Sorry--if Eunice signed for disabled folks who couldn't come out--seniors specifically--get off her back. So what. In my opinion she did the right thing. These are people who have known her forever and have voted her in. She extended compassion to these people. Big freakin deal. And btw if a Republican did the same thing, I would applaud it. Sometimes you people--yeah YOU people never know when its time to combine your head with your heart. Broke the law--a little civil disobedience. I don't get the Gazette--relying on your info.
Yeah, the guy who has been dead since 2002 had a little trouble getting to town hall to get his paper notarized. Eunice uses her position to garner votes for herself and only herself. Handicap tag anyone?
No fraud? Not circumventing the law? Then what is it called? Isn't the law the law? Perhaps this is a common practice for all town clerks?
As far a ND....I was skeptical the day I heard she was running for town board. Just the fact that she is affiliated with the schenectady school system was a 'no' vote for her! I often wondered if her name would be aligned in the raucci case. Time will tell I guess!
One of Raucci's bombs or whatever the hell it was was found at HER SCHOOL!
I swear, before me came personally, blah blah...The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I KNOW she was trying to be her usual, kind self. I am CERTAIN she wanted to make peoples' lives easier. I AGREE she has compassion. I feel she was doing just that, but there is a reason why there must be notarization on certain forms and in some instances. Marriage licenses, Death certificates, realty transactions, loan papers, matters for assessments, wills and estates, legal proceedings. Imagine ladies, that you marriage license was found inapropriately documented and sadly one day you seek divorce. Imagine you parent is ill and passes, only to find you have been cut out of your will by your brother. Imagine you come home from a trip and your deed has been signed over by your wife to her new boyfriend. Good intentions...Imagine you are on a mortgage for $300,000 for your ex-husband and your name is notarized. Good intentions.
Anytime I have signed under notarization, the Notary who already KNOWS ME, STILL ASKS TO SEE MY ID.
Eunice is a wonderful lady, but this is poor judgment to the tenth power, and not something we expect from that office.
UH GB, she lost your marriage license, remember....?
If it is for the enhanced STAR exemption--you have to be a senior. Enhanced START gets filed each year. She wouldn't be giving it to younger people. GB those are all good scenarios--they just don't work in this case. No I stand behind Eunice--sorry. I understand why everyone is upset but it doesn't trump why she acted inappropriately. She is a good person and has been a loyal town administrator--which btw you can't say for many of those who have worked in TH. NO--I Support her.
Don't all jump on me over this please. It is the way I feel. I support Eunice. Taking away her ability to notarize is just stupid.
Good person.....hmmmm. I guess when you break the law you can reference Eunice and get off.
The Town's administration looks like a bunch of buffoons. Eunice is a very nice lady but that doesn't give her the right to break the law and for ND to defend her is ridiculous. I watched the replay of the 1/13 TB meeting and it's apparent that ND needs to learn Roberts Rules of Meeting before she takes on anything else. And she is an educator? Gee, I learned RR of M in grade school. What a joke!
The current administration needs to take a close look and get their ducks in order before Rotterdam becomes a national landmark like Schenectady's Roach House. What will the name be? Rotterdam's Buffoon Troupe?
In the words of John Adams, the original man behind the alias I now use in a mark of humble appreciation for his great work, "we are a nation of laws not of men." The ends matter for naught, we are judged by the methods we employ in carrying out the peoples' business. It is insufficient to defend a violation of law, while entrusted to do the peoples' business, by stating the purpose is compassion. Compassion to one is mercilessness to another. The purpose of law is to treat all equally--without regard to personal feelings. By showing compassion to the deceased, for whom Ms. Esposito so kindly notarized documents, she was merciless to those in this town who follow the law and did not seek assessment exemptions for which they were not entitled. The compassion showed to the deceased caused those honest citizens of this great town to incur higher property tax payments in order to counter the diminished payments made by those receiving unlawful assessment exemptions due to Ms. Esposito's "kindness" to the deceased.
Make no mistake about it: the affect of an elected official's commission of a criminal act out of benevolence is no different than an elected official's commission of a criminal act out of malice. The degradation of the power of law must not be tolerated for any reason, benevolent or not.
In Rotterdam, ya gotta' KNOW SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are "connected" to someone with power, or money or are a "man of respect," anything goes. Didn't you all know that? That is how it works. As Senders said, Parisi should never have turned the matter over to the state when a citizen complained, he should have done what town attorneys did in the past- hid it. If you see someone doing something bad, i am sure you do like a good Rotterdamian and pretend you didn't see it, right?
Then Parisi wouldn't have made the republicans out to be bad guys. It is always best to hide things when they make the town look bad, because if you don't then it is considered dirty politics on behalf of the Republicans, who are always t fault just like Bush is at fault and is the common cause of all ills big and small. Just read the papers and hear it everywhere. Even here on this blog. Republicans are the losers again in the public eye. GOP=GOAT
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Wow you guys are harsh. SCSD--no need to refer to Eunice as trash. That is just over the line. Who on this board hasn't made a mistake. MM--didn't the cops ever come for you and swept it under the rug because they knew you? GB--how many things do you think the past administration did wrong that didn't make the news?
Old saying--don't spit up in the air--just might come down on your head. Get off her back--BFD!
I don't know how the word got out that the new confid secretary got a $50,000.00 grant. Guess the Dems might have had something to do with that to justify her hiring. But grants aren't awardr4ed in two weeks. Ms. Lombardi is the one who would get a grant for the Town and it takes alot of work. By the way Ms. Lombardi was hired by John Paolino and kept on thru the Tommasone administartion. Her services are shared by the various municipalities in Sch'dy Co. As far as I can see retaining her was the only smart thing this side show of a TB has done so far.
AGAIN.......let's not make this personal. Just for a minute, let's disassociate the face of eunie to the town clerk...k?
An elected town official (town clerk) in a small town in upstate ny, allegedly fraudulently notarized documents for individuals not present. Some of these individuals were in fact dead. Some of these documents were for a tax reduction that these people would not have received if it hadn't been for their signature that was notarized by the town clerk.
This upstate NY town clerk allegedly handed out handicapped tags with out a doctors verification. The town clerk admitted to these allegations.
The town clerks respond was something like this....."I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
VERDICT? ANYONE?
And alley don't give us the liberal socialist bullsh!t line that we are all so sick and tired of hearing. We would like to raise the bar. Ya know....personal responsibility without the bullsh!t excuses?
What's next? Performing an illegal abortion out of compassion because the girl was broke? True compassion isn't just about being nice to someone who is suffering. Amnesty or forgiveness of the law is misplaced compassion in this case. And I don't believe the word 'compassion' is used in a court room. I believe the word is MERCY!
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In Rotterdam, ya gotta' KNOW SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are "connected" to someone with power, or money or are a "man of respect," anything goes. Didn't you all know that? That is how it works. As Senders said, Parisi should never have turned the matter over to the state when a citizen complained, he should have done what town attorneys did in the past- hid it. If you see someone doing something bad, i am sure you do like a good Rotterdamian and pretend you didn't see it, right?
Then Parisi wouldn't have made the republicans out to be bad guys. It is always best to hide things when they make the town look bad, because if you don't then it is considered dirty politics on behalf of the Republicans, who are always t fault just like Bush is at fault and is the common cause of all ills big and small. Just read the papers and hear it everywhere. Even here on this blog. Republicans are the losers again in the public eye. GOP=GOAT
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Parisi was right in doing what he did....my thought is why now or even then......others knew/know why were they not outed also......and in this town 'good intentions' are all about getting invited to that certain corner on the playground to 'hang' with the big fish......
The Reps always new,,,,,,and shame on this town.....It certainly needs an enema or some ex-lax.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
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Wow you guys are harsh. SCSD--no need to refer to Eunice as trash. That is just over the line. Who on this board hasn't made a mistake. MM--didn't the cops ever come for you and swept it under the rug because they knew you? GB--how many things do you think the past administration did wrong that didn't make the news?
Old saying--don't spit up in the air--just might come down on your head. Get off her back--BFD!
Sorry, I have NEVER and I mean NEVER have been in trouble with the law in any way, so there was NOTHING to sweep under the rug.
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