Hamlin GOP Produces Candidates

Jumbo, the GOP mascot, dispenses Hamlin's future

HAMLIN GOP MAKES BIG DECISION

On Tuesday, the Hamlin Republican Committee produced a slate of candidates for local office in 2005. With its usual regard for the future of the community, the constipated clique that controls and terrorizes the organization directed the other members to “support the nominees or quit the committee.”

The candidates are all hand-picked Austin Warner supporters. They were selected by secret ballot with no vote count given. The ballots were immediately BURNED! Destroyed before anyone could verify them.

Said one disgruntled member, “That core group demonstrated their contempt for the committee, for the democratic process and for the future of Hamlin. They dumped on everybody.”
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I Scheme!

Austin Warner certainly does! Who knows the truth about what his plans really are? Most people agree that the reasons he gave for leaving office are phoney. Many residents now believe that Warner, Pat MacIntosh, Jim Breslawski and Big Nelly Nesbitt have hatched a lame-brain plot that will re-install Warner in the Supervisor's seat, immediately after a settlement with Larry Gursslin is reached!

Here's the scheme: MacIntosh gets elected Supervisor; She appoints Warner Deputy Supervisor; She settles the lawsuit which includes signing written apology to Gursslin; She then decides that she doesn't want to be Supervisor anymore and resigns, naming Warner interim Supervisor!

What a plan! Warner gets out of the humiliation of apologizing to Gursslin (he'd rather drink poison) then gets the Supervisor's job back! He has told people that if MacIntosh doesn't get the Republican nomination, "I will primary." Get it? He didn't say, "Pat will primary." He said, "I will primary!"

There are a few problems of course. To keep the Supervisor's job he will have to be voted in by the town board. They might not be too hapy about the shenanigans however! This is the problem for Town Board- who ELSE are they going to pick??!!

Slippery Slope or Rocky Road I scheme any one?

Over Easy

Stick a fork in. Jim Breslawski’s self serving career as Chairman of the Hamlin Planning Board has finally come to an end. Supervisor Warner’s threat to pass a local law, which would permit any person living in New York State to serve on the PB, collapsed last night. The Hamlin Town Board held an illegal Executive Session at which Warner sought support to reinstall Breslawski. Under NYS law, local government is not permitted to discuss this public issue in secret. Despite that, and ignoring their individual personal obligations to the public and the law, all our Town Board members, and the Town Clerk, willingly violated the rules. The Breslawski matter is far from private, but Warner demanded to know if he had TB support. To avoid his own personal public embarrassment he sought a straw-poll in secret, the TB agreed to give it to him.

He didn’t like the results. Warner discovered he had NO SUPPORT for a local law elevating Breslawski above everyone else. To their credit, no Town Board member would accept opening our support boards to membership by people who live outside Hamlin. It’s just too bad they had to do it behind closed doors.

Maybe when Warner is gone, and the culture of fear and intimidation evaporates from the Town Hall, the public will have their right to open government restored.

Warner Woman poses for campaign pic

Warner Woman to run for Supervisor!

Hamlin Supervisor, Butchman Warner, has announced his retirement from public office- but he ain't done yet! While he goes away for a term he has hand picked his successor, none other then his Super-Secretary Pat MacIntosh!

The Warner-MacIntosh team has been around for several years. Blog readers may remember that evil scientist Doctor Minarik once cloned both Warner and MacIntosh to create Super-Supervisor, a he/she being which was able to both bully people and do math! Unfortunately for Hamlin the experiment failed and the cloned creature first blew up to gigantic proportions then exploded in a monsterious rage against some imaginary threat.

"We buried the remains down in Stink Pond," recalled Highway Boss Tom Ingraham at the time.

Feelings were mixed about this new Warner concoction.

"Ah baloney!" commented town resident Marty Gattenhousenn of Apple Hollow. "Warner is just doing this so he can get out of apologizing to Larry Gursslin."

Steve Gruppenfuerer of Bark Tree Road added, "Warner is gonna spend the next two years cryin about how overworked MacIntosh is. He's gonna lobby to have the Supervisor position made full time and full pay. Then watch, he'll run again and try to take the job back! Good freakin' luck!"

In addition to MacIntosh, there are three others seeking the Republican nomination, Mike Marchetti, Denny Roach and Councilwoman Shirley Hollink.

Mike Marchetti commented, "That's good. It's about time we had an Irish candidate. The Germans have been running things for too damn long!"

Roach, a retired sea captain said, "Harrr! 'Taint no good place for a lady!"

Hollink, hoping to capitalize on the "comfort vote" from the profoundly confused Hamlin Republican Committee said, " I don't really care. She hates the library as much as I do. I'll kick her ass anyway."

Highway worker, and Committee member, Larry Tarzinsky commented, "I think it's all a sandbag. She ain't running for office, she's just runnin' Warner's secret campaign. She'll turn all her votes over to him on nominating night, just watch. Oh, please don't use my name. Warner will accuse me of being a Democrat, again."

Local Republican tries to find path to the truth.

Is Warner Sandbagging?

Austin Warner’s minions have been scurrying around town pitching Hamlin’s need for a “full-time Supervisor.” Is it possible that Warner was only playing the drama-queen when he announced his retirement to theHamlin Republican Committee? Probably. Since then, all the usual suspects ( Nesbitt, Breslawski, Baas, Martin) have been out shilling the pitch, in all the usual locations (Kaiser’s, the VFW, Lions, etc.) ad nauseam. Hamlinites long ago deduced that they were hearing a pre-fab speech when a Warner mouthpiece would regurgitate the exact story, over and over, to every hapless victim they could trap. That is the essence of “old time politics” in Hamlin.

Beyond these carping Harpies, there was the sham “extension of time” to submit names for nomination. At the meeting, Warner flunky Jim Nesbitt “just happened to have” the committee’s by-laws. Moses-like, “Big Nelly” declared the right to extend the deadline. After some hemming and hawing, but little debate, the HRC voted for the extension.

Local pol watchers fingered this as a tactic to buy time so the GOOBERS (Good Ole Boys) might persuade Dave Rose to toss his tired old hat into the ring. The ol’ timers fear both Mike Marchetti and Denny Roach. Marchetti is “too young,” and Roach is an “outsider. Translation: We can’t control Marchetti, and we don’t know if Roach will obey. Like an old dog looking for a dark place to die, the GOOBERS sought out the familiar, the comfortable: “Let’s ask Davey!”

But this was all just bait and switch. It was never about Rose. It’s about Warner’s last desperate maneuver to keep his seat, and maybe, pocket a few extra bucks. Too bad for Butch that the plan hinges on a commodity that’s in short supply in the Town Hall- sympathy. Warner’s pitiable gamble began when he announced to the HRC that “nobody had bothered to ask” if he wanted to run again. This silly Shirley-Temple act backfired when George Todd leaned forward in his chair and boomed, “Bullshit!” Todd told the throng that Warner had been asked and had refused to commit. Butch played the pity card and went bust.

That launched the PR campaign. First Warner wept to the local papers, “The job don’t pay!” He complained, “I’m putting in 25 to 30 hours a week and I’m only making $21 thou!” Whaaaa??? Good Lord! 30 full hours? Wow, how does he ever survive? Natch, he left out the approximately 8 Grand he gets in benefits! Butch whines he’s overworked and underpaid.

His solution? Quit! Warner thinks we’re dumb enough to buy the notion that, “No dollars beats low dollars.”

Next his crew of carnival barkers hit the streets. “Oh, Hamlin really needs a full time Supervisor!” they ladled. But nobody wanted a taste. The public replied, “Yeah? For what ?” “We’re gonnna double Warner’s salary so he can work 40 hours?” And, “What’s he do now? Nothin’! More dough for more of nothin’. No thanks!” And, "There are a lot of people who think 30 thousand bucks for 30 hours a week ain't too bad. What's he think he's worth?!"

And it still doesn't solve his problem with the Gursslin settlement!

Butchy’s learnin’ that you don’t get much sympathy when you lead with both palms up!