Close Your Eyes and Imagine!

Close your eyes and imagine a minute that it is 2008 or 2009, and you are in either a town board meeting, or a planning board meeting and either Tom Rienbeck and our former town board, or Rich Edsall and our former planning board and either one made this statement:

"We are now going into exec. session.  I am going to make a motion that we go to executive session.
The purpose of the executive session is to discuss negotiations of, with (or about) the wind farm(s) and that will be  a necessity of confidential information"

In 2008 or 2009 the wind opposition and the Cape Vincent blogs would have stroked out over that comment and the fact these boards went into exec. session on this subject matter as stated. Guaranteed!!!

In fact we were stroking out over what was being said in OPEN meetings by these boards, not to mention if they gave this reason to go to exec. session.

But when our current town supervisor says this statement to his board as he did verified on video, especially after this board was elected as an anti wind board according to many, and on open and transparent govt, ethics, and repeatedly saying our law is the final statement and they will NOT negotiate with BP... and NO ONE bats an eye, especially other board members!!!

How times change.