City Council announces promotions; MY ASS

The local rag the Saratogain in today’s addition carried a banner headline followed by an article penned by Kim lackey Andrew Bernstein which proudly announced “City Council announces promotions.”
BULLSHIT: Once again Bernstein conspired with his political mentor about how to paint demigod Kim in the most favorable light, the council promoted no one. Ron Kim in the last hours of his reign of terror in city government is passing out promotions and medals like Hitler did in his bunker in April 45. Mind you I am not criticizing his choices but one could make the case that the Public Safety departments are two brass heavy, I am condemning the method he employed. Using absolute authority and consulting no one unless he asked buddy Bernstein to weigh in, he unilaterally in the remaining hours of his job handed out promotions like candy on Halloween. These decisions made by a bitter and unstable man will have ramifications for Public Safety for decades. Ron Kim also said he will hold a swearing-in ceremony for the newly-promoted supervisors at noon Thursday literally in the last twelve hours I’ll be in office. Many will argue he did this to save jobs. Again I say BULLSHIT. Come June when Kim is but a bad memory and there is no million and a half in parking revenue these same people will be laid off AGAIN
RON KIM KNOWS THAT.
If Ron Kim wasn’t so dangerous his antics would be amusing, but remember this is the chief law enforcement officer in the city who threatens opponents in vulgar and crass displays of anger in front of innocent women and children whose only crime is to be in the library when Kim forgot his antipsychotic medication. Well just to give you an idea of his hypocrisy please see this exchange of e-mails in which he encourages Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco to press charges against City Attorney Joe Scala for assault and battery for being hit by an envelope. This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad

Part2

But Kim is running out of time and unless he plans to barricade himself in his office for a last stand, Thursday will be his last Hurrah. Bernstein his pet reporter has also been relegated to covering local badminton tournaments. So see you in the peanut gallery Ron, I’ll save you a spot right next to me. But remember I got a new toy for Christmas a voice recording pen so watch what you say.

Morale hits rock bottom for City Employees

Faced with impending layoffs and new full body scanning envelope detention scanners to thwart any more envelope throwing assassination attempts employee morale and sobriety has hit an all time low.

We sent our photographer to shoot some underground photos today and the results were shocking.

From the DPW mensroom.

To the back entrance of City hall.

Our photographers have found that even employee pets are not immune from the general feeing of malaise in City Hall

One can only hope for a better new year.

Legal disclaimer; This is a satirical piece to highlight a real morale problem in the City Government.The pictures are not of any real city employee or their pets.Any similarities to drunk people or animals you may know is a coincidence.

Justice Delayed is Justice Served.

February 17 2008 I awoke to find that a City snowplow operated by Saratoga Springs DPW had hit my legally parked car in front of my home on Warren St. Little did I know at the time this would lead me on an almost two year odyssey for simple justice that would find me in front of three Judges in two courts all to simply make Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco make lawful restitution for the actions of his driver who was found in court on three separate hearing to have operated a motor vehicle with “reckless disregard of the safety of others” these are the Judges words not mine.
Through the course of two years Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco repeatedly tired to shift the blame of this accident to me. Falsely claiming I was illegally parked, that the truck hit a non existent manhole cover all to no avail. Never seeking any more than the $1200 dollars worth of damage the Dept of Public Works never less hired a team of Lawyers to delay, stall and appeal the court decisions that had been in my favor. Finally on Christmas Eve I received a check for $1403 dollars payment in full for all damages and interest. In closing I would publicly like to thank my Attorney William C. Firth Esq. for his hard and dedicated work on this case. I would also like to thank the staffs of the Saratoga Springs Small Claims Court who were always helpful and patient with me and to the Judges who adjudicated my case. I would also like to encourage anyone who feels they have been a victim of the reckless actions of the driver of any City owned Vehicle who has had their claim denied to access the court systems for in the end the Cities Risk and Safety manager is not the final word on legal responsibility for that role is reserved for the courts and while tne wheels of justice turn slowly the results can be worth it. Are you listening Ron?
John Tighe

Final Christmas Wishes

For the underappreciated taxpayers of Saratoga.That the City Council puts their needs above the city Unions or they will continue to be CRUSHED by the Tax burden.

To City Attorney Joe Scala. Something to help you, get through your day.

For Ron Kim.Two words anger management.

To the leadership of the Saratoga Democratic committee. Your gonner miss Andrew Bernstein. I hope next year you have a real reporter cover your antics.

And finally from me, Merry Christmas to my cherished friends and my amusing and inept enemies.

HELL JUST FROZE OVER

I new it was cold out side but who would ever think, hell would freeze over. I am forced to admit I am thrilled to congratulate Ron Kim in his appointment of Captain Robert Williams the city’s next Chief of the Fire Department. William’s the son of legendary firefighter Tippy Williams has long been a fireman’s fireman. So I never thought I would say it but, good pick Kim I would have chosen him myself.


On a more sinister note I was able to fight off the ASSASSIN-MONKEY today as I was ice fishing at Saratoga Lake. Nice try ASSASSIN-MONKEY but you don’t have a manila envelope big enough to kill me.

BREAKING NEWS I’VE JUST LEARNED THERE’S A NEW BLOG IN TOWN AND HE SENT THE

Be Afraid be very Afraid a new blog is in town with me in the crosshairs and they pulled out all the big guns.Yes boys and girls the dreaded ASSASSIN-MONKEY known as demroc is after me.

Christmas Wishes Part 3

Oh come on I know from your comments how much you love to bash Skippy and I must admit it’s so much fucking fun but it is really like shooting puppies in a cage so with only two days before Christmas I’ll move on to my special Christmas wishes.

To my good friend Eileen Finneran who will soon be out of a job. I hope you will use your free time wisely and will find happiness with someone special who will appreciate your many fine qualities. Go out have some fun, take up pole dancing for Christ’s sake




To the soon to be smaller Fire Department may your Morale improve and along with that your attitude toward City residents


Legal disclaimer; the people in these photos are nether Finneran or the SSFD. Anyone who would believe that they were, must have been hit in the back of the head with a Manila envelope.

CAT scan confirms Scirocco has brain injury

Tests conducted on Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco have confirmed the popular Commissioner has suffered irreparable brain damage from a savage attack inflicted by a manila envelope thrown by retired professional wrestler turned City Attorney Joe Scala.

Ron Kim discovered that Scirocco was behaving strangely and was forming complete sentences and making sense when he rushed him to the emergency room. Kim was later quoted as saying “I’ve know Skip a long time and he just wasn’t acting right”... At one point Kim added that Scirocco had actually disagreed with him something he had never done before. “I know Skip like a brother and he’s never had an independent thought before in his life” Kim added. Doctors at this point are pessimistic about the chances of a full recovery. I think it is safe to say that the Commissioner will be reduced to a quivering piece of flesh unable to control his own bodily functions. The Hospital spokesperson added that adult sized attends might be an appropriate gift for Skip this Christmas.

Kim added he will be pursing attempted murder charges against Joe Scala. I hope the bastard gets the chair along with the prick John Tighe, Kim later stated.

Disclamer;This is a parody ridiculing the fact that a man can be assaulted by a Manila envelope none of the statements attributed in this blog took place, it is satire.

The Economic Diaspora of Saratoga Springs

One of the more persistent criticism I hear from the critics is basically “shut the fuck up you don’t even live in the city” since I find this a legitimate question and something I have never endeavored to hide I will take a moment to address it.
I was born here as were by parents and two of my grandparents who along with my great grand parents are buried here. {Memo to Kim: maybe in your next run for office your great message will be to tax family graves} I watched my widowed mother struggle to afford to live here, the only home she had ever know and recently I myself was forced to move out of my own home in the city and I am not alone. I call the long term residents and native sons forced to move out of the town the “Economic Diaspora of Saratoga Springs”. I hope to be a voice for them the great majority of who have not moved any real distance, some even now being forced to commute back to Saratoga for their jobs.
Now the DFC takes great delight in calling itself a great champion of the working man, these being their little pet projects, the police and fireman who they describe as “middle class”. I would argue that the police and fireman who have moved out of the city have done so out of economic choice, hoping to save a few bucks on their Tax Bill and not out of necessity or do to a lack of housing. The real middle class or the working class of this city, are the line workers at Quad or Ball manufacturing. The nurses and aides of Saratoga Hospital whose jobs are just as difficult and dangerous as the Police and Fireman but have no union protection and make only a faction of what the city workforce does. Even the average plow driver for the city makes more than a floor nurse at the Hospital. Unfortunately the only contact the high brows of the DFC have with this world are with the lobbyist of the SSPD who have convinced then they need to be paid more. They assume the waitress at Lillian’s is working her way through a PhD program at Union and not a single mother of two who is forced to bus in from Ballston Spa. Until taxes are cut in the city the economic war against the low to middle class will continue . One answer is a permanent reduction in the City work force or wage and benefit concessions and not selling recreational facilities for the real working families of Saratoga. You know the ones who don’t have a pool in their back yard or can't afford to belong to the Y. The Democratic Party in Saratoga has lost its soul. Until the DFC is removed from its ranks it will continue to be little more than a lobbing branch of the PBA.

Now on a more cheery note Christmas wishes and gift ideas’

For Andrew Bernstein a Book


And for our brave fireman some new replacement equipment.


And finally a footnote to my run in with Ron Kim.
I am actively pursuing all my options and have not ruled anything out. I have found that although the wheels of justice move slowly I am usually satisfied with the results.

A BIG STINKEN PILE OF SHIT

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in this city it just did.

*{1}Dickless wonder Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco unable to muster the balls necessary, refused to send out layoff slips to his men Wednesday while trying to pass the horrible but necessary chore to City Attorney Joe Scala.

Now this is same gutless wonder who stuck a knife in popular driver Greg Cherry who was not slated for a layoff do to the voluntary bump down that was offered by Larry Baldwin. So what did the Dickless wonder Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco do? Pissed that his attempt to rid himself of the politically unreliable Cherry were thwarted he laid THEM BOTH OFF. So Scirocco the so called “Champion of the Workers” shit canned an extra worker just to get at an enemy. Regardless of the fact it leaves his Department even more short handed.

Now this is where the story becomes even more bazaar. Dickless wonder Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco got into a heated augment and threw an envelope at City Attorney Joe Scala in his office then fled. The normally calm Scala turned into Smoken Joe and followed the fleeing Scirocco and as Scirocco was going down the stairs threw the envelope at Skippy getting a lucky shot to the head. This is where the story should have ended but enter RON KIM.

Ron Kim the cities only *{2}Certified Asshole. The monster of the library who can’t seem to form a sentence that doesn’t include the word MOTHERFUCKER was SHOCKED SHOCKED that such impropriety would take place in a Public Building and wants Scirocco to file assault charges and urged Scirocco to have his head examined{something I myself advocated for years}.

Bernstein, Scirocco and Kim are secretly meeting as I post this to figure a way to do the most political damage to Johnson and the SARATOGIAN will lie to you readers of this blog

So here is the truth.

Scirocco is a hypocrite who is using this for all the political mileage he can.

Don’t even get me going on Kim but here’s a note for you I’ll be stopping down to the police station soon with my Lawyer. See Ya.

*Footnote{1} for those not familiar with the phrase

dickless wonder

A male who, against all odds, lacks the typical male genatalia. Or, used figuratively, used to describe a male who does not actually lack said genatalia but rather possesses a extremely small set or behaves in a manner that denotes a lack of male genatalia even if such genatalia are in fact present in said male.

*Footnote{2}Certified Asshole Test (CAT)

Ron Kim scored a 98% on this exam

The Art of Blogging.

Today being a slow news day as I hear Kim and his buddy Bernstein {Andy Pandy as we like to call him because he always panders to the DFC} are down in a deep bunker in the bowels of City Hall as they plot damage control for Kim’s obscenity laced tirade at the Public Library. I would like to take a moment to talk about this blog and blogging in general. I am an accidental blogger I really had nether the expertise or the proper educational background to create grammatically well-formed sentences must less articles. But necessity is the father of invention so with the help of some friends or as the Saratogian would call them co-conspirators and a friendly server and an acquaintance in Thailand this blog was created.

This blog was created to cut through the bullshit and get to the truth. In that, I believe we have been successful. Many people have asked why I am so hard on the Saratogian and in a word they suck .My intellectual mentor just frowned at me but my roots are in Jefferson Terrace not 5th Ave so my rough edges are who I am. I remember a little over two years ago when the triple spaced headlined above the fold in the Saratogian a week before the election panned “MC’TYGUE DUMPS HUMAN WASTE”. That ladies and gentleman was the day the idea of this blog was born. A city devoid of an honest and unbiased newspaper is a city that longs for the truth a city that deserves the truth and demands the truth. So maybe I should have called this blog the bullshit stops here. Anyway that is the only way to explain the incredible number of hits this blog receives daily.
But understanding that I have my own prejudices and political favorites you should also know that anybody can and some have submitted your own articles for posting. You name is not required and unlike Bernstein I will not tract your IP address in any clumsy attempt to unmask your identity as I unlike Bernstein have better thing to do.

As far as the future of this blog? We’re not going anywhere. I plan on being just as hard on the Republicans as I was on DFC. Are you listening Skippy? Wirth will get a free pass for a time because he had the load of shit dumped on his lap. My prediction is that these layoff will be just the beginning as no parking revenue will be received this year. I really don’t blame this on Ivins he is doing as best as possible. I word of advice to the Unions “givebacks”

BUT NOW A NEW CHRISTMAS FEATURE.

Each day I will be suggesting special holiday gifts for our city workers.
First to the brave and beautiful woman of the SSPD
A NEW LOCKER ROOM AND SHOWER.

And for Commissioner of Public Works Skip Scirocco

A NEW CAR

Ron Kim in like a tough guy out like a puppy.

Four years ago political newcomer Ron Kim was swept into office after the nasty fallout caused by the Dwyer scandal in the old Curley administration. Tonight brought an end to that political career as former tough guy Ron Kim arrived 45 minutes late to his last scheduled City Council meeting. Looking subdued there were no public speakers to praise his leadership not a single cop or fireman appeared to thank him for fighting the good fight in there name. The Council accorded him lukewarm profunctionary thanks. The scene was much different two years ago when Mayor Keehn made her last appearance as Mayor as speaker after speaker heaped praise on Val of Arc for sacrificing herself to rid the city of McTygue. I still remember Lou Benton’s speech when he compared her “courage” to what he had seen in the eyes of dying solders in the swamps and jungles of Viet Nam a speech that only added to the widespread use of the name “Screwy Louie” But I digress. There really isn’t much more to say he went out the side door as quickly as possible without even a FUCK YOU to me.

Kim’s career is pretty much over and all but the biggest diehard Keehnacs would concede that. His name will be little more than a bedtime story mothers will use to get their children to behave. “Listen to me or Ron Kim will get you.” But the other person who has lost almost as much as Kim is Saratogian reporter Andrew Bernstein. His biased one sided reporting was little more than editorials why Kim should be the next Mayor.

Today he hit a new low when he wrote on his personal blog.

“I saw Commissioner Kim talking with "anonymous" blogger John Tighe.
I did not stay to eavesdrop, as I couldn't be less interested in whatever Tighe has to say to the Commissioner, so beyond the fact that I saw them talking, I cannot comment on the tenor of the exchange.”

In one breathtaking sentence Bernstein showed that he is a Liar for what he saw was no discussion and that he has no interest in reporting anything that might show his political idol in a bad light. Later frustrated by comments that he disagreed with, he had Kim supporters supply anonymous comments that I John Tighe am a “Racist” I love the hypocrisy of this in which he belittles this blog and its readers because of their anonymity in commenting while allowing me to be called me a racist by his anonymous cronies . You should also know that any comments by me are banned from his blog so I am unable to answer these charges even though I have offered him an opportunity to comment on anything on this blog. Well since he will find few open doors and little contacts in City Hall next year outside of Skippy who I believe will fall in behind the Republicans he might have time to pen that Kim Biography.

Real Seoul

The incredible Journey of Ron Kim

By Andrew Bernstein.

DFC's Enemies List

A question has arisen is this a forum for serious discussion or just a pile on Ron? Well it’s a bit of both. I welcome sincere constructive discussion BUT for that to take place there must be a reasonable expectation that it can be productive to the situation. First and foremost a person must have some respect for the integrity and honesty of ones opponents. You also have to have some amount of respect for them and their opinions even when they differ from yours based on the assumption that they believe their viewpoint is best for the city.

I can give no such assumption to Ron Kim and the DFC. There actions have perverted the Democratic Party in Saratoga. Their clownish and buffoonish behaviors make a mockery of the Democratic Party. The use of enemies’ lists and physical threats has no place in a modern Democratic Society. There will be no credible Democratic Party in this city until the Democratic Committee regains some integrity and leadership under the honest and sane members that are left on the Committee like Mary Zlotnick and from the only current elected Democratic officials John Franck and Johanne Yepsen. This is not about compromise and there is no reconciliation with these people. They simply lust for power and the only reasonable thing to do is to support Republican candidates if the very well being of the city is at stake. As much as I dislike Jim Tedisco as a politician I respect him as a decent man. Today I received an e-mail from a shocked member of the committee who told me the committee has sent out feelers for Val Keehn in a race against Tedisco. News like this just reinforces my opinion that no reasonable debate on the merits of this can be addressed. The idea of a political comeback by such a disgraced former Mayor is worthy of nothing but contempt and scorn. But as always people the choice is up to you if you want to attempt to discuss the merits of her candidacy go to it, but if you choose to mock the wisdom of this choice fine I only ask that your comments be laced with some humor and that no physical threats be made.

Number 1 on the enemies list
John Tighe

Saratoga Democratic Committee, Merry Christmas it ain’t.

Well readers of this blog will be happy to know I was not thrown out of the Saratoga Democratic Committee meeting Saturday morning at the Saratoga Public library.

That is about the only good thing I can say about the meeting.

First; BLAME for the disastrous 2009 election, well the best I could understand from Al Turkheimer chairman of the committee was there is no blame. They had great candidates and great messages. The people deep down wanted to pay higher taxes, so they could gawk in awe and amazement at our new police station. It wasn’t their fault it was your fault readers of this blog, you might be surprised to know. You who read this blog and spread it’s mistruths and confused the voters. Later when I tired to speak in the so-called transparent and open forum, Turk identified me as a “member of the press” and tried to stop me from speaking lest my evil words pollute the ears of the true believers. From what I could tell Chairman Turk was using Mao’s little red book instead of Rogers’s rules of order.

But speak I did, where I condemned their message as undemocratic and then politely pointed out to them the error of their ways.

The rest of the meeting was the usual bickering.

THAT WAS UNTIL I WENT TO LEAVE.

Then I was accosted by Tough guy Ron Kim.

I will give the conversation to the best of my recollection verbatim.

Ron; Hey Kasier you piece of shit motherfucker cocksucker.

Me; Ron is something wrong.

Ron;I’m not afraid of you, you piece of shit motherfucker

Me; why on earth would you be afraid of me?

Ron; now thrusting out his chest his breath heavy with Bok Choy and sesame oil.

I’m goner get you motherfucker.

Me;Ron is that a threat?

Ron you’re pay for this motherfucker.

Mrs.Kim; come home Ron.

Next up Kevin Connelly.

Kevin; You no good motherfucker.

Me; Kevin I just heard all that from Ron anything new to add?

Kevin; Did you write that shit about me motherfucker{he is now sputtering in my face}

Me;I nether confirm or deny anything I write on any blog.

Next Eileen Finneran

Me; Eileen anything you would like to add?

Eileen; No I always sign my name.

So folks let me clear up a few things. I John Tighe have written on many blogs for many years. I am not the owner of any of them. I do not confirm or deny any one article is penned by me unless my name is signed as it is here.

So to Ron get a fucking grip you lost, get over it. Frankly I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think about me. But as a lawyer you know the threats you made were very, very close to harassment.

To Kevin Connelly are you trying to tell me you’re not gay? Just come out and say it I’m not gay. I don’t care if it gives you some solace to blame your defeat on me fine. I must admit you did not threaten me but for Christ’s sakes watch the spitting its flu season.

To Eileen Yea you always sign your name, now that’s funny.

Finally in closing I can safely say I won’t be getting an invite to Ronny’s for Christmas dinner but if I suddenly disappear here’s a tip for the local police ask Ron about it.

John Tighe

Its official folks, Ron Kim’s brother loves him.

Well I wasn’t going to comment on this Reader's View in the daily rag, but several of you sent me e-mails asking what I thought.
A family perspective of a public servant
http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2009/12/10/opinion/doc4b1fff3730a87255869790.txt
Penned by Paul D. Kim, Leesburg, Va. Brother of Ron Kim.

Well it is a heart felt letter written by a loving brother. I have little doubt that Ron Kim is anything but a faithful husband, loving father, whose dog wages his tail at the mere mention of his name. This makes him a fine candidate for boy scout leader, but the fact my family loves me makes me no more qualified to be a surgeon than Kim’s family values make him qualified to run Public Safety.
His four years as Commissioner of Public Safety has been an unmitigated disaster for all involved. I don’t know if the man ever worker as a laborer or a service worker but I will tell you all of them feel they need more help and are overworked. Overtime is the bread and butter of the hourly worker and letting the Chiefs decide how much is needed is akin to leaving your car at Midas and telling the commission driven manager “Here buddy you’re the mechanic not me, see what my car could use and fix it, don’t worry about the cost someone else is paying for it and safety is all that matters to me.” It just won’t work.
Did you ever put yourself in your less well heeled neighbor’s shoes? Hey Volvo’s are safer than Escorts but we just can’t all afford them so don’t pass a law mandating we have to buy them.
You gave the police unrealistic expectations and left a demoralized force when your polices led to layoffs. Your message to them should have been pay cuts or jobs not sell the rec center and build a police palace. I could go on and no but the voters said it best when they rejected your hand picked successor and sent you packing by a tune of 1500 votes.
So here’s some free advice you won’t hear from your DFC cronies stay home Saturday. Leave the Democratic party go visit your brother in Virginia you’ve done enough damage for one year and my final word.

SWAT team for Saratoga? Bad idea even if it is a tourist friendly SWAT team.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss

The County Democratic Party Committee meeting was a snoozer tonight as the moribund committee could not muster the will or lacked the desire to mount even a modest challenge to Larry Bulman’s chairmanship. The highlight of the evening came as Bulman asked Andrew Bernstein the unofficial Press Secretary to Ron Kim to leave the room do to his position as a part time reporter for the Saratogian. Seems Larry doesn’t hold Andrew in the same esteem as Peter Martin who made a mousey comment to Larry about how young Andrew was one of the good ones. Al Turkheimer gave the city committee report which basically said. Hey we lost but we all did a great job and it’s nobody’s fault. I also heard a few murmurs that Ron Kim would like a shot at Tedisco. I second that as it’s always fun to see Ronny get his ass kicked. I guess he and Turkheimer didn’t get the memo about Kim losing by 1500 votes.

Know of this bodes well for City Democrats in future City elections for as long as this progressive fringe controls the city party and the selection of future city candidates the Republicans will dominate city government to an extent not seen since the sixties. We will have to wait and see what happens at the Saturday morning meeting of the city committee. And for those waiting for me to say I was wrong? I WAS WRONG.

DID SOMEBODY SAY PARTY?

Wednesdays night’s meeting at the usually placid Mechanicvile Italian-American club of the County Democratic Party Committee is shaping up to be a knock down drag out fight for Larry Bulman, leader of Saratoga County Democrats as he tires to hang on to his position. Bulman whose day job is business agent for Local 773 of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters has come under blistering criticism after his close business ties with convicted former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno became clear as Bulman testified in open court in Bruno’s corruption trial in federal court in Albany as a witness for the prosecution. Many had questioned in the past why Bulman and his committee had never run a serious challenger against the popular Bruno and his testimony make it clear that Bruno’s sponsored construction projects for his Union members meant no credible threat to Bruno come Election Day from the Democrats. This revelation along with the beating that the DFC sponsored Democratic candidates took in Saratoga Springs that made the Saratoga Dems the laughing stock of the State have seriously weakened Bulman’s standing with the committee. Personally I think Bulman is getting a bad rap with the Bruno revelation. Anybody who could think with their own brain and wasn’t a progressive Zombie could see that Uncle Joe, Republican or not was good for the County and the fact that Bulman could use him to supply well paying union construction jobs for his members just made good business sense. Bulman understood that no candidate stood a chance against the always popular Bruno so why waste money and resources on an unwinnable campaign and poke a stick in the eye of one of your major benefactors.
Where I do have a bone to pick with Bulman is the back stabbing waffling support he gave to the sane wing of The Saratoga Democrats. First he supported them but when he felt the wind blow in the other direction he supported the Keehn\Kim wing of the DFC. I never did know if the man was talking out of his mouth, his ass or both at the same time. I found the boyish Bulman to be one of the slimmest politicians I have ever met. So what did he get for his incurable indecisiveness that caused so much turmoil in his local Dems, nothing but failure. When the DFC proved they could muster 1000 hard core believers on primary day Bulman threw in the towel, throwing his support to the nutjobs who promptly drove the party into the ground. Well done Larry. Sorry Larry but your reign ends Wednesday night. YOU WILL BE REMOVED.
Meanwhile back at the local Zoo called the Saratoga Springs Democratic Committee where they never miss an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot.
They are calling a meeting for Saturday morning at 9 at the local Library where a move will be made to replace the highly incompetent committee's chairman, Al Turkheimer. Turk was ring master when the tent fell down in the last election that saw the greatest setback to city Dems in twenty years as hordes of Democratic votes fled the collapsing circus tent to throw their support to the more reasonable Republican candidates. Many former Democratic Committee members openly campaigned for Republicans candidates throwing aside party loyalty to do what was best for the city. But don’t count the hard core DFCers out; they plan to call for party purity to their progressive ideals which they feel is a more worthy goal then winning elections. Kim and his supporters plan to run their own candidate for chairmanship and a rumor has been spreading that Scirocco will formally switch parties at the meeting and declare he is officially a Dem something he has unofficially been for many years. So their you have it folks, will the moderates led by Franck and Yepsen regain the Democratic Party or do the lunatic fringe retain control .I know who Jasper Nolan’s rooting for.

JOE BRUNO

To all of you DFC types who are celebrating the fall of this man I would like to take a minute to remind you if he was still majority leader we would have our VLT money. The layoffs wouldn’t be taking place and this entire region would be better off.

And for you progressive types I would remind you that not all aid went to ball fields, AMD and American legion parking lots.
Joe delivered a $4 million grant from the state that will be used to complete a new 54,000-square-foot music center on the campus of his alma mater. “I graduated from Skidmore College before most of you were even born,” quipped Bruno, a Skidmore graduate of the class of ’52.

Millions were funneled to SPAC and other Arts programs in Saratoga.

But you just couldn’t get past the fact he was a Republican so you worked to cut your own leg off.
What is the DFC motto again?
BETTER TO RULE IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN

Skip Scirocco declares snow emergency, urges citizens to use family pets in snow removal fight.

Skip Scirocco Commissioner of Public Works declared a snow catastrophe today despite the unseasonably warm temperatures and the lack of any significant snowfall. Scirocco said “don’t let the lack of snow fool you, my men are working around the clock to rake up enough overtime for a big Pre-Christmas paycheck”. When asked why he was so short handed seeing that no layoffs have actually taken place Scirocco grew angry saying “that’s a hostile question and Bernstein would never talk to me like that” he added that homeowners should not expect to see the same kind of service they had become used to in the days of McTygue and Design . Look I’ve got Eileen Finneran as my Deputy now and she doesn’t know jack shit about snow removal. Scirocco then shocked this reporter by suggesting family pets be used to assist in snow removal. I have over 20 years experience catching and training animals both as animal control officer and Commissioner of Public Works, we just don’t want your pets to pick up some of my workers habits. Scirocco then complained that cuts to his fleet maintenance budget have led to many of his vehicles operating with three wheels a situation Scirocco called “unacceptable”.

PUBLIC SAFETY’S HOLIDAY CARD: GIVE TILL IT KILLS

Public safety not to be outdone by Public Works has released its new holiday card which calls on city residents to sacrifice for the good of there community till it kills them. Some have questioned the wisdom of this approach seeing that it will leave most of our tax base dead and seemingly unable to pay next years taxes, but soon to be appointed Chief, Assistant Chief John Betor put it all in perspective, in an article on the front page of the local fish wrap the Saratogian penned by Kim lapdog and Public Relations spokesperson Andrew Bernstein. Betor wrote “See if these cuts go through most city residents will be burnt to death in their homes and the survivors of this upcoming firestorm unable to find fire insurance for their blackened homes will be forced to wander aimlessly on the wild plains of Ohio or something like that.” Betor as always came prepared with graphs, statistics, coloring books and a 10,000 page report that no human being has ever read.

Kim had his own holiday greeting to the voters of Saratoga “ there you have it folks you voted me out of office and now your all doomed, Merry Christmas.”


Disclaimer. To the brainless members of the DFC before you call and get Attorney general Andrew Como out of bed this Sunday morning. This is a parody of an actual article in the paper written by a Kim lackey that I am ridiculing.