In his article about the county executive petitions yesterday, Roger Hannigan Gilson reported: "Signatures thrown out include two Democratic Hudson Common Council members. . . ." Needless to say, I was curious to know who those two councilmembers were, so I contacted someone who is part of the Columbia County Forward initiative and asked.
The signature of Fourth Ward councilmember Rich "Trixie" Volo was rejected, and an entire petition with thirteen signatures witnessed by Third Ward councilmember Shershah Mizan was thrown out. Needless to say, Volo and Mizan are both Democrats. Also rejected was the signature of Peter Frank, founder and president of Friends of Hudson Youth. My source also told me that "probably three to four dozen or more" signatures from Hudson residents were thrown out because they wrote their address giving only the house number and the street name but omitting the word Street, for example, "11 Warren."
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If someone were to have given as much scrutiny to city petitions for council members, no one would have been on any ballot in the past twenty years. This is obscene and only paints a pathetic picture of our so-called leaders at the county level, particularly Murell. One wonders how Linda Mussman or any of our local reps feel about this nonsense. Ugly partisan Trump MAGA nonsense, right here in CoCo. Goodbye DEMOCARACY, TRANSPARENCY and DECENCY, it's been nice to know ya!
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