Hugh Reynolds.
O’Halloran, as evidenced by his letter to the editor, sees things differently. “Casino gambling is going to be a huge issue, with lots of competition and outside money coming in from both sides,” he said. “After that, nobody will be talking about [VLTs] for four or five years. We need this passage before gambling goes to the ballot.”
One would think that after carrying Hein’s water, and dumping it all over the Bernardos, O’Halloran would find a friend at court on an issue of considerable importance to his business. Obviously, the king has much bigger fish to fry.
Final notes
Again, from 1,000 feet up, one might conclude that a hometown legislator would carry legislation of major importance to a hometown business, but Bernardo is nowhere to be found on the LVT resolution being submitted to the legislature for consideration on April 16. She supported the idea in her January message to the legislature, but not after that IDA business.
Jim Maloney, Republican of the Town of Ulster and chairman of the legislature’s Economic Development Committee, is the sole sponsor.
Early word is that the memorializing resolution “could be in trouble” (lacking the twelve votes for passage), indicating the executive may again be working his magic behind the scenes with his “Nevele-first” strategy, ironically in league with a petulant Bernardo. Or maybe not.
Here in Kingston, with Mayor Gallo, we are seeing the profound and rapid effect good government can have on the citizens. And that can slowed by the legislature, our common council, not yet up to speed.
It looks like this is actually happening at the state level! That Cuomo is, like our mayor, actually governing.
How difficult that is I cannot imagine… and it gets way way harder as you go up, to Washington.
Gerald, Gerald, ever the naive one from the artsy-fartsy village to the NW(with some endless FAITH in folks wearing a certain party moniker)….please, get a pair of binoculars. Good government? This has been an oxymoron ever since Paul Revere shouted “one if by land, two if by sea”. It remains after five hundred or so years of settlement in this area. It won’t change tomorrow, next Friday, or in a thousand years. I only see the heavy-handed government getting worse because for some reason it remains desperate in seeking revenue and endless excuses for more funding for what amounts to the same old bunch of nonsense. Selling “good government” at the expense of harrassing the poor, disabled, disadvantaged –ALL TO UNDERSCORE THAT ITS ELITE REMAINS IN CHARGE. WHAT has Cuomo DONE to help Senior Citizens? He ORDERED–repeat–ORDERED–increases in MedicAid spenddowns(you might KNOW this if you work with a Senior citizen on this as I do and as the government crony folks try to avoid at all costs to do–ie, any actual WORK). Homelessness looms for an elderly man as a result–he is 87. The homeless tend to be younger in NYC, but you see an 87 year old homeless man is well, not exactly the sexiest thing you might see. The local yokel Dems don’t seem to give a FART either–at least one of whom was trained by my mother(I apologize for my mother here, but I did not pick her as my mother, truth be told!)
Same old story since the ROMAN EMPIRE. There IS, however, reprieve from this, if one walks into Frank Guido’s Little Italy. Otherwise, it just ain’t THERE!!