THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 18, 2024 AT 11:52 AM
Paul Plante says:
For an example of these “hidden” costs to local taxpayers associated with this STIMULATION money and CORPORATE WELFARE Joe Biden is handing out like candy to the richest corporations in the world as he pumps out enormous amounts of state support to these corporations, let’s go back to Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, where we have the following self-congratulatory BIDEN PUFFERY and BOBAUNCE, to wit:
The great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois.
Home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years.
Before I came to office, the plant was on its way to shutting down.
Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods.
Hope was fading.
Then, I was elected to office, and we raised Belvidere repeatedly with auto companies, knowing unions would make all the difference.
The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get these jobs back.
And together, we succeeded.
Instead of auto factories shutting down, auto factories are reopening and a new state-of-the-art battery factory is being built to power those cars there at the same.
To the folks — to the folks of Belvidere, I’d say: Instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again.
Because instead of watching auto ja- — jobs of the future go overseas, 4,000 union jobs with higher wages are building a future in Belvidere right here in America.
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Now, people, seriously doesn’t that that sound just grand and glorious – there is beleaguered Belvidere, Illinois down on its knees, gasping for its last breaths before finally expiring for good when just in the nick of time along comes WHITE KNIGHT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior on his white destrier standing 20 hands tall with Joe and his couched lance, pennants flying, firmly in the saddle, and the day is saved, and peace and prosperity will reign forever after in Belvidere, Illinois, thanks to Joe.
But is that really true?
For that answer, let’s go to the Jan 18, 2024 edition of the Rockford Register Star and a news item titled “A $32M sewer expansion needed for Belvidere battery plant” where we learn as follows, to wit:
Four Rivers Sanitation Authority Executive Director Tim Hanson said his office is preparing an estimated $32 million plan talked about for three decades to extend sanitary sewer lines to the area from Cherry Valley to service the Stellantis facility and any suppliers that will be needed.
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So, to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM come true in Belvidere, Illinois, the people in that area are going to have to pony up an estimated $32 million plus cost overruns to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM actually come true, so that when Joe said to the folks of Belvidere on 7 March 2024, that “instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again,” we have to ask ourselves this important question, which applies to corrupt Poestenkill as well:
ARE THEY REALLY?
Or is Joe driving those people in Belvidere, like the people of corrupt Poestenkill, NY, into eternal debt slavery to pay off the cost of that $32 million sewer expansion in their case, and in the case of Poestenkill, about a million in hidden costs to upgrade the piping system from Troy, New York through Brunswick, New York in order to actually be able to get the water Joe’s STIMULATION money appears to be paying for?
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WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 19, 2024 AT 8:18 PM
Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey hey, people, JOBS JOBS JOBS!
Millions and gazillions of them, all high-paying union manufacturing jobs thanks to BUILD BACK BETTER BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe Biden’s ultra-new, ultra-chic economic plan that is building a new American economy to replace the other American economy with this one being built from the bottom up and the middle out, so that everybody who isn’t yet in the middle class, the class everybody knows really built America, and the class to be in, can get into the middle class and be just like everybody else in the middle class with the Escalade in the driveway for her, the Corvette and super-loaded fwd pick-up for he, and the McMansion on its own eighth-acre, all thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to give us all chocolate cake!
But if that is the case, where are all these JOBS, JOBS, JOBS?
Consider a Reuters article titled “Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden’s big industrial plan, survey shows” by Timothy Aeppel on April 16, 2024, where we had as follows:
April 16 (Reuters) – America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
Biden’s industrial policy, headlined by legislation passed in 2022 that sparked a surge of factory construction, is aimed at boosting semiconductors, electric vehicles and green technologies, as well as other sectors.
The efforts so far have not produced many manufacturing jobs.
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I love that last sentence because it tells the ******* truth about BIDE-O-NOMICS, as opposed to the BULL**** Joe Biden and his crowd keep spewing, which thought takes us back to that story, to wit:
And so, as the presidential campaign shifts into higher gear ahead of November’s election, Biden is touring factories to tout his accomplishments, especially to voters in battleground states.
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And here I am, helping Joe “tout” his accomplishments by pointing out he doesn’t have any to tout which takes us back to that story about BIDEN TRICKLE-DOWN BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
“This is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a deliberate industrial strategy being pushed by the executive branch – that’s unique,” said Randy Altschuler, chief executive of Xometry.
Altschuler said federal investments have yet to filter down to smaller producers, with many of the most high-profile projects favoring giants like Intel and Samsung, which are both planning new semiconductor plants.
“You’re going to see a bigger benefit (for smaller companies) further down the road,” said Altschuler, as those projects create demand for the underlying pipeline of goods and services needed to complete and supply those factories.
end quotes
Yes, people, Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to reward the richest corporations in the world and the richest people in the US in his own version of TOP-DOWN, TRICKLE-DOWN economics, which takes us back for more on Joe Biden’s CENTRALLY-PLANNED ECONOMY where it is Joe Biden who gets to pick who the winners and losers are going to be, to wit:
Altschuler, who ran for Congress in New York in 2010 and lost and remains a registered Republican, said the political divide over industrial policy – which was once opposed by many Republicans as picking winners and losers – has narrowed sharply in recent years.
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Which brings us to another Reuters article titled “Philly Fed manufacturing gauge charges to 2-year high” on April 18, 2024, where we have more reality about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, to wit:
Factory employment, meanwhile, continued to fall, dropping to its lowest level overall since May 2020, in keeping with other gauges showing sluggish employment in the sector.
Manufacturing job growth has been next to non-existent over the past year, with the Labor Department’s measure of new factory jobs averaging just 2,000 a month in that span, among the weakest-performing industries in the private sector.
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That’s what Joe’s government is saying, while this is what Joe himself was spinning in Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, to wit:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
end quotes
Yeah, right, Joe, so other than on paper, where are they actually?
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Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey hey, people, JOBS JOBS JOBS!
Millions and gazillions of them, all high-paying union manufacturing jobs thanks to BUILD BACK BETTER BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe Biden’s ultra-new, ultra-chic economic plan that is building a new American economy to replace the other American economy with this one being built from the bottom up and the middle out, so that everybody who isn’t yet in the middle class, the class everybody knows really built America, and the class to be in, can get into the middle class and be just like everybody else in the middle class with the Escalade in the driveway for her, the Corvette and super-loaded fwd pick-up for he, and the McMansion on its own eighth-acre, all thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to give us all chocolate cake!
But if that is the case, where are all these JOBS, JOBS, JOBS?
Consider a Reuters article titled “Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden’s big industrial plan, survey shows” by Timothy Aeppel on April 16, 2024, where we had as follows:
April 16 (Reuters) – America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
Biden’s industrial policy, headlined by legislation passed in 2022 that sparked a surge of factory construction, is aimed at boosting semiconductors, electric vehicles and green technologies, as well as other sectors.
The efforts so far have not produced many manufacturing jobs.
end quotes
I love that last sentence because it tells the ******* truth about BIDE-O-NOMICS, as opposed to the BULL**** Joe Biden and his crowd keep spewing, which thought takes us back to that story, to wit:
And so, as the presidential campaign shifts into higher gear ahead of November’s election, Biden is touring factories to tout his accomplishments, especially to voters in battleground states.
end quote
And here I am, helping Joe “tout” his accomplishments by pointing out he doesn’t have any to tout which takes us back to that story about BIDEN TRICKLE-DOWN BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
“This is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a deliberate industrial strategy being pushed by the executive branch – that’s unique,” said Randy Altschuler, chief executive of Xometry.
Altschuler said federal investments have yet to filter down to smaller producers, with many of the most high-profile projects favoring giants like Intel and Samsung, which are both planning new semiconductor plants.
“You’re going to see a bigger benefit (for smaller companies) further down the road,” said Altschuler, as those projects create demand for the underlying pipeline of goods and services needed to complete and supply those factories.
end quotes
Yes, people, Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to reward the richest corporations in the world and the richest people in the US in his own version of TOP-DOWN, TRICKLE-DOWN economics, which takes us back for more on Joe Biden’s CENTRALLY-PLANNED ECONOMY where it is Joe Biden who gets to pick who the winners and losers are going to be, to wit:
Altschuler, who ran for Congress in New York in 2010 and lost and remains a registered Republican, said the political divide over industrial policy – which was once opposed by many Republicans as picking winners and losers – has narrowed sharply in recent years.
end quotes
Which brings us to another Reuters article titled “Philly Fed manufacturing gauge charges to 2-year high” on April 18, 2024, where we have more reality about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, to wit:
Factory employment, meanwhile, continued to fall, dropping to its lowest level overall since May 2020, in keeping with other gauges showing sluggish employment in the sector.
Manufacturing job growth has been next to non-existent over the past year, with the Labor Department’s measure of new factory jobs averaging just 2,000 a month in that span, among the weakest-performing industries in the private sector.
end quotes
That’s what Joe’s government is saying, while this is what Joe himself was spinning in Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, to wit:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
end quotes
Yeah, right, Joe, so other than on paper, where are they actually?
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 25, 2024 AT 11:49 AM
Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey, hey, people JOBS, JOBS, JOBS and even more jobs on top of all those jobs!
SCADS of them thanks to American president and noted and well-loved world leader Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, into whose strong and loving hands we have entrusted Joe with custodianship of the SOUL OF AMERICA, thanks to his INSANE GREEN DREAM which is going to literally coat the oceans of America, east and west, with so many windmills it won’t be funny, and America is going to get so RICH, RICH, RICH selling electric power to the rest of the world that not only will our federal deficit of $33 TRILLION be wiped out literally overnight, but all our taxes will be canceled and not only that, but the federal government will have so much extra money it won’t know what to do with, so each and every one of us will get a MILLION DOLLAR ROYALTY CHECK each year in time for BLACK FRIDAY sales, and life in America will be glorious, thanks to Joe Biden and BUILD BACK BETTER BIDENOMICS which has built the NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY from the BOTTOM UP and the MIDDLE OUT so sing hallelujah, people, and say AMEN, because as we can see in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “New York offshore wind projects scrapped, along with promise of local jobs – GE Vernova was to build turbines at Port of Coeymans, but that is canceled for now” by Rick Karlin on April 22, 2024, the GOOD TIMES promised by Joe Biden are finally here at last:
COEYMANS — Just over a year ago, state and corporate executives were heralding what they said could be some 870 high-paying jobs at the Port of Coeymans that would involve assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.
But last week, those jobs vanished — at least for now — before they were ever created.
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And talk about BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, vain display, worldly vanity) and all these HIGH-PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden says he has “created,” there is the true Biden job creation right there in front of us, numbers on pieces of paper that mean nothing in the reality that exists outside of white house press releases – a pocketful of mumbles such are Joe Biden’s promises, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
That’s because two major offshore wind farms that were going to use the port as a fabrication area canceled their plans.
However, executives at the Port of Coeymans say they intend to continue expanding despite the cancellation of the Attentive and Community Offshore wind projects off the coast of Long Island.
The cancellations were just the latest of several similar reversals along the East Coast over the last year that illustrate the variables and cost challenges facing the push by both New York and the Biden administration to develop coastal wind as a major energy source.
Both the 1,314-megawatt Community Offshore project proposed by RWE, as well as the 1,404-megawatt Attentive project from Rise Power and Light and the French energy giant Total were canceled last week.
The news was listed on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s website, and was first reported by Politico.
“No final awards will be made … and NYSERDA will look to advance a future competitive solicitation,” the agency stated on its website.
The reason cited was GE Vernova’s pivot from a new 18-megawatt turbine to their existing 15.5-megawatt device.
Without the larger turbines, developers would have to build more wind towers, which would add to the cost.
The Port of Coeymans had initially been identified as the facility where GE Vernova was going to build some of their turbines and blades, as well as LM Wind Power blades.
But with the Attentive project also halted, at least in the near term the port won’t be hosting a turbine factory.
Port officials, though, stressed that work is proceeding for two other wind projects that are currently under construction off Long Island: Empire Wind from Equinor and Sunrise from Orsted, two Scandinavian companies that are major global developers of offshore wind farms.
Both the Port of Coeymans and GE Vernova said they haven’t given up on the idea of building turbines and blades in Coeymans.
end quotes
For the record, the port of Coeymans, which is on the Hudson River in corrupt, backwards, Democrat-controlled New York state is about ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILES from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean.
Going back to the story of BIDEN INSANE GREEN DREAM FAILURE, it continues as follows:
“The offshore wind industry still presents a tremendous opportunity for New York state,” Carver Companies Chief Operating Officer Nick Laraway said in a statement.
The Carver Companies owns and operates the Port of Coeymans.
“The Port of Coeymans will continue supporting offshore wind projects Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind as announced by the state earlier this year,” Laraway added.
The port is handling some of the steel needed for the Sunrise project, and will supply aggregate stone for Empire Wind.
The number of people working on the steel and aggregate supplies at the Port of Coeymans wasn’t immediately available.
GE Vernova also said it remains committed to the Port of Coeymans as a site for any future construction needs.
The wind developers said their cancellation followed a change in plans by GE Vernova: The power spinoff of General Electric Co. earlier this year said it was focusing on producing more “workhorse” 15.5-megawatt turbines rather than the newer and more complex 18-MW variant.
The company said there is plenty of demand for the 15.5-megawatt models as well as the 3- and 6-megawatt turbines it builds for land-based wind farms.
The Port of Coeymans isn’t the only spot along the Hudson River in the Capital Region to be buffeted by what has become a volatile offshore wind industry.
Three and a half years ago, local politicians and business boosters cheered news that the Port of Albany, about nine miles north of Coeymans, would host a turnkey factory for the construction of the massive steel towers that support the offshore turbines to be used in Equinor’s projects.
But a year later, port officials said the costs of building the factory had grown from early estimates of $350 million to $604 million.
For now, the site is prepared and shovel-ready, but no construction has started due to a lack of funds.
Both Coeymans and Albany, though, remain prime spots for wind development, with lower costs than the New York City area and access to the Hudson River, where barges can haul items like towers and turbines to wind farm locations off the Atlantic Coast.
“The fundamentals of both Coeymans and the Port of Albany are both compelling,” remarked Fred Zalcman, director of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, a trade group of wind developers.
“Even if this didn’t pan out, I do believe there will be other opportunities down the road,” he said.
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And that is the news, people, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey, hey, people JOBS, JOBS, JOBS and even more jobs on top of all those jobs!
SCADS of them thanks to American president and noted and well-loved world leader Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, into whose strong and loving hands we have entrusted Joe with custodianship of the SOUL OF AMERICA, thanks to his INSANE GREEN DREAM which is going to literally coat the oceans of America, east and west, with so many windmills it won’t be funny, and America is going to get so RICH, RICH, RICH selling electric power to the rest of the world that not only will our federal deficit of $33 TRILLION be wiped out literally overnight, but all our taxes will be canceled and not only that, but the federal government will have so much extra money it won’t know what to do with, so each and every one of us will get a MILLION DOLLAR ROYALTY CHECK each year in time for BLACK FRIDAY sales, and life in America will be glorious, thanks to Joe Biden and BUILD BACK BETTER BIDENOMICS which has built the NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY from the BOTTOM UP and the MIDDLE OUT so sing hallelujah, people, and say AMEN, because as we can see in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “New York offshore wind projects scrapped, along with promise of local jobs – GE Vernova was to build turbines at Port of Coeymans, but that is canceled for now” by Rick Karlin on April 22, 2024, the GOOD TIMES promised by Joe Biden are finally here at last:
COEYMANS — Just over a year ago, state and corporate executives were heralding what they said could be some 870 high-paying jobs at the Port of Coeymans that would involve assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.
But last week, those jobs vanished — at least for now — before they were ever created.
end quotes
And talk about BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, vain display, worldly vanity) and all these HIGH-PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden says he has “created,” there is the true Biden job creation right there in front of us, numbers on pieces of paper that mean nothing in the reality that exists outside of white house press releases – a pocketful of mumbles such are Joe Biden’s promises, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
That’s because two major offshore wind farms that were going to use the port as a fabrication area canceled their plans.
However, executives at the Port of Coeymans say they intend to continue expanding despite the cancellation of the Attentive and Community Offshore wind projects off the coast of Long Island.
The cancellations were just the latest of several similar reversals along the East Coast over the last year that illustrate the variables and cost challenges facing the push by both New York and the Biden administration to develop coastal wind as a major energy source.
Both the 1,314-megawatt Community Offshore project proposed by RWE, as well as the 1,404-megawatt Attentive project from Rise Power and Light and the French energy giant Total were canceled last week.
The news was listed on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s website, and was first reported by Politico.
“No final awards will be made … and NYSERDA will look to advance a future competitive solicitation,” the agency stated on its website.
The reason cited was GE Vernova’s pivot from a new 18-megawatt turbine to their existing 15.5-megawatt device.
Without the larger turbines, developers would have to build more wind towers, which would add to the cost.
The Port of Coeymans had initially been identified as the facility where GE Vernova was going to build some of their turbines and blades, as well as LM Wind Power blades.
But with the Attentive project also halted, at least in the near term the port won’t be hosting a turbine factory.
Port officials, though, stressed that work is proceeding for two other wind projects that are currently under construction off Long Island: Empire Wind from Equinor and Sunrise from Orsted, two Scandinavian companies that are major global developers of offshore wind farms.
Both the Port of Coeymans and GE Vernova said they haven’t given up on the idea of building turbines and blades in Coeymans.
end quotes
For the record, the port of Coeymans, which is on the Hudson River in corrupt, backwards, Democrat-controlled New York state is about ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILES from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean.
Going back to the story of BIDEN INSANE GREEN DREAM FAILURE, it continues as follows:
“The offshore wind industry still presents a tremendous opportunity for New York state,” Carver Companies Chief Operating Officer Nick Laraway said in a statement.
The Carver Companies owns and operates the Port of Coeymans.
“The Port of Coeymans will continue supporting offshore wind projects Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind as announced by the state earlier this year,” Laraway added.
The port is handling some of the steel needed for the Sunrise project, and will supply aggregate stone for Empire Wind.
The number of people working on the steel and aggregate supplies at the Port of Coeymans wasn’t immediately available.
GE Vernova also said it remains committed to the Port of Coeymans as a site for any future construction needs.
The wind developers said their cancellation followed a change in plans by GE Vernova: The power spinoff of General Electric Co. earlier this year said it was focusing on producing more “workhorse” 15.5-megawatt turbines rather than the newer and more complex 18-MW variant.
The company said there is plenty of demand for the 15.5-megawatt models as well as the 3- and 6-megawatt turbines it builds for land-based wind farms.
The Port of Coeymans isn’t the only spot along the Hudson River in the Capital Region to be buffeted by what has become a volatile offshore wind industry.
Three and a half years ago, local politicians and business boosters cheered news that the Port of Albany, about nine miles north of Coeymans, would host a turnkey factory for the construction of the massive steel towers that support the offshore turbines to be used in Equinor’s projects.
But a year later, port officials said the costs of building the factory had grown from early estimates of $350 million to $604 million.
For now, the site is prepared and shovel-ready, but no construction has started due to a lack of funds.
Both Coeymans and Albany, though, remain prime spots for wind development, with lower costs than the New York City area and access to the Hudson River, where barges can haul items like towers and turbines to wind farm locations off the Atlantic Coast.
“The fundamentals of both Coeymans and the Port of Albany are both compelling,” remarked Fred Zalcman, director of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, a trade group of wind developers.
“Even if this didn’t pan out, I do believe there will be other opportunities down the road,” he said.
end quotes
And that is the news, people, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 29, 2024 AT 11:56 AM
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
Following up on a perceptive comment elsewhere in here by Kim @ APRIL 28, 2024 AT 1:23 PM concerning these “government grants” of money coming down to localities from the federal government, where Kim remarks quite correctly that “local governments just view this as ‘free money,’“ and further following up on a comment made by myself above here @ APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM, where I remarked that the last several days of my apparent quietude in here, as has again been the case these last so many days, is because I am forced by circumstances way beyond my control, like trying to stop a train wreck, to instead be “out there” in what these days passes for the “real” world, where I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Which takes us to a letter on the subject I just sent out this morning to Democrat New York state governor Kathy Hochul wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
29 APRIL 2024
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
RE: Questionable WIIA Grants in Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County; Condemnation by Poestenkill Town Board of Algonquin Middle School carbon filtration system paid for in part by WIIA Grant as inadequate to protect children’s health; An incredible waste of taxpayer dollars
Dear Governor Hochul:
I am writing to you as a concerned taxpayer of the Averill Park Central School District, which district serves the needs of elementary, secondary, and special education students residing in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Nassau, North Greenbush, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Schodack and Stephentown concerning a $90,000 Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant awarded by your office in its wisdom on May 11, 2023 to the Averill Park Central School District and its Board of Education through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation for the effective treatment of drinking water at Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County by installing granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School.
At the time your office awarded this WIIA Grant to the Averill Park School District less than a year ago on May 11, 2023, you were quoted as saying “New York is committed to providing communities with the resources needed to upgrade water systems and improve water quality,” and “We are continuing our nation-leading clean water investments with $500 million for clean water infrastructure in this year’s budget helping to protect the health and safety of our residents, preserve our environment, and improve quality of life for all with access to safe, reliable and clean water,” which is why your office awarded that WIIA grant, which act by your office we thought was fully supported by the following language from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in a February 2022 Community Update to the people of Poestenkill, to wit:
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
end quote
What happened subsequent thereto is that the Town Board of Poestenkill, acting in its capacity as the Board of Health of the town of Poestenkill where the Algonquin Middle School is physically located, in conjunction with its Public Health Coordinator, a professional position in Poestenkill involving responsibility for supervision of the environmental health program of the Poestenkill Department of Health, and whose work involves the enforcement of state Public Health Laws relating to public water supplies in Poestenkill, appointed a Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation headed up by Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and comprised of the best scientific and legal minds in Poestenkill including former Obama EPA administrator Judith Enck, which Blue Ribbon Investigatory Commission was charged by the Poestenkill town board in its capacity as Poestenkill board of health with conducting an independent investigation of the charcoal filters paid for in part by the WIIA Grant awarded by your office to the Averill Park School District on May 11, 2023.
As a result of that investigation, the findings of which were released at a public information meeting in Poestenkill on April 25, 2024, it was determined by the Poestenkill town board acting in its capacity as the Town of Poestenkill Board of Health that the carbon filtration system at the Algonquin School paid for in part by the $90,000 WIIA Grant awarded by your office on May 11, 2023 should be condemned and withdrawn from service as it is in essence a piece of junk that fails to protect the health and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the Algonquin School, that the system is no good, that when your office awarded the Grant, it didn’t know what it was doing, and that in the learned opinion of the Poestenkill town board, its public health coordinator, and its Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation, Tomhannock Reservoir water would better protect the health and safety of the children who are students at the Algonquin Middle School, along with faculty and staff, while preserving the environment in Poestenkill, and improving quality of life for all in the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill with access to safe, reliable and clean water from the City of Troy piped through the Town of Brunswick, and then through the Town of Poestenkill, for which purpose the town of Poestenkill is about to obtain another WIIA Grant of $2,314,200 to run a special water main to the school and to dismantle and scrap the carbon filtration system the May 11, 2023 WIIA Grant awarded by your office in part paid for.
Which raises the important question of how on earth this fiscal fiasco could have happened in the first place, where the State Environmental Facilities Corporation approved a $90,000 grant to the Averill Park Central School District for something worthless, and is now forced to have to award a $2,314,200 WIIA Grant to the town board of Poestenkill to undo and correct the harm done by the $90,000 WIIA Grant on May 11, 2023 to the Board of Education of the Averill Park Central School District that paid in part for a system the town board of Poestenkill acting as board of health of Poestenkill has determined is an unsafe piece of junk by dismantling and scrapping the charcoal filters and ordering the Averill Park School Board to hook up to Poestenkill’s municipal water supply, instead.
Thanking you in advance for a prompt response to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
Following up on a perceptive comment elsewhere in here by Kim @ APRIL 28, 2024 AT 1:23 PM concerning these “government grants” of money coming down to localities from the federal government, where Kim remarks quite correctly that “local governments just view this as ‘free money,’“ and further following up on a comment made by myself above here @ APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM, where I remarked that the last several days of my apparent quietude in here, as has again been the case these last so many days, is because I am forced by circumstances way beyond my control, like trying to stop a train wreck, to instead be “out there” in what these days passes for the “real” world, where I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Which takes us to a letter on the subject I just sent out this morning to Democrat New York state governor Kathy Hochul wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
29 APRIL 2024
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
RE: Questionable WIIA Grants in Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County; Condemnation by Poestenkill Town Board of Algonquin Middle School carbon filtration system paid for in part by WIIA Grant as inadequate to protect children’s health; An incredible waste of taxpayer dollars
Dear Governor Hochul:
I am writing to you as a concerned taxpayer of the Averill Park Central School District, which district serves the needs of elementary, secondary, and special education students residing in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Nassau, North Greenbush, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Schodack and Stephentown concerning a $90,000 Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant awarded by your office in its wisdom on May 11, 2023 to the Averill Park Central School District and its Board of Education through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation for the effective treatment of drinking water at Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County by installing granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School.
At the time your office awarded this WIIA Grant to the Averill Park School District less than a year ago on May 11, 2023, you were quoted as saying “New York is committed to providing communities with the resources needed to upgrade water systems and improve water quality,” and “We are continuing our nation-leading clean water investments with $500 million for clean water infrastructure in this year’s budget helping to protect the health and safety of our residents, preserve our environment, and improve quality of life for all with access to safe, reliable and clean water,” which is why your office awarded that WIIA grant, which act by your office we thought was fully supported by the following language from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in a February 2022 Community Update to the people of Poestenkill, to wit:
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
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What happened subsequent thereto is that the Town Board of Poestenkill, acting in its capacity as the Board of Health of the town of Poestenkill where the Algonquin Middle School is physically located, in conjunction with its Public Health Coordinator, a professional position in Poestenkill involving responsibility for supervision of the environmental health program of the Poestenkill Department of Health, and whose work involves the enforcement of state Public Health Laws relating to public water supplies in Poestenkill, appointed a Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation headed up by Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and comprised of the best scientific and legal minds in Poestenkill including former Obama EPA administrator Judith Enck, which Blue Ribbon Investigatory Commission was charged by the Poestenkill town board in its capacity as Poestenkill board of health with conducting an independent investigation of the charcoal filters paid for in part by the WIIA Grant awarded by your office to the Averill Park School District on May 11, 2023.
As a result of that investigation, the findings of which were released at a public information meeting in Poestenkill on April 25, 2024, it was determined by the Poestenkill town board acting in its capacity as the Town of Poestenkill Board of Health that the carbon filtration system at the Algonquin School paid for in part by the $90,000 WIIA Grant awarded by your office on May 11, 2023 should be condemned and withdrawn from service as it is in essence a piece of junk that fails to protect the health and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the Algonquin School, that the system is no good, that when your office awarded the Grant, it didn’t know what it was doing, and that in the learned opinion of the Poestenkill town board, its public health coordinator, and its Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation, Tomhannock Reservoir water would better protect the health and safety of the children who are students at the Algonquin Middle School, along with faculty and staff, while preserving the environment in Poestenkill, and improving quality of life for all in the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill with access to safe, reliable and clean water from the City of Troy piped through the Town of Brunswick, and then through the Town of Poestenkill, for which purpose the town of Poestenkill is about to obtain another WIIA Grant of $2,314,200 to run a special water main to the school and to dismantle and scrap the carbon filtration system the May 11, 2023 WIIA Grant awarded by your office in part paid for.
Which raises the important question of how on earth this fiscal fiasco could have happened in the first place, where the State Environmental Facilities Corporation approved a $90,000 grant to the Averill Park Central School District for something worthless, and is now forced to have to award a $2,314,200 WIIA Grant to the town board of Poestenkill to undo and correct the harm done by the $90,000 WIIA Grant on May 11, 2023 to the Board of Education of the Averill Park Central School District that paid in part for a system the town board of Poestenkill acting as board of health of Poestenkill has determined is an unsafe piece of junk by dismantling and scrapping the charcoal filters and ordering the Averill Park School Board to hook up to Poestenkill’s municipal water supply, instead.
Thanking you in advance for a prompt response to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 30, 2024 AT 5:12 PM
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
To understand what is going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles when I say I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community, it must first be understood that this particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involving what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) as is the case here, a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these small towns use them, or perhaps more properly, why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one.
As to HOW the community is being split, this following article from a local newsletter I started in imitation of the Cape Charles Mirror, given I have no other voice in my small community, where to be an “anti” is to be a pariah and an “outsider,” notwithstanding I have lived there for over 70 years now, gives a good understanding of where this matter has escalated to in the last so many days. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 29th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND HOW ‘SLIPPERY TOM’ SAVED LABERGE’S BACON”
So, as we concerned taxpayers can clearly see here, what Poestenkill and Laberge are pushing for with their bush-league, amateur hour scam on the taxpayers in order to put some huge coin in Laberge’s pockets at taxpayer expense is an incredible, irresponsible and deliberate waste of taxpayer dollars, because there already has been one $90,000 WIIA grant made in May of 2023 to install granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School, and what Laberge and Poestenkill are trying to get with this water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM of theirs is a second $2,314,299 WIIA grant for Poestenkill to take the brand-new carbon filters paid for by the first WIIA grant and toss them in the garbage, scrap them, and instead replace them with Troy water paid for by the second WIIA grant and the people of Poestenkill.
As to the very skillful map scam Democrat Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell is pulling on us here with his water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM, as the Democrat plays every dirty, slippery, oily, slimy political trick in his extensive arsenal developed, honed and polished during his time as Keith Hammond’s Poestenkill planning board chairman in his bid to be a hero in the eyes of his masters the Laberge Group, from whom the Democrat takes his marching orders, as was made incandescently clear to all on April 3, 2024 at the so-called “water district no. 2 information hearing” at the Poestenkill fire house, where no record of the proceeding was made, there is a good shot of the bogus map with no title block being called water district no. 2 by Laberge and the Poestenkill town board at 26:37 in the Youtube video of the April 25, 2024 water district no. 2 comic opera farce, which farce one would expect to encounter in the pages of National Lampoon, not in real life, said farce conducted by “Slippery Tom” Russell, an honorific (a title expressing high status and respect) awarded to the Democrat by those in Poestenkill qualified to render such judgments, and that is high praise indeed awarded there for Mr. Russel’s stellar performance of both knowledge of and proficiency at the venerable art and science of SLIMEBALL and GUTTER politics as a Laberge shill that evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8r1X3GYZE8 , begins at 27.30.
As to that bogus “map” and what caused Poestenkill councilman Burzesi, like myself and Ronald Laberge a licensed professional engineer in New York subject to Section 29 of the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which make it clear as glass to each of us that unprofessional conduct in the practice of professional engineering shall include conduct in the practice of the profession which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession, and/or being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, rules I am accused of taking far too seriously in Poestenkill, where “fast and loose” are the order of the day, unless you are the Shuhart’s, to run squealing to the supervisor about the need to stifle and thwart me at the April 25, 2024 FARCE the Democrat called a “public hearing” by not allowing me to question Laberge, which should have happened in a legitimate public hearing, on Tue, April 23, 2024 @ 1:58 PM, I sent the following e-mail to councilman Burzesi, to wit:
I don’t know about you, Frank, because each of us has to set their own moral compass here in a town where feeding off the taxpayers isn’t a crime and dishonesty is not a federal offence, but I have called out this Laberge for being dishonest (at the May 11, 2023 public hearing), and I intend to do so again Thursday night, and I am going to question him about the specific meaning of the language in his engineering certification of 29 August 2022, what exactly was it that he was certifying, did his certification include the map he had taken pains to put in his report?
And I am going to ask the town board to clarify exactly what it was they were listing as an unlisted action in September of 2022 and then gave a neg. dec. to.
And Frank, seriously, and I am speaking as a town resident, both you and Tom Russell have absolutely no claim whatsoever to ignorance here as to what is going on with this MAP SCAM.
Tom Russell was planning board chairman responsible for administering DUE PROCESS and the town code, plus he was the town’s chief SEQRA compliance officer, so he can’t say he has no idea what is going on here.
You were zoning board chairman responsible for INTERPRETING the town code, and you also administered SEQRA.
So how come you think you can slide by me this tall tale or outright lie that the map referred in the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing as having been accepted by the Poestenkill town board in AUGUST of 2022 is that map of a segment presented at the May 11, 2023 hearing, and again by the town at the April 3, 2024 hearing?
Do you honestly think I am that stupid so as to actually believe that falsehood?
Would be silly on your part, Frank, if you were foolish enough to make that mistake because Keith Hammond told you I was a RETARD and you believed him.
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Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
To understand what is going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles when I say I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community, it must first be understood that this particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involving what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) as is the case here, a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these small towns use them, or perhaps more properly, why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one.
As to HOW the community is being split, this following article from a local newsletter I started in imitation of the Cape Charles Mirror, given I have no other voice in my small community, where to be an “anti” is to be a pariah and an “outsider,” notwithstanding I have lived there for over 70 years now, gives a good understanding of where this matter has escalated to in the last so many days. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 29th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND HOW ‘SLIPPERY TOM’ SAVED LABERGE’S BACON”
So, as we concerned taxpayers can clearly see here, what Poestenkill and Laberge are pushing for with their bush-league, amateur hour scam on the taxpayers in order to put some huge coin in Laberge’s pockets at taxpayer expense is an incredible, irresponsible and deliberate waste of taxpayer dollars, because there already has been one $90,000 WIIA grant made in May of 2023 to install granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School, and what Laberge and Poestenkill are trying to get with this water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM of theirs is a second $2,314,299 WIIA grant for Poestenkill to take the brand-new carbon filters paid for by the first WIIA grant and toss them in the garbage, scrap them, and instead replace them with Troy water paid for by the second WIIA grant and the people of Poestenkill.
As to the very skillful map scam Democrat Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell is pulling on us here with his water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM, as the Democrat plays every dirty, slippery, oily, slimy political trick in his extensive arsenal developed, honed and polished during his time as Keith Hammond’s Poestenkill planning board chairman in his bid to be a hero in the eyes of his masters the Laberge Group, from whom the Democrat takes his marching orders, as was made incandescently clear to all on April 3, 2024 at the so-called “water district no. 2 information hearing” at the Poestenkill fire house, where no record of the proceeding was made, there is a good shot of the bogus map with no title block being called water district no. 2 by Laberge and the Poestenkill town board at 26:37 in the Youtube video of the April 25, 2024 water district no. 2 comic opera farce, which farce one would expect to encounter in the pages of National Lampoon, not in real life, said farce conducted by “Slippery Tom” Russell, an honorific (a title expressing high status and respect) awarded to the Democrat by those in Poestenkill qualified to render such judgments, and that is high praise indeed awarded there for Mr. Russel’s stellar performance of both knowledge of and proficiency at the venerable art and science of SLIMEBALL and GUTTER politics as a Laberge shill that evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8r1X3GYZE8 , begins at 27.30.
As to that bogus “map” and what caused Poestenkill councilman Burzesi, like myself and Ronald Laberge a licensed professional engineer in New York subject to Section 29 of the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which make it clear as glass to each of us that unprofessional conduct in the practice of professional engineering shall include conduct in the practice of the profession which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession, and/or being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, rules I am accused of taking far too seriously in Poestenkill, where “fast and loose” are the order of the day, unless you are the Shuhart’s, to run squealing to the supervisor about the need to stifle and thwart me at the April 25, 2024 FARCE the Democrat called a “public hearing” by not allowing me to question Laberge, which should have happened in a legitimate public hearing, on Tue, April 23, 2024 @ 1:58 PM, I sent the following e-mail to councilman Burzesi, to wit:
I don’t know about you, Frank, because each of us has to set their own moral compass here in a town where feeding off the taxpayers isn’t a crime and dishonesty is not a federal offence, but I have called out this Laberge for being dishonest (at the May 11, 2023 public hearing), and I intend to do so again Thursday night, and I am going to question him about the specific meaning of the language in his engineering certification of 29 August 2022, what exactly was it that he was certifying, did his certification include the map he had taken pains to put in his report?
And I am going to ask the town board to clarify exactly what it was they were listing as an unlisted action in September of 2022 and then gave a neg. dec. to.
And Frank, seriously, and I am speaking as a town resident, both you and Tom Russell have absolutely no claim whatsoever to ignorance here as to what is going on with this MAP SCAM.
Tom Russell was planning board chairman responsible for administering DUE PROCESS and the town code, plus he was the town’s chief SEQRA compliance officer, so he can’t say he has no idea what is going on here.
You were zoning board chairman responsible for INTERPRETING the town code, and you also administered SEQRA.
So how come you think you can slide by me this tall tale or outright lie that the map referred in the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing as having been accepted by the Poestenkill town board in AUGUST of 2022 is that map of a segment presented at the May 11, 2023 hearing, and again by the town at the April 3, 2024 hearing?
Do you honestly think I am that stupid so as to actually believe that falsehood?
Would be silly on your part, Frank, if you were foolish enough to make that mistake because Keith Hammond told you I was a RETARD and you believed him.
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