Bryan Barnett has chosen his team to rubber stamp his agenda. He has had an easy time of it the last couple of years with voting on the city council. In non-unanimous votes, the candidates endorsed by Barnett voted in the majority 97% of the time.
The role of a city council is not to be a team," but to provide oversight. We have seen what has happened in corporate America when boards of directors were buddies with the executives they were supposed to be overseeing.
This majority voted for increases in the city employee wages this year. Now they will not only receive their 5.5% automatic yearly longevity increase, but they will receive another 1% along with their 14% pension contributions. Tell me, is anyone is the private sector getting that? I have talked with the residents as I have gone door to door and they are telling me they haven't seen a raise in many years.
At the same time, they are cutting essential city services. they have reduced our police department by 3 deputies and have reduced the road maintenance budget. Now they want more of our money, as many as 4 new millages could be introduced next year.
We need people on our city council who will stand up to Barnett and his Boys. Someone who will prioritize spending and represent the taxpayers of our city, not major campaign contributors, city vendors or developers.
Note: I have chosen to not be aligned with any other candidate.
Well, at least this year they didn't find a patsy to have form a PAC, that illegally didn't report it's spending and publish garbage like this.
ReplyDeleteIf they are part of the slate, people should run the other way as fast as possible. Otherwise, we will just have a partially new crop of bobbleheads sitting up there.
God help us.
It's great to see independent thinking and an attempt at true accountability on city council. I have yet to see Adam offer any true ideas of his own, it's easy to see how he could fall in line with the "team".
ReplyDeleteGO Laurie!!!! You rock and we support you!!!
ReplyDeleteIs there something in the local water supply that favors bobblehead government?
ReplyDeleteSlates suck.
Same play over at the school board race where the mayor's pal Talbot, Pesulic and Peirbon look like the union slate.
It would be nice if the local news would ask a few questions about slate politics so that Rochester voters can make an informed choice.
Thanks for shining light on this Laurie.
You've got our vote.
The best way to stop this continual abuse of mayoral power and end the slate, --
ReplyDeleteis to say "NO to BARNETT --and YES to all the ladies.
GO FOR IT!