Bill McTygue has announced his Deputy if he should win the
DPW post. Pat Design, Deputy
Commissioner under both former Commissioner Tom McTygue & current
Commissioner Skip will be the new Deputy.
For the past 2 weeks I have been getting blasted with Republican
political flyers in the mail or on my door knob. All I can say is that they are either nervous
about losing or have some big money to spend (in most cases via big builders).
Although some have good information like Wirth, who we
picked to defeat Matheisen for the good of Saratoga Springs, some are just
laughable.
One of these jokes came in the mail today ‘A Personal
Message from Four Former Mayors’, this was the headline in the return address spot. I first thought it was restaurant coupons for
4 Guy’s Hamburgers but I opened it and lo and behold it was a letter denouncing
Mayor Yepsen (what a surprise) and extolling the former Army man and who now
advises homeowners associations. While it doesn’t take a degree in rocket
science to run for office (we now have a librarian, dog catcher and dentist
among our City’s leaders, I guess an advisor to homeowner associations is
ok. They disparage Yepsen’s
accomplishments which are many (more in 2 years than Johnson had in 6) and one
profound statement about secrecy ‘too many closed to the public Executive
Sessions’. This statement had to be
written by someone that knows nothing about City government because all Executive
Sessions are held behind closed doors.
The candidate John Safford extolls his plans if elected, JOHN, Mayor
Yepsen has your plans already in operation, get your own.
The letter contains more political dribble but most of it
is nonsense. The letter is signed by 4
former Mayor’s whose terms except Mayor A.C. Riley were a joke. The other three are Scott ‘red face’ Johnson,
Mayor J. Michael ‘smiley’ O’Connell, please don’t get me started about him and
Mayor Jim ‘where am I’ Murphy, who’s tenure was 1966-1969 when Saratoga was
really rocking (right). I wonder why they didn’t get one of the good
Mayor’s, Mike Lenz’s signature.
The next piece of paper was a door hanger to vote for Skip
Scirocco. His flyer is even more
hysterical:
Fixed longstanding infrastructure problems
Upgraded the City water facility filters (gee, you should
have done that anyway)
Fixed neighborhood flooding issues (don’t tell anyone
living in Geyser Crest about this, they have been calling you for years about
this problem and you ignore the pleas.)
Resolved decades long water capacity resource (this is just
an outright joke, the ‘new’ holes he dug would not supply the City with enough
water for a day in a drought or any new building. As a matter of fact he had said he fixed the
water supply in the Crest however anyone we talk to has water pressure so low
they can pee a stronger stream.
Improved safety at dangerous intersections- where and how?
It gets better:
City Hall – restored the steps and lions (contracted out
the work)
Canfield Casino is now handicap accessible (I guess he
didn’t see the ramp on the side when he was first elected)
Saratoga Lake – new park & entranceway (the Park was in
planning when you were still a dog catcher)
Flowers, leaf pickup & snow removal, accomplished with
professionalism under Skip’s leadership.
(Seriously? All three have
deteriorated every year under your leadership.)
You left out one thing – how lousy downtown and the garages
look, both have one thing in common, they look dirty.
Just a comment about this race. A person’s last name should not disqualify
them for a shot to win an election, if the person is qualified then he or she
should at least be considered.
If your son shoots someone and kills that person does that
mean you should be looked upon as those who look at your son? Each of us is his own person and should be
judged on their merits.
It seems in Saratoga, many City dwellers hold a grudge for
life.
Please look at the previous post and see who we backed for
elected office, and next time you are at Four Mayors order your burger medium
with fries.
