Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Democratic Candidates Announce
Hudson city attorney Cheryl Roberts, best known for authoring Hudson's LWRP, and Claverack Supervisor Robin Andrews are both Democratic candidates for state seats: Roberts as assemblyman for the 107th District; Andrews as state senator for the 43rd District. The 107th Assembly District does not include Hudson; the 43rd Senate District does. Nathan Mayberg has the story in today's Register-Star: "Andrews, Roberts run for state seats."
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I've never come across a more cynical person in my life. Does she think the people she worked against on the LWRP - the people she and the other officials helped cheat - won't wander from our district to see her defeated? Think again.
ReplyDeleteAs a result of Marriage Equality last year there is support of McDonald in the northern part of the new 43rd district from people within the LGBT community. Last Month Libby Post, Founding Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda, held a fundraiser for him - we'll see if that translates well to Columbia County. Also, while serving in the New York State Assembly, McDonald voted for the Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA).
ReplyDeleteInstead of giving her more power to corrupt can't we just be rid of her ?
ReplyDeleteAfter long discussions with a government SEQRA analyst and various land use experts, a hunch which only dawned late in the process was corroborated by these people in the know. (SEQRA is the State Environmental Quality Review Act.)
ReplyDeleteThe lessons learned in Hudson by the folks who cheated on behalf of the Common Council's Environmental Impact Statement will be visited in other SEQR reviews throughout the state.
Each dishonest "advance" is a lesson in SEQRA's weaknesses to be applied elsewhere, first by the same environmental analysis-and-planning firm that we hired and later by others. (Previously we had other firms for the task, but we dropped them on someone's advice and ended up with the wicked "BJF." That's a story in itself.)
BFJ are old hands at knowing just how much a municipality can get away with, and with Roberts at the nexus of city government manipulating the process on behalf of hidden and not-so-hidden special interests, all they had to fear was a legal challenge from the people. Unfortunately that never materialized.
I have no doubt that we'd have won the case, but now that it appears they've gotten away with something so incredibly flawed - Roberts' work - she is even more emboldened than before. But even though we didn't get to demonstrate it in court, she is still an environmentalist fraud, something we argued beautifully throughout all of our public comments.
Is Hudson better off if she gets kicked upstairs in another Assembly district? As a die-hard conservationist and a lifetime resident of New York state, I say definitely not.