We’ve finally caught up with the goings on at the latest Town Board Meeting. This is based on reports by two of our trusted sources. If they turn out to be lying jackals let us know.
Lessee, town stuff happened: talk about ponds and deputy clerk pay and stuff like that. Then John Burke announced that he’d checked with lawyers and that Darlene’s concerns that Sheila’s appointment to the planning board was a conflict of interest of some sort were baseless claptrap.
John Baranowski, posse hanger-oner (is that almost a word?), then got up and said that Sheila’s appointment to the board might not be illegal, it might not be unethical, but it was “unseemly.” The Uncle translates that as “Sheila might not be doing anything wrong, but my pals and I still hate her and have no plans to stop attacking her.”
George Sewitt, new Chair of the Planning Board and a member of the Comprehensive Plan committee got up to say that Sheila never expressed an opinion about the Brodski project until it was voted on. This contrasted with Baranowski’s own stand while he served on the Comprehensive Plan committee, which was total opposition from the get go, even before the Brodski proposal was fully formulated.
Jonathan Swiller followed with a rather emotional presentation (he looked like he was about to blow a blood vessel) stating that it was the unending attacks on “the former administration” that were unseemly. The posse’s lies throughout the campaign were what were unseemly. The false rumors about Board members were what were unseemly. The late hits, like Carol Mullooly’s misleading postcard sent out to be delivered the day before the primary were what were unseemly.
The quote of the evening belonged to the Rump Roast herself who came in late and at the podium announced: “I missed the beginning of the meeting because I wasn’t here.”
Bo was present and didn’t speak. Darlene was absent and didn’t speak. And Ralphie hasn’t been seen at all.
A few weeks back Bo denounced the people who made unending attacks on the one Democrat on the last bipartisan Town Board. While he was erroneously referring to the Republican members of the Board, they weren’t James Galvin’s attackers. We are reminded that the foulest attacks on him came from those paragons of double dealing and dirty politics: Bob Donnelly and Manny Mangual.
Speaking of Donnelly, the Toad of Woodbury, we reread a letter he wrote (or Ralph wrote for him) to the Photo News last October. Aside from repeating Darlene’s little exaggeration (oops, I mean lie) that she “administers the Public Health office in a city larger than Woodbury”, he predicted that Sheila and Gerri would postpone the vote on the Brodski project to be able to slip it past the voters. Bear in mind, when Sheila actually held the vote on the project before the election, Donnelly and his pals denounced Sheila for rushing it through – the point being that they were prepared to attack her no matter what.
Is there a point in time when this group will finally shut the hell up? Or is that just wishful thinking?
Sunday, February 05, 2006
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