Some of the little things in government that don't get reported on include a town councilman in the Town of Alexandria who has missed four consecutive monthly meetings.
Is that a bad thing ? Voters elected the person four times and those who felt his being gone in the winter were welcome to run against him.
On the other hand, should you run if you know you will miss a large number of meetings?
Probably not a lot goes on at a Town meeting, especially in the dark of winter.
I think I have been absent for four meetings in 16+ years, if you are looking for the other extreme.
the circus: Town Councilman Misses 4 Consecutive Meetings
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We would all be better off if lawmakers showed up less often.
There is nothing better for the citizens than when we have gridlock and not showing up amounts to the same thing.
Something like that happened in Ogdensburg back in 2008. Councilor by the name of VAugh missed four consecutive meetings.. Mayor Nelson exhagerated the truth to say the least and another councilor called for Vaughs resignation as it was stated in the City Charter what would be done..
Vaugh claimed he had wisdom teeth problems and couldnt talk etc etc and Nelson and his parrots backed him and it went on the back burner.. The truth came out and Vaugh was working for Matt Doheny in his first failed attempt to garner up the canidatacy for a Congressional run that year.. Thats the year that Doheny threw his support behind DeDe Scozz but lost... Anyway Vaugh should have been replaced but Nelson and Sciorra saved his ass..
Anyone that has to have this explained to them is too dumb to show up on voting day so you are wasting your breath. but I don't think you explained it right.
1. There are/were problems in the city that indicate that marry is not that great at her job.
2. Three shortsighted lawmakers decided she should be replaced. They did not have the vision to realize it is next to impossible to hire a city manager to do much better than we already have, and likely would be stuck hiring one that does worse.
3. You, being a genius, were able to distil this complicated problem into logical safe steps. You asked yourself who would be best at recognizing a new competent city manager and logically deduced it would be someone that has done the job before and done it well. So you chose a person that is reputed to have done the job well before. The shadow government had crowed about this mans competence in the past, so they would have to be big giant hypocrites to find fault with him as a choice.
4. Then you built a consensus to execute your plan and executed.
5. When you asked yourself who would be best to fill the job interim and no obvious choice from inside was apparent, you logically concluded the same man would be the best fit. But he declined.
6. But you wisely convinced him to reconsider and he did so you built consensus and you executed that too.
7. So now here we are just a few months later but further along in the recruitment process than anytime in history that anyone can remember for such a thing. And that process has taken a more logical path than anytime in history too. And you get all the credit.
9:51 what in the hell does that have to do with the guy that missed 4 consecutive meetings in Alexandria? You make some good arguments, too bad they're in the wrong place.
Hey...I clicked on the wrong headline...it happens.
VERY INTERESTING!!
The blogger who wrote the piece got beat(creamed) by the councilman he is trashing.
The blogger also doesn't tell the truth!
The blogger also is a DEM(officer of local party) and only speaks out against REPs. Remember, Dems don't do anything wrong; Right Cape Vincent??
And lastly, as everyone realizes you don't run these towns, villages, counties etc in the one hour monthly meetings. We're in the 21st century and technology takes over with the phone and e-mail etc...
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