I was thinking today that unless Scirocco succumbs to an undiagnosed cranial subdural hematoma from a blow to the back of the head from a manila envelope, he will be Commissioner of Public Works for two more years.
What does that mean for 
He doesn’t give a dam about the public, the rank and file or the city he’s called home. What does he care about? Himself, Donna Buckleys return, “Big Deal” O’Neill and getting son Mark a job. We haven’t had snow for weeks DPW trucks roam our city streets in a seemingly endless parade of highly expensive trucks searching for the cities last discarded CHRISTMAS TREE. Our infrastructure deteriorates and Scirocco doesn’t care. I will go a step further and say he wants it to deteriorate. Yes that’s correct so I will repeat it.
SCIROCCO WANTS OUR CITIES INFRASTRUCTURE TO DETERIORATE.
All in a ill planned attempt to embarrass the Council, shifting all blame to them and offering no solution except for massive infusions of cash and hiring new personal. I did not say rehiring of laid off personal purposely. Scirocco will want to hire his own hand picked politically reliable toadies and extended family members. His protests to the Council that the layoffs and budget cuts will lead to a massive reduction in services is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. There is no reason for Scirocco to even try to manage his department. He wants the public and Broadway businesses to suffer. That’s the only way to teach those cheap bastards along with the public a fucking lesson.
The Scirocco way or the potholed highway. 
Tim Cogan will do what he can but Scirocco will use him as a scapegoat. Timmy will quickly grow tired of being the new whipping boy; no amount of money is worth that. This will open the door for some political hack to move in and use the position to lobby for more funding. What Scirocco doesn’t understand is, there is no money and its going to get worse not better. This will undoubtedly be Scirocco last two years in office and lets hope we can minimize the amount of damage he can do.
And what about the laid off family men of DPW? As far as Scirocco concerned they can take up subsistence hunting.
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recent letters to the Saratogian have expressed disappointment and outright hostility toward the City Council’s decision to lay off dozens of city employees. Given that city voters have just completed another local election cycle, it’s especially noteworthy that already the electorate is questioning the competence of our newly elected council. And, for good reason.
Take, for instance, recent actions by the commissioner of Public Works. For the past several meetings of the City Council, Skip Scirocco has bemoaned the reduction of Public Works services as a result of personnel cuts in the 2010 city budget. A budget, by the way, he voted for. As one recent “Reader’s View” comment pointed out, the level of hypocrisy by certain city officials is unacceptable.
For those confused on how our city got into this mess in the first place, let’s not forget “all” the decision makers who ignored the warning signs and voted for a bloated 2009 city budget, knowing full well the state VLT money was in serious jeopardy. Again, lots of blame can be distributed to those City Council members in charge, but clearly much of the blame can be easily traced to the council’s big spenders.
Here again, accountability somehow got lost in what can only be described as the proverbial game of political “musical chairs” that played out over the past two years within the DPW. More specifically, questions relating to the creation of unnecessary and unbudgeted positions within the Public Works payroll should have been challenged. Upon taking office in 2008, Commissioner Scirocco created over $120,000 in new spending for additional positions that can only be described as unwise.
Maybe it was the creation of these four new positions, a new executive assistant and three new DPW foreman positions that helped lead us to this fiscal calamity. Clearly, this is not what the voting public had in mind in response to Scirocco’s campaign slogan about “Putting the Public Back in Public Works”. At what price, may I add? In response to a recent letter by a laid off DPW worker with a family of four children, it is of little consequence now, but many strongly believe if we had real leadership and a strong desire to save jobs in the DPW this may have been avoided.
ED MILLER
Wow, hopefully things get sorted out for your town. Funny photos.
Regards,
Jeffrey Dallas Moore
Too bad the wack dems faction kept you off their line - the election would have gone your way. Today, no question.
Dying! How many times are we to see Eddie the Easy's letter? Unless you change it you are looking at the same pathetic message. My name is Ed and I sell hot dogs. Not very good Hot Dogs mind you. I also attempt to train horses but the the track has grown tired of me there because when I show up there are more horse's asses than horses. Now I think I know politics along with city policy. I Ed Miller am a dumbass!
Mamie you are so boring Scirocco gooooooooodddddddd. Miller baaaaaaaaaddddddddd. I hear your job as Skippy’s chief knob polisher won’t be reinstated tomorrow night. Too bad. I can only hope this blog had something to do with that. Why don’t you call your buddy Bernstein so you can commiserate together?
Don’t laugh about that cranial subdural hematoma. Skippy wasn’t playing with a full deck to start with and the way he’s acting since that event its clear he lost a couple more aces.
Think you own that little shack you live in? Guess again, I own that and everything else. You pay rent to me, I know you like to call it property taxes but in the end its rent. Just try not paying me and see what happens.
Big brother
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,
How about the great idea of shoveling the sidewalks from Espy on New St down along Empire Ave. Nice job doing those sidewalks skippy. Guess Broadway, ( the lifeblood of this city), ranks right up on your list of priority spots to be taken care of.
"SCIROCCO WANTS OUR CITIES INFRASTRUCTURE TO DETERIORATE." Sounds about right to me.
Hey Mamie, can't wait for the council meeting. Hopefully your fat ass is out the door along with your mattress.
Hey John: will there be a rematch of you vs Kim at this weekend's democrats meeting?
You do look a bit like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler movieafter all. We never knew.
Take him out, will you?
I can't wait for the council meeting either. It really has no bearing on me or my job though. Keep guessing.
Doesn't John Franck reside upstairs of his office on broadway? I know he used to because I've been there.
Mamie is there any bedroom on Broadway you haven't been in?
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