tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909246571366789334.post354922048285823934..comments2024-02-14T16:54:15.327-05:00Comments on PLAINFIELD TODAY: Will Council override Mayor's vetoes tonight?Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07867186465663386310noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909246571366789334.post-54865978461775295822010-09-13T11:56:58.307-04:002010-09-13T11:56:58.307-04:00You're talking about the Plainfield City Counc...You're talking about the Plainfield City Council? The same Council that's in bed with the Administration on the illegal contracting for job-training with The Incubator? The same Council that avoids dues diligence and accepts a sham bidding process, with an RFQ guaranteed to deter any legitimate training provider from applying? That City Council? The same one that would rather not use CSBG funds as intended to alleviate the conditions of poverty, instead turning them into a windfall profit for a former City Councilman and his family? That same City Council which sits on its hands and utters not a peep despite clear legal statutes that make the contract a violation of Federal and State law? <br /><br />Transparency and fiscal oversight; I have to laugh. Oh, I'm sorry, they didn't sit on their hands. They raised them high and voted 7-0to engage in this fraud against Plainfield's neediest and all U.S. taxpayers. Could this be the same City Council?<br /><br />And Dan Damon, you've been aware of this for some time. Like the City Council, you've gotten the links to the laws, but mum's been the word. With your partisanship, if you can't make political hay it just ain't important. Our city government is a festering sore of political maneuvering, city residents be damned.Alan Goldsteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909246571366789334.post-58674546956352505462010-09-13T11:10:52.930-04:002010-09-13T11:10:52.930-04:00I love the apologists for the mayor who want us to...I love the apologists for the mayor who want us to give her a break based on the supposed positive things she's doing for the town even if her methods are not to the council's liking. There's nothing positive about always being in the newspapers because of questionable financial dealings. Even if (a very big if) the expenditures named in this post turn out to be defensible, why can't the mayor simply come clean about them. Disclose everything and be done with it instead of stonewalling month after month.<br /><br />A commentator on McWilliam's blog suggested that a vote for override was equivalent to supporting Bush and the non-existent WMDs. Huh? How about we say instead that her stonewalling is positively Nixonian, and we all know how that turned out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909246571366789334.post-46309249580143748732010-09-13T10:33:11.283-04:002010-09-13T10:33:11.283-04:00If anyone on the City Council does not over ride t...If anyone on the City Council does not over ride the mayor's veto, then they need to be replaced. The citizens of Plainfield are tired of the mayor's excuses for not hiring a CFO and we believe she is doing unethical things with our money. Plainfield's treasury is not her or Jerry's personal piggy bank. <br /><br />I encourage the City Council to have the courage and ethical standards to over ride the mayor's veto.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02322180868990260305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1909246571366789334.post-72163702849092659922010-09-13T10:25:13.259-04:002010-09-13T10:25:13.259-04:00Storch, McWilliams & Mapp- vote in favor of th...Storch, McWilliams & Mapp- vote in favor of the public<br />Burney - again, still who knows..<br />Reid, Rivers and Carter: STONEWALL or blatant pathetic excuse why they didn't make it..showing they care about the Mayor and the shred of a decent reputation she has left with the uninformed or unintelligent ... NOT THE PUBLIC they were elected to represent. <br />Love to see them prove me wrong...Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347593167569748403noreply@blogger.com