IT’S PRIMARY TIME

This year in Saratoga Springs there will be one primary and it is June which was moved up from September.  This does not allow enough time to make the rounds if you are challenging an incumbent who has a pocketbook full of money.

The challenger against Michelle Madigan is Patty Morrison.  Patty is more than suited for the position and Madigan is putting us in financial trouble (no matter what she says) in the near future.

What was the Republican Party put a candidate up to run against Madigan or Morrison but he was only a patsy and when his petition signatures were found to be bogus he had to drop out of the race.  The Republicans only put him up to fail and some say that the Republican Party will endorse Democrat Madigan.

Madigan is neither a friendly or respectful to her constituents and sometimes downright vile.  

Her work over her long tenure has been mostly good but her decisions in the last few years have put Saratogians in a position to pay big time in the future.  She hasn’t done much that anyone familiar with budgets including big budgets not just library budgets such as she was used to put together before being elected and truth be told she was blessed with terrific Deputy Commissioners.   The problem with that position in Saratoga is if you need to raise taxes instead of spending down some rainy day fund you do not get re-elected and she has been a master at spending at a future cost to future Saratoga Citizens, some of who might be your children or grandchildren.

Along with her joke of a fiber optic deal she made and her stance on the hospital takeover of residential space (remember we get no taxes from the Hospital) when the Hospital has other options is disconcerting.  She is holding off a vote until after the Primary.

Madigan will also have to recuse herself on every vote that Attorney Matt Jones comes before the Council with.  He has held Madigan fundraisers at his personal residence and that jeopardizes every vote that she casts for any of his projects including the Hospital, it is unethical to buy votes.  

I see in today’s paper that Jane Weihe, a very sour old time Saratogian who was defeated in every political race she ever entered and who some say is a retired teacher who was lucky to have tenure is backing Madigan and bad mouthing Madigan’s opponent when in these times it is refreshing to have a primary especially when the opposing party never runs a candidate or sometimes runs candidates who have literally no idea of the department they will be running as is the case in the DPS race this year with real estate salesperson- wannabe socialite Robin Dalton who may know a little bit of Public Safety from the other side but has no idea of what it takes to run Police, Fire and other departments.  Her current position on allowing guns in schools may even be a problem for her.

Stay tuned.