According to sources in Cape Vincent, CV Councilman John Byrne has been appointed Dep. Supervisor by Urban Hirschey, who apparently is out of town traveling. Must have been done electronically or by phone.
The deputy position is an appointed position with no vote by the town board. It is at the discretion of the supervisor.
This is a rather stunning reversal of events since Hirschey appointed Councilman Marty Mason as deputy at the last town board meeting. The appointment is apparently temporary until Councilman Bragdon who is ill can return to the deputy position.
Makes you wonder what hell is going on in CV politics, since Hirschey had appointed one of the most controversial pro wind people (M. Mason) to the deputy position. This would seem very contrary to why voters, including seasonal voters put Hirschey in power in the first place.
I have no information as to what prompted Hirschey to drop Mason and replace him with Byrne, although I am guessing this will end in some political fireworks.
STOP, The regional wind energy industrialization of one of New York State's most beautiful and environmentally sensitive areas, the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence River and the Golden Crescent of Eastern Lake Ontario. If you don't think you are seeing the most recent posts click on the current month in the archives to the right.
Maybe this will anger Mason, and he will resign. THAT would be good for the Cape.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't count on it. It's more likely the Dems will find anything they can to attack Hirschey and Byrne and this appointment.
ReplyDeleteI would rather have Bryne as temporary supervisor but, Hirschey made a big blunder when he first picked Mason then dropped him for Byrne.
Maybe Hirschey made this move on purpose to draw attention to Mason and emphasize how undesirable he is. Ya know -hold him up in the public light , then squash him while everyone's watching. Probably not the smoothest move he ever made! Should do a lot to "heal" the open sore of community relations. Even still, at least he corrected a major blunder of giving Mason temporary importance.
ReplyDeleteHUGE BLUNDER!!!!! I would bet the attacks have already started. The craziness continues and continues to damage the Cape.
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ReplyDeleteNot sure I would agree with that theory. I think there were other issues in the background involved in Mason appointment. blunder.
Whatever the motivation, the way Urban handled this has managed to incite and enrage at least half the town.
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ReplyDeleteYes I would say that is basically accurate. However, you must keep in mind 1/2 the town was already enraged and will be for a long time anyhow. The is the disaster the wind developers left behind, and just walked away.
And what I think is sad is that pro wind doesn't see that they got hung out to dry by BP when BP's bottom line was threatened and they pulled up stakes and ran away leaving the community holding the bag and to try to clean up the social mess left behind.
As a community EVERYONE was damaged by nearly a decade of the CV wind disaster.
I would say Urban threw gas on that fire, and that was unfortunate.
Wasn't it Mason and Oswald before she left office that recommended planting a tree in the village green to represent "healing"?
I heard that tree got run over by a village DPW truck !! Accident??
ReplyDelete8:12 Your kidding????
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