It's Mostly Theatre!

I have to admit it.  I love reading the Cape Vincent blog JLL.  That place is a gold mine for inconsistency and hypocrisy at times, not just by Wiley but by his commenters as well .  To be fair sometimes he has good stuff too. 

But this morning he cracked me up with his opinion about who should be appointed to the town board position left open by Mickey Orvis.  Just a side note here. I think whomever they appoint, that new board member should have  to demonstrate that they know how to “CALL THE COPS”!!!

JLL is stating this on his blog about a new TB appointment:

“Certainly, it would be a wise political gesture for the four Cape Vincent Town Board Republicans to replace a Democrat with a Democrat. However, any Cape Vincent Democrat with family or business ties to big industrial wind should be disqualified from appointment by the duly elected town board.  

The conflict of interest issue is still alive, must be avoided. Any appointed town board member who brings an industrial wind conflict into the position would be suspect and not taken seriously by the majority of Cape Vincent voters who booted out wind lease holders and put the Republicans on the town board.”

REALLY!!!  JLL  is kidding right?  Please tell me he is kidding!!!

First, it is not a disqualifier by actual  law to have a conflict of interest.  However, it must be disclosed and recusal should take place when the conflict comes into play.  Apparently Wiley has his own set of laws and does not have a grip on the actual laws on this matter.

Second he states the conflict issue is still alive.  I guess he would know, since it is still alive in part because his favorite town board re-appointed Karen Bourcy with a blatant conflict, a conflict  that has nearly destroyed our town and Rochne Burns who we still don’t know if he has a lease as he once had with Acciona.

So by Wiley’s own standards, hypocritical as they are, neither of these town board appointments to the planning board mentioned above should be in the positions his favorite “duly elected” Republican town board appointed them to, and neither can be taken seriously. Ok sounds good to me Rick, why don’t you march right over to our town board and explain that to them!

How about we get away from this partisan crap and appoint somebody to the TB that has a brain capable of working on its own without being intravenously  fed the typical partisan Republican Kool Aid!

And by the way, despite all the blog hoopla, at least on the wind issue it doesn’t matter who is appointed Rep. or Dem. or monkey.  The position is essentially powerless with a four vote Hirschey super majority in place already.

This appointment is  more a matter of being good theatre than anything else when it comes to the wind related matters at this point.  Wiley is good at theatre.  The comp plan is a lock, and the zoning is a lock as well and just as I predicted not much was going to change despite comment periods and public hearings.  The essence of that zoning law at least on wind was a lock long long before this new board ever took office. The setback, compromise, push em back idea has been tattooed on the WPEG brain since the day it was formed in 2006. Not much is going to change that.

Then there is this comment from a  JLL anonymous blog sheep. It’s absolutely precious!!!

“I go to Art's blog once a week. The guy is a train wreck. A JLL and Pandora stalker. Real creepy.”

Yet you keep coming here to read it just the same!!!  Thanks!

But this is an interesting distorted asinine twist on the democratic process.  This person is implying that because I read the other blogs and then comment or disagree on my own that somehow this equates to “stalking” the other blogs.

Well first of all dingbat what do you think the other CV  blogs do?  Often they take material they read in other places, like a newspaper or magazine, or even another blog, or a meeting and then they comment on it on their own blog, which is absolutely no different than what I do on my blog.  In case you  haven’t noticed blogs are an open public forum of information that is not sacred or protected from somebody else’s opinion.

And here is the very precious part of this person’s comment about me.  They sit on Wiley’s blog, take drive by anonymous shots at me and other people, and don’t have the balls to put their name on it.  They have to use the cover of anonymous to “stalk” around anonymously, yet call me a stalker when I am openly using my name and the open forum of blogging and information to express my opinion

People like this are dangerous.  The only train wreck here pal is your very own logic!!!  I will give you advice I once saw on a bumper sticker!

Use clutch before engaging the brain!!!