Amherst Times

There will be an opening on our Town Board when Debbie Bucki leaves our Town Board on December 31^st, 2008 to become our Town Clerk.  The Town Board must not choose someone who is a political stooge, hack, or has a political family name to fill in as her replacement.

It must be someone who has shown courage and stood up to the Town Board.  A man who has found several problems in our government which he help to correct; aman who never fears to name names and stand up to any special interest groups; a man who every Town Board member has praised for his honestly and integrity.  

His type of courage is not seen often in politics.

Tom,Tom,Kim,Jerry,Judy,Kate

On March 20th 2008, a young 12 year old child was abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted by Mitchell Brokob, who lived in the same neighborhood as the young girl.

He has been charged with abducting and sexually attacking her.  Our local FBI, working diligently, found a computer in his home which contained 40 images of child pornography, including images of adult males raping young girls.

He is now charged with felony possession of child pornography.  He could receive a federal prison term of 10 to 20 years.  If he is found guilty of the State crime, the federal charges carries a mandatory term of 10 years and a maximum of 20 years.

A big thank you to our local FBI.

There is no blame that can be placed on Len Lenihan’s leadership.  To begin with he couldn’t stop the political machine of Golisano and Pigeon and their picks.  They put out a great deal of money supporting Mesi, Konst and Powers.  Lenihan’s only option to stop this move was to say, “No” to Golisano‘s choices but he didn’t.

Then we also had Alice Kryzan running for Congress.  She took a great deal of money from sources that control downstate New York.  Her bid for Congress fell short.  Lenihan couldn’t stop her in the Primary yet her run did stop short of her goal in November.

Lenihan’s leadership could have been stronger but it wasn’t.  He did try to stop some of these candidates in the Primary but failed.  Thankfully four out of five met their demise in November.  The people’s wisdom was greater than the amount of money coming out of the “deep pockets.”