Buyouts suggested for flooded Malone properties

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Yup wrote:

Yes, something needs to be done. Surely there is some way of taking care of these people... I wonder if the town has done anything whatsoever to access the necessary funds, from the DEC fines or anywhere else? We can't be talking about all that much money. I understand that it's more than the town has right now, but surely there is a way to do this.
Anyone with any leadership skills whatsoever would start by working with Congressman Owens' office, if for nothing more, to survey the possibilities.
You'd think that sooner or later local voters would learn that not everything is a popularity contest (although in Maneely's case I'll never understand how he's even remotely likable), or about who is related to who. We need leaders with ABILITY, likable or NOT. Related to half the town or NOT.
I think there IS a reasonable solution out there. Malone desperately needs leadership who can access and implement solutions. Who DON'T think the poorer neighborhoods are nothing to worry about. if that's what's happening here, that's just SICK.

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Not From This Side wrote:

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I am not sure Howard continues to get elected. I think the job will also get harder and impossible for Howard to try to bluff his way through. I think that there are at least 2 people on that board who can do a better job. I think Paul Walbridge and Mary Scharf have both shown leadership during this year.

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Yup wrote:

There would seem to be a consensus that Howard Maneely is incompetent. How does he keep getting elected?
Gee, could it be because the PROCESS is RIGGED?
From what's posted here is would seem that the village is irrelevant.
Could THAT be because DISSOLUTION is a foregone conclusion??
Huh.
Imagine that.

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Me again wrote:

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No one wants the job. Do you have anyone in mind that's capable of doing better? We'd all like an option at the next election. We don't get much outside help because, let's face it, Malone is just a blip on the ass of the Adirondacks and nobody gives a good rat's butt about it. It's not like we carry a lot of political clout.

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Question wrote:

Does anyone else think this is the same person talking to himself/herself?

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Alrighty Then wrote:

Mary Scharf would be an excellent supervisor.

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Malonian wrote:

Oh look Mommy, the little Sleazy Creep is trying to imitate me again. Isn't he cute! Now run away little Sleazy, and go play with your slime mold friends.
So Yup is right about the Nuts Yup/Fake Me. It is one of the local Republican elite. Well don't worry little Sleaze, Mary won't hurt you much, and Howard would make a perfect Republican - not very bright, cunning, desperate to be in charge. You can have him.

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Yup wrote:

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Perhaps because the party caucuses are HOAXES and what really matters is the SMOKE FILLED ROOM with BOTH PARTY HACK ESTABLISHMENTS PRESENT, WORKING IN COLLUSION, VERY MUCH AGAINST THE LAW, TO DENY FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS AND THWART DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES.
You know... deciding who runs unopposed, who runs under opposed, and who is most easily kept under the collective thumbs of the HACKS.
BOTH of these local 'parties' are nothing but ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Their aim is to hold on to what they perceive as 'power', for as long as they possibly can. The irony is that as long as they maintain their grip, this entire area just keeps getting sicker and sicker, year after bloody year.
You want to make a difference? LAND FILL LAKE TITUS.
It's also infinitely ironic that the party hack STALKER SHRILL in here who constantly complains about what people "demand", when they suggest actions that could actually shed a bit of the light of day on the situation, beyond their feudal control, then DEMANDS that people who are NOT slimy politicians take it upon themselves to run for office. As if THAT were some qualifier of citizenship or something. This STALKER SHRILL is using civic pride as a CLUB to beat down good citizens. THAT noise is very much symptomatic of the worst of what goes on here.
And neither will THAT continue.

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Yup wrote:

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Perhaps because the party caucuses are HOAXES and what really matters is the SMOKE FILLED ROOM with BOTH PARTY HACK ESTABLISHMENTS PRESENT, WORKING IN COLLUSION, VERY MUCH AGAINST THE LAW, TO DENY FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS AND THWART DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES.
You know... deciding who runs unopposed, who runs under opposed, and who is most easily kept under the collective thumbs of the HACKS.
BOTH of these local 'parties' are nothing but ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Their aim is to hold on to what they perceive as 'power', for as long as they possibly can. The irony is that as long as they maintain their grip, this entire area just keeps getting sicker and sicker, year after bloody year.
You want to make a difference? LAND FILL LAKE TITUS.
It's also infinitely ironic that the party hack STALKER SHRILL in here who constantly complains about what people "demand", when they suggest actions that could actually shed a bit of the light of day on the situation, beyond their feudal control, then DEMANDS that people who are NOT slimy politicians take it upon themselves to run for office. As if THAT were some qualifier of citizenship or something. This STALKER SHRILL is using civic pride as a CLUB to beat down good citizens. THAT noise is very much symptomatic of the worst of what goes on here.
And neither will THAT continue.

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Not From This Side wrote:

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I agree. Howard is a wannabe Republican. He has hurt Malone and needs to go. Scharf is the likely candidate. She is honest and hard working. She does her homework and when dealing with an issue it is not what is good for her and her buddies but what is good for Malone.