THE PAUL PLANTE STORY

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January 15th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - RATS IN THE CORNCRIB, WEEVILS IN THE COTTON, AND IF YOU VALUE YOUR SAFETY IN POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL, KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT!"

When Roman Sicho came to Poestenkill in 1962, this being before the productive swamp off Algonquin Beach road was developed as Algonquin Estates, the most desirable location in Poestenkill after the exclusive manor of Judith Enck on Big Toad Road, for those who don't mind living in a swamp, and we ended up with people like Dominic Jacangelo, known affectionately by those who love him dearly as "Little Caesar," and Greg Pattenaude here in Poestenkill, people to whom Poestenkill's history means absolutely nothing, since they have no real ties to Poestenkill, other than living in Algonquin Estates, which is as far from Poestenkill as one can get and still be on the planet, we didn't really have stupid people in Poestenkill as we do today littering our town government - people who never know anything, people who can't keep track of our finances, people who can't speak without a lawyer being present, people who can't protect our finances from being embezzled by the supervisor's personally chosen Secretary to the Town Supervisor.

In 1962, people in Poestenkill couldn't afford to be stupid, as is the case today, especially the farming community that at that time made up a great percentage of Poestenkill.

Unlike the irresponsible politicians we are stuck with today who see Poestenkill as something for them to feed off of, the people of Poestenkill back then saw Poestenkill as something to protect, towards which end not only did we have a fire department, but an ambulance squad, as well, with the ambulance parked in a bay of the old fire house across from the church on 351.

And how things have changed since then, as we find out town board meeting after town board meeting, and especially the January 9, 2025 town board meeting, where in an emotional drama some suspect of being set up and scripted and choreographed by Eric Wohlleber to make him look like a people's hero (cue Youtube, 9 January 2025 town board meeting at 41:20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxqtShLfwQ ) we had that poor hysterical young woman whose father died as an apparent result of Dominic Jacanglo's decision to have a 25-minute ambulance response be good enough for the people in Dominic's province of Poestenkill, where he served as our proconsul metaphorically speaking, along the lines of Gaius Verres in Sicily in 73–71 BC.

That like Verres in Sicily, Dominic did not give a damn about the lives of the common folks of Poestenkill outside of Algonquin Estates who were far, far below Dominic's social class and station was made incandescently clear to me by Dominic as far back in time as April 10, 2013, as can be seen in an e-mail from myself to Dominic dated May 16, 2013, wherein was stated in relevant part, as follows:

With respect to Mr. Tomaselli's stunning loss in that matter, where Mr. Tomaselli was attempting to aid and assist his former client R.J. Valente in muling yet another fraud through the Poestenkill Planning Board, itself a two-time loser in Supreme Court, in an October 3 2002 decision of Rensselaer County Supreme Court Justice James B. Canfield in Matter of Plante v. Planning Board of the Town of Poestenkill et al., Judge Canfield wrote as follows:

Poestenkill's extremely casual approach to determining environmental impact also bears notice.

The administrative record here reflects Poestenkill's complicity with Showers and Valente in using the proposed subdivision as a means of avoiding SEQRA review by reducing the impact of the immediate proposal without inquiring into the possibility of further development at a later date.

Regardless of Showers and Valente's misinformation, Poestenkill's determination of no environmental impact would have to be rejected based on Poestenkill's failure to even give the appearance of complying with SEQRA.

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Poestenkill's complicity with Showers and Valente ....

Think on that for a moment if you will, Mr. Supervisor.

Yet another laundering of yet another fraud, and there is Patrick Tomaselli, your town attorney, in there trying to defend it, Poestenkill's embracing of and commitment to fraud, lawlessness, use of violence as a tool of public policy, criminality, intimidation tactics, discrimination, exclusion and denial of my civil and human rights, factors which serve to make a mockery of the very concept of rule of law in the Town of Poestenkill and New York state.


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So why would we be surprised today, especially with the "IN LOVING MEMORY" shrine to Patrick Tomaselli, also of Algonquin Estates, now deceased, that graces Poestenkill's Walk of Heros on the way into Poestenkill town hall, where it is said that it is common to see fledgling lawyers lined up waiting their chance to pray for guidance at the shrine, that we have no ambulance service in Poestenkill today for the common folks whose lives are valueless to Dominic Jacangelo, and by extension, the Poestenkill town board, given that Councilman Hass and Councilwoman Ross were both members of the town board along with Dominic back in 2014 when the ambulance service in Poestenkill was discontinued, because Dominic did not want to pay for it, and Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi and Tom Russell were all his creatures back then as we saw from the ORGANIZATIONAL MINUTES TOWN OF POESTENKILL JANUARY 4, 2014.

And to insult us further here, we now have this same Dominic Jacangelo in apparent charge of the Poestenkill Comprehensive Plan thanks to his political crony Tom Russell, which gets us back on the subject of the Comprehensive Plan and how David Hass and the Poestenkill zoning board and planning board blew that off when they gave David Hass his special permit for his business on Rt. 351.
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January 17th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - ON POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, FRAT-BOY CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT!"

Going back to FACEBOOK and "Wohlleber for Poestenkill" on January 10 at 6:38 PM, where the councilman informed us that we now have a life and death situation in Poestenkill because in 2014, Dominic Jacangelo, David Hass and June Butler unilaterally decided to shut down our ambulance service to save them money they didn't feel the common folks of Poestenkill were worth spending it on, that takes us back to an article posted on the Sand Lake Ambulance site by Robbie MacCue, President, and Rodney Brenner, Chief, Sand Lake Ambulance titled "Setting the Facts Straight – Poestenkill Town Board Abandons their Town Residents — They’re not Blacklisted" where we had as follows on this "life and death situation" in Poestenkill from their perspective, to wit:

The fact is that the same Poestenkill board member, other board members and the town supervisor voted to dissolve their town ambulance service and enter into an arrangement with Mohawk Ambulance, a commercial service, to provide coverage to their town in 2014 without increasing any resources in that area.

There is no dedicated ambulance unit for the town of Poestenkill and no ambulance located in Poestenkill.

If there’s anyone to be upset with, it is the leadership (or lack thereof) in the town of Poestenkill.

We at Sand Lake Ambulance have voiced our concerns on numerous occasions that their plan would spread resources too thin, result in lengthy response times and that the Mohawk unit may often be unavailable for calls in the town of Poestenkill.

The Poestenkill town supervisor, Dominic Jacangelo’s response was, “If you want a 10 minute response, move to the city of Troy”.

Mr. Jacangelo and his supporters were admitting that a 25 minute response time would be acceptable to their town residents.

Most of their residents are not aware of these facts.


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And the reason that most of the Poestenkill residents are not aware of those facts is because the government of Poestenkill, or the sorry excuse that passes for it, has all the transparency of a thick sheet of lead.

We don't know about it because we are not supposed to know about it, because what we don't know can't upset us all that much, and what we don't really know about, like why Dominic Jacangelo, David Hass and June Butler ended ambulance service in Poestenkill in 2014, we cannot effectively challenge.

And with regard to this intentional opacity, and this closed door, opaque, fret-boy clown show we are saddled with here in poorly-run-by-intent Poestenkill, let's go back to the ORGANIZATIONAL MINUTES TOWN OF POESTENKILL JANUARY 4, 2014 with Supervisor Jacangelo, Councilwoman Bentley, Councilman Hass, Councilwoman Ross, and Councilman Slavin present, where we had as follows, to wit:

Motion by Ross, seconded by Bentley and an oral vote of 5 ayes to appoint David Loucks as Chairperson to the Planning Board at an annual salary of $1,406 to be paid quarterly and to expire 12/31/14 and set the annual salary of the Planning Board Members at $1,043.46 each to be paid quarterly.

Reappoint Robert Dore for another 7-year term expiring 12/31/20.

Appoint Eric Wohlerber to fill the unexpired term of June Ross to expire 12/31/17.

Appoint Judy Grattan to the unexpired term of David Hass to expire 12/31/15 and to appoint Tom Russell as the Planning Board Alternate with a term to expire 12/31/14.


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Now, the first thing we notice there is that that is directly at odds with what we were told at p. 71 of the 2006 Comprehensive Plan about the Poestenkill planning board, to wit:

Town Planning and Zoning

The Planning Board members serve on a volunteer basis and receive a stipend for their time served on the Planning Board.


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If those planning board members are appointed to the Poestenkill planning board by the Poestenkill town board, then those people are not in any way, shape or manner "volunteers" (a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it) and if they are paid an annual salary, then again, they are not volunteers, and in re-doing the comprehensive plan to reflect reality in Poestenkill and to regulate land use for the purpose of protecting the public health, safety and general welfare of its citizens, we need to make that fact clear that these people are officers of the town of Poestenkill subject to New York State Penal Law § 195.00, Official misconduct, where a public servant such as a planning board member in Poestenkill is guilty of official misconduct when, with intent to obtain a benefit or deprive another person of a benefit, that planning board member commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act is unauthorized; or he knowingly refrains from performing a duty which is imposed upon him by law or is clearly inherent in the nature of his office, which is a class A misdemeanor good for a year in jail.

But getting back on the subject of the intentional opacity in Poestenkill, and this closed door, opaque, fret-boy clown show we are saddled with here in poorly-run-by-intent Poestenkill, let us go to an e-mail that I sent to then-Poestenkill Town Supervisor Dominic Jacangelo on 1 November 2013, RE: Town Planning Board; 1 October 2013 Public Hearing on Pelletier; Discriminatory Town Policy; your email of 8 October 2013, two (2) months before June Ross moved to appoint David Loucks as Chairperson to the Planning Board at an annual salary of $1,406, which was approved by an oral vote of 5 ayes, to wit:

Dear Mr. Supervisor:

First of all, let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner concerning your 8 October 2013 email to me wherein you stated as follows for the record:

"I sought out the tape that you referred to in your letter."

"It appears, although a recorder was in the room, it did not record the meeting."

" I will review the minutes once they are distributed."

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For the record, the tape I referred to in my letter to you of 4 October 2013 was the tape recording of the Pelletier public hearing before the Poestenkill Planning Board on 1 October 2013.

I must say that I find myself perplexed as to how that audio tape could have disappeared as you are implying it did, since I was sitting right there in the front row at the public hearing in Poestenkill Town Hall when Planning Board Chairman David Loucks was setting up the tape recorder to record the public hearing.

Like others in the room, I saw the red light on the tape recorder indicating that it was on and recording.

So it is quite disturbing to now hear from your office that a tape recording of that public hearing, which was little more than a farce, does not now exist.


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And since there was no record, then there was no possibility of a court challenge, and that is what Poestenkill's policy of OPACITY is all about, as in the case of doing away with the ambulance service - to keep us ignorant of what really is going on in Poestenkill town hall.

And for properly playing his part in the farce, David Loucks got re-appointed as Poestenkill planning board chairman, and in Poestenkill, people, that is the way you do it - to get along, you must go along, and know to keep your mouth shut and not make waves.

But the story of deceit and deception and duplicity does not end there, so stay tuned, for more is yet to come.
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January 18th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - WHY DO WE TOLERATE POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, FRAT-BOY CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT?"

Why do we tolerate so-called "public officials" in Poestenkill openly displaying their contempt and disdain (the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect) for not only us, the citizens of this town, but for their own regulations in the Poestenkill Town Code, as well, which Town Code is intended to protect us from arbitrary and capricious government in Poestenkill?

Consider the following from the ORGANIZATIONAL MINUTES TOWN OF POESTENKILL JANUARY 4, 2014 with Supervisor Jacangelo, Councilwoman Bentley, Councilman Hass, Councilwoman Ross, and Councilman Slavin all being present, where we had as follows, to wit:

Motion by Supervisor Jacangelo, seconded by Ross and an oral vote of 5 ayes, to appoint Annette Davidson, as Secretary to the Planning Board at an hourly rate of $13.75 to be paid biweekly.

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So what's the big deal with that, certain people in this town would say!

First of all, it was 2014, so why be concerned about it now, the answer to which is that both David Hass and June Butler who had no problem with that back in 2014 are on the town board now and Dominic Jacangelo who had no problem with that in 2014 has been put in charge of the comprehensive plan by Tom Russell, which is what makes that relevant today.

If they didn't believe in following the town code in 2014, why would we be stupid enough to think they would believe in it today?

And then these people who think it is no big deal would ask, "but isn't that why we have a town board, to do things like that?"

And that answer is NO, at least according to § 150-87(A) of Article XIV of the Poestenkill Town Code wherein is stated as follows on that question, to wit:

The Planning Board shall annually designate its own secretary, who shall also be deemed the "Clerk of the Planning Board."

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In legal contexts, and each and every member of the town board and planning board would know this beyond a doubt, the word "shall" is used to indicate a mandatory action or duty.

"Shall" is an imperative command that means something must be done, as opposed to "may", which is usually used to indicate a permissive provision.

So where the Code of the town of Poestenkill says the Planning Board shall annually designate its own secretary, it means the planning board, not the town board, and seriously, people, how hard is any of that to understand?

Does it require a JD from Harvard to understand, or a Ph.D. in PolySci from Berkely?

Or does it require no more than a high school degree?

And why is the word "shall" in there in the first place, as in the Planning Board shall annually designate its own secretary?

Because the planning board is supposed to be independent of the town board in the sense that the planning board does not or is not supposed to play at politics, and the secretary to the planning board is a very powerful position in Poestenkill, and if that secretary is under the control of the town supervisor, then the purpose of the planning board being independent by choosing its own secretary is defeated, intentionally and by design.

And as to these people supposedly being volunteers with no job descriptions so there is no way they really could know what they are supposed to be doing, other than giving away the farm to the high bidders and special people in Poestenkill who deserve special treatment because they are doing good things for Poestenkill, so that the planning board has to bend over backwards for them, as was the case in 2005 with now-councilman David Hass, who himself had been a member of the planning board up to 2014, if we go back to § 150-87(A) of Article XIV of the Poestenkill Town Code, we have as follows on that subject, to wit:

The Planning Board may prescribe reasonable rules in addition to those provided herein for the conduct of its affairs.

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Think on that, people - "may prescribe reasonable rules in addition to those provided herein for the conduct of its affairs."

Sounds like a job description right there to me, anyway, that phrase "in addition to those provided herein."

So how can these people with a straight face tell us that they don't know what they are supposed to be doing, because nobody ever gave them any kind of job description?

And what kind of insane madness would that be to put people on the Poestenkill planning board without them having a clue as to why they are there, or what a planning board is supposed to do, other than rubber stamp things for the right people and deny things for the wrong people, as determined by the town board?

And when I talk about "frat-boy clown show government" in poorly-run Poestenkill, where our lives and health and well-being mean absolutely nothing to what passes for Poestenkill town government, a prime example, outside of the farcical "public hearing" Tom Russell held for water district no. 2, would be that public hearing before the planning board mentioned in my 1 November 2013 e-mail to Dominic Jacangelo as supervisor, where Loucks, acting in a silly juvenile manner, put on quite a production for the assembled audience, treating me like I was retarded, and making a point of showing me him putting a cassette in the tape recorder, after explaining to me what the cassette was for, and then making a production of turning on the tape recorder, because he knew I would be upset if there was no independent record of what transpired, after which the tape disappeared as if it never was, and another prime example was the December 10, 2013 Zoning Board meeting on the same subject where Zoning Board members Harold Van Slyke and Paul Jamison were acting like silly frat boys and again treating me like I was retarded, because that is the official position the town of Poestenkill has taken with regard to myself, and once declared retarded by Poestenkill, that sentence is for life, not subject to appeal, nor can it be overturned.

And that is called "justice" in Poestenkill.

But as always, stay tuned for this is lawless Poestenkill, a town where public policy is based on "feelings" as our rudder as opposed to the firm letter of law and we make it up as we go, so there is much more yet to come.
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January 20th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - WHY DOES POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, FRAT-BOY CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT GO OUT OF ITS WAY TO PROVE POESTENKILL IS NOT SAFE?"

Why does poorly-run Poestenkill's frat-boy clown show government go out of its way to prove Poestenkill is not safe, a place where our lives and health and well-being as citizens mean absolutely nothing to what passes for Poestenkill town government?

Because it is what is known here in Rensselaer County as a "THUGOCRACY" (government by a group of thugs), and their mode of governing to maintain "equilibrium," a state where each person knows their place in society and stays there and most importantly in thugocratic Poestenkill, keeps their mouths shut and don't make waves, revolves around the liberal use of intimidation, infliction of fear and ultimately, outright acts of violence, such as running down a known dissident on Liberty Lane in a vehicular assault where the driver of the hit-and-run vehicle was protected by the state police and Poestenkill town court while the victim of the assault was charged with crimes that would have landed him in Rensselaer County jail if the crooked authorities in corrupt Rensselaer County had been able to convict him, which in the end, they weren't, thanks to a jury of honest Rensselaer County residents from outside Poestenkill.

And why do we tolerate so-called "public officials" in Poestenkill openly displaying their contempt and disdain (the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect) for not only us, the citizens of this town, but for their own regulations in the Poestenkill Town Code, as well, which Town Code is intended to protect us from arbitrary and capricious government in Poestenkill?

Because we don't know better?

Because we have no self-esteem in this town?

And what raises those questions this morning itself revolves around the now-famous Poestenkill Nazi Concentration Camp spotlights, the same lights used to light up the yard of the Rensselaer County jail at night, that a politically-connected thug in Poestenkill named David Gettings has mounted on the north side of his brick house at the corner of HATE ALLEY (Liberty Lane) and Weatherwax Road off Route 66 to make the land of Poestenkill engineer Paul Plante look like the yard of a Nazi concentration camp, which lights came into being as a retaliatory measure, a new introduction to Poestenkill's big bag of thuggish retaliatory tactics which include Poestenkill's so-called code enforcer officers bringing the recalcitrant up on ridiculous false charges, while refusing to enforce the Poestenkill Code against the protected in Poestenkill.

Last evening, Sunday, January 19, 2025, observers made note of the fact that the Nazi Concentration Camp spotlights which make Poestenkill famous across America, given the Poestenkill Gazette, while circulating in Poestenkill, is an internet publication available across the globe to anyone on the internet who wished to avail themselves of its content, were on operation at 8:07 PM, and again were in operation at 4:56 AM this morning, January 20. 2025, as Poestenkill continues its efforts to stop publication of this paper, so as to maintain the Darkness in which Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes!
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January 20th 2025 Supplemental Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - THE MEANING OF WORDS WITH RESPECT TO POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, FRAT-BOY CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT!"

Given that words have meanings, and the meanings of words are important, especially in a court of law where exactitude with language is of extreme importance, with respect to the "thugocracy" or "thugocratic" form of government in Poestenkill, when people hear the word "thug," they immediately think we have a government in Poestenkill that is comprised of nothing but violent and brutish criminals and bullies, but with respect to our beloved, revered, and respected and honored leaders in Poestenkill I could not be so crass (lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence) as to even imply that we are ruled in Poestenkill by brutal thugs, although in Rensselaer County, that would not be considered an insult, but high praise, indeed.

No, in here, although the term "thug" was originally (and often still is) a term with strong negative connotations, since at least the early 1990s, and here is where this publication is coming from, the term "thug" as applied to Poestenkill town officials has been embraced and reconceived by rap artists, so that Tupac Shakur's vision redefined the word "thug" into a man who triumphs over systemic and societal obstacles.

And the "societal obstacles" our town leaders here in Poestenkill have triumphed over are known as RULE OF LAW!

As to the term "thugocracy," no, I did not invent that term or make that term up, and in fact, we see the term in a scholarly article titled "Thugocracy: bandit regimes and state capture" by Nancy Ries published online on 29 Oct 2020 where the author informs us that thugocratic regimes target the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal,” concluding therein that inquiries such as this create public outrage and awareness of the threat thugocracy poses to democracy.
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January 21st 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR - WHY A THUGOCRACY WITH RESPECT TO POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, FRAT-BOY CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT!"

And here, an astute reader with a background in the study of what is known as political science has asked me, given that words have meanings, and the meanings of words are important, especially in a court of law where exactitude with language is of extreme importance, "why thugocracy?"

Why not aristocracy or oligarchy, instead?

And my answer was that because thugocratic regimes target the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal,” I found that term to be far more descriptive of Poestenkill politics than either aristocracy, which is a form of government in which power is held by the nobility, or a "state" governed by the aristocracy, which certainly sounds like Poestenkill, but lacks the specificity of thugocracy with respect to "making crime legal," or oligarchy, which is a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution, which is most certainly the case in Poestenkill, but again, while entirely descriptive of Poestenkill politics, where only a very few are allowed entry, and that is only after having gone through the farm team system of service first on the planning board or zoning board to prove their political reliability, oligarchy also lacks the specificity of thugocracy with respect to "making crime legal," although it would be proper to say that Poestenkill's aristocracy are the oligarchy that are the core of the thugocracy in Poestenkill for the purpose of making crime legal in Poestenkill, and people, this thugocracy is nothing new in Poestenkill.

To the contrary, it has existed since in or about 1977 when New York state Republican Party secretary Ken Van Praag was sent down to Rensselaer County to take over the Rensselaer County Health Department for the specific purpose of initiating the thugocracy in Rensselaer County that subsequently migrated down to the town levels across Rensselaer County as the Rensselaer County Health Department was a critical element in the scheme that had to be corrupted first, which then opened the flood gates for the towns to follow, for with a corrupt county health department, all oversight over local planning boards ceased, and towns like Poestenkill became willing laundries to launder through fraudulent septic system permits, as in the case of Algonquin Estates Phase Three, or fraudulent subdivision approvals, as we see in the Albany, New York Times Union story titled "Rensselaer County Housing Deals Probed" by Tim O'Brien on 18 March 1989, to wit:

TROY - A state Health Department report has sparked two separate investigations into whether Rensselaer County officials and developers allowed houses to be built without proper environmental approval.

A state Health Department report made public Friday charges that the county Health Department failed to follow state and local regulations on approving housing subdivisions.

As a result, the report concludes, developers sold improperly approved building lots.

The state has ordered the county to correct the problems or face the loss of state aid.

A follow-up review is to be done by the state Health Department in November.

The state probe was requested by County Executive John L. Buono after allegations of improprieties were made by Environmental Health Director Paul R. Plante.

District Attorney James B. Canfield said Friday that his office is investigating the alleged misuse of a county certification seal to enable a developer to sell lots that had not been approved by the county.

The maps for Algonquin Estates in Poestenkill, which is being developed by Barson's Construction Co., Inc., may have been altered to enable the developer to sell unapproved lots, according to the state report.

Canfield said Assistant District Attorney Richard McNally is conducting the investigation but he did not know when it would end.

The state Education Department also is reviewing the situation to see if Christian P. Momrow, a licensed surveyor and Percy B. Cotton, professional engineer, both of who signed the subdivision maps, should be disciplined.


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What artful language!

There was no "may have been altered" there.

Rather, the approval for an earlier phase was xeroxed, and altered and then affixed to a map of unapproved lots to make them appear approved, and that was all covered over and shoved under the rug at both the county level and Poestenkill level, and thugocracy in Poestenkill became blessed with the government seal of approval at the county level and state level, and now blooms freely, to the detriment of democracy, which in thugocratic Poestenkill, has all but died.
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January 22nd 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR, CONTINUED - WHY LABERGE IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR FUTURE AS A PEOPLE IN POESTENKILL!"

A comedy of infantile stupidity, people, where stupidity is behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, a lack of intelligence, denseness, brainlessness, mindlessness, dull-wittedness, dull-headedness, slow-wittedness, doltishness, and good old garden-variety ineptitude.

That is what we are confronted with here in Poestenkill, a town where public policy is made based on "feelings" as our rudder as opposed to the firm letter of law, with this crowd at the head table that calls itself the Poestenkill town board, none of whom have a clue as to what is going on in this town, making things up as they go, because we have a thugocracy for government in this town that targets the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal” in Poestenkill.

People read these editorials about Poestenkill government and tell me that we badly need some government experts like Larry, Daryl and Daryl (cue Youtube Best of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMKrsbO2iU ) or the Three Stooges to come in here to try and get this train back on the tracks by educating the town board on what their duties are to the people of Poestenkill they happen to be the servants of, not the lords and masters of, and here, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Poestenkill town board lashing out in a retaliatory manner by enacting a Sedition Act for Poestenkill, sedition in Poestenkill being daring to publicly question the wisdom of the wise men and women who rule us in Poestenkill and like Joe Stalin and the Pope are infallible (incapable of making mistakes or being wrong), which Sedition Act would make it a high crime in Poestenkill to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the Poestenkill town government” in order to shut this publication and the Poestenkill Spotlight down, to restore the darkness in which Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes!

And getting back on track here as we wait with bated breath for the new "comprehensive plan" for Poestenkill that Tom Russell, Dominic Jacangelo, and Susan E. Roth of the Laberge Group are preparing for the future of Poestenkill based on the vision Tom Russell has for a completely new and overhauled Poestenkill, an enlightened Poestenkill for the 21st Century, which new comprehensive plan is supposed to be sprung on us by Laberge in June of this year according to a schedule that has subsequently disappeared from the town website under the control of councilman Eric Wohlleber, this as Poestenkill opts to go upscale and become a Rensselaer County version of Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Pacific Palisades in California, neighborhoods known for their luxury shopping, fine dining, and extravagant estates, with the vision of Tom Russell for Poestenkill's glorious future promising a renaissance for Poestenkill by turning it into a technological mecca, an East Coast Silicon Valley attracting the best and brightest scientific minds not only in America, but the world as well, bringing with them millions of dollars of investment funds to populate Poestenkill with high-tech factories providing plenty of high-paying union jobs that do not require a college education to build the economy in Poestenkill from the bottom up and the middle out to create a strong and vibrant middle class in Poestenkill, because the middle class built America and unions built the middle class, with respect to that comprehensive plan, we parochial (having a limited or narrow outlook or scope) Poestenkill residents known far and wide as small thinkers, incapable of seeing the big picture the way big thinkers like Tom Russell and Dominic Jacangelo and Laberge can see the big picture, need to keep something very important in mind, to wit:

POESTENKILL'S FUTURE IS AS A REGIONAL ASSET, NOT A TOWN, AND THAT FUTURE IS FAR TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE PAROCHIAL LOCALS IN POESTENKILL WHO THINK ONLY OF PROTECTING THEIR OWN HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELL-BEING AND THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES AS OPPOSED TO SEEING POESTENKILL'S PROPER PLACE AS A REGIONAL ASSET WHERE THEIR LIVES DON'T MATTER, WHICH IS WHY WE NEED POESTENKILL'S FUTURE PLACED IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE POESTENKILL LIKE LABERGE, WHO BEING OUTSIDE POESTENKILL, CAN SEE POESTENKILL'S PROPER FUTURE MUCH MORE CLEARLY!

That, people, is a bullet we all have to bite - once a town, that concept has long since gone past its time, and now it is time to think far bigger with Poestenkill being merged into a planning region along with East Greenbush, North Greenbush, Sand Lake and Brunswick, all of which are presently under the control of Laberge, which makes the arrangement much more efficient, since Laberge does not have to answer to any taxpayers, and so, as regional managers, can make hard decisions that will hurt some people in Poestenkill, those we can do without, without the local politicians then having to take any heat.

Said another way, Poestenkill no longer belongs to the people of Poestenkill, for as one planning board member was heard to say at a recent town board meeting, "the world needs Poestenkill's gravel," and thus, it is selfish of the people of the town to deny the world that gravel in a vain effort to protect their own health, safety and well-being.

Poestenkill is not a town as it once was, a safe place to have a home and raise a family and feel secure into your later years, knowing your life and health and well-being are being guarded by the town through its Code that it adheres to religiously.

To the contrary, it is now a regional asset that belongs to the world at large, there to be exploited by those seeking to make some profits, especially by flipping land deeds to jack the prices up, which takes me to a letter I received by mail from a group known as Land Buff LLC in Wilmington, Delaware, with is some 275 miles south of Poestenkill.

I took the pains to track these people down by telephone to find out how somebody in Delaware would even know that I existed in Poestenkill, and owned land in Poestenkill, which land incidentally has clear title back to 1790 when Poestenkill do not exist, and the land was part of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, and would want to buy it.

What I learned is that these people study various trade magazines and they monitor the Laberge site, and based on what they read, they believe the real estate market in Poestenkill is about to become very hot, thanks to Tom Russell and Laberge, and so they want to get in on the ground floor and lock up as much acreage as they can as cheaply as they can in order to reap the windfall they see coming, again thanks to Tom Russell and Laberge, by flipping the deed, a method used by investors who do not wish to develop the land, but instead the investor contracts to purchase vacant land, markets it effectively and then sells the land to another investor for a profit.

And as an aside, illegal property flipping is a fraud whereby recently acquired property is resold for a considerable profit with an artificially inflated value, typically in order to defraud a lender into lending more than the true value of the property or defraud a buyer into paying a higher price than should be necessary.

Watch for it coming to Poestenkill and property near you, and stay tuned, for more is yet to come.
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January 23rd 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR, CONTINUED - A RECAPITULATION!"

So, recapping events here to bring us all up to date in opaque Poestenkill, a town with a thugocratic form of government that targets the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal” in Poestenkill, where public policy is made based on "feelings" as our rudder as opposed to the firm letter of law, and where the public business is conducted with all the transparency of a dense, thick sheet of lead, right now, people in Poestenkill have no ambulance service because the Poestenkill town board, which had plenty of money for purchases that were not for an appropriate Town purpose such as food and decorations for a former official’s farewell party and various gifts to officials and employees (gift cards, clothes, retirement gifts) and monetary gifts to a private organization and pre-paid wireless Internet, doesn't think the lives of the people of Poestenkill are worth the expenditure.

The management of Water District No. 1 is a joke, with Poestenkill using either the fire department or the highway department to flush the mains, throwing away who knows how much water somebody has to pay for, because of trihalomethanes in the poorly designed system.

So what does goofy Poestenkill want to do when they can't handle caring for the present population?

You got it - they want to add even more people they won't be able to care for, and more infrastructure they won't be able to care for, and more roads they won't be able to care for.

And of course, they have plenty of money to shove down the pockets of the Laberge Group, which brings us to the question of exactly who this Laberge Group crowd really is, and the best place to seek that answer would be by going to the Laberge Group site, where we have as follows on that subject:

Planning & Community Development

At Laberge Group, we work closely with the municipal staff, elected and appointed officials, business leaders, and civic leaders who are our clients.

Our philosophy is that our clients are the experts about their community, the political environment, and the vision of how they want to approach change.

Our job is to complement that knowledge and local expertise with new ideas, a fresh approach and our many years of experience.


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Reading that carefully, from the first sentence where it states "the municipal staff, elected and appointed officials, business leaders, and civic leaders who are our clients," it is crystal clear that in this case, Laberge's client ARE NOT the people of Poestenkill.

To the Laberge Group, the people of Poestenkill are no different than feed-lot cattle, something to feed off of, which takes us back to the minutes of the January 11, 2024 Poestenkill town board meeting, where we had on the record as follows:

Comprehensive Plan - La Berge Group created a proposal for the comprehensive plan workshops, and resident information exchanges, and memorandum of understanding.

A.Gilchrist instructed the board on the actions needed on order to review and authorize the memorandum of understanding.

Motioned by Wohlleber, seconded by Russell, and an oral vote of 5 ayes.


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Has anyone outside of the secretive town board actually seen that proposal from Laberge and the memorandum of understanding between the town board and Laberge?

Does anyone in Poestenkill other than the secretive town board have any idea of what power over OUR lives Tom Russell and Eric Wohlleber and their three cronies on the town board have handed Laberge?

Or shouldn't we care?
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January 25th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR, CONTINUED - POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL'S CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, THUGOCRATIC CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT, WHICH GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO PROVE POESTENKILL IS NOT SAFE, HAS SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE CONCEPT OF OPEN GOVERNMENT!"

Before we go back to January 11, 2024 (cue Youtube, 1/11/2024 Poestenkill town board meeting @ 47:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrwCwmFw7U ), where we had the slick-talking, erudite (having or showing great knowledge or learning) and sartorially resplendent lawyer for the town of Brunswick, the honored and esteemed Andy Gilchrist, who himself deserves a monument on Poestenkill's Walk of Heroes along with the much loved Patrick Tomaselli of Algonquin Estates, now deceased, Dominic Jacangelo of Algonquin Estates and Greg Pattenaude of Algonquin Estates, for heroic and prodigious efforts on behalf of the town of Poestenkill, which is a far better place than it used to be, because they are now in it, telling OUR town board, "On that subject, to the board's review, reviewing the memorandum of understanding with the Greenway on the grant, you go through that, if the board wants to move forward with that, it would simply be a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding based on the terms and conditions and authorizing the supervisor to execute that on the behalf of the town," where the "town" happens to be each and every one of us pursuant to New York State Town Law § 2, which provides that a town in New York state, and that would include thugocratic Poestenkill, is a municipal corporation comprising the inhabitants within its boundaries, and formed for the purpose of exercising such powers and discharging such duties of local government and administration of public affairs as have been, or, may be conferred or imposed upon it by law, on the subject of what is supposed to be "open government" here in thugocratic Poestenkill, a town where public policy is made based on "feelings" as our rudder as opposed to the firm letter of law as the thugocracy in Poestenkill targets the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal” on Poestenkill, which is has been doing since at least 1983 with the now-famous "Poestenkill Chicken Toilets Caper" as it is known in federal law enforcement circles, I submit the following from §100 of Article 7 of the New York State Public Officers Law, where we have as follows, to wit:

§100. Legislative declaration.

It is essential to the maintenance of a democratic society that the public business be performed in an open and public manner and that the citizens of this state be fully aware of and able to observe the performance of public officials and attend and listen to the deliberations and decisions that go into the making of public policy.

The people must be able to remain informed if they are to retain control over those who are their public servants.

It is the only climate under which the commonweal will prosper and enable the governmental process to operate for the benefit of those who created it.


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Now, while that may be true that in a democracy, it is the people who retain control over those who are their public servants, that being the only climate under which the commonweal will prosper and enable the governmental process to operate for the benefit of those who created it, in an opaque and closed thugocracy like Poestenkill, the people have absolutely no control whatsoever over those who are supposed to be our "public servants," because the public business in Poestenkill IS NOT performed in an open and public manner, so that the citizens of Poestenkill are intentionally deprived of an opportunity to be fully aware of and able to observe the performance of public officials and attend and listen to the deliberations and decisions that go into the making of public policy, because there are no deliberations, and what took place in Poestenkill town hall on the evening of January 11, 2024 with respect to the comprehensive plan is case in point, to wit:

Russell: Item D or four is the comprehensive plan, approval of the action plan proposed by the Laberge Group to begin the 2024 comprehensive plan creation.

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WHY ARE DECISIONS ABOUT OUR FUTURE IN POESTENKILL BEING MADE BY LABERGE?

Returning to the dialogue:

Russell: In the packets I did try and put in the proposal that Laberge had put forward to us on what they are looking to do with the comprehensive plan, setting up workshops, setting up resident information exchanges, and I'm asking that the town board look at it and there is also a memo of understanding which we need to sign, review and sign ...

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WHY IS TOM RUSSELL TAKING HIS DIRECTION AS TO OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FROM WHAT LABERGE IS LOOKING TO DO WITH IT?

WHO DOES TOM RUSSELL ANSWER TO?

THE PEOPLE OF POESTENKILL?

OR HIS MASTERS AND HANDLERS AND CONTROLLERS IN THE LABERGE GROUP?


And if you watch the video while he is saying that about the packets, it is apparent from the paper shuffling being done, that the town board members, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass, June Butler and Frank Burzesi, had no idea whatsoever as to what this "action plan" by Laberge was even about, let alone what they were committing the "town" to, which is to say, each and every one of us, but that made absolutely no difference to them, because they are nothing more that mindless rubber stamps, the lot of them, and they heard their master's voice telling them what they needed to do for the benefit of Laberge, which takes us back to that dialogue in 1/11/2024, to wit:

Gilchrist: Review and authorize ...

Russell: Okay, and what it would take to finalize on that.

Gilchrist: On that subject, to the board's review, reviewing the memorandum of understanding with the Greenway on the grant, you go through that, if the board wants to move forward with that, it would simply be a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding based on the terms and conditions and authorizing the supervisor to execute that on the behalf of the town.

Russell: Thank you very much, Andy ...

Gilchrist: But as I said, understand that that would then commit the town to move forward with the comprehensive plan, you know, as proposed, so ...


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WHAT HAVE WE, THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN, BEEN COMMITTED TO HERE?

DOES ANYONE IN POESTENKILL HAVE A CLUE?

HAS ANYONE IN POESTENKILL SEEN THE PROPOSAL BY LABERGE?

DOES ANYONE KNOW ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS?

IF NOT, WHY NOT?


Because the people, who ought to constitute an essential part of the government of Poestenkill, have been excluded from all influence, and are only called out occasionally to look at their rulers, and gratify their senses with shouts of acclamation?

Stay tuned, more is yet to come.
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January 26th 2025 Edition

"THE FAMOUS DAVID HASS AFFAIR, CONTINUED - ON RUSSELLMANIA IN POORLY-RUN POESTENKILL WITH ITS CLOSED DOOR, OPAQUE, THUGOCRATIC CLOWN SHOW GOVERNMENT THAT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO PROVE POESTENKILL IS NOT SAFE, WHILE HAVING SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE CONCEPT OF OPEN GOVERNMENT IN POESTENKILL!"

Before we go back to the Poestenkill town board meeting for January 11, 2024 (cue Youtube, 1/11/2024 Poestenkill town board meeting @ 47:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrwCwmFw7U ), where we had newly-elected Poestenkill town supervisor Tom Russell, who just twelve (12) days earlier had been chairman of the Poestenkill planning board, appointed to that high and esteemed position in Poestenkill town government on January 5, 2023 by Keith Hammond, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass, Harold Van Slyke, and June Butler pursuant to § 150-87(A) of Article XIV of the Code of the Town of Poestenkill, where as chairman pursuant to § 150-87(G) of Article XIV of the Code of the Town of Poestenkill, all meetings of the Planning Board were to be held at his call, as well as administering oaths and compelling the attendance of witnesses, while pursuant to § 150-88(A) of Article XIV of the Code of the Town of Poestenkill, the planning board under Tom Russell as chairman had the power to recommend changes to the Town Comprehensive Plan, and pursuant to § 150-88(B) of Article XIV of the Code of the Town of Poestenkill, had the full power and authority to make investigations, maps, reports and resulting recommendations about all matters relating to the planning and development of the Town, telling us on the record we need to get a new comprehensive plan, the last one being back in the early 2000's, and, he was trying to put the pieces in place to do that and this was an avenue that he decided to move on, with respect to this thugocracy here in Poestenkill that former planning board chairman Tom Russell managed to wrest control of from former supervisor Keith Hammond, who inherited it from Dominic Jacangelo in a lineage going back to at least 1983, and the world famous Poestenkill Chicken Toilets Episode, let's go back in time to 1786, two years before the United States Constitution was ratified in 1788, and "A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America" by John Adams, where we had the following to contemplate, as we ponder why we have a thugocratic government in Poestenkill that targets the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal” in Poestenkill, where public policy is made based on "feelings" as our rudder as opposed to the firm letter of law, and where the public business is conducted with all the transparency of a dense, thick sheet of lead, to wit:

If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations.

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In favor of justice, to compel ALL, and here I am talking about the Poestenkill town board, to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations, some provision needed to be made in the constitution, and it wasn't.

There is absolutely nothing in the United States Constitution that compels Tom Russell, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass and June Butler to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations, and so they don't, as was proven by Poestenkill in 2004 and 2005 with the special treatment afforded to now-Poestenkill councilman David Hass by the Poestenkill zoning board and planning board.

And that, people, is why we in Poestenkill have a thugocracy as our form of government in Poestenkill, a town where the people who ought to constitute an essential part of the government of Poestenkill have been excluded from all influence and are only called out occasionally to look at their rulers, and gratify their senses with shouts of acclamation!
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