people up in arms about closing our borders to illegal penetrations. This country is sick, sick, sick and it is refusing treatment. If you talk about closing our borders and enforcing our laws, you're un-American! If you talk about deporting illegals you're un-American! If you say fix the problems in the United States, wash the shit off your own porch before you screw up other countries and cultures, you're un-American.
The number of jurisdictions with sanctuary policies for illegal aliens have risen to an estimated 340 from 276 in July, according to an updated CIS study. The refusal of local authorities to give custody of deportable criminal aliens to ICE has resulted in the release of around 1,000 criminal aliens per month. (Excerpt from: Santuary Cities…Releasing Thousands of Criminals). Do your part to put an end to "Sanctuary Cities" that ignore the law. Sign the petition at "Senate Must Act on Sanctuary Cities".
Tell them to go the hell home and save their countries rather than abandoning them!
We have a question we'd like you to think about: Say you go to Canada for the weekend. You get into Canada using your American passport, driving a vehicle legally registered in New York, you don't speak with an accent. But when you want to get back into the United States from Canada, using your American passport, driving a vehicle legally registered in New York, and you haven't picked up an accent in Canada, you a put thru a third degree? It's almost like you're being punished for going to Canada and then trying to get back into the United States? Makes you wonder how so many Mexicans get into the USA over the border, doesn't it?
So doesn't it come across like a little hypocritical, a lot really stupid when the United States is telling Hungary and other European nations to open up their borders and let the Syrian refugees flow in? Yeah! Misery likes company and if the US has it's Mexicans why shouldn't Europe have its Syrians? Our advice: Tell them to go the hell home and take responsibility for saving their countries rather than abandoning them, and playing the rest of the world for suckers!
The United States government is doing more spying on YOU than on ISIS!
We even hear people saying that they don't travel anymore because of the hassle they get at the airports by goons in uniform. Is there a plan in the works here? If regular people are abused enough they will avoid moving around too much. If they're abused by mindless monkeys, they feel violated and who wants to go through that? Do you see a plan here?
All of you blind bastards reading this diatribe had better open your eyes and recognize the fact that we don't deport illegal aliens because they are VOTES for those in power. We don't call a criminal black because they are VOTES for those in power. (We also don't call them black because they behave like animals and everyone is scared shitless of what they might do. You asked for it America! You sure as hell got what you asked for!) And we don't spend more time fixing the United States because the corporations see untapped wealth in the Middle East and elsewhere and the only way they can get to it is by using the United States Government = their paid lackeys to do it for them. Look, if the corporations are going to profit by the military actions the United States government gets bogged down in, and United States military personnel come back dead, maimed, or otherwise physically or mentally damaged, it's the corporations that should pay for the damage, not the American people. Our military is not protecting our freedoms and liberties, people, WAKE UP! In fact, our own government is erasing our freedoms and liberties on a day-to-day basis and you don't even realize it. The United States government is doing more spying on YOU than on ISIS!
Don't you feel manipulated? Don't you feel like it's time to reclaim your brain, your mind, your soul?
We'd rather not get started on the media and prime time programming, but we have to say something about it just to be fairly complete. You are told what to think. You are told who to listen to. You are told what to eat and drink. You are told you are damaged goods and need this or that drug. You are told by your boss you can't say "fuck" in the workplace but turn on the television or open a magazine like "Men's Health" and you can hear and read the word or worse almost regularly. You're a dog or a whore if you jump into bed with a different gal or guy every day but it seems afternoon soaps tell you it's OK. Two men kissing and boinking are OK on the soaps, too. Don't you feel manipulated? Don't you feel like it's time to reclaim your brain, your mind, your soul? The media are stealing your mind and your soul and you just let it happen! If someone did that with your wallet or your purse, what would you do to reclaim just a couple of bucks or credit cards? But you let media corporations steal something much more valuable and irreplaceable: your soul and your children's souls, and you do nothing!
Shame on you, America! You've become homeless and have prostituted your values.
And YES! it would be a terrible stereotype if it weren't TRUE and FACTUAL!
Stay tuned for our exposés of local politicians and their bids for election. We'll be exposing Matt Miller (another corrupt crook for the Albany County Legislature?), Touchette, Youmans (hopefully with his arrest record), Dolan in Albany County, and of course Mr Flach opposed by Mr Crandall. And in Greene County Denis Jordan (Stupid, crooked, corrupt, and not a team-player but still seeking re-election to Highway Superintendent), Arthur Fullerton (He has already been exposed for lying and misinformation in his campaign! running for town of New Baltimore Supervisor. <GAG!>), Delisanti (No balls but what's the alternative? He's seeking re-election as town of New Baltimore Supervisor). We're going to have some great fun with this bunch of monkeys!
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We're cleaning up!
Since the inauguration of this blog as a reliable source of community information and as a catalyst for change-for-the-better of the communities in the R-C-S southern Albany county and northern Greene county regions, we have accumulated a long list of accomplishments, thanks to the contributions and support of the communities we serve. Here are just a few that we successfully pushed to rid our communities of trash:
John Bruno as Mayor of Ravena: He's history.
We showed how Nancy Warner is a two-headed snake and hypocrite: She's history but doesn't know it yet.
Tom Boehm and his cronies on the Coeymans town board: He's gone and so are they (rest to follow).
The dirty-hands-duo Dirty-Hands-Jerry Deluca and his sidekick Gregory "Dumpy-Dumplin'" Darlington: they're both gone (but with their pensions, regrettably!).
The illegal and unlawful Ravena Health and Fitness Center (and its failure manager, Cathy Deluca): it's bye-byes for the RHFC and Cathy Deluca (see below).
The Coeymans Police Department (but we do support keeping Chief P.J. McKenna in the capacity as law enforcement liaison to the Albany County Sheriff's Department and the New York State Police; McKenna is a professional law enforcement officer with a great deal of experience and savvy.): it's curtains for the CPD!
The Coeymans incestuous gang of dispatchers: they're passé.
In New Baltimore, we worked to get rid of the democrap mob under Susan O'Rorke and get some new blood in New Baltimore town hall: we're working to get some work out of the new egomaniacs in NB town hall now.
Also in New Baltimore, we worked to oust the former town clerk for alleged abuse of office: we ended up with an initial political appointee, Barbara Finke (NB town supervisor:Nick Dellisanti "Republicans appoint republicans." — That was a really bad response, Nick!) who ran unopposed and is now in office — Well, almost, Finke seems to be away, absent, on vacation more than she's in the clerk's office (but that's fuel for another article): Bye-bye next election.
We exposed numerous local scandals in Ravena village hall including the incompetence of the village clerk (a Bruno appointee,Annette Demitraszek, and deputy-clerk Kristine Biernacki, Nancy Warner friends), the public works scandals and Henry Traver (we have some tidbits to share on Traver and his relationship with some of the hopeless hopefuls) and Sandy Debacco, the water scandals, the Ravena mayor and boardmember health insurance benefits scandal (full-time benes for less than part-time work!), and we're still working on those.
In New Baltimore we exposed the scandals involving Denis Jordan, NB superintendent of highways, and his unlawful labor practices, his non-existing recordkeeping, his misuse of town resources.
In New Baltimore we exposed the problem of Joseph Tanner, animal control officer, being paid several thousands of dollars of taxpayer money while he works full time for the New York State Department of Transportation; he can't possibly respond to animal control calls while working on a road crew!
An the list goes on and on and on. Just search this blog and get the facts! We're working on some great exposés at this very time. Stay tuned!
"Dirty-Dumplin'" Darlington as Busdriver
And speaking of Gregory "Dirty-Dumplin'" Darlington, former chief of the Coeymans police department. That same dirty cop who conspired with Nancy Warner and then Ravena mayor John Bruno to harass and persecute Ravena kids, how is it that the "Dirty-Dumplin'" was recently observed driving an RCS school bus?!?! How can the RCS school board allow that weasel who was such a savage to our children only a year ago should now be have access to our children on their school buses? Where are you parents? What's that pervert doing on the bus with your kids? Is the "Dirty Dumplin'" that hard up for a job? Won't his fellow weasel Albany County District Attorney David Soares give him a job? Nope. Even David Soares isn't that stupid. Only the RCS board of education can claim to be that stupid. Check out this Family Guy busdriver clip.
Not to be used to support the illegal money-pit, the Ravena Health and Fitness Center!!!
As for the Ravena Health and Fitness Center: The Ravena town board refused to fund the Ravena Heaps and Fatness Center in 2015. We certainly applauded that move but had to ask Why did it take them so long? Almost a year prior they admitted it was failing and was a money pit. At a recent Ravena village board meeting we were appalled to have heard that the Village was looking into getting county/state funds to keep the money-pit operating for another year, presumably to keep failure Cathy Deluca in a job. Where were they going to get the funds? Well, they expected to get money from the money confiscated from drug dealers and placed in a fund for supporting communities etc. The Ravena village board had better think again. Here's Why?
We smell corruption and collusion in that announcement. Is that why we see Dirty-Hands-Jerry Decluca's New York State Association of Fire Chiefs official vehicle at Ravena town hall? Is he still misusing police information to shoe-horn his pet hippo into a secure position?
We smell Nancy Warner still trying to keep her biatch-buddy in a job but still at taxpayer expense! It's not going to work, Nancy. That money you're greedily eying is earmarked for worthwhile community projects, not to keep your friends in play-money!
The Ravena Health and Fitness Center is dead, and it's going to stay that way!
According to the local rag, the Ravena News Herald, the Albany County Sheriff's Department was "interested" in taking over the Ravena Heaps and Fatness money pit! That's absolutely absurd! To think that Craig Apple or anyone in the Albany County Sheriff's Department would seriously consider taking over that dump is absolutely scandalous and political suicide! Warning to Mr Apple: Stay clear of the Ravena Health and Fitness Center or face election ruin!
But according to that same report in the Ravena News Herald, Ravena hasn't heard a peep from Mr Apple or anyone in his department regarding the alleged "interest." Maybe there still is some sanity in Albany County.
Here's our promise: If the Village of Ravena or anyone associated with the Village of Ravena even tries to submit a request for funds or grant money, especially from money confiscated from drug dealers, the shit will hit the fan big time. We will obtain all applications and the names of all persons involved and expose them all. We will contact all regional community-based organizations, non-profit community organizations, non-government organizations an create an avalanche that will bury Ravena village hall. Once we've gotten the support of regional organizations, we'll use that support to demand investigations, audits, and prosecutions from the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the Office of the Comptroller, and others. So think again, Ravena, the Ravena Health and Fitness Center is dead, and it's going to stay that way! And if the Albany County Sheriff is so asinine to allow himself to get involved in such a scandalous and corrupt situation, he'd better start updating his résumé because he'll be political HISTORY in a New York minute, and be listed as a political suicide!
It's bad enough that even a rumor is even circulating that any Albany County department would consider taking over the Ravena money pit but to think that the suggestion is that the Albany County Sheriff would be willing to redirect confiscated drug money or any public funds to the third Cathy-Deluca-failure is pure insanity. Note that Mr Apple, and note it well.
Warner and her political cronies to misuse public property for their political ambitions…What's next, campaign signs in the windows of Ravena village hall?
Nancy Warner and Bill Bailey represent all that is corrupt in Ravena — aided and abetted by Ravena "Mayor Mouse" Misuraca's band of retarded sockpuppets. It's an election year and the roaches are coming out big-time! Nancy Warner is flashing her fangs from her nag's head, together with doddering mumbler Bill Bailey, "Mr Nasty" Jim Youmans, Graveyard Manager Rick Touchette, and several other failures. Nancy Warner is dead in the water but doesn't know it. In fact, we were flabbergasted when we drove by the village gazebo during the village-wide yard sale and saw Nancy Warner, Bill Bailey, Rick Touchette all misusing public property in their electioneering! Misusing public property for party political campaigning is heavy duty unethical and illegal. That's the same Nancy Warner who had the Coeymans police chasing local village kids when the kids were hanging out at the Gazebo. But it's OK for Warner and her political cronies to misuse public property for their political ambitions. Right? WRONG! We'd also like to remind our readers, especially our Ravena readers, that it was Nancy Warner [with the support of Bill Bailey] who orchestrated the mindless scandal of creating the Ravena Health and Fitness Center — which we all now know was devouring more than $100,000 a year of Ravena taxpayer dollars before the Ravena board woke up and admitted it was a failure and a money pit —, and it was Nancy Warner, who hired known failure Cathy Deluca to be manager of the fitness center, and who ensured that Ravena village hall insider Robert Fisk managed to collect more than $40, 000 of Ravena taxpayer dollars for his used fitness equipment. And it's that same Bill Bailey who wants to meter and charge Coeymans fire department for the water they use in responding to emergencies, putting out fires! And it's the same Nancy Warner and Bill Bailey who want to turn off water to the hamlet of Coeymans. And, Yup!, it's the same Nancy Warner and Bill Bailey who, for years, have been involved in the unlawful and improper water and sewer billing practices in Ravena. But now they're looking for your votes! No Way José!
And let us remind RCS residents and taxpayers that it was Nancy Warner and Bill Bailey who upped the RCS Community Library's rent an additional $600-700 a month to force the library to vacate the library space for the money pit Ravena Health and Fitness Center. And it was Nancy Warner and Bill Bailey along with former Mayor John Bruno and his puppets on the Ravena village board who were constantly threatening the RCS Community Library with eviction. Show us any other community in the civilized world that would do that to its community library!
Warner and Bailey: Illegal and unfair water and sewer billing, shadey bookkeeping, harassment of our kids, illegal and unethical campaign practices, abuse of the community library, supporters of the Cathy Deluca failure system a.k.a. the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, insider dealers. Do you still want to put them back in village hall?
Tom Dolan and Peter Masti of the Coeymans town board are also looking for election to political office. Tom Dolan is an abject failure and an embarrasment to the democrap party: he's managed to lose his grip on every important issue and is waffler-in-chief on the Coeymans town board. Dolan has to go and like yesterday. He's got a lot of negative baggage, too, like his alleged manipulation of voting through is Choices office. That's going to follow him. And let's not forget the favors he allegedly accepted from local town and village justices for his kids' drinking and drug problems. He's corrupt and is not above taking unethical and illegal favors.
Peter Masti misuses Holy Scripture because he misunderstands it — we don't need to elect fanatics or more tunnel-vision in local government!
Now native Californian Peter Masti, who likes to remind readers of his many letters to the editor in the Troy Record that he's a registered nurse, is a real dud. We've pubished some of his lunatic letters to the editor. Now we'd be the last to malign religion and spirituality, but Masti's sense of god is perverse. He's a literalist and fundamentalist (he uses the Bible as a weapon to control, that is, he misuses Holy Scripture because he misunderstands it.) He's been an embarrassment on the Coeymans town board since he's was elected. Fanatics and tunnel-vision have no place in our government and we need to start cleaning house at the local level.
"Cryptkeeper"Touchette Campaigning
And then there's Rick Touchette. Touchette has a reputation for lying through is teeth but that's no news in Ravena-Coeymans politics, much less in Albany democrap circles. We all know that Albany County is already a social and economic graveyard, and that Coeymans and Ravena are even deader. So it's only natural that Rick Touchette, with his extensive credentials and experience in managing graveyards, should want to run for Albany County legislator. C'mon people, wake up and smell the decaying corpses we have running for public office. The irony of Touchette's ambition as published in the Ravena News Herald (June 11, 2015) really made us laugh. Here's a guy (Rick Touchette) whose entire experience is managing cemeteries and now he wants to legislate for Albany County. Now really, neighbors, isn't that scarey? The Cryptkeeper wants to be your legislator!
Rick Touchette's career is managing cemeteries. Like Ravena/Coeymans, Albany?
For some years now Touchette has been the executive director of the Albany [Roman Catholic] Diocesan Cemeteries, and if you've ever had to deal with that bunch of anal freaks, you'd steer well clear of Touchette.
Together We Can Do Better!
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Barbara Finke, Interim New Baltimore Town Clerk, For Example…
Blown Away!
A short time ago we wrote that this country is no longer a two-party democracy. No, we're not suggesting it's even a multi-party country because the two major political parties, the Republican and the Democratic, are no longer unified nor are they much different. The many minor political parties are either whack-jobs or simply different flavors of the mainline parties. In other words, our politicians from both parties are practically indistinguishable in their double-talk, and they can be distinguished only by the self-serving personal agendas, pretty much power and greed. These characters can't even be trusted to stay in one party and they move from one side of the aisle, blown by whichever wind is coming through the window.
There Can Be Only ONE "Best" for the Country
Big Problem for our Elected Officials
Epidemic Incompetence from the Local to the National Level.
And it starts locally!
Elections are just around the corner: It's time to start asking questions.
There can be only one "what's best for the country," and there can be only one truth but somehow our politics has been stuffing any number of "bests for the country" and many versions of the "truth" down our throats for a couple of decades now. Why haven't we choked on the lies yet? Well, we can look locally for one of the answers to this question and to the national problem. We're too stuck on ourselves and have lost any sense of community. Instead we rally behind empty slogans like, "It's for the kids!" and then bitch and moan when our elected officials start picking our pockets. Ever ask yourself why that is?
The POOF! Phenomenon: Here's another farce of our so-called democratic process. On the campaign trail, our candidates for public office tell us everything we want to hear. They sugar coat everything, promising anything. Then they disappear. POOF! They're elected and then conveniently forget everything they said. Why is that? Here's why: We don't hold them accountable! We don't take them by the scruff of the neck and shout their own slogans and empty promises into their hairy ear holes! That's why.
Single-candidate Elections? And while we're on a roll, how is it that our mainline political parties can't come up with at least two candidates on a ballot so that we voters have at least the illusion of choice. How dare our political parties not put up a candidate to oppose the incumbent or a candidate who is running unopposed! Where's the choice when there's only one candidate and that candidate is unopposed. How is it that at the very least the two mainstream parties can't cough up a candidate.
Our System is Just a Logrolling Contest.
Just Two Lumps on a Log.
We are fortunate to have some correspondence that clearly illustrates much of what we are talking about. It's very obvious when we take a local example and trot it out for the public to read and make their own decisions.
North Korean Election Practices in New Baltimore. We are experiencing that little embarrassment in New Baltimore, where the current appointed, interim New Baltimore town clerk, Barbara Finke, is apparently being run by the Republicans with Independence Party endorsement, unopposed by the democrats or any other political party. But is this good for the town and its residents? Isn't running one candidate endorsed by all parties what they do in North Korea?
Barbare Finke was an absolute dud when she was on the New Baltimore town board during the O'Rorke dictatorship, and she frequently sat like a little mouse while the lunatics had their way with the town. When she decided not to run for town board again, and the previous town clerk was forced to resign, Finke was appointed by supervisor Dellisanti and his board majority to be interim town clerk. Was this all planned in advance, we have to wonder?
Our elections have become farces for the political parties! Now, the office of town clerk is basically an administrative/file clerk office; it doesn't require a hell of a lot of smarts in a town like New Baltimore. So maybe it's a custom-made job for someone like Finke but why don't we get a choice? Finke apparently will run for election to be New Baltimore town clerk but if voters don't have a choice in another qualified candidate, it's like Finke is being appointed to an office that the law says should be elected. Smell a rat?
During these past several months that Barbara Finke has been the appointed New Baltimore town clerk, we have asked her several times to tell us what she's been up to and what improvements she's been making in the New Baltimore town clerk's office. Finke refused to respond to our several requests. In fact, when she and board member Jeff Ruso were wandering around New Baltimore hamlet collecting signatures on Finke's Independence Party ballot petition; Finke does not have the Independence Party line, though (What happened, Barb, Jeff? Apparenty you guys pissed off George Acker, Greene County Independence Party Chair, and they threw your petitions out?), they were again asked to provide some positive press for themselves: Send us an e-mail telling us what improvements you've made in the New Baltimore town clerk's office. Their response: 0
Editor's Note: When we hear the line, "She's been working really hard!" we say that can mean one of two things: Either she's working real hard but spinning her wheels because she hasn't a clue what's going on. Or she's working real hard and getting a lot done. Well, the fact that Ms Finke and her keepers were unable to or declined to provide any information on what's being done, innovations, improvements, changes, etc. means only one thing: The wheels are spinning but there's no progress!
What's even worse is the fact that Finke doesn't appear to realize that she's on "probation" these past couple of months, and you'd think she'd be doing back-flips to make a good impression. Nope. Not in New Baltimore!
You'll recall a couple of weeks ago we announced that US Congressman Gibson was rumored to be appearing in New Baltimore (See our article: Beware: Residents Are Asking Questions). So a resident contacted the town of New Baltimore through the clerk's office–after all, the interim clerk, Barbara Finke, is a member of the Republican party (Anonymous New Baltimore board member: "Republicans appoint Republicans!") and also a member of the New Baltimore Republican Club and works with Jeff Ruso, town board member and president of the New Baltimore Republican Club–since Finke would certainly know about the visit of a US congressman to the area. Wouldn't she?
So a New Baltimore resident [name is unimportant] sent an innocent email to the New Baltimore town clerk asking about Gibson's alleged visit:
"Good morning:
Can you confirm that Congressman Chris Gibson was in New Baltimore on Thursday, September 4, 2014.
Where was he and at what time?
Where and when was his visit announced?
Thanks very much for your PROMPT response."
And it's a legitimate question for a resident to ask, isn't it? Does the New Baltimore Town Clerk have any information on the congressman's visit. Pretty fair question, isn't it? Well, not according to Barbara Fink. So Barbara Finke, helpful little public servant that she is, writes back to the resident:
Barbara Finke's Notion of Service.
"Thank you for your recent email. The information you are requesting would be better addressed by the office of Congressman Gibson as they would be aware of his schedule.
This is an official email account of the Town of New Baltimore and it is improper for receipt of this type of email via this town account.
Barbara Finke"
Nice response, right? If that's the way Ms Finke is responding to residents as interim town clerk, even before she's actually elected by voters (= appointed by default), dare we even speculate on her arrogance when, if she's actually elected to be New Baltimore town clerk? Wouldn't it have been nicer if she simply lied and said something like, "I'm sorry but I have no information on a visit by Congressman Gibson. You might want to try contacting his office for his schedule"? Yeah, that sounds better, doesn't it?
The resident responds to Fink with the following:
"Dear Ms Finke:
Excuse me, Barb, but if a member or member of the town board of New Baltimore is (1) phoning residents to announce the Congressman's visit and (2) the Congressman's visit is taking place on town of New Baltimore property or public property it seems to me that the acting town clerk of New Baltimore (YOU!) would be informed and would be able to answer responsively. Moreover, if an elected official, the Congressman, is visiting the town of New Baltimore, it would seem appropriate that the board–and the town clerk would be so informed–and would want the residents of the town to be duly informed. I may be wrong, but that would be a reasonable assumption. Unless there were (1) some sort of miscommunication in town hall, (2) some sort of discriminatory or unethical practices going on, (2) inappropriate use of town properties, or (3) you may want to inquire with your supervisors, Dellisanti or Ruso, who may be able to inform you on what's going on in the town.
How is it that the phrase "[Possible Spam}" occurs in the subject line of your response? The original e-mail was sent from my personal e-mail to a single addressee, your town e-mail. How can that be "possible spam". You may want to revisit your e-mail settings on that account to avoid future problems. I'll address this in another forum at some convenient time in future.
While you may be correct about Congressman Gibson's office being aware of his schedule, I may be correct in assuming that you might be aware of what's going on in the town of New Baltimore, where you are town clerk.
I am aware that the email is "an official account of the Town of New Baltimore", and as a resident/taxpayer in the town of New Baltimore, I have every right to avail myself of its use for good faith inquiry and business. Your comment is entirely out of order and unappreciated. Moreover I don't need you to provide that sort of information, just the information I requested is all I require or your statement simply that you do not have that information, or more apparently, that you are too arrogant to provide it.
And PLEASE don't lecture me on your opinion that "it is improper for receipt of this type of email via this town account." I doubt very much that you would survive a debate in town or municipal law with me so I'd advise you to be more prudent in your feeble attempts at burocratese. Know your place! Your pedantry is not appreciated.
That having been said, please be assured that I am not impressed by your performance nor by your presumptive arrogance, and that fact may not bode well in an election. You would do well to accept some tutelage from your father-in-law. Your response is totally inappropriate and if that sort of response signals what your response would be IF elected to be town clerk, you might as well resign now.
New Baltimore town board member Jeff Ruso, who is also president of the New Baltimore Republican Club, got involved and wrote back.
Damage Control. Pick up the pieces and continue playing your games.
(He's giving you the "Sign of the Anus" Mr Ruso.)
"I wish these message were to me instead of others, I can clear things up.
1. I organized the meeting for Sept. 4th. It was a Rep. Club event.
2. I sent an email to a number of people in the town. It was not town business and I kept it on my personal account as a result.
3. Mr. Gibson was not there, and there were no plans or expectations of his being there. A representative of his campaign was indeed there.
The club meetings are seldom well attended. The most frequent topic for those meetings is to plan for our major events i.e. corned beef dinner. We do occasionally have an outside speaker, maybe once a year.
If there are other questions I would be best to clear them up.
To which the resident responded:
OK. Let's Play Whack-a-Mole.
You're the mole!
(Did that hurt, Mr Ruso?)
"Nothing really to clear up…now. should have been cleared up before it happened. But stuff starts to happen when:
Fragmentary information or inaccurate information gets out w/o clarification
No information gets out officially, but gets circulated "on the street"
No official statement is published on an event
Public servants/interim appointees to elected offices get drowned in their own egos and become arrogant (pissing off potential supporters)
The pubic is left in the dark have to find their own answers and draw their own conclusions
Political party offices are held by sitting elected officials; the water gets murky and interests get ambiguous etc.
When you write things like: "I wish these message were to me instead of others…" I really have to wonder what is going on in your head. How in hell is the public supposed to know who the "me" is? How in hell is anyone supposed to know it's a "Republican club" event? How in hell is anyone supposed to know if it's Chris Gibson, a Chris Gibson aide, or Shirley Temple or Barbara Walters who's going to appear? If the events are poorly attended have you ever asked Why? and What can be done to improve attendance (really not an issue in the seminal problem)?
It seems that the much-mouthed "transparency" has become a bit obscured, doesn't it? Now I don't want to be the one to tell you "elected officers" how to govern but perhaps a short announcement in one or two of the local rags might have pre-empted any misunderstandings?
Perhaps a more forthcoming, polite, professional response by the interim town clerk might have been more appropriate?
Perhaps complying with commitments might be more conducive to dialogue.
You guys need to address residents' concerns and stop the politics, LISTEN, and pay attention to yourselves; otherwise it's going to backfire badly. If this keeps up you will not enjoy my support. Ms Finke has already overplayed her hand and is about to pay the piper at a high cost of political capital squandered. I sure hope you have a viable candidate in the wings.
Maybe the problem is that we were given to expect a lot, maybe too much. Maybe the board and its members just aren't up to doing better than most of their predecessors. Again, maybe a bit of self-reflection might be the prescription; like the Desert Fathers taught: "Pay attention to yourself" ; in other words, take a critical look at yourselves and many of the problems can be eliminated.
In the meantime, you'll be on stage and under scrutiny just like surrounding communities. Seems to get them moving…
Just trying to be helpful."
So, the lesson is this: We have to constantly remind our elected officials that they are public SERVANTS. We have to constantly remind them that the are where they are because WE put THEM there. We have to constantly remind them that they are paid with our tax dollars and if they don't behave, they'll be out on their dumb arses! It also becomes a problem when a sitting board member is also a sitting officer of a local political club. Remember our comments in an earlier essay to the effect that a candidate may run with political party endorsement but once elected he or she serves everyone, not just his party. Do you think these guys and gals have forgotten that fact. We haven't and November's approaching real quick and we won't let them forget it either.
Maybe if more residents responded like the resident above, the community might be in a far better way than it is when residents just sit on their hands.
Hello! Anybody out there?!?
This is not the end.
Those in National Politics would benefit from taking this message to heart…and maybe to Washington, too!
Stay tuned for upcoming installments on local politics and elections!
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2014 Ravena Poll Results
Residents Speak Out: Poll Results
Here are the updated voting results for the 2014 Ravena Mayoral and Trustee seats:
Bill "Moose" Misuraca (challenger): 74%
John T. Bruno (incumbent): 5%
(Remaining votes are split between R. Houghtaling (17%) and Other (4%))
Race for Two Trustee Seats:
Keith Mahler: 37%
Laszlo Polyak (write-in): 27%
Joel Coye: 8%
Martin Case: 5%
Rocco Persico: 5%
(Remaining votes are split between B. Roberts (8%) and M. Fisher (5%) and Other (5%))
If you haven't already voted, please vote at: VOTE!
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A Family Incident Leads to Political Questions: What's the deal?
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Does a Misunderstanding Between Two Brothers About An Alleged Illegality Tell Us Something About the Candidate…And the Potential Conflicts of Interest and Interference by the Candidate's Wife?
Family Incident Sends Up the Red Flags for Ravena Voters!!!
A real-life incident between Dom Misuraca, brother of Bill "Moose" Misuraca, the Republican Candidate for Mayor of Ravena, may tell volumes of what Ravena residents can expect if Mr Misuraca is elected, and should send up red flags about the possible conflicts of interest and interference that may be caused by Misuraca's wife, Jena Misuraca, with possible effects of abuse of public office. Here's the scenario straight from the brother's mouth:
The Brother, Dom Misuraca, of Republican Ravena Mayoral Candidate Bill "Moose" Misuraca, writes in a recent response to a comment made by one of our readers:
Ill just say this to your assine reply to my comment:
1. The way he [Bill "Moose" Misuraca] makes a sandwich matters little in comparison to running a town [Ravena].
2. I did storm into the bar, as far as it being "no reason at all", well you wouldnt know that I had just gotten off the phone with my crying mother….crying because he was blaming ME , as the person that reported the bar for HAVING UNTAXED WORKERS. While I do not condone off the book employees, I certainly did not report him…I am not only [the] person on his bad side.
The police were not necessary if he had only been able to COMMUNICATE WITH ME, instead of jumping to conclusions and allowing his wife [Jena Misuraca] to spread rumors. I certainly wouldnt have WASTED THE TAXPAYERS MONEY by calling the police….who , in TRUE RAVENA FASHION ,arrived in a pack of three.
3. HE IS NOT FULL OWNER OF NEITHER THE BAR nor PROPERTY. As partial owner of the property, i was within my rights to be there…i left to talk to the police outside ,away from nosey barflies…… It seems like it is YOU [one of our readers] who does not know the whole story,
[Response to comment made to the article The Buzz is Out: Bill "Moose" Misuraca will Challenge John "Black Mamba" Bruno in the Ravena Mayoral Race!!]
Although it sounds like a family matter, there are three points embedded in Dom Misuraca's comment that are of significant interest to our readers, and raise questions about the mayoral candidate, Bill "Moose" Misuraca:
(1) The allegation that Bill "Moose" Misuraca and his wife Jena Misuraca were evading the law as regards workers/employee taxes. Not that financial mismanagement hasn't been the hallmark of the John T. Bruno & Co. regime, this is a serious allegation, especially serious when it is made against someone who wants to be the chief financial officer of the Village of Ravena. We need to hear more about this allegation and maybe get some clarification.
(2) The apparent communication problem is also worrying. If someone can't communicate appropriately on a serious matter, whether the allegation is true or untrue, and that person can't respond to the allegation in a rational and sensible way, that is another serious problem for someone who wants to be the chief communicator of the Village of Ravena.
(3) Rumors have always been a problem in Ravena-Coeymans and have caused a lot of heartache to a lot of people. We mentioned in a previous post that we are concerned that Jena Misuraca may not respect boundaries if her husband, Bill Misuraca, is elected to be Ravena mayor. We base our concern on Jena's many sometimes questionable participattion in local movements and the company she tends to keep. The RCS Sports Association with its Twilight Zone history of shabby bookkeeping and total lack of transparency, Jena's involvement with certain groups involved in the schools (and we don't mean the cookie-baking team), her outrageous political activism and partisanship relating to the RCS board of education, her questionable friendships with local renegade figures like Cathy and Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca, and the list could go on. Jena simply doesn't know when to mind her own business and to lay low, if necessary. Jena's "individualism", if you want to call it that, goes far beyond what we would like to see in the wife of the mayor of Ravena. In our opinion, there could be many conflicts of interest and problems created if Jena isn't kept in her crate with her mouth shut.
(4) The coziness with elements of the Coeymanazi police department bothers us, too. All of the above concerns culminate in the fact that the Coeymans police were involved and our question is: Why? Who called them? For what purpose? Was it Bill "Moose" Misuraca or Jena Misuraca? If Dom Misuraca was there to talk to his brother about a misunderstanding, why didn't it play out that way? If Jena called her "friends" in the Coeymans police department, what business was it of hers to get involved in something that was between two brothers. (And is that going to become a pattern if Mr Misuraca occupies the mayor's office?). And if Dom has every right to be on the property, and was not creating a disturbance, he was within his rights.
Now let's superimpose this little scenario on what might occur if it was in Ravena Village Hall….
Now, readers, take this scenario a step further and imagine the Halfway House Tavern is the Ravena Village Hall. Now imagine that there's some illegal crapola going on in the village workings involving some mismanagement or corruption (= the alleged untaxed employees at the Halfway House Tavern), and some people are upset about it (= Misuraca's mother and Dom Misuraca). A citizen (= Dom Misuraca) goes to the public space (= Halfway House Tavern = Village Hall) to discuss the issue with an elected official (= Bill "Moose" Misuraca) in order to get the story straight. The citizen (= Dom Misuraca) has every right (1) to be concerned about the situation, (2) to go to village hall, (3) to talk to the elected official, (4) to get the facts and the story straight. OK so far?
Perhaps the discussion gets a bit emotional (it happens at town, village and school board meetings all the time) but it's not an incident. Now, say someone who is not an elected public servant or even an employee of the village government (= Jena Misuraca, although she works at the Halfway House Tavern) sticks his or her nose in it, and starts spreading rumors about the citizen's (= Dom Misuraca) discussion with the elected official (= Bill "Moose" Misuraca) all over town, when s/he should have kept his/her mouth shut. Let's also say that that rumor-monger (= Jena Misuraca) has questionable motives and hangs out with questionable groups (RCS Sports Association, Fiends of RCS, the Coeymanazi police department, Cathy and Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca, etc.) and the whole thing gets perverted in the telling. And say, as the story goes, that that Ms Buttinsky (= Jena Misuraca), calls the police to intervene in something only to make a scene.
Now think: Does that paint a picture of open government where citizens can feel free to approach their elected officials, to discuss isses with them, to freely interact with local government without fear of retaliation or intimidation? Sure doesn't sound that way to us! In fact, it sounds a lot like what we now have in Ravena Village Hall. It sounds a lot like what a local resident describes when he visited the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, a public place, during the open house, and was told he wasn't welcome and to leave. It sounds just like what Cathy Deluca and one of her minions, Claude Wheeler, did when they falsely reported an incident to the Coeymanazi police, too. It also sounds a lot like the obstruction of justice by the Coeymans police department when it came to investigating the violation of the resident's protected civil rights (a crime), the charge of falsely reporting an incident (a misdemeanor), the charge of conspiring (a misdemeanor) to file a falsely reporting an incident, when they concerned Cathy Deluca, the wife of Coeymans cop Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca! And that's only one incident. Many similar ones appear in the list of Notices of Claims against the Village of Ravena, the Town of Coeymans, and the Coeymans Police Department.
Get the Facts and the Story Straight!
Stop the Rumors and Gossip!
We need some answers to these questions we've posed above. We need some certainty that on March 18, voters are not jumping from the frying pan into a very big bonfire. We need to know what we're getting into and whether we need to seriously ignore what the political parties have cooked up for us and start thinking very seriously about some local men and women who can be write-in candidates and who don't have so much damned baggage! Think Laszlo Polyak or Michael Fisher, or another trustworthy write-in candidate for Ravena mayor, if the Bruno gang or Misuraca pair is getting too scary. Send us the names of your write-ins and we'll campaign for them!
We need to hear from the candidates, too. Silence will only keep the rumors alive and will be an admission of guilt!
What we DON'T NEED in Ravena Village Hall is More Dirty Laundry and More Baggage! Do the Laundry and Unpack the Baggage, Candidates, Before Election Day! How about financial disclosures? Tax records? Answers to straight questions? Don't voters deserve to have answers from the men and women who are asking to be elected? If we cant demand accountability and get transparency at the local level, how in hell can you hope for it from Albany or Washington D.C.?
Trust your Guts
NOT THE CAMPAIGN RHETORIC=LIES
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Ravena Mayoral Race Off and Running
Predictability and Stagnation: Ravena Democratic Slate for Mayor, Councilpersons
Political Stagnation in Ravena Village Hall
Vision and Freshness: Ravena Republican Slate
Misuraca-Coye-Mahler Team to Challenge Bruno-Case-Persico Gang
It's a No-Brainer! Correction: It does require a brain to do what's right and decide what's best for the village of Ravena. Ravena needs change, and the Ravena Republican slate is offering voters the opportunity to make that necessary change. The opportunity to give Ravena a new lease on life. Actually, the revitalization of Ravena won't start on Main Street Ravena until it starts in Village Hall Ravena.
Revitalize Ravena Starting with Ravena Village Hall
On January 27, 2014, at the Ravena Democratic Caucus, the Democrats made the same predicatable move to nominate John T. Bruno as their mayoral candidate, and confirmed Martin "Marty" Case and Rocco Persico to be their bad choices for village trustees. Here"s our take on that mistake:
The Ravena Democratic caucus met on January 27th but their numbers were way down. Only about half of the usual attendance was there. That should tell you something for a start: They don't have much support even from their own hangers-on.
Furthermore, keep in mind that the Bruno and Persico clans in Ravena are not going to waste a second in calling in their large tribes and their members to hit the polls on March 18, 2014. That's how it's done in Ravena: the Incest Club calls all of the tribe to vote for them, and they do stick together. That's all the more reason why the rest of us have to mobilize and get to the polls!
Second of all, Bruno is going to use his medieval strong-arm techniques and his usual threats to bully anyone and everyone to put him back on his throne. Bruno will probably be twisting village employees' arms, too, threatening them with loss of the cushy jobs if he gets voted out. So Bruno's pets and appointees will be doing everything they can to keep king Bruno in office. They have a lot to lose if he loses.
Remember, too, that Martin "Marty" Case and Rocco Persico work for the RCS Central School District and that bunch stick together like dung beetles on a turd ball. Marty Case just barely got voted in in the last elections and lost in his bid for the Coeymans supervisor's office this past November 5. He's a loser when it comes to doing anything except cashing his oversized teacher's paycheck. Rocco Persico is a school psychologist but didn't do very much when it came to protecting students or Ravena youth and teens. Both Case and Persico are useless and we can't expect much more from them. But be prepared for some dirty teacher tricks when it comes to bullying the vote. They're good at that.
Coeymans Democratic Committee chairperson, Tom Dolan, is a multiple loser and has shipwrecked his party in the recent Coeymans town elections this past November. Dolan has a history of playing dirty with the ballots, too. He runs the social services organization Choices, and will likely be abusing his position there to influence the Oakbrook Manor voters. The best thing to do to stop that is to watch Dolan and his minions very closely and to let the Albany County Executive know of any misuse or abuse of power, leave us a comment here and we'll alert the New York State Comptroller's office and the NYS Attorney General. Everyone has to take voter fraud and manipulation of votes very seriously, even if it is indirect. Watch Tom Dolan very closely.
But even with Bruno's behind-the-scenes bullying and Case's and Persico's backing by the RCS Central School District, they don't have much of a chance because they have a pitiful record so far. Even Bruno and Persico might have a tough time getting the votes they need to take the election, even if they do call in village employees and family ties. People are just plainly sick and tired of the misery that life has become in Ravena.
Bruno &
the Vampire Squad
Albany Dem Machine
Will Suck You Dry
John Bruno, Marty Case and Rocco Persico are useless to Ravena and its residents; their only value is to the Albany Democratic Machine and its destructive, vampire effect it has on Albany County. All you have to do is compare the vitality and energy just to the South, in Greene County, a traditionally Republican county, to see the difference. If Ravena intends to survive, it has to escape the boney fingers and iron grip of the Dem Machine represented by Bruno and his gang. It has to be done on March 18, at the polls.
Here's How to Revitalize Ravena:
First of all, clean out village hall and all of the parasites, leeches, crooks, and dead wood that have been nesting there for the past several decades. That means get rid of Bruno and all of his minions. King Rat has to go and then all the other rats will scurry for cover. No matter what lies you may hear from Cathy Deluca or Nancy Warren, it's all election time campaign rhetoric to save their own asses. Just ask local businesses or count the empty buildings and closed businesses on Main Street alone. Bruno, Deluca, Warner and the rest of the village hall rat pack don't have a plan; they never did, except to line their own nests with your money and sweat.
The Ravena Republican caucus met on January 29, and was well attended and enthusiastic. Even the town of Coeymans boardmembers were there to show their support. Why so enthusiastic and so much support? Well, because they met to confirm a slate of very promising younger candidates who have the community connections and smarts to do what Bruno and his mob couldn't or wouldn't do: Serve the community.
Bill "Moose" Misuraca is the people's choice for mayor. Bill is young and energetic. He's a business man and has been doing business right in Ravena for years. He runs the popular Halfway House Tavern, a village institution for going on almost century, and a popular dining and drinking establishment popular with the life-blood of the village of Ravena. (Besides, they have the best seafood chowder in the area!) Bill and his wife, Jena, are familiar and popular figures in Ravena, and both are and have been very active in community affairs, especially when it comes to area children and youth. Bill Misuraca truly has his finger on the pulse of the community; Bruno has his fingers in your pockets.
Joe Coye and Keith Mahler are challenging Marty Case and Rocco Persico. From where we are sitting, it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel and we really feel sorry for Case and Persico. But they asked for it. Marty Case has lost so many times already he's apparently gotten to like being a loser; Rocco Persico is so laid back and "slow" he probably hasn't even caught up with last week. Joe Coye and Keith Mahler form a great team together with Misuraca, and once elected will bring light, vision, and hope to village Hall. But what's more important: Misuraca, Coye and Mahler are likely to shake things up, clean things up, and clear things out of village hall that should never have been there in the first place. We also expect that they'll trim a lot of the fat and bring transparency and accountability back to Ravena. Feels good already, doesn't it? You can almost smell the freshness in the air already.
Our polls tell the real story already. In fact, we've moved all the polls, unchanged, to this article so that those in the community who have not yet participated can do so now. Misuraca takes the lead by a considerable margin over Houghtaling, while Bruno has 0 support in our polls. We've added a new poll below to get your inputs on (1) the Republican and Democrat mayoral candidates, and (2) the candidates running for village of Ravena trustee. Let the numbers be your guide!
[Editor's Note: The write-in candidates marked with an * were not consulted regarding their willingness to run prior to this posting. We feel, however, that they would make excellent village trustees and so we have drafted them and are proposing them as write-ins for village trustee.]
Finally, a word of advice to Mr George E. Langdon, newly elected Town of Coeymans councilmember: Mr Langdon, you were elected to serve the commuinity and residents of the Town of Coeymans on the Town of Coeymans town board. You should concentrate on your duties and responsibilities on that board, and should spend every waking hour committed to that trust put in you by the voters of the town of Coeymans. Any other distractions from the service to the public for which you were elected should be avoided. Specifically, the distraction of power-grabbing and your attempts to steal the chairmanship of the Coeymans Republican Committee must cease and desist immediately. Concentrate on the job for which you were elected, or resign and then consider the chairmanship (if you dare). Under no circumstances should an elected public official/servant have the chairmanship of a political party committee; it may be legal but it's not ethical! Stop now!
And a word to Mr Kenneth Burns, newly elected Town of Coeymans councilmember: Do the job for which you were elected and stay out of the business of political coups. A good word of advice to you, Mr Burns is this: keep your advice as to father figures to yourself. You'll find less egg on your face.
Stay tuned for more important information on the candidates, the elections, and how we think Ravena can join the 21st century.
If anyone knows anything about any of the candidates or anyone close to them that is relevant to their fitness for public office, please share your information with us at rcs.confidential@gmail.com. Now's the time to go public with it. You owe it to the community and to yourself.
You Can Make It Happen, Ravena
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The Buzz is Out: Bill "Moose" Misuraca will Challenge John "Black Mamba" Bruno in the Ravena Mayoral Race!!
Please don't forget to participate in the Smalbany Vote for Ravena Mayor Poll at the end of this article.
The Coeymans Republican Party Has a Candidate to
Oppose Ravena Mayor John T. Bruno
Bill "Moose" Misuraca has been tapped to challenge the Village of Ravena mayor John T. Bruno on March 18th! Great Choice!
Off with their heads in Ravena Village Hall!
Venerable Coeymans Republican Committee chairwoman Barbara Cumm has published the Public Notice under the provisions of Section 15 of the New York State Election Law notifying all registered Republicans in the Village of Ravena that the Republican Caucus for the Village of Ravena to nominate candidates for the office of Mayor of Ravena and two village trustees will be held at the Ravena Firehouse at 116 Main Street, Ravena, New York on January 28, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. The Village of Ravena Elections will be held on Tuesday, Mary 18, 2014.
The word on the street is that Chairwoman Cumm has tapped William "Moose" Misuraca to be the Republican candidate for Mayor of Ravena. Moose Misuraca, as many of you already know is the same Moose Misuraca who runs the Halfway House Tavern, a village institution for almost 100 years, in Ravena-Coeymans, and is the grandson of patriarch Frank Nunziato. Moose is very much in touch with the local community and can take an ass-kicking and still remain level-headed and even-handed. We know this for a fact because we have blasted Moose on a number of occasions and he's kept his cool. Moose is a better choice when we consider his ability to be down-to-earth and a real people person. These are very positive character traits when compared to the explosive and offensive personality of mayor John T. Bruno.
All that said, and although we have our doubts when it comes to the technical parts of mayoring, and some of Moose's wife Jenna's choice of friends and associations (a well-meaning relationship with the somewhat shady RCS Sports Association, a coziness with the notorious Cathy and Jerry Deluca that makes many people cringe, some of the groups she's supported in the past (Fiends of RCS etc.), Moose is promising as a candidate given the numbers in our most recent polls, clearly leading Ron Houghtaling by at least a 50% margin, and leaving John Bruno in the mummy dust.. But will Moose be able to handle the pressure of his wife's, Jena's friends and still be a neutral public servant and not become a puppet mayor? Will he isolate Ravena village hall and make it a private club for the special interests and questionable friends, to whom his wife Jena appears to be attracted, addicted? Or wil both Moose and Jena surprise the hell out of everyone and rise above the raw sewerage of special interests and corruption in Ravena-Coeymans. Sure, he'll be able to call in consultants and advisors, if necessary, but it does take some skill knowing when you don't know. And it takes big balls and raw courage to resist mere popularity and to champion real principles. Running even a small municipality like Ravena can be a challenge, especially when you're dragging some heavy baggage and some dirty laundry along with you. And we all know from painful past experience when a heavy-handed bullshitter tries to run things: that's the Bruno experience for the downward spiral Ravena has lived through since Bruno's dictatorship has run its evil course for more than a quarter century. Bruno's old and so is his style. Ravena needs change, positive change. Maybe Bill ." Moose" Misuraca, despite some of his and Jena's questionable [= rumored] connections and friends might be that change. Maybe not. Can we handle the risk?
Our Advice to John Bruno, Marty Case and Rocco Persico!
Scandalous Greed: Not Satisfied with Being Elected to Public Office, Coeymans Board Members Now Want to Grab More Power!
Our advice to the greedy power-hungry gabbers is this: You were elected to serve the residents and community of Coeymans, not to run a political party! Just concentrate all of your energies on your new responsibilities before your start grabbing more! Stop acting like a bunch of children and conduct the business of governing the Town of Coeymans in a fair and balanced way. You have enough to deal with right under your noses: Deal with it! Chairwoman Cumm played a significant role in putting you where you are. Maybe some gratitude is in order! Dontcha think?
Mr Langdon: Get real! Get to work, and stop drooling over a commttee chairmanship you have neither the right nor the experience to covet!
Unconfirmed reports and the word on the street is that several Coeymans Republicans—Ungrateful bastards and power-hungry wolves in sheepskins?— have visited Coeymans Republican Committee Chairperson Barbara Cumm, and have asked her to step down. Apparently, the misguided group is not pleased with the way she's been serving the Republican party in Coeymans—even though she's successfully navigated the Coeymans Republican party to win a number of elections— and successfully steered the party from the whacko direction its seems to want take under the imprudent direction of some power-hungry newbies. Cumm managed to get them elected and that's how they allegedly treat her. Aren't they satisfied with being voted into public office? They want more? What is in store for the voters now that they're in office. To be fair, Barbara Cumm is a native of Ravena, she was raised and grew up in this very area. Barbara Cumm loves Ravena-Coeymans and wants to see it thrive. We feel that the direction the village has taken and the attitude of some persons [Mr Flach, Mr Burns (!), Mr Masti, Mr Langdon] is far from moral and verges on the unethical. We'd like to remind you gang of four that public office is characterized by SERVICE not power-grabbing.
It is our avowed principle that no one in public office should also serve as a party chairperson (Right? Tom Dolan!); it opens too many doors to corruption and power-grabbing, and all too soon the notion of SERVICE has lost its meaning. We have noted Mr Kenneth Burns' imprudent remark about "father-figures." Burns is on our monitoring list already. The rest of the Flach team had better tow the mark; all eyes are on you guys.
If the rumor is true that Mr Flach, Mr Langdon, Mr Masti, and Mr Burns have shown their colors and are ungrateful sods, Chrisitans that they claim to be, we don't like what we hear. Don't forget for one second that Ms Cumm served for many years and should not simply be discarded nor should she be vilified or disrespected by anyone: least of all local Republicans and the very one's she's guided into the offices they now occupy. If this blog has in any way made the impression that we do not respect Ms Cumm and her loyalty to her hometown, the principles of her party, her dignity and her accomplishments, we'd like to correct that impression right now.
Coeymans Shark Attack!!!
Hungry Coeymans Board Members Visit Chairworman
Our recommendation in the past has been, that if and when Ms Cumm decides to resign, to make her Coeymans Republican Committee Chairperson emerita in recognition of her many years of service but also to rely on her experience, wisdom and savvy to ensure that the Coeymans Republican party is the party of ethics and solid values, ralther than self-service and power-grabbing. Unlike John Bruno, who is a dinosaur, Barbara Cumm is a servant leader. They're from different dimensions or universes: Bruno is 30 years behind the times, Cumm, it seems, is reality oriented and future visioned. Where Bruno doesn't have the sense of reality that would tell him to have the dignity to resign and hand over the baton to someone who can bring the dying village of Ravena into the 21st century, Barbara Cumm has shown wisdom in putting together a Republican party slate that overturned the old-boy corruption and put new faces on the board. (We can only hope that the new faces are not just masks hiding the same old business-as-usual thug-types.)
Our advice: Leave Barbara Cumm alone and respect her alleged choice for Ravena Mayor, Bill Moose Misuraca. Why? You might ask? Well, Bill knows the people, knows their needs; he listens to the buzz. He's got a business right in the middle of town, is very well aware that if the village slides any further down the slippery slope created by the Brunos, the Delucas, the Warners and the others in the in-crowd, the Incest Club, he loses his livelihood and possibly a business that has a long history in Ravena—almost a century. But CAUTION: We don't want to create a Coeymanazi haven, a nest of insiders in Ravena village hall that is worse than what's there already. We need the Service Squad.
We were hoping for someone like Ron Houghtaling who has a wealth of government and administrative experience, and who has the brains to impress. Maybe that's why he wasn't called on to seek the nomination. Maybe his own history of unsavory connections and the fact that he doesn't have the Misuraca allure is his own baggage, his own dirty laundry. While he's got a working brain and will think for himself, and make experienced decisions, maybe the downside outweighs all of that.
We also think that the present village of Ravena offices in their present location would make a fine location for the Coeymans Town Hall, too. Will Moose Misuraca work closely with the Town of Coeymans to re-establish the old Ravena-Coeymans with one administration rather than the present wasteful two administrations running one community?Will Moose Misuraca would have the negotiating skills and the experience to approach the town government to make the move. That brings up the subject of consolidating the hamlet of Coeymans and the village of Ravena. Think of the good sense that makes. One administration, one court, one budget. No more fingerpointing and bickering. The only ones who want separate governments are the ones who stand to profit by the inefficiency: the Bruno crowd. Let's start thinking in the 21st century, people, and let's move in the right direction. Even if the village and the hamlet are not consolidated (as they once were a number of years ago), the two administrations would be better off in one location and the present village hall would be just the place.
Think in terms of saving hundreds of thousands of dollars every year right around the corner and what that could mean to Ravena-Coeymans and to residents. It makes good economic sense but the Bruno crowd would fight it tooth and claw because they'd never have a chance at taking advantage of their captive audience again.
Now think of getting rid of the Coeymans police department and all of those leeches. Think about saving at least $500,000 a year and still having a local sheriff department presence right down the street. An then there's also the NYS police who are in the area. What could you do with that $500,000 in savings each year while financing the Sheriff Department satellite station in Ravena-Coeymans. Money back in your pocket people. Why are you fighting it? Here's why: You're being lied to by the leeches and their idiot friends. The Coeymans p.d. leeches don't want to lose a good thing; where could they go to suck as much blood and play cops and robbers at a community's expense like the Coeymans p.d. does?
Coeymans Police Department and Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca:
It must be getting a bit hot in the basement of Coeymans town hall, though. Kerry Thompson get's pulled out by the Sheriff in an eleventh hour effort to distance himself from the Coeymans p.d. and avoid certain embarassment. Now we hear it's getting too hot for Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca who's retiring (actually resigning) from the Coeymans p.d. Does the Coeymans town hall know that Deluca was hired illegally by his friend Gregory Darlington? That should affect his "retirement", shouldn't it? Before they start signing any checks they'd better audit the books and check the records and the law; we wouldn't want the New York State Comptroller's Office and the Civil Service Department to go behind closed doors with the New York State Attorney General and find that there's fraud in the Coeymans P.D., would we?
Dirty-Hands Jerry Resigns; Is Darlington Next?
Are Jerry Deluca and Gregory Darlington going to try to run and hide before the shit hits the fan? Do they really think that if they abandon ship like rats that they'll be beyond the reach of the law or retribution to the public they've screwed so royally? Is the Coeymans taxpayer going to be satisfied paying the leeches their pensions in view of their years of abuse, corruption, and hypocrisy?
"Dirty-Hands Jerry" Deluca Resigns
It was difficult to keep from vomiting when reading the page one article "Happy birthday, Ravena!" (Ravena News Herald, January 23, 2014) and its sickening portrayal of Gerald "Dirty-Hands Jerry" Deluca. Town councilman Kenneth Burns revealed a side of himself that made us doubt both his sanity and his connection with the community when he characterized the cop-bully Deluca as a "father figure to the community." Either Burns was high on something or otherwise intoxicated to describe Deluca as a "father figure" to the community Deluca has deceived, taken advantage of, lied to, and bullied for years. Maybe Mr Burns has a different idea of a father figure; maybe Mr Burns means an abusive father with no ethics or morals. A "father-figure" who is a hyppocrite.
Our Message to Coeymans town councilman Mr Kenneth Burns: It's that kind of stupid remark that gets you noticed. You've been noticed, Mr Burns.
But then, when saying good riddance to bad rubbish, maybe the Coeymans town council members are just so happy and relieved to get rid of the bully Deluca that they figure he'll still be roaming the streets with time on his hands (when he should be doing time), so why rock the boat. Deluca was always in trouble while they had reasonable control over him. What now? Deluca is allegedly involved as a defendant in several lawsuits pending so he'll be kept busy…one would hope.
We Recommend: That the New York State Comptroller, the Office of the NYS Attorney General, and the New York State Civil Service Department carefully audit and investigate Gerald Deluca's employement record to ensure that his employment by the Coeymans Police Department was in accordance with the law. We have reason to believe that he may have been hired by Gregory Darlington illegally. That should certainly raise some eyebrows at state level. The Town of Coeymans had better do its own investigation and pronto!
Deluca Supersize Greed:
The greed of the Deluca pair is about as super-sized as they are. Ravena News Herald sockpuppet Bryan Rowzee reports in that same article that Ravena mummy mayor John "Black Mamba" Bruno was accompanied by "Ravena Health and Fitness Manager and Centennial Celebration Committee chair Cathy Deluca" to tout Ravena's 100-year anniversary of incorporation. With Bruno and Deluca working on it it'll probably be featured at the Babcock Funeral Home more as a wake or memorial service than anything else! But Cathy Deluca will do anything—and we do mean anything—to get noticed (How could you not notice her?). Cathy's a real steal-the-show dog-and-pony act, that's for certain. But now that she's been appointed to run her little money-pit playpen, the illegal Ravena Health and Fitness Center, that's not enough for the gluttonous queen of grab-it! Now she's finagled her way to be the Centennial Committee chair. Look: She's getting $30,000 + benefits to run the Fitness Center for the village of Ravena. The Fitness Center is in its first year of existence and isn't doing all that well—call us cynical, but it's a money pit (your money, Ravena taxpayers), it's losing the membership battle, it can't keep employees, and it just doesn't have the numbers. Cathy Deluca has already managed two previous fitness centers to failure, and we think she's doing the same thing to the Ravena Fitness Center. She can't even manage a bunch of fatties in tights let alone a business operation!
So don't you Ravena taxpayers think she should keep her bottom at the Fitness Center to make certain the public's money is working for the public? No, that's not the Deluca way! The public's money in the Deluca world works for Deluca! Our advice to Ravena mummy mayor John "Black Mamba" Bruno is to keep Cathy D. in the Fitness Center and make her make it work. It's YOUR duty and responsibility Mr Bruno, to the people of Ravena. You have to make your bad ideas and bad choices work! You have to take responsibility Mr Bruno! Do it now! Make Cathy Deluca put all her energy in making that fiasco, illegal Ravena Health and Fitness Center work for the people and taxpayers of Ravena. Take responsibility for once, at least in the last year of being mayor of Ravena! And don't forget the pending lawsuits that won't go away even if Cathy Deluca resigns…OOPS! we meant "retire." There are actually three (3) pending lawsuits involving Cathy Deluca and the Ravena Health and Fitness Center. Some of the claims involve criminal charges and also involve the Coeymans Police Department on charges of obstruction of justice etc. So when you hear the names Cathy and Jerry Deluca, think greed, hypocrisy, corruption, and lawsuit.
Again, this is one of our concerns with Bill "Moose" Misuraca's prospective bid for the mayorship of Ravena: What is his, Bill's and his wife's, Jena's, relationship with the Deluca pair and how does that play into the agenda? Will their coziness with the Coeymanazi pair and all of their corrupt activities in Ravena-Coeymans taint any potential Misuraca administration? That's an important consideration in our view.
We'd like to know Bill Misuraca's position on the Ravena Health and Fitness Center.
We'd also like to ask if the Misuracas, the Ravena Halfway House Tavern received Cathy Deluca's recent letter to selected Main Street businesses to attend the January 30th Centennial Planning Meeting for the "revitalization" of Main Street, Ravena. (Our most recent intelligence informs us that the Misuraca;s, Jordan's Barber Shorp, Hoots Bowling Alley (Houghtaling), Stolz insurance, Citgo, Miller's Automotive, all Main Street businesses, and others were not included in that mailing. Why not?)
In short: We want to know, we want to be convinced that if Bill "Moose" Misuraca is elected by a fair process that Bill will be mayor and not Jena or her cronies. We want to be convinced that if Bill "Moose" Misurac is elected to be mayor of the village of Ravena, that the same insider group or, worse still, more insider groups will take over village hall. If Bill "Moose" Misuraca is elected to be mayor, we want to be conviced Bill will be mayor; not Jena Misurac, not the RCS Sports Association, not Matt Miller's teachers union, and not the Cathy and Dirty-Hands Jerry pair. In short, we want a mayor not a Coeymanazi fortress.
So, a lot is happening since the upheavals and elections in November 2013. It's happening in Coeymans and in New Baltimore because residents are sick of the backstabbing, the unfairness, the lying, the corruption, the intimidation and the retaliation. It's time now to fumigate Ravena village hall and get rid of the cockroaches who have been ruining a lovely little village and killing it slowly and painfully.
Village of Ravena residents have two caucuses coming up at the end of January:
The Democratic Caucus to nominate candidates for Ravena mayor and two village trustees. They'll probably kiss Bruno's ass and nominate him and his two leeches, Marty Case and Rocco Persico. That will be the death knoll for Ravena (and for Bruno and his two leeches Case and Persico). Residents don't want Bruno back or his leeches. Nominating them in the Democratic caucus will be a big mistake. But then, Coeymans Democratic Committee Chairman Tom Dolan could't get himself elected, and he's a dud from the start. We just have to keep an eye on whether he'll manipulate his Choices clients, his social services recipients, etc. He's played some shadey games with ballots in the past, and skunks don't change their odor. The Democratic Caucus is on Monday, January 27, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. in the Ravena Fire House at 116 Main Street, Ravena (one of the few occupied buildings left on Main Street, thanks to the democrats on the village council!)
The Republican Caucus will meet on Tuesday,January 28, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in the Ravena Fire House at 116 Main Street, Ravena. As we've already reported, Coeymans Republican Committee Chairperson Barbara Cumm expects to nominate Bill "Moose" Misuraca for the office of mayor of Ravena and two others for the 2 trustee seats. Ms Cumm appears to have weighed the pros-and-cons and we have to trust her wisdom. All Coeymans Republicans must attend the caucus and actively participate. Weighing all of the options, we recommend that Ravena Republicans support Ms Cumm's choice and should support Bill "Moose" Misuraca for mayor of Ravena.
We have posted our options for mayor and village officers. If the Caucuses don't see the wisdom in our selection, we will push for the residents of the village of Ravena to write them in on March 18. If they don't get the political parties' nominations to be candates, we and Ravena residents must run them as write-ins!
An Example of a Write-in Vote
It's that simple! Just print clearly and spell the names correctly!
Remember: Ravena village elections are on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Don't let the leeches steal the village away again!
Please don't forget to make your choices for mayor and trustee candidates in our special Ravena Election Poll. Click on this link Poll to go to the article and take the poll or just scroll down to the article. Make your voice heard in advance of the elections!
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