SHEEHAN PANS
CITY BUDGET ?

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Sheehan-pans-proposed-city-budget-4874267.php 

Mayor Jennings deserves praise
not scorn for his 2014 City Budget
proposal which cuts expenses and
spending,  no property tax increase
for homeowners, no lay offs of City
workers and 8 million dollars in
the bank.

Sheehan says it is a "terrible budget"
but offers no constructive alternative.


Computerizing employee time sheets
is a job for a time keeper, not a Mayor.

Albany voters deserve to know what
a Sheehan budget would look like
before  the November 5 election.

Sheehan left open the option that
if elected, she would go before 
Governor Cuomo's  Financial
Restructuring Board.

To do so would essentially make
the City of Albany a ward of the
state and throw public employee
unions under the bus regarding
binding arbitration.

The next Mayor of Albany has
to be a leader who will not sell
out city residents and public
employees to a panel controlled
by the Governor.

Dan O' Connell would never 
have done so. Nor will
Joseph P Sullivan, as Mayor.

Mayor Jennings will be a welcome
and vital partner in a  Sullivan 
administration in City Hall.

As Mayor Emeritus, Jennings
will serve as liaison to the
Governor, State Legislature
and NY Congressional Delegation
to obtain the PILOTS due on
city lands occupied by the
State, including the Harriman
State Office Campus; and to
obtain relief from state and
federal unfunded mandates
that negatively impact the
City and city schools.


Mayor Jennings will serve
as liaison with the city schools
and State Education Department
with the aim of  consolidating
the city schools with the city
government, creating one
property tax roll to fund both
returning to a K-8 neighborhood
school system and making the Mayor
responsible/accountable for the
functioning and performance of
the city schools. In addition, Mayor
Emeritus Jennings will be charged
with developing an urban curriculum
that addresses the needs of city
students, including a meaningful
adult education program.

Mayor Emeritus Jennings will
preside at most public functions
and retain his weekly radio show
on Talk 1300. 

Sheehan can snipe at Jennings.
She can tout her boundaryless
management style, but in the
final analysis, Sheehan offers
no real solutions to the issues
vital to the survival of the City
of Albany and all who call
Albany home.

 Security/Public Safety, 
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness 
Education, Energy and property
tax relief are all addressed in
detail by yours truly.

Straight talk. No vague political
speak here!

Sullivan recognizes and values
the life time  of service of Jerry
Jennings to the  City and people
of Albany.

A vote for Sullivan. November 5
is a vote to keep Jerry Jennings
working for you

                          Joseph P Sullivan
  
                           For Albany Mayor
                           Conservative Row C
                           November 5

  http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com

PATRIOTS RALLY
FOR LIBERTY AND
TO SUPPORT OUR
CONSTITUTION

 Saturday, October 5, 2013
 1:30 -4 PM
West Capitol Park, Albany, NY

Register to vote today.

                            Joseph P Sullivan
   
                             For Albany Mayor
                             Conservative Row C
                             November 5


                                                 
 

EDUCATION (LEARNING)
KEY TO A BETTER LIFE
AND A BETTER ALBANY

Read:

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Campus-Notebook-Study-says-don-t-make-vanishing-4867421.php 

My post, this website:

CHANGE IS IN THE AIR   Sat., Sept 14, 2003

Education (learning) is the key to the
survival of the City of Albany and all
who call Albany home.

                                     Joseph P Sullivan

                                     For Albany mayor
                                     Conservative Row C
                                     November 5

TONKO  VOTES NO
FOR VETERANS

Congressman Paul Tonko voted NO
on HJ Resolution 72  a CR to fund
veteran's benefits through December
2013.

33 House Democrats voted  yes with
House Republicans. The vote was
264 yea to 164 nay(Democrats including
Tonko and others in the NY Delegation)

The Resolution failed because House
Rules require a 2/3 majority vote for
passage.

Here is the roll call vote:
 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h506

 How would Senators Schumer and
Gillibrand have voted?

President Obama is on record as
declaring he would veto the CR
if it reached his desk.

The irony of all this is that the CR
is by sense of the House also known
as H.J  "Honoring Our Promise to
America;s Veterans Act"

Tonko never served a day in the
military, Nor did Schumer, Gillibrand
or Obama.

Tonko has endorsed Kathy Sheehan
for Mayor of Albany.

No rebuke for Tonko forthcoming
from Kathy Sheehan.

Honoring Our Promise to American
Veterans means nothing to all of
the above Democrats.

How can Albany Democrats tow
the party line for those who put party
allegiance before America and the
patriot veterans who have
served America and all of us?

We have a VA Hospital in Albany
because of Dan O'Connell.

The Democratic Party of today
is not the Democratic Party of
Dan O'Connell.

Dan served in the U S Navy in
WW1.

                         Joseph P Sullivan

                         For Albany Mayor
                         Conservative Row C
                          November 5

                          US Navy  QM2

For Immediate Release  10/2/13

Contact: JPS 438 5230

          SULLIVAN OPPOSES

          LAND BANKS AND

          2013 HUD HOUSING

          REGULATION

Joseph P Sullivan Conservative candidate

(ROW C) for Albany Mayor in the November

5 General Election opposes Land Banks

and the 2013 HUD (federal) housing regs

"Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing".

Land Banks erode private property rights

and vest neighborhood revitalization efforts

in political appointees who are not accountable

to neighborhood residents. Fraud and

corruption can result.

The 2013 Federal Housing and Urban

Development agency (HUD) Affirmatively

Furthering Fair Housing Regulations will

override local zoning authority and destroy

the city property tax base.

Read:
  Robert Astorino: Washington's 'Fair Housing' Assault on Local Zoning - WSJ.com

  Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...-diversity-in/
 

The Section 8 Housing Program is a

major factor in the blight of one

neighborhood, after another, in the City

of Albany.

Section 8 is a major factor in erosion

of the city property tax base.

Get the Federal government  out of

education, housing, zoning and land

use decision making. These are local

and state prerogatives to be addressed

by local public officials elected by , and

accountable to, local residents.

Kathy Sheehan  the Democratic-Working

Families Party candidate advocates

a Land Bank and will support the HUD

Regulations.

The most pressing neighborhood needs

in the City of Albany are:

1. Security and public safety

2. Strict enforcement of city speed

    limits in residential neighborhoods

    and cracking down on running

    red lights and stop signs.

3. Reduction and elimination of

    road salt dumping on city

    streets.

4. Improved snow plowing, snow

    removal in residential neighborhoods.

For more Sullivan positions on issues

vital to the survival of the City and all

who call Albany home, go to:

http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/

.

                       Joseph P Sullivan

                       For Albany Mayor

                       Conservative Row C

                       November 5

IDEOLOGICAL CRUSADE?

President Obama complains that
opponents of Obamacare are waging
an "ideological crusade" against
his unaffordable care act.

Interesting choice of words by Obama
who supported the Muslim Brotherhood
in Egypt , and who is spending hundreds
of millions of dollars to arm the al Qaida
in Syria.

Obama is supporting this real world
ideological crusade which has the
declared aim of world subordination
to Islam.
                                    Joe Sullivan

 2014 CITY BUDGET.GOOD NEWS
 FOR ALBANY HOMEOWNERS

Mayor Jerry Jennings released his 2014
 $171 million city budget proposal today.

Good news for homeowners. No increase
in residential  property taxes.

However, city workers will get no pay
raises, and the commercial tax rate will
increase by about 4 %.

The Common Council must approve
the City budget by October 31.

                                 Joe Sullivan