THE TALK-1300 REPORT

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 19, 2016 at 3:22 pm:

How exactly this congressional committee full of snarling, snapping, “foam-at-the-mouth” Democrats in Washington, D.C. who were all over Michigan governor Rick Snyder Thursday like a pack of wild dogs all over some poor, toothless, moth-eaten old bear shambling along in search of a couple of more blueberries before finally shambling off into the sunset ever got lawful authority and jurisdiction over the person of Michigan governor Rick Snyder in the first place to have Snyder hauled into Washington to take their beating remains quite murky, but suffice to say, if that congressional committee has authority and jurisdiction over the person of the governor of Michigan, then they have the same authority and jurisdiction over the person of NYS governor Andy Cuomo, and consequently, we older Viet Nam veterans who are grandfathers here in Rensselaer County and who care about our grandchildren'’s health and well-being urge that congressional committee to exercise that authority and post-haste, as thanks to Andy and by his own admissions to the people of Rensselaer County as stated in the TU, all of the drinking water of NYS has been put at risk of chemical contamination as a result of Andy and his ENVIRONMENTAL CZAR Basil Seggos having NYSDEC Commissioner Joe Martens streamline DEC agency processes to further Governor Cuomo’'s efforts to grow jobs and support sustainable economic growth in NYS, which is to say, have good old Joe gut the environmental regulations to appease Andy'’s rich political benefactors, or in other words, put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people of the state of New York.

In a Times Union article entitled “"Cuomo organizes last-minute trip to Hoosick Falls for PFOA update -– Communities across N.Y. facing issue of water contamination, governor says"” by Lauren Stanforth and Matthew Hamilton on March 14, 2016, our governor Andy sounded just like Scott Walker of Michigan with his whining about the EPA:

"“He (our own Andy Cuomo) also went back to criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying that the government group has still not established what amount of PFOA is safe to drink over the long-term.”"

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The answer is “NO AMOUNT OF PFOA IS SAFE TO DRINK OVER THE LONG TERM,” Andy, although that won'’t stop politicians like you from trying to find a way to mesmerize or bamboozle or snooker or flim-flam people into believing that drinking a slug of pure, unadulterated PFOA is good for your bowels because it has Teflon in it, and everybody knows a bit of slipperiness in the bowel is good for your health.

I would like to see all those howling Democrats on that committee who were all over Rick Snyder get all over our Andy as well, and ask him why he is whining about the EPA, when controlling chemical contamination of groundwater in NYS is Andy’'s responsibility, just like providing potable water to the people of Flint was Rick Snyder'’s responsibility.

I would like to see one of those committee members hold up a copy of the Continuing Planning Process document filed with the EPA by NYS in 1985, shortly after our Andy served as his father Mario'’s campaign manager during his father’'s 1982 campaign for governor, and then joined the governor’'s staff as one of his father'’s top policy advisors, where under the heading Groundwater Standards and Classifications (6 NYCRR Part 703), we have:

“Groundwater standards and classifications provide enforceable targets for management of quality in that they prescribe the best usage of the groundwater in any particular locality and the maximum allowable concentrations of various pollutants in the groundwater according to the intended best usage.”

“These standards and classifications are adopted pursuant to the Environmental Conservation Law, sections 17-0301 and 17-0809.”

“There are currently no federal requirements for the development of groundwater standards and classifications.”

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I would like to hear one of those congresspeople ask our Andy if he is able to read those three sentences, and comprehend them, especially the one that says in real clear language from the administration of Andy'’s dad, Mario, "“These standards and classifications are adopted pursuant to the Environmental Conservation Law, sections 17-0301 and 17-0809"” because “"There are currently no federal requirements for the development of groundwater standards and classifications,”" and if our Andy is able to comprehend those words, why then is he shirking his responsibilities as NYS governor over onto the EPA, and why does Andy want the EPA telling people in NYS it is safe to drink PFOA?

“What game are you trying to play with us here, Mr. Governor?”

And I would like to see one them hold up a copy of the TU and point to the article entitled “"Cuomo organizes last-minute trip to Hoosick Falls for PFOA update -– Communities across N.Y. facing issue of water contamination, governor says”" by Lauren Stanforth and Matthew Hamilton on March 14, 2016, and then read to Andy these words from that article, "“At the press conference, Cuomo also congratulated the mayor and supervisor ‘who'’ve done an extraordinary job,"” and then ask Andy if he had his wits around him when he made that inane statement, or was Andy purposefully trying to con people and steer their attention away from the negligence of the water operator in failing to police their watershed area, which failure allowed the PFOA to get into the Hoosick Falls groundwater.

“What is it, Mr. Governor, that you are trying to cover up here, and why?”

If Rick Snyder could be asked all the questions he was asked by that congressional committee concerning the Flint water supply, then certainly, Andy Cuomo can be asked all of these, and should, if there is ever to be true justice done for the people of Hoosick Falls, the people of Rensselaer County, and the people of NYS.

But as stated above, all of that is unlikely to happen in the case of Andy Cuomo, because this Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco in Andy’'s Cauldron of Corruption of New York where the culture of corruption grows like barnacles on a boat bottom, which NYS political boss Charley “"Chuck"” Schumer has been trying like crazy to get covered up and back under the rug, now threatens to open up under Charley “"Chuck’'s"” feet like a Florida sinkhole to suck Charley "“Chuck”" down into a political morass of explaining to the American people where all those federal funds intended to protect the drinking water in NYS have gone to, because they sure haven'’t come into Rensselaer County and Hoosick Falls.

Are we looking at massive misappropriation of federal funds here by Andy Cuomo that has resulted in a public health crisis in Hoosick Falls which Charley "“Chuck"” Schumer is now trying like crazy to get covered up and back out of sight?

Certainly, politics are getting more and more interesting by the minute up this way.

The question of the moment is whether Charley "“Chuck”" Schumer and Andy Cuomo can duck and dodge their way out of this one like the adroit political tap dancers that they are?

Stay tuned.

Paul R. Plante, NYSPE

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 20, 2016 at 4:35 pm:

With respect to the denial of honest services in Rensselaer County and the state of New York that has gifted us with among other environmental problems, the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco, which denial of honest services U.S. senator Charley “"Chuck"” Schumer is trying his best to keep covered up, in the official files and records of NYS Attorney General Eric T. “"Teddy"” Schneiderman in Albany, there is a 609-page document, a book entitled “Appendix,” that was submitted to Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit in Civil Action 05-2133-CV by Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino in 2005, a year before present-NYS governor Andy Cuomo declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York State Attorney General in 2006, on May 30, 2006, capturing the Democratic Party’'s endorsement, receiving 65% of the delegates.

What makes that official court document unique in connection with this Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco and relevant to this discussion of the subjects of gross negligence, depraved indifference to human life, callous disregard for human health and safety and state-sponsored retaliation in Rensselaer County and NYS is that it is an official document composed by none other than Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino herself, and thus, it is an official Rensselaer County history of the endemic corruption in Rensselaer County government and the Rensselaer County Health Department which has led in a direct line to this Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco on-going today in Rensselaer County under Jimino’'s continued rule, from the perspective of Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino herself.

The 609-page “Appendix” or official record of endemic public corruption in Rensselaer County was prepared for submittal to Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit in Civil Action 05-2133-CV by Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino in 2005 because Jimino was at that time appealing to Sotomayor for permission from Sotomayor and the federal government that would allow Jimino to sweep aside constitutional protections so that she could continue to use fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 psychiatric arrest orders to crush political dissent and protect political corruption in Rensselaer County by the expedient of having a political doctor issue a fraudulent 9.45 arrest order to the NYSP to have them apprehend the dissenter for transport to a secure mental facility, a gulag, for “treatment,” or drug-induced mind wiping that would leave the dissenter cross-eyed and drooling and no longer a political threat to Jimino and her plans.

The first known and documented use of this very effective retaliatory tactic by Rensselaer County Executive Jimino occurred on 22 August 2001, right after Jimino received a copy of a letter found at p. 128 of Jimino'’s 609-page Appendix submitted to Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit.

That 14 August 2001 letter to Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino was from a licensed professional engineer in Rensselaer County investigating on-going public corruption in the Environmental Health programs of the RCHD.

That 14 August 2001 letter opened as follows:

Dear Ms. Jimino:

Pursuant to our recent conversation, this is to confirm for the record that I did meet with Rensselaer County Public Health Director Denise Ayers, Rensselaer County Director of Environmental Health Roy Champagne and Rensselaer County Senior Sanitarian Loren Lutz in the clinic conference room at the north end of the second floor of the Rensselaer County Office Building, 1600 Seventh Ave., Troy, New York at about 9:15 A.M. on Monday morning, August 13, 2001.

This meeting lasted from about 9:15 A.M. to approximately 11:30 A.M. on Monday, August 13, 2001.

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According to the official Jimino Appendix filed with the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005 in what has become known as the “Rensselaer County Right To Retaliate” case, which was decided in Kathy Jimino’'s favor by a Charley "“Chuck"” Schumer federal district court judge named Gary Sharpe on March 31, 2005, with respect to the denial of honest services to the people of Rensselaer County by the RCHD, that 14 August 2001 letter from the engineer to Jimino concluded as follows:

So, at this juncture, based upon the extensive public record in this matter, the only conclusion the evidence appears to support subsequent to my August 13, 2001 meeting with Ms. Ayers is that either Denise Ayers, the Rensselaer County Public Health Director, and Charles De Fazio, the Rensselaer County Public Health Engineer, were grossly negligent and incompetent in this matter, to my detriment as a disabled person living in this county, or that they knowingly and willingly aided and abetted Jeffry Pelletier in avoiding the scrutiny of the New York State Public Health Law and the Rensselaer County Sanitary Code.

Based upon the evidence in this matter, and given the close involvement of Rensselaer County Attorney Robert A. Smith in this matter, there is really no other conclusion that can be reached, and as a disabled person dependant upon groundwater for my drinking water and the protection of that groundwater by the Rensselaer County Department of Health, I have to say to you as Rensselaer County Executive that I am very disturbed by what appears to have transpired in this matter.

Since I appear to have no other recourse, given that Ms. Ayers has today indicated to me that she intends to continue to cover this matter over, it is my intention to bring suit against the County of Rensselaer to obtain redress of my grievances in this matter.

Should there be something that your office can do to rectify this matter in a timely fashion, I would be pleased to hear of it.

In the meantime, I shall be preparing my suit against Rensselaer County for timely filing.

Thanking you in advance for any attention which you may be able to give to this matter, I remain

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As has been previously stated elsewhere, according to paragraph 8 at p.2 of an affidavit of the engineer sworn to on August 22, 2003 which is found at p.235 of the 2005 Jimino Appendix, the engineer was conducting a lawful investigation as a licensed professional engineer pursuant to the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which govern the practice of engineering in NYS.

With respect to groundwater contamination in Hoosick Falls and gross negligence in the RCHD, according to the August 22, 2003 engineer'’s affidavit in the Jimino appendix, that lawful investigation conducted by the engineer in August of 2001 was in furtherance of the due course of justice in the Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County and the State of New York.

Of importance to this discussion, that investigation in August of 2001 was consistent with and in full accord and compliance with a March 1999 directive from the Rensselaer County Board of Health to all residents of the Rensselaer County Health District to report any and all such deliberate falsifications of inspection data and fraudulent submissions to the Rensselaer County Director of Environmental Health, which the engineer had done on August 3, 2001.

Thus, that March 1999 directive from the Rensselaer County Board of Health to all residents of the Rensselaer County Health District to report any and all such deliberate falsifications of inspection data and fraudulent submissions to the Rensselaer County Director of Environmental Health was to become the trigger of a trap for the unwary in Rensselaer County, thanks to a Charley “"Chuck"” Schumer federal district court judge named Gary Sharpe, and Sonia Sotomayor, who Charley “"Chuck”" Schumer was to put on the U.S. Supreme Court as reward for her approval of the retaliatory tactic for use in NYS to suppress dissension by having the dissenters declared mentally ill and dangerous so they could be removed from society, as was the case with this engineer on 22 August 2001.

Sharpe and Sotomayor further confirmed that in Rensselaer County specifically, and NYS generally, politicians like Jimino could confer what is known in the federal court system as "“protected person”" status on select individuals who are able to purchase that protected status by making what are known as “disbursements” to the politicians through politically-connected lawyers in Rensselaer County.

In the 609-page Jimino appendix, that sordid history of public corruption in Rensselaer County and retaliation and the selling of protection from the law is exposed for all the candid world to see by none other than Kathy Jimino herself.

Thus, thanks to Charley "“Chuck"” Schumer'’s federal judge Sharpe, and Sonia Sotomayor, and Kathy Jimino, and Eliot Spitzer as NYSAG when Judith Enck was his policy advisor, the expectation of receiving honest services from licensed professional engineers in the Rensselaer County Health District was struck a death blow.

Thanks to Charley’ "Chuck”" Schumer’'s federal judge Gary Sharpe, and Sonia Sotomayor, who Charley “"Chuck”" Schumer put on the U.S. Supreme Court as a reward for giving this retaliatory authority to Kathy Jimino, and Eliot Spitzer as NYSAG when Judith Enck was his policy advisor, we had the seeds planted for the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco as their legacy here in Rensselaer County.

It is this dirty and sordid and tawdry political history that a congressional investigation really needs to look deeply into if there is ever to be true and lasting environmental justice for the people of Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County and the state of New York.

Elsewise, that dirty bit of history leading to this present public health crisis in Hoosick Falls today is going to get covered up all over again, so that the nightmare of chemically-contaminated drinking water in NYS is never going to end, to our detriment and that of our grandchildren.

Paul R. Plante, NYSPE

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 20, 2016 at 6:41 pm:

To understand what role the Rensselaer County Board of Health should be playing on behalf of the residents of Rensselaer County concerning this request for a public accounting by the Rensselaer County Associate Public Health Engineer of his or her actions in connection with the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco, it is necessary to review the Rensselaer County Sanitary Code for some direction and guidance.

Section 4.(a) of Article I of the Rensselaer County Sanitary Code, General Provisions, informs us that:

ENFORCEMENT BY LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH.

It shall be the duty of each local board of health and of each local health officer in Rensselaer County, existing pursuant to law, to enforce every regulation of the Sanitary Code.

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Since the Sanitary Code exists in part to protect drinking water, the fact of the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco is an indication that that duty was breached in Rensselaer County, which is cause for an inquiry by the Rensselaer County Board of Health, given that in the table of organization for the Rensselaer County Health Department in the Rensselaer County Health District, it is clearly stated that the Rensselaer County Associate Public Health Engineer is a professional position involving responsibility for the planning, direction and supervision of the environmental health program of the Rensselaer County Department of Health whose work involves providing advice and guidance to local officials and the general public in regard to environmental health problems and the measures necessary for improvements and compliance with legal requirements.

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Given that there is a public health crisis in Hoosick Falls related to chemically-contaminated groundwater, it is quite obvious and apparent that if this advice and guidance were ever given, as in the Flint fiasco, it was terribly wrong.

WHY?

In the Rensselaer County Health District, it is the Rensselaer County Associate Public Health Engineer who is responsible for the enforcement of the provisions of the Public Health Law and local and State Sanitary Codes in relation to environmental matters.

In the Rensselaer County Health District, the Rensselaer County Associate Public Health Engineer supervises enforcement of provisions of local and state Public Health Laws and Sanitary Codes relating to among other things public water supplies and operation of water treatment plants, and qualifications of water plant operators.

Are those laws and codes seriously flawed?

Or weren't they adhered to in the first place?

With respect to those important questions, Section 4.(b) of Article I of the Rensselaer County Sanitary Code, General Provisions, informs us as follows:

(b)THE BOARD OF HEALTH: QUASI-JUDICIAL POWERS

1. As provided by the Public Health Law, the Board may:

(a) issue subpoenas;

(b) compel the attendance of witnesses;

(c) administer oaths to witnesses and compel them to testify;

(d) by resolution, designate one of its members to sign and issue subpoenas;

(e) by resolution, designate the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or any person or persons to conduct a formal hearing or hearings for the purpose of taking testimony and reporting findings of fact, conclusions and recommendations as a hearing officer or hearing officers for such purpose, concerning any investigation, inquiry, study or violations of the state sanitary code, or this code.

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Given these powers, it is clear that the Rensselaer County Board of Health, which is defined in Section 8.02, Board of Health, of ARTICLE 8 of the Rensselaer County Charter, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, as having the power, subject to the provisions of the Public Health Law and the State Sanitary Code, to consider any matters that may come to its attention relating to the preservation and improvement of public health within the County, has the authority, jurisdiction and discretion to cause an investigation of this apparent failure of responsibility on the part of the Rensselaer County associate public health engineer to be conducted.

The question of the moment then is why haven't its members exercised that authority, jurisdiction and discretion?

Why the silence?

What are they trying to hide?

Or is it that they simply don't care what went wrong here?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Paul R. Plante, NYSPE

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 21, 2016 at 2:20 pm:

Now, with respect to this 609-page book in the official files and records of NYS Attorney General Eric T. "“Teddy"” Schneiderman in Albany entitled “Appendix” which was submitted to Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit in Civil Action 05-2133-CV by Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino in 2005 to explain to Sotomayor why it was necessary in 2001 for Jimino to have a politically-connected doctor in Troy issue a fraudulent Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 psychiatric arrest order for a New York State licensed professional engineer investigating on-going negligence, misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance in Jimino'’s Rensselaer County Health Department, if asked about my assertion that the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco is the fruit of corruption going back to 1978 and the Republican-party takeover of the RCHD, and what proof I was basing that assertion on, I would simply hold a copy of the 609-page Jimino appendix, and say “THIS!”

That 609-page history of public corruption in Rensselaer County was compiled by Jimino herself, with expert legal guidance from none other than Tommy O'’Connor himself, who is the brother to Mary O’'Connor Donohue, and the son of a distinguished judge.

No one told her what she had to put in that document.

Every single piece of evidence between those covers was carefully selected by Jimino herself, with of course, the expert legal advice of Tommy O’'Connor to guide her in its selection and placement, for maximum impact on Sonia Sotomayor, at a cost to the Rensselaer County taxpayers believed to be upwards of $250,000!

"“This is why it was necessary for us to hit the son-of-a-*****, Your Honor!"”

"“Look at what this ******* has been doing to our operation!”"

"“Look at these FBI records, Judge!”"

"“The son-of-a-***** is a squealer, a rat, and in Rensselaer County, rats get their heads stepped on!”"

"“We don'’t know how anybody else does it, Judge, but that'’s the way things are done here in Rensselaer County, some nosy son-of-a-***** sticks his nose where it doesn'’t belong, it gets cut off!"”

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Normally, as in the case of the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco on-going right now, you expect public officials to act like Andy Cuomo is doing, slinking around, trying to keep things covered up by staying out of sight and keeping the facts hidden.

But not so Jimino in 2005!

"“You’re G** D**** right I did it,"” is what Jimino told Sotomayor!

"“And you better believe I’'ll do it again!”"

"“Nobody ***** with me like that and gets away with it!"

And so Sotomayor gave Jimino what Jimino was asking for in her appeal, which was the blessing of the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals and the federal government so Jimino could sweep constitutional protections aside in Rensselaer County as if they were no more than dirt on the floor so that Jimino could retaliate against anyone she perceived as a threat to corruption in Rensselaer County, like that engineer was.

If you tried to tell someone all of that without a copy of that 609-page Jimino appendix in your hand as proof, people would think you were making it up out of thin air, because you just can’'t write this stuff and have it seem real, unless it really is real, and here, the best proof of how real this actually is comes to us direct from Kathy Jimino herself, who is the best witness as to what was on her mind that day she called the doctor and had him commit that fraud in her name.

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 22, 2016 at 6:43 pm:

So we can see that this isn’'t so much a case of denial of honest services as it is a case where the state of New York and Rensselaer County never intended to provide honest services in the first place, which is something the state and Rensselaer County received permission from Sonia Sotomayor and the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in NYC to do in 2005.

“Don'’t worry about following the law, we have your back!”

In an interesting outgrowth of that “Right To Retaliate” case decided by Sonia Sotomayor in 2005, on April 30, 2015, Robert A. Katzmann, the Chief Judge of the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, New York, in his decision in JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT In re CHARGE OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT Docket No. 15-90031-jm, ruled as follows with respect to the role Schumer federal district court judge Gary Sharpe played in the “Right To Retaliate” case as follows:

The misconduct complaint alleges that the judge (i) suppressed or “buried” evidence and allowed the defendants “to lie, [and] fabricate and suppress evidence”; (ii) “branded” the Complainant as mentally ill; (iii) was not impartial and helped the defendants “exact revenge” on the Complainant through use of New York’s Mental Hygiene Law.

DISCUSSION

The complaint is dismissed.

An allegation that a judge, in reaching a decision, neglected to consider fully all arguments presented, failed to comprehend the meaning or import of certain statutes or cases, or disregarded certain key facts or witnesses is merely challenging the correctness of the judge’'s decision.

Similarly, an allegation that the result of the decision evidences a bias in favor of the prevailing party is also merely an attack on the correctness of that decision.

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In other words, despite our Constitution, the Chief Judge'’s order of April 30, 2015 constituted a grant of power and authority from the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, which grant of authority created an “absolute independence” for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York from those provisions of Canon 1 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, entitled, to wit, "“A Judge Should Uphold The Integrity And Independence Of The Judiciary,”" wherein is stated in plain and simple language readily understandable by and comprehensible to the common person, "“(A) judge should maintain and enforce high standards of conduct and should personally observe those standards, so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary may be preserved."”

In the Complaint of Misconduct in question, it was clearly stated that United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York allegedly did wrong, in that he allegedly intentionally engaged in judicial misconduct, that being conduct “prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts.”

But of course, that claim was highly dependent on exactly what the business of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York really is, for what purpose does it really exist, and only the Court itself could really answer those questions.

Thus, the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals was asked this singular question:

"Does the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York really exist to provide justice?"

"Or is that a silly myth?"

That latter question was answered in the affirmative when Chief Judge Katzmann dismissed the appeal –- yes, it is a silly myth to believe that at least in cases where retaliation by corrupt governments in NYS is alleged, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York exists to provide justice.

It doesn’'t.

It exists instead to protect government corruption in NYS.

As to the question, “in the Northern District of New York, should a judge maintain and enforce high standards of conduct and should a judge personally observe those standards, so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary may be preserved,” that question was answered in the negative, which makes that another silly myth for school children to believe in.

As to the question "“do the United Stated District Court for the Northern District of New York and United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe really exist to protect lawlessness and what U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara described in the April 23, 2013 Times Union as ‘a culture of corruption’ in New York State that ‘has developed and grown, just like barnacles on a boat bottom,’ while acting in a punitive and retaliatory manner towards those like the New York State licensed professional engineer who challenged that ‘culture of corruption’ in a court of law through the Article 78 process in the State of New York,”" that question was answered in the affirmative.

Yes, they do.

To the question “"does ‘judicial independence’ in the federal Northern District of New York really mean that the Court is a law unto itself, totally unfettered and unrestrained by the Canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges,”" that question was also answered in the affirmative.

Thus, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in NYC made it incandescently clear to all concerned that blowing the whistle on public corruption in Rensselaer County and the state of New York is a very dangerous thing to do, which is probably why it isn'’t done, which is why we have the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco and a very successful cover-up of how and why it happened by Charley "“Chuck”" Schumer and the Cuomo administration.

Power politics at its finest, folks.

And right out in plain sight for everyone to see.

Paul R. Plante, NYSPE

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 24, 2016 at 2:05 pm:

And were I to be asked to make a more definitive connection between the subject of this thread, which is our very own Governor Andy Cuomo sending the strongest signal yet that he'’s ready to run for president if a Democrat, namely HILLARY, fails to win in November, even as top Democrats confide that Cuomo'’s presidential campaign is already under way, and Sonia Sotomayor in 2005 making her political bones and proving her political reliability to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice by stripping an innocent man of his innocence, and his Constitutional rights, while denying the residents of Rensselaer County the honest services of an uncorrupt NYS licensed professional engineer, this based on nothing more than a fraudulent NYS Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 psychiatric arrest order Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino had a politically-connected medical doctor issue on 8/22/01 for an engineer investigating on-going corruption in the Rensselaer County Health Department, lest one of Andy'’s many ardent supporters think I am hijacking this thread in order to steal glory away from Andy by putting it on republican Kathy Jimino and Sonia Sotomayor instead, I would disabuse them of the silly notion by simply pointing to these following words alleged to be from right out of the mouth of their own Andy as quoted in the Albany Times Union on January 3, 2016 as follows:

"Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed local governments to get homeless people out of the winter cold by will or, if necessary, by force."

"The governor signed an executive order Sunday requiring municipalities statewide to get the homeless into shelters when the temperature (including wind chill temperature) drops to 32 degrees or below."

"If a homeless person refuses to go to a shelter, the order authorizes police to take them off the streets involuntarily."

"For his part, the governor seemed confident his order is on solid legal footing."

"'“If there’'s a challenge to the state law, I will defend it,'” Cuomo said on WCBS 880."

"“I will be responsible because it’s my edict.”"

"“A local police commissioner can just say, '‘Go sue governor Cuomo; he made us do it.’”'"

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Now, with respect to the grant of pure power unfettered by the NYS Constitution and NYS law, not to mention the U.S. Constitution, Sonia Sotomayor granted to the state of NY itself in 2005 through Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino, who was granted the power by Sotomayor in 2005 to remove by force licensed professional engineers who she felt were threats to her and her corrupt RCHD, let’'s stop and re-examine the first sentence in that TU article again, to wit:

"“Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed local governments to get homeless people out of the winter cold by will or, if necessary, by force.”"

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By force?

Excuse me, but from where, other than from straight out of his ***, does Andy Cuomo get authority, jurisdiction or discretion to direct anybody, starting with local government, to use force on people because Andy Cuomo has directed that force be used against them?

Does our NYS Constitution give Andy Cuomo the authority, jurisdiction or discretion to direct anybody, starting with local government, to use force on people because Andy Cuomo has directed that force be used against them?

And that answer is no.

With respect to what Andy Cuomo’'s “job” in OUR government really is, and thus, the extent of his lawful authority, jurisdiction and discretion to do anything as NYS governor, section 3 of ARTICLE IV of OUR NYS Constitution which is law of the land here in NYS as binding on young Andy Cuomo as it is on the rest of us in this state, states as follows:

The governor shall expedite all such measures as may be resolved upon by the legislature, and shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed.

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SHALL TAKE CARE THAT THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED!

But there are no laws Andy can faithfully execute that give him unilateral authority over the person of people not in Andy'’s custody pursuant to some type of Court order or decree.

So where does Andy get the authority, jurisdiction or discretion to direct anybody, starting with local government, to use force on people because Andy Cuomo has directed that force be used against them, if our Constitution doesn'’t grant Andy that power?

And that answer is simple –- he gets the authority, jurisdiction or discretion to direct local governments to use force on people because Andy Cuomo has directed that force be used against them from Sonia Sotomayor, who in 2005 literally disemboweled, eviscerated and gutted and rendered dead our NYS Constitution at the specific request of New York State Attorney General Eliot “"Longshanks”" Spitzer, himself, acting on behalf of the state of New York.

That is where Andy gets his “authority” to act outside of our written laws and our Constitution, as if he were a king or emperor, as opposed to a mere state governor with very limited powers by will of the people of this state -– from Sonia Sotomayor.

Going back to the January 3, 2016 TU article wherein was stated “"If a homeless person refuses to go to a shelter, the order authorizes police to take them off the streets involuntarily,"” and “"For his part, the governor seemed confident his order is on solid legal footing,”" there is our own Andy making direct reference back to Sotomayor’'s 2005 decision which granted not only Kathy Jimino of Rensselaer County, but the state of NY itself, the right to unilaterally strip citizens of the protection of law based on nothing more than a whim, which has elevated both Kathleen Jimino and Andy Cuomo to the status of tyrants, no longer Constitutional officers of a Constitutional Commonwealth.

There is Andy Cuomo’'s "“solid legal footing"” and thus, the direct connection between the subject of this thread, which is our very own Governor Andy sending the strongest signal yet that he'’s ready to run for president if a Democrat, namely HILLARY, fails to win in November, even as top Democrats confide that Cuomo'’s presidential campaign is already under way, and Sonia Sotomayor in 2005 making her political bones and proving her political reliability to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice by stripping an innocent man of his innocence, and his Constitutional rights, while denying the residents of Rensselaer County the honest services of an uncorrupt NYS licensed professional engineer, this based on a fraudulent NYS Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 psychiatric arrest order Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino had a politically-connected medical doctor issue on 8/22/01 for an engineer investigating on-going corruption in the Rensselaer County Health Department for Andy'’s many ardent supporters who might have thought that I was hijacking this thread in order to steal glory away from Andy by putting it on republican Kathy Jimino and Sonia Sotomayor instead.

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 24, 2016 at 2:56 pm:

All we older folks out in the countryside can figure here with respect to Andy Cuomo rummaging around in the dustbin of history to dredge up this political speech of his father Mario Cuomo at the democrat national convention in 1984 is that it is either Freudian in nature in some as-of-yet undefined way, or it is hubris, or it very well could be both with a healthy dose of karma mixed in as well.

What on earth does Andy hope to prove with this seemingly un-thought-out and apparently boneheaded move, other than proving he is a shallow-thinking bonehead who does not consider the ramifications of his actions before he takes them?

I don'’t know if Andy is aware of this, but upstate, up here where there are still people living that Obama mocks as clinging to their Bibles and guns, Mario Cuomo, considered a blowhard and a windbag, was not all that well liked, which is why the people of this state finally replaced Mario Cuomo with the nonentity and political cypher "“Whicky-Whacky" George” Pataki.

And people up this way had largely forgotten about Mario Cuomo, and the role Mario Cuomo played in 1989 in stripping the people of Rensselaer County of the honest services of a New York State licensed professional engineer as associate public health engineer in the RCHD by sitting back on his haunches while Rensselaer County Executive John L. "“Smiling Jack"” Buono publicly made a complete ass out of NYS Health Commissioner Dr. David Axelrod, until son Andy dredged that all back up by dragging out this 1984 speech in a vain attempt to aggrandize himself by aggrandizing Mario Cuomo at the 1984 democrat national convention, in the process bringing everybody'’s attention back to Mario Cuomo and 1984 and the ethically-challenged Geraldine Ferraro who was thrust on poor Mondale by Mario Cuomo.

People in Rensselaer County today concerned about their health and well-being and that of their children and grandchildren still have not forgotten that it was on Mario Cuomo'’s watch as NYS governor that in a March 27, 1989 Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning a federal Hobbs Act investigation of endemic corruption in the Rensselaer County DOH, in 1989, it was stated in clear and unambiguous language that Mario Cuomo as NYS governor and a lawyer should have been able to understand, that public health services in Rensselaer County were not being provided in an efficient and effective manner to all persons in the municipality, and that was by intent, which is to say, state funds were being intentionally misused in Rensselaer County at that time:

“According to (name deleted), the results of the State'’s investigation were that New York State laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, Rensselaer County laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, and there was very little ‘enforcement activity’ even in the face of illegal sales.”

“(Name deleted) also faulted the State of New York Health Department for not auditing Rensselaer County’'s program.”

“(Name deleted) advised that he would not expect to find a worse county in the region (the Capital District region which comprises 17 counties)!”

“According to (name deleted), the object of any county health department is to protect the public and not to facilitate development.”

“In the case of Rensselaer County, it appears that the Rensselaer County Health Department was in business to facilitate developers and development rather than to protect the public.”

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Never did we hear a peep from Mario Cuomo about any of that, although the disposition of those state funds would have been his responsibility as governor, if Rick Snyder of Michigan was responsible for how Michigan state funds were used in Flint, Michigan.

To the contrary, Mario Cuomo sat even further back on his haunches and let "“Smiling Jack"” Buono in Rensselaer County make a complete mockery of the provisions of the NYS Education Law and the Rules of the Board of Regents concerning the practice of professional engineering in NYS when in 1989 then-Rensselaer County Executive John L. "“Smiling Jack”" Buono famously stated to the public at large in NYS, including Mario Cuomo and NYS Health Commissioner Dr. David Axelrod, that “"Smiling Jack”" could not “in good conscience condone the conduct of an employee who consistently stated that he worked for the State of New York, rather than Rensselaer County,” in reference to the Rensselaer County Associate Public Health Engineer who could no longer serve as an engineer in the Rensselaer County Health Department because the engineer refused to certify that the state funds coming into Rensselaer County from the state Health Department to provide for public health services like protecting the groundwater in Hoosick Falls were actually being used for their intended purpose, which is to ensure that public health services are provided in an efficient and effective manner to all persons in the municipality.

By dredging up that speech, and the memory of Mario Cuomo, what son Andy has managed to do is to refresh people’s memories of those times which in turn serve to link the corruption of the Mario Cuomo administration to the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco in an unbroken chain, which should serve as quite the endorsement for the Democrats to have Andy Cuomo as their keynote speaker this year, as the tale of two cities, Flint, Michigan versus Hoosick Falls, New York, plays itself out in the media.

Did somebody say surreal and bizarre?

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 29, 2016 at 4:17 pm:

Thinking some more about it, I would have to say based on personal experience that among the many reasons environmentally-conscious, normal, well-adjusted young people with their futures ahead of them leave NYS and go elsewhere to live their lives and raise a family would have to be this part of the Empire Center for Public Policy’'s stated mission that says it wants to “make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free-market principles.”

But better for whom?

Certainly not those of us who must live in or travel through the choking, stinking dust cloud on the JUDY ENCK MEMORIAL HIGHWAY FROM HELL, otherwise known as Route 43 in the village of West Sand Lake and environs in Rensselaer County, courtesy of Judy Enck, the EPA, Cuomo lackey Basil Seggos, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and good-old free market principles, which are defined by WIKIPEDIA as a “system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between vendors and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.”

Free from any intervention by a government, people, which translates as NO REGULATIONS!

“It is a result of a need being, then the need being met.”

In the case of a need being met in Rensselaer County through free-market principles, or total de-regulation, and a need being, thanks to Andy Cuomo'’s "“No state has anything on New York," and "we'’re going to make this the Empire State again, don'’t make any mistake about that” policy," the surrounding capital district area now has an insatiable need for the stone and gravel that comprise large segments of Rensselaer County, and so, to satisfy that need, like Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which was hauled away by Mr. Peabody'’s coal trains, with nothing but poverty and environmental devastation left behind, Rensselaer County now has to be hauled away by a variety of trucking companies, and we who live here in the choking, stinking dust cloud of sub-micron silica particles in the fugitive dust from the DEC-approved mines must now accept that to make New York a better place to live and work for those in surrounding counties, we in Rensselaer County must do our fair share by accepting a DEC-imposed APPALACHIA on us here in Rensselaer County as our destiny, as was confirmed by NYSDEC Region IV Deputy Permit Administrator Nancy Baker in a December 2014 NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION RESPONSE TO COMMENTS RE: DEC #4-3838-00066/00003, Polaro Sand and Gravel, Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, as follows:

The probability of this impact (on residentially-zoned land in the Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, the impact being a big, worthless hole in the ground) occuring is a given because the mine would not exist unless material is removed and continues into the future.

It will result in the permanent loss of sand and gravel but mining of these natural resources is a necessary component in order to sustain the construction industry in the state.

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Says NYSDEC Region IV Deputy Permit Administrator Nancy Baker on behalf of the Andy Cuomo administration, sorry, folks, but the fact that you were there first, and had made investments in your homes and families based on living in a residentially-zoned community really is of no consequence to the Andy Cuomo administration and free-market principles which dictate that in a free-market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy, and it typically entails support for highly competitive markets and private ownership of productive enterprises, like all the mines in Rensselaer County, because no state has anything on New York, and we'’re going to make this the Empire State again, don’t make any mistake about that!

There is a real lesson in that for the young people -– in New York state, the one thing you can never depend on so long as we do have a free market economy is stability and public health protection along with quality of life.

The fact that you live in a residentially-zoned area in Rensselaer County means absolutely nothing if the State of New York knows there is gravel or stone under your property and it wants to get at them because mining of these natural resources is a necessary component in order to sustain the construction industry in the state, and as the free-market folks say, “for there to be progress, for them, somebody, in this case the people of Rensselaer County, have to be hurt, for that is the way it goes in a free-market economy.”

In a free-market economy, we have no regulations, which is why we in Rensselaer County must live in or travel through the choking, stinking dust cloud on the JUDY ENCK MEMORIAL HIGHWAY FROM HELL, otherwise known as Route 43 in the village of West Sand Lake and environs in Rensselaer County, courtesy of Judy Enck, the EPA, Cuomo lackey Basil Seggos, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and good-old free market principles.

So young people, if you care about your lungs, if you care about not getting silicosis and living in agony, then get out of Rensselaer County and NYS as fast as you can, and don'’t look back, because all you will see is a huge dust cloud behind you, and environmental devastation as Andy Cuomo makes this the Empire State again, and please, make no mistake about that, because for us in Rensselaer County, that future is now.

Appalachia, here we come!

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TALK RADIO 1300 on March 30, 2016 at 2:49 pm:

As someone who was born here in Rensselaer County at the close of WWII, I, like many others of my generation, grew up surrounded by free-market principles which had made New York a better place to live for people like Jay Gould and Erastus Corning.

Those free-market principles, of course, gave us in Rensselaer County the huge Dewey-Loeffel superfund site near Nassau.

They gave us the PCB’'s in the upper Hudson River, which PCB'’s, incidentally, some Troy politician in the know told us are great to drink because they put lead in your pencil better than Viagra ever could, the silly man.

Those same free-market principles gave us the stinking air from the South Troy coke plant, and the stinking water flowing in streams out past Amsterdam thanks to the tannery wastes in them.

And that list goes on and on and on, and because it does, of course, as should be expected, some indeed have achieved the above dream of the Empire Center for Public Policy of the “GOOD LIFE,” La Dolce Vita, at the expense of the lesser mortals around one who one of elevated social position need not have a care in the world for, as Jay Gould once did in the glittering age of NYS Andy Cuomo is bringing back with his policy of “"No state has anything on New York," and "we'’re going to make this the Empire State again, don'’t make any mistake about that.”"

Because a few in society in NYS were getting the goldmine while the rest of us in NYS were getting the shaft, in an act of pure rebellion and defiance to the free-market proponents who were polluting our air and water, as if it were theirs, and despoiling our environment, as if it were theirs to despoil, in 1969, at a time when I was engaged on behalf of the United States government in defending free-market principles as an infantryman in Viet Nam and so had to vote by absentee ballot, my generation voted for great change in NYS with respect to greatly restraining those free-market principles destroying our environment by amending ARTICLE XIV of the New York State Constitution with the addition of §4 in 1969, which section stated “"The policy of the state shall be to conserve and protect its natural resources and scenic beauty and encourage the development and improvement of its agricultural lands for the production of food and other agricultural products”" and "“The legislature, in implementing this policy, shall include adequate provision for the abatement of air and water pollution and of excessive and unnecessary noise, the protection of agricultural lands, wetlands and shorelines, and the development and regulation of water resources.”"

That, of course, was a shot right across the bow of the free-market principle proponents who made extra profits because they were able to pollute our air and water without having to worry about it, since they could live in Chappaqua or Mount Kisco where that **** wasn’'t allowed to happen, and there has been a battle for the hearts and minds of state and local politicians ever since then over free-market principles prevailing in NYS over laws and regulations, which battle has been greatly tilted in the favor of the free-market proponents like the Empire Center for Public Policy, and the Andy Cuomo administration, so it is quite interesting to see the Empire Center for Public Policy now bemoaning the fruits of its victory, which has resulted in people quitting or getting driven out of NYS by the intentional failure of the Andy Cuomo administration, pursuant to free-market principles, to protect our groundwater from chemical contamination long after we told OUR state government that Andy Cuomo is an officer of that we, the people, wanted water pollution abated.

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TALK RADIO 1300 on April 3, 2016 at 4:45 pm:

With respect to ACTING NYSDEC commissioner Basil Seggos, who in reality is not a real DEC commissioner, but is instead an actor hired by the Cuomo administration from CENTRAL CASTING to portray a compliant environmental conservation commissioner in a laissez-faire regulatory environment in a state known nationally as a Cauldron of Corruption where the culture of corruption grows like barnacles on a boat bottom, and the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco which Andy Cuomo was able to turn around into a major-league press coup for himself with $10 million dollars worth of help from the compliant and dutiful Basil Seggos, who unlocked for Andy Cuomo the state Superfund kitty with no questions asked, and the eternal question of who really knew what, and when with respect to the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco, or should have, anyway, if the law had been followed, New York Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0303, entitled “Statewide environmental plan,” provides in section 1 that “"The department shall formulate and from time to time revise a statewide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment and the natural resources of the state, in furtherance of the legislative policy and purposes expressed in chapter 140 of the laws of 1970.”"

The key word in there of course is "“shall,"” which means it is a command, not a suggestion.

Has the DEC ever done that?

If so, then how come the Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco managed to slip beneath the radar, when OUR Environmental Conservation Law charged the DEC with formulating and from time to time revising a statewide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment in furtherance of the legislative policy and purposes expressed in chapter 140 of the laws of 1970?

Did the DEC put as much emphasis on the protection of the quality of the environment in Hoosick Falls as it did protection of the quality of the environment in Mount Kisco and Chappaqua?

If they did, then how could the groundwater in Hoosick Falls have become contaminated with PFOA?

For those who are unfamiliar with it, the “Declaration of policy” is found at New York Environmental Conservation Law § 1-0101, which section of OUR law states as follows:

1. The quality of our environment is fundamental to our concern for the quality of life.  

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of New York to conserve, improve and protect its natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well being.

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That is from 1970, people, FORTY-SIX (46) YEARS AGO – it was declared to be the policy of the State of New York to prevent, abate and control water pollution in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well being.

Obviously, despite that policy statement from 46 years ago, that policy failed utterly to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state living in Rensselaer County and Hoosick Falls and their overall economic and social well being as is evidenced by the present-day Hoosick Falls groundwater contamination fiasco.

Why?

Environmental Conservation Law § 1-0101(2) states “"It shall further be the policy of the state to improve and coordinate the environmental plans, functions, powers and programs of the state, in cooperation with the federal government, regions, local governments, other public and private organizations and the concerned individual, and to develop and manage the basic resources of water, land, and air to the end that the state may fulfill its responsibility as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations."”

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That again is from 1970, which raises the obvious question of why the state of NY has failed to improve and coordinate the environmental plans, functions, powers and programs of the state, in cooperation with the federal government and the EPA and to develop and manage the basic resource of water in Rensselaer County and Hoosick Falls to the end that the state may fulfill its responsibility as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations.

When you are sitting on your thumb and rotating while drinking water for a community is being contaminated by PFOA on your watch, then you are clearly failing miserably at your duty of being a trustee of the environment for present and future generations, because you are untrustworthy to fulfil that responsibility.

Environmental Conservation Law § 1-0101(3) states:

It shall further be the policy of the state to foster, promote, create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can thrive in harmony with each other, and achieve social, economic and technological progress for present and future generations by:

a. Assuring surroundings which are healthful and aesthetically pleasing;

b. Guaranteeing that the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment is attained without risk to health or safety, unnecessary degradation or other undesirable or unintended consequences;

c. Promoting patterns of development and technology which minimize adverse impact on the environment.

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Why did the NYSDEC fail to do this in Hoosick Falls?

Getting back to the “Statewide environmental plan” of New York Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0303, which provides in section 1 that “"The department shall formulate and from time to time revise a statewide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment and the natural resources of the state, in furtherance of the legislative policy and purposes expressed in chapter 140 of the laws of 1970,"” in section 2, it is stated:

“The department shall submit such plan to the Governor and to the Department of State on or before October first, nineteen hundred seventy-five, and thereafter shall submit periodic revisions of such plan to the governor and to the Department of State.”

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1975 is FORTY-ONE (41) years ago now.

In that time, has the DEC ever submitted to the Governor and to the Department of State a statewide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment in Hoosick Falls and Rensselaer County in furtherance of the legislative policy and purposes expressed in chapter 140 of the laws of 1970?

If not, why not?

New York Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0303(2) further states "“The Department of State shall review such plan and such revisions and shall submit a report thereon together with such recommendations within sixty days as it may deem appropriate to the Governor”" and “"The governor shall approve, approve with modifications, or reject such plan within sixty days."”

Has Andy Cuomo ever had a report on one of these “Statewide environmental plans” required by New York Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0303 submitted to him by the Department of State?

If so, what action did he take on it?

Did he approve it, or approve it with modifications, or reject such plan within sixty days?

Or did he just toss it up on the shelf to collect dust?

How about his father, Mario?

New York Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0303(3) provides that in formulating such plan and any revisions, the department shall:

a. Conduct one or more public hearings;

b. Consult with and cooperate with:

(1) Officials of departments and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning the environment;

(2) Officials and representatives of the federal government, of neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting the environment of this state;

(3) Officials and representatives of local government in the state;

(4) Officials and representatives of science, industry, and education;

(5) Persons, organizations and groups, public or private, utilizing, served by, interested in or concerned with the environment of the state;  and

c. Request and receive from any department, division, board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdivision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities under this section.

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Given all of that, and keeping in mind that the DEC has been required to do all of that since 1975, 41 years ago now, how could they possibly have missed the contamination of the Hoosick Falls groundwater supply with PFOA?

What doesn'’t make sense here?

What am I missing?

Does anyone know?

If these laws are simply being ignored by the DEC and the Cuomo administration, and it seems certain they are, then why are we paying exorbitant taxes to support this corrupt and worthless NYSDEC that can’'t keep our drinking water safe?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

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