What has Amedore done recently? There was a post in the other thread about this, Amedore has been silent on every issue affecting our state. Maybe this has something to do with it?
If GP was really after power, wouldn't he have been on the Amedore bandwagon from day 1? You say he's a terrible leader and a terrible chairman, now you say he has the intellect and leadership ability to destroy the republican party, take over the democratic party, put his supposed friend in as an assemblyman, then profit personally from this? Really!? He's either a super genius or an idiot. You guys like to portray him as both, it's getting old! Let this play out and see what happens.
In the end we'll find out that they are all related to Raucci.........
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It’s clear , more ever, that incumbency is the biggest problem in politics! No matter how well-intentioned they start, once these individuals hit Albany, they seem to lose sight of their principles and fall out of touch with the people they represent. We need to bring new officials into office every two to four years. Otherwise, they care more about special interests and their own re-elections than they do about the people. They simply work to get themselves re-elected over and over again without accomplishing anything for their constituency. As a resident of Schenectady County, I for one would like to see Angelo Santabarbara run for higher office. I've been following his work as a county legislator. He isn’t a politician and has a proven track record of acting in a bipartisan manner to get things done for his constituents. He was completely responsible for bringing security to the courts in Princetown as well as jump-starting the important BPA [Business and Professional Association] legislation, which has gone statewide. All while he was in the minority party! Most important, he’s not afraid to actually do things while he’s in office, not wasting his opportunity to do some good for the people he represents. Keep up the good, non-partisan spirit, Angelo, and hopefully others will follow.
GL - Out of curiosity...and don't take this as an endorsement of Amedore by any means...what exactly do you expect him to do in the Leg? He's a minority member that only recently won his first full term. Rotterdam could have elected a doorstop and it would have served the same purpose. The 105th will lack any power until one of two things happens: It swings to the Democrats or the Assembly swings to the Republicans. The best a minority assemblyman can do is what Tedisco did after 20+ years of service, which is to act like a mouse with a bullhorn and espouse the party line to the Assembly leadership, which simply ignores it. Them's the cold hard facts, folks. I'd love to see someone argue otherwise.
GL - Out of curiosity...and don't take this as an endorsement of Amedore by any means...what exactly do you expect him to do in the Leg? He's a minority member that only recently won his first full term. Rotterdam could have elected a doorstop and it would have served the same purpose. The 105th will lack any power until one of two things happens: It swings to the Democrats or the Assembly swings to the Republicans. The best a minority assemblyman can do is what Tedisco did after 20+ years of service, which is to act like a mouse with a bullhorn and espouse the party line to the Assembly leadership, which simply ignores it. Them's the cold hard facts, folks. I'd love to see someone argue otherwise.
Right Hack. Nobody seems to understand minority REP status in our Assembly. The alternative is to vote for another Shelly Silver puppet. We have enough of those already.
BPA does not stand for "Business and Professional Association." Who proof reads these things at that rag?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Bipartisanship? That is a big joke. Is Ang saying that he could not be bipartisan as a REP?
Is Ang saying that he can work better in a bipartisanship manner with the reps as a DEM????
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You guys are always so quick to jump to anything!! Here is the same letter that ran in the Spotlight in Rotterdam last Friday. As you will see it only states BPA. Maybe the paper put in the other... Ever think of that.. Maybe you need to research before you post??
Editor,
It’s now clear more than ever that incumbency is the biggest problem in politics! No matter how good intentioned they start, once these individuals hit Albany they seem to lose sight of their principles and fall out of touch with the people they represent.
We need to bring new officials into office every two to four years! Otherwise they care more about special interests and their own re-elections then they do about the people. They simply work to get themselves re-elected over and over again without accomplishing anything for their constituency.
As a resident of Schenectady County, I for one would like to see Angelo Santabarbara run for higher office. I’ve been following his work as a County Legislator. He isn't a politician and has a proven track record of acting in a bi-partisan manner to get things done for his constituents. He was completely responsible for bringing security to the courts in Princetown as well as jump starting the important BPA legislation, which has gone statewide. All while he was in the minority party! Most importantly, he’s not afraid to actually do things while he’s in office, not wasting his opportunity to do some good for the people he represents. Keep up the good, non-partisan spirit Angelo and hopefully others will follow.
First, let me say that as a person, I like Angelo Santabarbara. We have had many conversations about many things. I do have to say that he listens well...or he puts up a good front. He does engage in conversation and is a person that seems to be concerned. The problem I see is that his change of party seems to come at a time where it actually should have. I had mentioned on occasion, and possibly directly to Angelo, that the way he was acting on the County Legislature last year, he was more like the Democrats. Well, it seems as though with his party change this year, he wants to truly solidify his place in the party by making sure that he is absolutely right (or to the left) on every single issue as much as possible. I liked the idea that with his cheese, he was having it sold and donating the profits to charity. That's a noble thing to do. It's a big decision to make that if you're going to put a lot of hard work into something, you need to realize once you decide to announce you're donating the profits, you're essentially not doing it for yourself.
As far as the letter from Mr./Ms. Lucas, I must say that it just about defeats itself. I mean really, it starts out stating that the fact that people get re-elected to office is a major issue. It sounds as though they would be for term limits, which may be a good thing (hey, if people who are in office since the '80's can sit in their office and run for re-election and state they're for term limits, then fine). They then go on to defeat the entire idea that incumbency is not a good idea by saying yeah, I think the people need to get out of Albany. Instead of new political blood though, I really think we need to find someone who is already serving (which would be someone he would vote against as an incumbent if he doesn't like incumbents) and instead of getting them out of office, let's give him a promotion into another office. We need new blood...let's send this person that's been around in the political circles for a while. I'm sorry, but if you're against incumbents, it just goes with that idea that you would not vote for someone that's already in an office for a higher office. At least that's how I'd think of it.
AS I SAID...WHO proofreads the rag? When the Conliberaltives, Demoncats, and lame-stream media are all in bed together sucking each others hind tit, I want to know why they can't keep their stories straight. Because if they are the entity that controls our health-care as the public seems to want as evidenced by the landslide they handed the statists aforementioned, then how will decide who gets brains surgery (Page16 with the brain power of a 16 year old) or whoever else needs gall bladder surgery (obviously well-named HACK who is is a jerk-off.)???
So wake up page16. Just because you never went beyond secondary schooling doesn't mean you have to have reading comprehension issues. I mean, considering with the overtime you are over a hundred doesn't mean you have to let us see that easily your IQ is under it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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Right Hack. Nobody seems to understand minority REP status in our Assembly. The alternative is to vote for another Shelly Silver puppet. We have enough of those already. 
