The article in the Gazette about Congressman Tonko or someone driving Tonko's official vehicle speeding (the article suggests 90 MPH) and driving recklessly raises some disturbing issues. There is a reason that we have posted legal speed limits and other laws regulating driving. These laws apply to ALL drivers -- even those who hold elected office. Some innocent person could have been seriously injured or killed. And for what? That a politician can get to the next "smooze and booze" event?
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The article in the Gazette about Congressman Tonko or someone driving Tonko's official vehicle speeding (the article suggests 90 MPH) and driving recklessly raises some disturbing issues. There is a reason that we have posted legal speed limits and other laws regulating driving. These laws apply to ALL drivers -- even those who hold elected office. Some innocent person could have been seriously injured or killed. And for what? That a politician can get to the next "smooze and booze" event?
Yes, and there are requirements for ALL department heads in the city to live IN the city and pay the city's taxes, but YOU don't say one word against your beloved mayor allowing so many department heads to avoid paying the taxes, most of all the top cop not even living in Schenectady county!
Yeah, all your beloved dem politicians in Schenectady living it up in the taxpayer paid gin mills downtown, right?
To this day you have NEVER said one word that it is wrong for the financially struggling homeowners in the city to be paying for all the gin mills downtown. Instead, you praise it, claiming it's "economic development" while the neighborhoods - where the financially struggling homeowners live -- are falling apart.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
90 is excessive on any road. Sometimes I can be on the Thruway, look down and see I'm nearing 85. That seems to be thenumber for a sure ticket. But will the voters care?
NOT AT ALL....cause most folks drive 'crazy fast' on the thruway every single day. If he was drunk...maybe...just maybe....the voters would care. at least he wasn't talking/texting like we see the other 'crazies' doing!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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