Amherst Times

A petition with the signatures of people, who were against the Rubino brothers’ development, has vanished.  This was the only official list with the names of residents who were against a new housing development. 

I spent hours going through the two files of Rubino brothers’ paperwork.  The files contain all the information which was transacted between the lawyer, residents, property owners, the Town Clerk and the Town Assessor.  I have never seen a more scrambled mess.   

As I went through the files I realized that several important papers were missing.  There were four people who were asked to have their names removed from the petitions.  One resident wrote to the project’s attorney to have his and his wife’s names removed.  Two neighbors also asked this resident if he would have their names removed as well.  This information was mentioned in a letter to the Supervisor from the project’s attorney.  I couldn’t find out if the names were removed because the original list has disappeared.  It is impossible to know if they were removed and/or who removed them.  

Another letter went to the then Town Clerk, Susan Jaros, asking her to remove certain names from the list while adding others.  The petition which is in the file now is a facsimile with brief notes written on it.  It would take Einstein to figure out what everything meant on the facsimile.  It is totally useless as a source to identity whose names were left on the list.  This type of bookkeeping was not the standard of Mrs. Jaros or her staff.  I have to question what the people signed at their homes when the Rubino brothers/Shelly Schratz visited them.   

The Rubino brothers and Council member Schratz never denied they visited the residents separately, but who knows what was said to the people?   

There should have been one person responsible for adding or removing names, if that is even legal.  There wasn’t, and now we have a mess involving many people as to what part they each played in this affair.

Will the phony politician step forward please.

The Erie County Democratic Party Executive declared that it would not endorse a candidate in the race for State Senator in the 61st District.

But, the New York State Democratic Committee decided to butt in by donating $4,262.25 to the Friends of Joe Mesi campaign. That’s interesting, Mesi is against publicly career while soliciting their money in private.  Smells of a future sellout.

When a New Yorker like Malcolm Smith starts nosing around in local elections you know it is going to be no good for this area.  The fact that the Erie County Executive Committee is staying out of this primary means nothing to a guy who wants to become the future Senate Majority Leader.

This also smells of interference from Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, and Buffalo State Senator Antwan Smith.  Maybe Antwan has promised to deliver Mesi’s vote.

Here’s the fiction from Mesi’s web page:

While Western New Yorkers struggle to find and keep jobs in this tough economy, legislators in Albany are voting to increase their pay when our state is more than 4 billion dollars in debt. Many of these politicians make $90,000 a year, working in a senate thatʼs in session 63 days a year and they enjoy summers off. I believe that politics should be like every other job. You shouldnʼt get a raise until youʼve delivered results. I will fight to bring a sense of responsibility back to Albany. 

Receiving $4200 from that very same group of people says Mesi  won’t be fighting anyone  for anything anytime soon.    Malcolm Smith and the New York City people know that. Joe will be compliant.

So much for the Tom Golisano – G. Steven Pigeon, New York needs to move in another direction candidate.

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Media Advisory –

Who:                Michele M. Iannello, Democratic Candidate for the 61^st State Senate

Where:             Old County Hall, 92 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY, in the area by the steps outside

When:              Wednesday August 6^th 2008 at 11:30 a.m.

What:               Candidate Michele M. Iannello will announce her request for an investigation by the New York State Board of Elections, the State Attorney General’s office, and the Albany County District Attorney’s office, into the announced plan for Tom Golisano’s political committee “Responsible New York” to spend $1 million dollars on behalf of Senate candidate Joseph J. Mesi. She will outline the “coordination” between Mesi’s campaign and officials of the Responsible New York Committee, including G. Steven Pigeon and Gary Parenti, which would prohibit such expenditures.