Today, Assembymember Didi Barrett endorsed Margaret Morris, who is running for First Ward alderman as a write-in candidate.
The voters of Hudson's First Ward have a real opportunity to choose a fresh voice and an independent thinker to represent them on the Common Council this election. Margaret Morris's commitment to accountability, transparency and collaboration, and her well-researched approach to the issues facing the City of Hudson will be a tremendous asset to the Common Council. I encourage voters to support her write-in campaign! --Didi Barrett
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Margaret is a thoughtful person in my experience. She's a rational, critical thinker. Having the 1W represented by someone like that will be a nice change from a proto-communist such as Ms. Wolff, whose understanding of municipal finance and law as well as macro economics are historically ill-informed. I can only imagine that her endorsees similarly lack the ability to represent the ward in a meaningful and positive way -- thus their appeal to Ms. Wolff's apparent desire to destroy a thriving local economy.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
DeleteI'd love to hear more of your thoughts on where the current administration has gone wrong. Please feel free to reach out to me via Facebook and/or email. While I'm sure we don't hold the same ideals or values, I think it's critical as an elected official to have a clear and accurate representation issues from all both sides.
Art,
DeleteIt's very hard (well, maybe not) to tell what ideas or values you hold dear. Your social media is full of copy and pastes from the mayor without comment, and your reaction to the IDA's vote to give a robber baron a generous tax handout to be subsidized by the rest of Hudson was "Huge!', which frankly does not speak in your favor.
Even to the above comment, you respond with some dismissive hokum in an effort to move the conversation out of public view so you don't have to take an actual position in public that might be contrary to the wishes of the community you hope to represent.
It is one of life's surest lessons that when someone's words don't align with their actions, their words are useless, and you've given no indication you are prepared to take a Council seat or engaged enough in the Hudson community to learn the job.
“Favor” is relative.
DeleteNo, Mr. Frick, "favor" is not relative when it comes to a rational and working understanding of municipal law in NYS, including muni finance, and progressive taxation. The project you tout is a monumental step backwards in this city. It is of a piece with a time when the city became essentially a cash cow for absentee landlords who moved to nearby towns and villages and allowed Hudson to become a poster child for what's wrong with these types of urban renewal projects. You cannot engage in a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, which simultaneously guts the hopes of the working poor, and believe that a city of 2 square miles can sustain itself on its meager and, thanks to such brainless boosterism as yours, shrinking tax base.
DeleteI couple the above analysis of your positions viz. the topics raised with the fact that your social media posts give credence to the supposition that you find the current mayor's efforts in his office to be laudable. Holding such a position is your prerogative, of course, but it belies any sense that you understand what political leadership -- especially in a time of fiscal uncertainty -- might look like.
As for whether our values might align or not, I've no idea what you stand for except welfare for the richest. I, however, stand for working people and their families. I don't understand why giving middle class tax dollars to the wealthiest landowner in the city is "progressive," "woke" or anything else except disingenuous, dangerous and repulsive. But you stand for what you stand for, Mr. Frick. Let the voters get a good hard look.
Beware of a Wolff in sheep’s clothing.
Deletethank you John, the voice of reason and truth.
DeleteJohn
ReplyDeletethank you for your support. I am committed to working on making Hudson a thriving community that will benefit all of us who live here.
Margaret