The Babbits Are Coming! The Babbits Are Coming!
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- February
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Officials from county governments all over the country are descending on Washington, D.C. for a National Association of Counties confab. What a convention! An army of Babbits in plaid pants and white, tassled loafers. Imagine the hijinks at the hospitality suite.
None other than our own Bill “Boss” Ryan, the chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators is rushing down there to participate in the fun, according to a press release that came over the electronic transom today.
The press release says, “The organization advances issues with a unified voice before the federal government, improves the public’s understanding of county government, assists counties in finding and sharing innovative solutions through education and research, and provides value-added services to save counties and taxpayers money.”
Yes, that’s right. A better understanding of county government. Saving taxpayers money. Value-added services and stuff. That’s what we’re talkin’ about.
The betting here is that The Boss will be in charge of the midnight conga line after he gives a seminar on how to push pay raises past an uncooperative electorate.
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on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 7:18 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
“The organization…improves the public’s understanding of county government?” Maybe by being forthcoming and less furtive to the public’s right to know, the public’s understanding would improve. These pols would prefer that the public know nothing except what is promulgated by their taxpayer funded press releases and just shut up and pay. Thanks to Reisman and a very few others, we get an understanding of the “workings” of county government. Taxpayer funded cocktails and fancy hotel rooms in Washington do little to help ME understand county government, especially when I’m not invited.