Shelly Schratz is asking for the Town to get her an attorney and pay for him. To defend her against any charges she may be accused of committing, or for being part of any action to help the Rubino Brothers Development Company.
Shelly has stated she never went to any homeowner who signed the petition against Rubino’s Development, with either Rubino brother trying to convince those people to take their name off the petition. Doing so would make it fairly easy for the Rubino Brother to get the TB votes necessary to rezone their land.
Shelly said she did talk to the Rubino’s Brother on July 7th and then they drove away in a truck. Interestingly, the five people she visited did remove their names that same day, July 7th. At the Aug. 4th Monday night Town Board meeting Shelly said the told the people she visited they should ask the Rubino brothers any questions they had about the project.
On one TV sound bite Shelly could be heard saying that she hadn’t seen the Rubino brothers again from the time they drove away on July 7th until the Aug. 4th Town Board meeting, but she did later that same day. The Rubino’s had returned to where she was visiting the people who had signed a petition against the Rubino project. Shelly said she left at 2:30 p.m. to get to the Town Board work session.
A reporter from Channel 4 visited a lady who had written a note stating Shelly and Rubino did come to her home on July 7th. The woman is frail and timid but she did say to the reporter that one of the Rubino brothers had come with Shelly Schratz in an attempt to have her change her mind about having her name on the petition. The woman’s name was removed from the petition that day.
Shelly is trying to blame others for her problems. (Sounds like she learned that from Mohan!) She says Judy Ferraro has a vendetta against her.
We’ll have to wait and see how this turns out. Our legal system says that no one is guilty until proven so. We have to presume her innocent.