Amherst Being Run As a Socialist State
Dr. Mohan asked Tom Ketchum to take on another job in addition to being the Amherst Building Department Head. He asked him to be the Assistant Town Engineer for two weeks before Mr. Ketchum prior to his going on a family vacation. Tom agreed and was assured he would receive $500 a week for each of those two weeks.
Today was the day Mr. Ketchum should have received his final $500 but as so often happens, our Town Supervisor wouldn’t pay him. He told Mr. Ketchum the Building Department was “far behind” in building permits, which was a gross lie on Mohan‘s part. This continues Mohan’s well deserved reputation as a liar. Mohan said he checked the building permits and that there were thousands to be checked. He said Tom and his department hadn’t done a good job, which was a lie.
The building Department handles at least 5,000 permits per year and they were only 36 permits left to be acted upon. Mohan became angry and said Ketchum and everyone in his department could not go on vacation. He acted like Joseph Stalin; a mad, out of control, nut case.
Mohan wouldn’t even listen to his faithful guide, Shelly Schratz. He walked out of the meeting muttering, “No one will get a vacation.”
If you listen to him ranting and raving like a mad man it’s easy to see that he needs help. Most of the Town Board members believe he is ill. The only member who didn’t say he was ill was Mark Manna, because he wasn’t present.
Mohan often is lost during discussions. He doesn’t remember what he said in as little as 20 minutes after he says something. He hired two interns at eleven dollars an hour each because he wanted to pay them four more dollars than other seasonal employees, just because he could.
Our Supervisor doesn’t like the American way of governing. He believes in the socialist form of government. Democracy is too bothersome for him. It puts shackles on what he wants to do. His plan seems to be to put “his” people in power and turn Amherst into a little Moscow.
Tim S. Says:July 29th, 2008 at 12:18 am
As a older man I still attend all th town board meetings as possible.Mohan’s behavior at the Monday afternoon work session was of a mad man who was commanding his workers to do what he says or pay dearly.He was as frightening as any dictators I have seen in my lifetime.He needs to be removed before he hurts more people with the aid of his frighten cohorts,who lied with and for him.