rochesterturning.com
Yesterday (Tuesday, April 10, 2007), while attempting to find the name of the dork who headed Transit between Jack Garrity, the CEO when I had my stroke, and current CEO Mark Aesch, I stumbled across a rather interesting e-mail newsletter, rochesterturning.com.
Rochester gumint divides into two warring spheres; the city administration which is Democratic, and the county administration which is REPUBLICAN.
Each is at the other’s throat, and the REPUBLICANS seem want to reward each other with juicy plums.
Transit is apparently a plum-job. When Jack Garrity retired he was replaced by a flagrantly REPUBLICAN ex town supervisor who had no experience in transit whatsoever.
That was Don Riley, the ex-supervisor of Greece, the largest suburb of Rochester.
When Riley retired he was replaced by Mark Aesch, an ex-aide for a tub-thumping conservative REPUBLICAN congressman who left Congress.
The county Water-Authority was another plum job. A REPUBLICAN ex state assemblyman was made CEO, and retired from there with a fat pension.
Reports of graft at the Water-Authority splashed all over the local media, about how members of the executive-board voted themselves cushy pensions.
Meanwhile, the REPUBLICAN county chairman is Steve Minarik, who had been made state chairman, but was then sent back down after crashing mightily in flames.
The newsletter observes that Minarik suffered from the sorry affliction as Carl Rove, namely the tendency to demonize the opposition, especially the Democrats.
Shortly after the Water-Authority scandal hit the fan, Minarik accused the county library-system of promoting pedophilia. Echoes of Rush Limberger.
Then he began a great flap over recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Why is it REPUBLICANS always resort to the cheap-shot?
As the newsletter noted, the Democrats do not blame the REPUBLICANS for the failures of the city administration.
Perhaps they should — although cheap-shots don’t work in New York. Minarik is no longer state REPUBLICAN chairman.
Rochester gumint divides into two warring spheres; the city administration which is Democratic, and the county administration which is REPUBLICAN.
Each is at the other’s throat, and the REPUBLICANS seem want to reward each other with juicy plums.
Transit is apparently a plum-job. When Jack Garrity retired he was replaced by a flagrantly REPUBLICAN ex town supervisor who had no experience in transit whatsoever.
That was Don Riley, the ex-supervisor of Greece, the largest suburb of Rochester.
When Riley retired he was replaced by Mark Aesch, an ex-aide for a tub-thumping conservative REPUBLICAN congressman who left Congress.
The county Water-Authority was another plum job. A REPUBLICAN ex state assemblyman was made CEO, and retired from there with a fat pension.
Reports of graft at the Water-Authority splashed all over the local media, about how members of the executive-board voted themselves cushy pensions.
Meanwhile, the REPUBLICAN county chairman is Steve Minarik, who had been made state chairman, but was then sent back down after crashing mightily in flames.
The newsletter observes that Minarik suffered from the sorry affliction as Carl Rove, namely the tendency to demonize the opposition, especially the Democrats.
Shortly after the Water-Authority scandal hit the fan, Minarik accused the county library-system of promoting pedophilia. Echoes of Rush Limberger.
Then he began a great flap over recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Why is it REPUBLICANS always resort to the cheap-shot?
As the newsletter noted, the Democrats do not blame the REPUBLICANS for the failures of the city administration.
Perhaps they should — although cheap-shots don’t work in New York. Minarik is no longer state REPUBLICAN chairman.
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