The New York Daily News has blasted Senator Darrel Aubertine for blocking passage of a farm labor bill that farmers say would have inflicted undo hardship on their troubled industry.
The legislation was pushed by big labor, including the Working Families Party, a group in part responsible for the election of Mr. Aubertine.
Passage of the bill would have put farm workers on parity with other workers and was seen as a way to help people being "exploited" by the agriculture industry.
The upstate Democrat's name is Darrel Aubertine. Remember it well. He represents farmers who would prefer to keep exploiting this rather captive workforce. In fact, he is a farmer himself.
Noble profession. Ignoble behavior: He asked to block the bill from seeing the light of day. He even deep-sixed a watered-down compromise.
-NYDN
Republicans were hoping to use passage of the bill as a club in their effort to defeat Aubertine this coming year, but with the bill not passing that club goes away.
The flip side is that the WFP has had to eat crow by getting involved in upstate races, then not being able to control the person they elect.
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It seems odd this didn't pass.
Who cares what the NYDN reports. They do their farming with lawn mowers.
And the farmer's do their farming with your money.
BaaaaaaWHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Aubertine also screwed every taxpayer who will suffer property devaluation from wind factories. He rammed a bill that makes it impossible to re-assess the farm land when a 4.5 million dollar turbine is put on it. Land that is already under-assessed. That will help his land and his wind towers, too.
Darrel is the farmer's bonus baby and we get to pay the bonus.
Next election, Mr. Aubertine will not even carry his home town of Cape Vincent, NY. Those days are gone since the Senator made the commitment to change the St. Lawrence River into an industrial zone. And, yes, he is a friend of exploiters at the cost of every land owner in the industrial zone. Thanks, Darrel.
So you are telling me he loses cape vincent to pattie ritchie ?
Absolutely. The town republican chairs Chapman and Mason recently pulled the biggest blunder in CV political history when they threw their own candidates under the bus and endorsed the Dems. It rallied the Cape Republicans to the extent that no Dem. is safe here for years to come. Bring on Pattie Richie. Especially if she recognizes and addresses the devaluation of St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario property by wind development. Darrel is no longer one of us. He is big foreign wind.
Come on, we all know there are like 10 people in CV who actually pay attention to politics. So Darrel doesnt get those votes...big deal...
listen people this is another bill that I agree with him on,you should to.Farmers are struggling more and more due to the dropping milk prices.Our fellow members of the republican party from down in wonderland.. N.Y.C.they are to busy hateing him when they should be drumming things up to help are state.Hate breeding isnt good when you want beat someone at there own game.He is beatable but if you keep attacking him it just fuels his fire
Juston
Wait a minute. Darrel is wrong on this. This bill would only have cost those farmers that chose to go the industrialized route and expanded beyond what their labor could provide.They based their theory on cheap labor, all the while competing unfairly against true family farms. These huge expansions weren't based on efficiency, but on labor exploitation and environmental degradation. Once again, Darrel has shown no principles and no concern for human or civil rights.
Your wrong this would have given Big goverment there ins to mess with the crumbs that the farmers survive off.Like forming Unions and having the state regulate even more,leave the farmers alone they are the ones who plant the seed to sew the crop that gets put on your kitchen table.Help them who wanna help themselves, most farmers fit that mold....
Juston
"Come on, we all know there are like 10 people in CV who actually pay attention to politics. So Darrel doesnt get those votes...big deal..."
Little do you know. In the CV fall elections,
Urban Hirschey and Brooks Bragdon were the stars with the most votes. Darrel Aubertine will be toast in his own home town.
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Not to mention, hiring your sister.
Many farmers are already paying better wages to their personel than many non-farm businesses. And they do it on a LOT lower profit margins than any other industry. When you people are willing to start paying eight or ten bucks a gallon for milk, then you can talk about union scale wages for farm workers.
9:02 am.
Farm land is under-accessed? What planet are you from? I suggest you post your name and address so every local farmer can send you his taxes to pay. Then we'll see if you think their land is "under-accessed".
9:02
Go to the County site and check the property tax map.
you will find that agricultural land is accessed for far less than a home in a village in the same town. I know because I have land in both.
Then, recognize the additional breaks farmers get.
Farm land with a giant wind tower worth 4.5 million under the suggested Don Alexander PILOT plan will pay far less in taxes than a new house on the water.
I know it is tuff for you to swallow, but it is true.
Thanks Darrel.
"Many farmers are already paying better wages to their personel than many non-farm businesses"
Bull$hit!
The only ones who get paid less than Darrel wants to give wait on table and they get tips.
Except the ones who are working for the multitudes of farmers who pay "under the table". And that is another problem. Lack of farmer's credibility.
It's not the wages that farmers pay for workers, but "to whom are those wages being paid (category of worker, i.e., illegals)?"
Isn't farm land also exempted from Water district charges?? Not the charge for water, but Debt repayment?
Farmer's have more subsidies and tax breaks than Tiger has women.
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