Comments on: Village of Buchanan Where Patronage Lives http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/2009/05/05/village-of-buchanan-where-patronage-reins/ More from columnist Phil Reisman Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peggy Lynch http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/2009/05/05/village-of-buchanan-where-patronage-reins/comment-page-1/#comment-3677 Peggy Lynch Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:06 +0000 http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/?p=844#comment-3677 What is even more amazing is that this is the second time that this man has shown how ignorant he is of the rules that apply to favoritisim. A few years back when he was last Mayor he hired his son to a job that now pays in excess of $100,00 per year plus benefits. Now again, at the next meeting, the Deputy Mayor's son is being "given" a job as Asst Camp Dir. over a person who had that job last year was given a good job performance and who was not even interviewed for the position again this year. Will Gail Richard vote for him????? What is even more amazing is that this is the second time that this man has shown how ignorant he is of the rules that apply to favoritisim. A few years back when he was last Mayor he hired his son to a job that now pays in excess of $100,00 per year plus benefits. Now again, at the next meeting, the Deputy Mayor’s son is being “given” a job as Asst Camp Dir. over a person who had that job last year was given a good job performance and who was not even interviewed for the position again this year. Will Gail Richard vote for him?????

]]> By: reader http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/2009/05/05/village-of-buchanan-where-patronage-reins/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 reader Wed, 06 May 2009 21:51:54 +0000 http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/?p=844#comment-3675 Surprised? A local PHA hired (read that as political appointment)an unqualified Exec Director at six figure. After running the PHA into the financial hole, the Exec Dir retired to Fla. No worries, the show continued. He was rehired (w/out HUD waiver)to be Exec Dir from Fla,....flying him back and forth several times a month. Money flowed between the PHA and its "not for profit" w/out any semblance of adherence to law or regulation. This Exec Dir and Co. continued to ride that gravy train and there's no accounting. This sort of nepotism, "political appointments" etc goes on all the time. It will continue because there is no accounting. The worst that happens is that sometimes the gravy train stops. Surprised? A local PHA hired (read that as political appointment)an unqualified Exec Director at six figure. After running the PHA into the financial hole, the Exec Dir retired to Fla. No worries, the show continued. He was rehired (w/out HUD waiver)to be Exec Dir from Fla,....flying him back and forth several times a month. Money flowed between the PHA and its “not for profit” w/out any semblance of adherence to law or regulation. This Exec Dir and Co. continued to ride that gravy train and there’s no accounting.

This sort of nepotism, “political appointments” etc goes on all the time. It will continue because there is no accounting. The worst that happens is that sometimes the gravy train stops.

]]> By: ed1 http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/2009/05/05/village-of-buchanan-where-patronage-reins/comment-page-1/#comment-3674 ed1 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:47:38 +0000 http://reisman.lohudblogs.com/?p=844#comment-3674 Politicians have become so brazen in their disdain for the public that they do whatever they want to do. We rarely hold them to account. Witness the congressman from Louisiana who was watched, taped, and found to have 100M in marked bills in his refrigerator. Nothing was done to him by his fellow congressmen, and in fact, they criticized the FBI, who they said had no right to search his office. The fact that the people let them get away with it, like some evil priests who know the worst thing that will happen to them when caught, is to be transferred to another church, makes these obscenities never-ending. Politicians have become so brazen in their disdain for the public that they do whatever they want to do. We rarely hold them to account. Witness the congressman from Louisiana who was watched, taped, and found to have 100M in marked bills in his refrigerator. Nothing was done to him by his fellow congressmen, and in fact, they criticized the FBI, who they said had no right to search his office. The fact that the people let them get away with it, like some evil priests who know the worst thing that will happen to them when caught, is to be transferred to another church, makes these obscenities never-ending.

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