Ryan Is On the Road Again
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- May
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Gee, all I did was ask a simple question about the latest cog added to the Boss Ryan machine over there at the Board of Legislators (see previous posting) and a commotion breaks out. Hey-oh! They’re circling the wagons on the eighth floor.
I’m hearing that tempers flew over exactly what newly-minted legislative aide Chris Stewart’s role will be and how it will be presented to the public.
I originally put the question yesterday to Betsy DeSoye, Boss Ryan’s communications director, but didn’t get a response. At the end of the day, I queried DeSoye again, and then got a confirmation about Stewart’s hiring from Gary Kriss, Ryan’s chief adviser.
Thinking there’s more here than meets the eye, I e-mailed more questions to Kriss today, but I haven’t heard back from him yet.
Meanwhile, Boss Ryan is on another out-of-town conference. That’s right. That makes three for the year so far.
He’s in Minneapolis for a two-day meeting of the National Association of Counties’ 13 member Hospital Task. He will be back tomorrow night.
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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.
“communications director,” “chief adviser,” and on and on. No wonder he wants more $. He suddenly realized that there are all kinds of people on his payroll wandering around who make more than he does. I think he said on your program that he was thinking of taking Kriss’s job. That would be something like $160,000 plus $89,000, plus…the $38,000 Buick, plus Kriss’s car, plus…
Here’s an idea—how about abolishing county government?
It’s just another layer of government that adds nothing, and duplicates services.
I was reading an article that said New York is one of the states with the most layers of government. Some people live under 4 layers of government—state, county, town and village. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it is also the state with one of the highest property taxes.