Wow, here is a letter to the editor from a committed socialist.
This Oswego County resident excoriates Matt Doheny for making a lot of money in his chosen field of endeavor...the stock market. Then this gentlement delivers a list of ways Doheny should spend his $6million plus income made last year...
Let's see, Mr. Lee Schick of Fulton says Doheny should sink $2.5million into the failed Nestle chocolate plant...Then he wants Matt to drop a half million on the Golden Fish Restaurant in Port Ontario (Lee must have enjoyed the fish platter)...Then he is advised to sink the rest into the defunct Dealmaker auto dealerships. And if anything is left over, Mr. Schick advises it be given to charity.
Mr Schick, says he will instead vote for Doug Hoffman...That is of course his right and its a justifiable choice on many grounds, just not the grounds he uses.
Being successful is not a bad thing. All three Congressional candidates have been enormously successful in their respective fields and are millionaires.
The notion that we should condemn success and then attempt to tell the successful how to invest their earnings is not consistent with the free enterprise system that has driven prosperity in this country for 200+ years.
But, if folks like Doheny decide Mr. Schick's mantra makes sense, I have suggestions for spending that $6million.
A couple of million on Sewall's Island to build a Kayaking Hall of Fame.....A half million on Shooties as a respite for Steelers fans stranded in NNY.....I would like a million spent on reopening the old Bajjaly's Market because a friend of mine has fond memories of buying Swedish Fish there as a child.......
How about a million reopening the Air Brake Foundry, another million paying the Grid bills for all my friends and relatives for the next five years, and with the last half million, please put small bills in a brown paper bag and leave it in Zeppelin's dog house this evening at 6PM.
Another thing left over, please donate to charity. I will send you a list of ones I prefer.
The notion that if someone makes money, we should collectively tell them how to spend it is at the heart of many of our problems. That is why I respectfully suggest that the letter writer is indeed a socialist.
Watertown Daily Times Doheny does not give back to community
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Right on Mr. Mayor. And, let's not forget the Liberal Democratic mantra: It's OK to spend money; as long as it isn't theirs....
8:09AM, I think Doheny's more likely to apply the "conservative" Republican mantra: It's okay to cut taxes while increasing defense spending. We'll just compensate for the tax cuts by borrowing from our children.
Well Mayor, I am often critical of your pieces and thoughts but this piece is downright a hoot!!
Hilarious!!!!!
Mr. Mayor:
I read your stuff regularly and usually agree and find it entertaining. Nice work.
However, I can't agree with your basic premise that Len Schick (it is Len, not Lee) is telling Doheny how to spend his money.
Rather, Len is making the point that Matt has done nothing to generate business in NNY, while Doug has.
Len is a Conservative Party leader in Fulton. "Excoriating" Matt on making $6 million and telling him how to spend his money runs against the free enterprise system, which conservatives espouse.
Keep up the stimulating info. Love your occasional tete-a-tete with Jude.
Thats exactly the point hes trying to get across. Doheny has done nothing for the North Country except contribute hire some people to aid him in his campaign. Some local wannabes were hired only for the perception of helping out our economy. He however in the past few years did give a considerable amount of money to local campaigns in behalf of people he admired and wanted to win.. One of them a local GOP canidate was given the maximum amount of money last year which only means he publicly supported the woman. When she pulled out he tried and is still trying to distance himself from her. Wont work Matt...DeDe is that bad a person you know and your support was appreciated by her. However you character being what it is you turned on her in the end.. Oh well so much for friendship
Matt Doheny gave a substantial donation to DeDe Scozzaffas campaign last year.. He is trying to down play it by saying he has had no contact with her since.. He hates quitters, He hates people that dont keep their promises or in other words two faced people. And he states if yur GOP then act GOP and dont endorce Andrew Cumom in other words dont be a hyprocrite... Is that why he contributed to the election of Elliott Spitzer a Democrat? No he endorces canidates that may be able to benefit him in some manner... In all likely hood DeDe had promised him a job in Washington if she had won last year... Spitzer is a wall st god...
Oh 10:27, get your facts straight...OWENS gave to Spitzer, not Doheny. See the article in WDT - http://watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100808/NEWS03/308089975
I love the people who stand on their holier than thou soap boxes based 100% on misinformation. PLEASE do your research and read carefully before being so judgmental. It really makes you look stupid.
I guarantee you Doheny was not looking for a job in Washington from Dede. Have you met the guy? No way would he be willing to work for her. He sees himself as the boss man. Period. I think it was more of a show of good faith to put him in good standing with the GOP, knowing he could cash in those chips later. And it worked. It takes more than two hands to count his GOP endorsements this year.
10:45AM, thanks for the link to the article. I hadn't realized that Representative Owens had "gave money to candidates he thought were best equipped to handle the office they sought, regardless of party", including D'Amato, Pataki and McHugh.
That's a refreshing change of pace and a big difference from Doheny's embrace of political partisanship, "if you're a Republican, act like it and don't endorse (Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Andy Cuomo.".
1045,, I stand corrected on the contribution to Spitzer/ As far as being stupid, I am somewhat but not enough to vote for Doheny.. You are correct about getting facts straight however. I better get back to catching footballs.
Are our facts straight in his arrests for BWI..
Since Hoffman is perfect, will he be trying to get his money back from Chris Ortloff? Oh sorry, we cant judge someone by who they give money to... if it's Doug. No wonder he wouldnt comment to the WDT on this article. O wait, Doug doesn't comment at all. On any thing.
Owens WAS an independent, so of course he would donate across party lines. He only started putting a "D" after his name when he ran in the special election.
11:27 - regarding the BWI, it depends on what source you are using for your "facts". If you are referring to the article in the WDT or the information disseminated by the Doheny campaign, then yes, I would say you have your facts straight. But if you are using Hoffman's letter as your source, than the answer is no, you do not have your facts straight. I was really surprised to see multiple errors (including what happened - Doheny was NOT arrested - and when it happened - it did NOT happen in 2006) in an official letter from a campaign. It made Hoffman look very petty (and also not very detail oriented). The information was all over the print and TV news, Hoffman didn't need to broadcast it any further - I know a couple people who switched their vote away from Hoffman based on that letter.
I agree 11:35. Doheny lost a lot of points with voters after the BWI news, but rather than compounding the effect,I think Hoffman's commentary actually offset it. Anyone who follows politics or watches the evening news heard all about the BWIs and Doheny took a pretty big hit from it. Hoffman gained nothing by slinging mud around. Especially when the mud he was slinging wasn't totally accurate. It really made him look desperate and I think Hoffman lost the respect of some voters because of it (it echoed the pettiness he exhibited last year with his accusations of an ACORN conspiracy and voter fraud last year).
I hope Doheny and Hoffman aren't paying their advisers too much. If I were a teacher I would give them all a failing grade.
Dealmaker? That was kind of random. Are we sure this Lee/Len isn't really PJ in disguise?
Snooze - non sequitur (again).
Jealousy rains on this district like no other, in my view.
* Angry at people who are successful, and pissed off when they are not.
Learn to read the whole letter. "I was glad to see how all three of the candidates for Congress in our 23rd District have been successful businessmen." At no time Did Len say making maing a lot of money was the issue.
His issue is how Matt use the money.100% was not invested in a single business in our area or in creating jobs here. 100% of Matt's money did not go to benifit anyone but Matty getting elected. The whole point is, do we vote for someone 100% out for himself or someone who is working to better the area.
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