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| Corruption, Typical For NYSCOBA |
Corruption and criminal acts by the union have riddled NYSCOBA's past. This is the type of power that corrupts the leaders and in their eyes puts them above the law. Council 82 represented the correctional officers in the past and they were also riddled with corruption.
Mr. Leo, legislative director claims he feared for his job. Doing the right thing might have been going back to his state job; he decided to side with Shanagher, executive vice president and should be held culpable for his actions.
The losers in all this will be the correctional officers. This is a reflection on them and their elected leaders. There are reasons the leaders are not re-elected in NYSCOBA, the most obvious are the pending criminal charges?
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14 comments:
This story is a prime example of why people have little regard for NYSCOPBA and the prison guards it represents .
IF this story is factual and represents the truth it reeks of the kind of UNION corruption that should be rooted out and punished to the full extent .
This shameful behavior is an outrage and merits a full investigation by authorities.
The guards if they are ethical should lead the charge to clean up NYSCOBPA's ACT, root out and punish any wrongdoing , OTHERWISE FACE CONTINUED LACK OF RESPECT by thinking people.
Yet another reason for NYS to GET OUT of the business and privatize the Prisons
Prison hacks get paid good and get good bennies. Their union has gotten them all of this through its corruption. Prisons in NYS would be privatized except for legislation that Pataki and the unions pushed years ago making it next to impossible to do this.
On the local level Powers has been implicated as a person who knew what was going on and the person that made it possible for this misconduct and the money involved to pass over to Ritchies campaign against Aubertine.. Aubertine went against his better judgement and saved the prison two years ago but Powers and the local GoP undermined him during the election...
Anon 7:46 should start with a little truth when telling a story. Aubertine was 100% behind the prison, just ask the committee and the chair Chuck Kelly. Aubertine was the deciding factor in the prison staying open, Addie added a little rah rah.
As for Powers he was not high enough on the food chain to move money or fix a vote.
According to 7:46 all benefits were obtained through corruption, a little farfetched. If so they would have bennies like our school district has.
I have to agree with poly on this, maybe the first time. Some of the statements are down right stories with no fact or truth to them.
The Union is corrupt, their actions speak for themselves. The fact that little to nothing has been done to correct it speaks loudly and clearly that REFORM is needed .
Pataki and the Republicans are HISTORY .
IMO ,Powers in the larger order of life is small potatoes and in the WRONG party to have any real impact.
If the Governor is serious about REFORM he should root out the corruption begin to get rid of the Pataki era dealings and Privatize the entire operation . Cut the state payroll save the taxpayers some major cost and solve this whole shameful situation .
Let the Private sector run it cheaper and more effectively and without union chicanery.
Poly.. The truth... You blogged on the mayors site while that was going on and said Aubertine had nothing to do with the prisons.. Your exact words were he had fallen asleep and voted for a budget that encluded prison closures.. Your insinusation was he and Addie had very little to do with helping it was all Nelson and Ritchie.. You Vaught and Powers hammered Aubertine for months on exactly this and all of you kept the pressure on Addie in the same manner.. The problem with ddie is people had no choice. Forsythe is one of the mos unlikeable people going... Truth is what I said... Ritchie got the benefit from the corruption even if she wasnt involved an Powers new about it ahead of time.. Those are facts and truth now tell some of your own,.
I never gave Addie, or Vaugh credit for the prison she had no say, one of 115 other democrats in the assembly. Aubertine on the other had much to say about the closure(32 -30). I did slam him on paying cronies to campaign for him, then paid Albany cronies to picket at GOP rally, also dropping millions in pork 4 weeks before election, and receiving money from NYC dems. He also voted down micro-stamping which I agreed with, unlike Addie baby.
I did give Ritchie credit for the petitions that Darrel never brought to Albany. They were still in Chucks office or misplaced.
Darrel forgot his roots and thought he could buy that election. Well the dems ended up 2 million in debt after that election cycle.
BaCK TO THE STORY NYSCOPBA CORRUPTION.
TAXPAYERS ARE GETTING SCREWED ROYALLY BY THE COST OF PRISON SYSTEM AND THIS UNION FEATHERBEDDING.
eNOUGH ----------- GET RID OF THIS OPERATION NOW AND PRIVATIZE.
APPArently not the first instance of chicanery so the guards HAD AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN UP THEIR HOUSE IN THE PAST
The guards as you call them dont want their house cleaned up. Their mentality on this local level is we live good up here.. We make good wages have good bennies.. Dont need only the brains to get to work and stay their eight hours and go home.. They look at private sector jobs and see people with responsibility and haveing towork for their living.. Why would they want their house cleaned up.. Its up to us to clean it up by discouraging these prisons coming here and or staying here.. Privatize where possible.. This Governor has given us a unique chance to clean up our city and we have to act withing the next year or two....
PS Poly.. Your GOP blood showed during the election process.. You crowed when Ritchie won but when addie came through yu disappeared The petitions you talked about are the ones Ritchie tried to blame Kelly for losing.. Darrell never recieved them from Kelly.. Kelly never got them from Ritchie.. She lied about them. It was another cheap posture for the Republicans locally... Comman guy admit it you bleed GOP and its a herd pill to swallow when the corruption of the GOP comes out so close to home.....
Poly waNT A CRACKER aaaaaaaaaaaAAAWK....
Poly's been muzzled - Squawk , AAAwwwkkk,no cracker :>))
Poly whoever he/she is only wants to rave Republican.. It wouldnt suprise me that Poly is part of the Republican committee in SLC and probably a man... Someone told me it was Nick Vaugh but I dont believe it as some of Polys statements show intelligence......
I was at the Rally and did see the petitions in Senator Ritchie's hands. Chuck was aware of the petitions and to say they did not exist is just misinformation. I sent a photo of Ritchie holding the petitions at the Rally to Oburg. I hope the author will post it on his/her blog to clarify this point.
Prisons are a necessity and certain people have to be separated from society. I agree we need to cut prisons and the Governor did that, lucky for this community our facilities were spared. If down the road another cut is necessary then so be it. I try to justify, in my mind, why anyone would be willing to give up jobs in a community. Every job must be spared, if possible! Those that cry for private sector jobs have seen the success of that over the years, zero to none. The infrastructure necessary to support business expansion is not in place in NNY. We need to build on the jobs we have, not give them away in hope that private jobs find their way to NNY.
Most that blog on here appear to have a personal problem with the guards at the prisons. They stereotype and group them all in a bad light as they have done with all state employees. I have some very good friends that work hard as State employees and I am sure most people in this community do. I have worked for many organizations and bad employees exist in all walks of employment (private and public).
Public employees have not helped their cause and every example of a bad state employee is plastered in the media. If one bank teller steals, does not mean they all steal?
The private sector will never get statrted if we OVERCOMMIT to non productive overhead as we in the Burg have done . The prisons still need to be cut and privatized there is no future for the Private sector until we face the reality that STATE jobs are NOT the answer to balanced financial stability in this region .
Poly nice try, but the NYSCOPBA playbook response does not reflect the best interests of ALL taxpaying citizens. ONLY those on the GRAVY train who have feather- bedded the job into an overly costly babysitting clamour for it.
Privatize Prisons NOW ! CUT our taxes !
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