Talk 1300 news just announced this on their news.  They presented all the reasons that McCarthy gave on how he will achieve it in regards to his other job responsibilities.

Give me a break. Talk about an advantage for the election.

If you don't do anything you can do it very well.

He should never have been allowed to fill the need for a temp Mayor in the first place. He has an advantage over any other candidate running for the position in the fall.  This is so wrong.

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SCHENECTADY
Interim mayor makes it fulltime
McCarthy still to receive no pay
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter

    Acting Mayor Gary McCarthy has spent the summer dashing from the courthouse to City Hall, handling his job with the district attorney’s offi ce while also running the city.
    Now the race is over. As he finishes work on his current case — he’s an investigator for the DA’s office — he is starting to work full-time at City Hall.
    “I’ve shifted to City Hall,” he said, adding that complications in a case forced him to delay the change for a month. He had previously said he would begin working as the city’s full-time mayor in July, but the transition began this week.
    “The transition has not been as clean as I like,” he said.
    This week, he has been “nearly full-time,” he said. For now, he’s using vacation days to continue pulling a paycheck at the DA’s office, but he will run out soon.
    Then he’ll simply report zero working days on each time card, he said, rather than offi cially asking for a leave of absence.
    McCarthy cannot be paid for his work as mayor, because he is not officially the man in charge. Technically, he is still the City Council president, whose job it is to step in when the mayor is unavailable. There’s no pay associated with that responsibility because it wasn’t intended to be a full-time job.
    However, Mayor Brian U. Stratton left office on April 3 to take the job of director of the state Canal Corp. That left Mc-Carthy to finish Stratton’s term without the mayor’s $96,906 salary.
    Until now, McCarthy has been juggling the job by giving up sleep. He set his phone to send him texts whenever he got an email; when he gets a message at 2 a.m., he writes back immediately. He chuckled as he recalled how surprised people were to get a response in the middle of the night.
    Now, the workload should be easier — on Friday morning, he went to bed shortly after midnight and “slept in” until 6:30 a.m., he said.
    His opponent in the November election, Alliance and Republican parties candidate Roger Hull, isn’t impressed by the hours Mc-Carthy is putting in. Hull wants McCarthy to give up one of his two positions — mayor or council president.
    “The fact of the matter is I think the city taxpayers are being cheated,” Hull said. “It’s just an ongoing conflict of interest.”
    As mayor, McCarthy can veto legislation — which, in essence, makes it impossible for the council to pass any legislation that its president doesn’t support. Given that the entire council, including McCarthy, is made up of Democrats, such a situation is unlikely.
    McCarthy can also appoint members to the residency board, which has authority over his mayoral appointments. The board is the only group able to waive the city’s residency law, which would allow McCarthy to hire offi cials who don’t live in the city.
    In other words, McCarthy could stack the deck if he wanted support for out-of-city appointees.
    McCarthy has promised not to do that, but Hull said it would be far better for him to give up one of his positions.
    Council members tried to fi nd a way to pay McCarthy for his work as mayor, but learned that even if he stepped down from the council, state ethics law prohibited them from appointing him mayor.
    So they told him to keep both seats and have praised the work he has accomplished in the last few months. Most recently, he led the council to stop redoing sidewalks and thus have enough money to repave 10 miles of the city’s deteriorating main streets.
    “I give him an ‘A,’ ” Councilwoman Margaret King said. “I think Gary’s done an excellent job since he stepped in as mayor.”...............................>>>>......................>>>>..........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00904&AppName=1

This little fluffy pillow piece never mentioned the fact that McCarthy, of his own volition, denied Commissioner of Deeds status for anyone opposing him in the November election. Somewhat of a heavy-handed move from the 'working together works' column.

Why wasn't the $2 million dollars the City refused to pay to the schools in this article as well? Guess telling the truth wouldn't help his campaign.  

No pay and worth every penny? Margaret King gives him an A! Talk about grade inflation. Good thing she has retired from academia. She should also be dumped from the City Council this November.

    None of this makes any sense. McCarthy should have resigned from County employment and City Council immediately once he took Mayor. He's still on the County payroll? Working together works-for McCarthy and no other City resident. Look at the pathetic fiscal condition of the City because of him. Now he wants to institute more fees on City property owners. That's why you see so many DEMS and DEM contributors in the Hull camp.

Hey............it's a tax paid pulpit for campaigning!!

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Hey............it's a tax paid pulpit for campaigning!!

Right! When did he sleep on City or County time? This whole mess is such a joke. The worst part is the continuous cheer leading from the Gazetto and MSM. Schenectady needs a full time Mayor not someone clinging to a County job and refusing to resign from City Council. If you want to run for Mayor fine-resign for all other posts.

You wouldn't have to do much to do more than McCarthy's predecessor.