Quoted from benny salami

Of course ditch the sign on Erie which thousands of cars pass by.

  Joe Lazzari knows what he is doing. He almost beat a sitting Sheriff and has signs all over the County. Let's compare military experience? Some of you experts are in for a big surprise in this race. Keep betting the chalk?

How about his Law Enforcement leadership qualities? Isn't that what we
are talking about here? Isn't that what he is running for? Let's compare Benny, go ahead. Then let's
compare who ALL of the Law Enforcement professionals endorsed. Dago is endorsed by the NYS Chief's
Association, The State Troopers, Every PBA in the County, Sheriff's Dept, Council 82. They all say Dago is
the best candidate, must be a big conspiracy. I'll go with the guy who has been a quality leader before
going with a guy who never lead a single law enforcement officer in his previous 60 years...

Of course dago would be endorsed by all law enforcement. They are dems and cons that walk lock step with the unions. They have to make sure the best cheerleader is in. Clearly not who is best qualified. It's all about personal and political motives. Simple as that! IMHO

Quoted from bumblethru

Of course dago would be endorsed by all law enforcement. They are dems and cons that walk lock step with the unions. They have to make sure the best cheerleader is in. Clearly not who is best qualified. It's all about personal and political motives. Simple as that! IMHO

Huh, that is clearly an uniformed opinion. Please fill me in on who is more qualified and why. I think you
need to do some more research on what party the state organizations normally endorse, it may change
your opinion.

Quoted from bumblethru

Of course dago would be endorsed by all law enforcement. They are dems and cons that walk lock step with the unions. They have to make sure the best cheerleader is in. Clearly not who is best qualified. It's all about personal and political motives. Simple as that! IMHO

Huh, that is clearly an uniformed opinion. Please fill me in on who is more qualified and why. I think you
need to do some more research on what party the state organizations normally endorse, it may change
your opinion.

Bumble-Do you really mean that Dems and Cons walk together in Schdy County???  I find that a bit shocking and almost unbelievable.  Wha's up with that?

Quoted from pg13

I think you
need to do some more research on what party the state organizations normally endorse, it may change
your opinion.

This is Schenectady County.  Normal does not apply.

Quoted from pg13

Huh, that is clearly an uniformed opinion. Please fill me in on who is more qualified and why. I think you
need to do some more research on what party the state organizations normally endorse, it may change
your opinion.

Normally in politics, qualified can become blurred on the voting lines/parties/endorsements

Quoted from senders

Normally in politics, qualified can become blurred on the voting lines/parties/endorsements

That's the truth.

Quoted from pg13

How about his Law Enforcement leadership qualities? Isn't that what we
are talking about here? Isn't that what he is running for? Let's compare Benny, go ahead. Then let's
compare who ALL of the Law Enforcement professionals endorsed. Dago is endorsed by the NYS Chief's
Association, The State Troopers, Every PBA in the County, Sheriff's Dept, Council 82. They all say Dago is
the best candidate, must be a big conspiracy. I'll go with the guy who has been a quality leader before
going with a guy who never lead a single law enforcement officer in his previous 60 years...

OK  like that is a shocker that they endorsed him.............

I wonder if Lazzari was involved in the "cocaine era" of spd. Just curious

Quoted from pg13

How about his Law Enforcement leadership qualities? Isn't that what we
are talking about here? Isn't that what he is running for? Let's compare Benny, go ahead. Then let's
compare who ALL of the Law Enforcement professionals endorsed. Dago is endorsed by the NYS Chief's
Association, The State Troopers, Every PBA in the County, Sheriff's Dept, Council 82. They all say Dago is
the best candidate, must be a big conspiracy. I'll go with the guy who has been a quality leader before
going with a guy who never lead a single law enforcement officer in his previous 60 years...

It's a popularity contest, not a contest of who's most qualified.

Quoted from pg13

I'll go with the guy who has been a quality leader before
going with a guy who never lead a single law enforcement officer in his previous 60 years...

Sure wish the rotterdam libs thought that way when deciding on a supervisor for rotterdam. Fdg is the LEAST qualified in many many many ways! If they don't want s.t. in....fine! But at least show some intelligence here and vote for mcgarry who is the most qualified of the bunch.  

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Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE
A little dirt in Schd’y County sheriff’s race
Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail atcarlstrock@dailygazette.com.

    You’ll never guess what I got in the mail, ladies and gentlemen. I got the disciplinary record of retired Schenectady police officer Joe Lazzari, who is running for sheriff of Schenectady County.
    Yes, 16 pages of notices of discipline and stipulations of settlement plus a memo to the chief from internal affairs summarizing his disciplinary history from 1993 to 2002, all of it strictly confidential and protected by law from release to the public.
    How did I get it? In an envelope bearing four Christmas stamps but no return address, accompanied by an unsigned note suggesting that to corroborate Lazzari’s suspensions I file a Freedom of Information request for his attendance records and adding, helpfully, “he can’t be sheriff.”
    My, my. Who would be so helpful? Especially when I hadn’t even made any requests.
    Well, let me take a wild guess and say it was the PBA, the Schenectady police union, which has endorsed Lazzari’s opponent in the race for sheriff.
    I don’t know for a hard, cold fact it was the PBA, but I do note at the bottom of some of the legal papers carbon copies were provided to “Anthony Brown — President, PBA,” in addition to “Personnel File” and “Elayne G. Gold, Esq.” a former labor lawyer for the city of Schenectady, so that narrows the field of suspects considerably.
    The PBA is working overtime, if I may be allowed a play on words, to get their boy Dom Dagostino elected sheriff, and now, a few weeks before the election, I get some juicy anti-Lazzari material in my mailbox, material that the PBA had in its files.
    Or actually, not so juicy. The infractions for which Lazzari was disciplined were all quite minor, like taking an extra day of military leave to which he was not entitled and using profane language with a bank manager, and his punishments ranged from one to 20 days of suspension, the latter being for undefined non-conforming with department rules and regulations in 1998.
    I will be happy to go into more detail and list all his transgressions if someone will provide me with the comparable records of Dagostino, who is a Rotterdam police officer, so I can give them both equal attention.
    I have little desire to be hatchet man for the Schenectady PBA and am surprised as I can be that they would try to cultivate me for the purpose.
    Of course I called the current PBA president, Bob Hamilton, to ask him straight out if he was the one who favored me with these records, but he didn’t call me back. He never does.
    I also wanted to ask him about the word on the street that if his boy Dagostino gets elected sheriff, he, Hamilton, will become undersheriff once he retires from the Police Department.
    I remind you that Dom is the son of Judy Dagostino, a Schenectady County legislator, formerly a Republican, now a Democrat allied with the Conservative Party, and I remind you that son Dom is a Conservative allied with the Democrats.
    I also remind you that the Conservative Party in Schenectady County is controlled by the police and that Bob Hamilton, the PBA president, is a committeeman of it.
    So when I say the PBA endorses Dagostino for sheriff, and when I say the Conservative Party endorses him for sheriff, I repeat myself.
    Also, please keep in mind that the Democrats control Schenectady County government, having 11 of the 15 members of the Legislature, so this is quite the alliance of convenience, the alliance of Democrats and Conservatives to get control of the sheriff’s office, especially having in mind that the previous sheriff, Harry Buffardi, though nominally a Democrat, was an independent cuss who did not hesitate either to buck his own party or go toe-to-toe with the Police Department.
    It’s an alliance that has “a school board feel about it,” according to one Schenectady Republican who wishes not to be identified, referring to the local Board of Education that has been so much in the news.
    If Dagostino gets elected — as he should, given the Democratic enrollment advantage — that will be the end of the independence of the sheriff’s office, in my view.
    Meanwhile, poor Joe Lazzari, a registered independent allied with the Republicans. He was a Schenectady cop and dues-paying member of the PBA for 25 years, and what does he get for it? He gets his former union brothers working against him, leaking his personnel file to the press and trying to get a Rotterdam cop elected to the job he seeks.
    Well, it serves him right if he thought there was any honor among those guys. ....................>>>>............................................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1
  

If it's so unsubstantiated, why even bring it to print?

Smearing one name or another, anything for the column ... typical Carl.

Perhaps someone could 'anonymously' send Mr. Strock the info about the incident on no.westcott too?