According to the report made public on September 24 by the Ulster County Legislature’s bipartisan special committee investigating the planning and construction of the county jail, the entire project from beginning to end was rife with violations of appropriate procedures; favoritism for cronies of and those who gave money to the controlling Republican party and its leadership; and circumvention of supposed safeguards of the public money and the public trust too numerous to mention in this letter. It is certainly telling that when you look at the names implicated in pulling all of this off and hiding it from oversight until brought to light by this committee what you find staring you in the face is the leadership of the Republican party during the course of this expensive debacle: former Legislative Chairman Ward Todd; former Legislative Chairman Daniel Alphonso; former Legislative Chairman Richard Gerentine; and their hirelings.
Does anyone really believe that this information would ever have come out, or this committee would ever have been appointed and allowed to do its job, if the Republican Party, which perpetrated these shameful acts and will do everything now to shove it under the carpet, was still the majority party? If you do, then I have a bridge and a season ticket to the Brooklyn Dodgers to sell you. The only reason any of this has surfaced is that the Republican Party no longer controls the County Legislature and can hide it all under majority rule. So, unless you want the same old gang to have the opportunity to do the same things in future don’t let them back in power. Vote Democrat or Independent and keep the Republican Party in the minority.
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