The Judge Report - July 15th, 2009

About July 15th, 2009

What is the difference 03:36 pm
Guest Post from an awfully nice anonymous:
     what is the difference between a to-be-demolished building, which is an eye-sore and a fire hazard , sitting on a piece of property that is also unkempt and potentially dangerous and it being buried in our own clean landfill "dump" ? 
 Money in our pockets-  and pride in our city potential-
      what is the difference between a motto and website developed by "companies" and a logo and website designed by our own citizens ie. high school students?
Money in our pockets and pride in our city potential-
       what is the difference between hiring outside people and friends to do what elected officials should know how to do and and firing city employees who know how to do their jobs? 
 Money in our pockets- and pride in our city's citizens-
       what is the difference between spending foolishly and staying in a conservative budget?
  Money in our pockets- AND LOWER TAXES which would entice businesses and population to come to our beautiful city-
       We mock you because we love you
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Developing Story 03:47 pm
A reader who has exercised her rights under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) advises that she has requested the vouchers that have been paid for The Saratoga Associates for the last five years. They have been the city's consultants for several years on different projects, including the Via Ponte and the Chalmers Mills.

The individual vouchers have not yet been provided, but the raw figures have. Though I won't be in a position to analyze them until I have seen the vouchers, the amounts involved are staggering. This is a preliminary report and a developing story:
Now for 07/08/09  $459,906.23 was paid to SA for total payments for Demolition of unsafe buildings;  and 24,316.56 has been spent on engineering services for maintenance of roads.
The only project that I can recall that TSA has been involved in for demolition of buildings is Chalmers. If that is true, an amazingly high percentage of the grant money (for which we bonded several years ago) has already been used up on consultants who keep switching gears back and forth as to whether to rehabilitate or tear down the buildings. Have we been reimbursed by the state? Will we be? Those are questions I posted for the mayor and have yet to receive a reply.

I'll keep you informed as that information becomes available.



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shadycat 05:12 pm
Be sure to listen to Michael radio tomorrow at 11 am on WCSS (WCSS1490.com). There is a very good chance that the identity of shadycat, the mysterious blog commenter who opines that  the people of the south side think with one puny brain and that they think fine dining means eating at Parillo's, will finally be revealed.

And it will be a shocker.

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The First Clue.

The Second Clue.   Twelve entries down.

The Third Clue.  Same photograph as second clue.

The research was provided to me by a third party. I investigated it myself and am satisfied that it is entirely accurate.

[UPDATE 7/16/2009] Oh, this is precious. From the Queen of Cover-up over at flippinamsterdam:
wildthane Says:

This witch hunt is base foolishness.

There are important issues in need of solutions everywhere we look: physically and spiritually in our own lives, in the City, State, Nation and globally. That this topic has garnered this much attention is disappointing at best.

Can you imagine how much could be accomplished if this much energy were put into solving the real problems we are faced with?

As for as casting aspersions, Jesus said it best (King James Bible):

“He that is WITHOUT SIN among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

Drop the rock.

These are, of course, the people who conspired together to trash the good name of Michael Chiara so that they could control the assessments. Another developing story. Behind the scenes, of course, where they thought no one would find out about it, while they smiled and giggled in public.

Michael and I may say stupid things from time to time, but we use our own names.

Change the subject, everyone! No story here!


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{Further Update: Bethany Comments]

Some local craziness going on, where suffice to say, the entire city I live in, well perhaps I exaggerate, at least those those who read certain local political blogs have been directed to my facebook page, and an old blog of mine, and my silly local paper is going to run a cover story on anonymous bloggers and attempts to out them, in which many disparaging comments will be made about me. Only in my town is that actually news. Most interestingly, the faux outrage stems from a glib comment allegedly made by me which stated, essentially, that neighborhood opponents of a certain project shared one little brain, and that one local restaurant was not fine dining. Oh, the horrors! Those comments have apparently lead to a weeks (or perhaps months) long hunt for the anonymous blogger, with multiple blogs previewing that the blogger's identity would be announced live on local radio today.

I actually learned about most of this (that the blogs that had my pictures and links to my personal info) when I got a call from the newspaper this afternoon. Fun times. I thought I got out of the fishbowl when I didn't run for re-election!

Just a working mom, enjoying my marriage and baby. Nothing to see here.

Talk about spinmeisters. She just heard about this this afternoon? Hogwash. She was all over my blog last night. And her office made NUMEROUS phone calls before the radio show this morning to a person whom they thought (incorrectly) was our source. Because of the vengeance Bethany previously exacted on that person, which included getting her fired for having made a blog comment unflattering to Mayor Thane, I felt it necessary to post the chain of evidence so we could all be spared the lying denials. She's been erasing her own blog comments on area blogs.

This did not involve hacking, cooperation of site owners or IP agents. It was straight public information that began by googling "shadycat" and following the leads.

Here's what sparked the "faux outrage." I suggest Bethany Schumann, a "less scary (and very democratic) Karl Rove", Chair of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee, protege of Paul Tonko and mentor of Ann Thane, needs to spend a little more time on the south side to evaluate how much of the outrage is "faux":
Why aren't you southsiders more angry at the complete eyesores that call themselves businesses on the south side???
Plus, the biggest and most progressive businesspeople on the southside are in favor of the project, Alteri, Santos, Phemister. These are homeowners and landowners and businesses with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested and they support the project. Meanwhile, all you other chuckleheads who think Parillos is fine dining, know all your neighbor's business, never leave the stinkin' south side, and have looked at the stinkin' Chalmers building for DECADES without EVER demanding it be demolished, now are insisting it be demolished, and that the first out of town person in years who actually wanted to invest in our city should be denied, need to have your heads examined. Do you all share one tiny, southside brain??????????????
Can't imagine how that would offend any of those chucklehead stinkin' southsiders.Read more... )





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When Amsterdam Had Confidence in Itself 06:20 pm


Back in school year 1966-67, somebody decided that Lynch High School needed a new flag. Instead of hiring a consultant, the Student Council sponsored a contest. Winner Kathy Moore with the winning design.

Pretty positive, eh?



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