YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT:

Let’s face it, elections are popularity contests and not how well the Commissioners do their jobs. 

This was evidenced by this past City election where only about 30% of registered voters cast ballots which is most embarrassing when there is so much at stake here.  OK maybe Madigan, despite her meanness and condescending attitude towards citizens at Council meetings had a record to win.  Scirocco and Matheisen should have lost by a landslide. 

Remember Matheisen was a winner by about 59 votes last election and his record and actions of not letting citizens know about crimes that affect all of us is most troubling.

Matheisen honestly doesn’t know how to oversee a Public Safety Department, despite winning the Collimer lot lawsuit that was dismissed by the judge, its fate is still in the hands of the State.  His stance on the Saratoga National project also defies public opinion of a majority of citizens, most I should say with a few opposing and the green belt people who pick and choose what stays green, he is also against the multi - use project of the City/City Center parking garage siding with Madigan & Scirocco to put up a dreary ugly building which will not enhance the area but will take away from tying in Broadway with Lake Ave. and High Rock businesses.  This shortsightedness is what has put Saratoga in a downward spiral over the last 4 years.

Scirocco’s win is also a mystery.  He gave away over one million dollars to 1 developer without letting or getting permission from the Council (it may be that the 3 amigos already knew about this and ok’d it) and after he couldn’t collect the million he had the law changed to eliminate this revenue stream with the cockamamie excuse that he was limited with the use of the money, he then holds a public hearing and then motions at the same meeting to eliminate the water hookup fee causing a large increase to every home owner’s water bill (guess who voted for his motion)? The question to ask is why not just change the usage of the fee to go into infrastructure?  Madigan said we have enough money to cover infrastructure costs and we didn’t need the hookup fees.  Ms. Madigan, why not decrease taxes if we have too much money?  

Scirocco will soon bring before the Council the need to reimburse several contractors to the tune of another million dollars for charging them hookup fees AFTER he changed the law. Grass, leaf, and snow removal have been so bad since he took over that many, many people are complaining, yet they voted him in office again. 

Why when he was the dog catcher for 30 some years it is said that he couldn’t tell the difference between a French Poodle and a German Shepard because he thought the Shepard was barking in French.

The construction projects are taking so long that they are way past the date they were supposed to be completed, he can’t use the excuse that weather was a problem and remember that the Washington St. mess was started because a plumbing outfit didn’t fill a hole overnight when they were working on a break from a house to the road during last winter’s coldest period.  This is the plumbing outfit’s fault and they should be paying the tab on this but it will never happen because too much money was already given to one of the partners.

Then there is the little item of Skip putting new water & sewer lines and a new paved road on his own street when no one complained about any problems.

Let’s not forget his work on Rt. 50 by Price Chopper, work done, new paved roads, ready to clean up and get it opened when he decides to rip it apart and install larger water lines.  This should have been thought out and done while the whole area was dug up, not after the job was completed.  How much money did we spend on this error?

However, don’t worry, all this means nothing to you, you voted him & Matheisen back into office.  City boys, born (Matheisen says he was 3 when he moved here) and raised here, that matters more than political brain power, now I am not saying that the 2 are stupid, Skip was a great dog catcher and Matheisen is a good Dentist but both make lousy legislators.

  

This is a beginning, there will be more but let’s face it, you don’t care, and our elections are like the Miss USA Pageant. A popularity contest, not one of putting knowledgeable people in office that understand how to do the job.

YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT