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    Quote Originally Posted by lackbrokejoke View Post
    If you wanna answer for Hank, answer about the stance on the budget hand out VOTE NO cards, then tell people VOTE YES? how is that policially correct with a political science degree????
    I'm not asnwering for anyone... just pointing out it took him 12 years to get a 4 year BS degree.
    "I know you guys enjoy reading my stuff because it all makes sense. "

    Dumbest post ever! Thanks for the laugh PO!

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    What does a council pres do?

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    The Council is the Legislative Branch of city government, represented by a Council President and four Council Members, one representative from each of the four wards. The Council establishes policy for the city and appropriates the funding for it's operation. The Council controls the finances of the City, approves all contracts, can override Mayoral vetoes with a super majority vote of the Council.

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    lots of dirt on this site..lol..i find everyone here exciting and at times angry!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lackawanna #1 View Post
    The Council is the Legislative Branch of city government, represented by a Council President and four Council Members, one representative from each of the four wards. The Council establishes policy for the city and appropriates the funding for it's operation. The Council controls the finances of the City, approves all contracts, can override Mayoral vetoes with a super majority vote of the Council.
    So what does the council president do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    I'm not asnwering for anyone... just pointing out it took him 12 years to get a 4 year BS degree.
    i am sorry i thought you were trying to stick up for him..It makes me sick the people who think they can do the job. I know for a fact i an not do that job nor do i want that job.. I know there has to be qualified people somewhere in this city to save it!!! WHERE ARE YOU?????

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    Ho wabout that Walter seres runniing for Mayor....I think his slogan is "Softball and Roundabout's" will solve all of our cities problems... I mean who is this guy??? He is making a joke out of himself.. If you read the front page this past week he was begging registered Democrats to sign his petition to put him on the ballot, when 2 weeks ago hes telling people he already won the election! Our City is full of a bunch of jokes

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    Does he have any experience in anything?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Does he have any experience in anything?
    Coaching softball and gambling.... hahahah JOKE his own family cant even stand the fact he is putting himself out there making them look like a fool along with him..... poor family

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Does he have any experience in anything?
    lACKAWANNA, TIME FOR A CHANGE, VOTE WALKTER M. SERES FOR MAYOR FOR A BETTER LACKAWANNA AND A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ALL LACKAWANNA CIby Walter Seres on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 4:15am
    Time for a change Lackawanna people. Are you satisfied with your city right now today. If you answered NO, then Elect Walter M. Seres for Mayor of Lackawanna NY. Look for the Seres team articles in the Front Page, starting next week. Looking for people who want to go door to door and get registered democatic voters to sign petion for Walter M. Seres for Mayor. If interested, contact me, there will be a contact number in the article next week. Thanks walt and family of 9.

    straight from Facebook... Guy cant spell his own name!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lackawanna #1 View Post
    February 19, 2011
    FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's Governor
    By Patrick McIlheran


    Somewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder at Wisconsin's governor. They are on the same page regarding government unions.

    Except that Scott Walker -- Republican cheapskate, his visage Hitlerized on signs waved by beet-faced union crowds besieging the Capitol -- is kind of a liberal squish compared to FDR. He's OK with some collective bargaining.

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    Walker, you might have heard, wants some changes in how Wisconsin deals with unions. He wants state employees to pay 5.8% of their salaries toward their pensions (they pay almost nothing now) and he wants them to cover 12.6% of their health care premiums (their share would go up from $79 a month to about $200; the average private-sector sap pays about $330).

    Unions are enraged. They've been calling such increases unspeakable since Walker was elected handily in November. Then, Feb. 10, Walker went further. He'd allow public-sector unions to negotiate only pay, not benefits, mainly because he wants HSA-style health plans and 401(k)-style retirements for state workers, and unions would fight that, tooth and ragged red claw.

    So unions erupted. Teachers faked illness in such numbers as to close school districts for days. Mobs beat on the doors of legislative chambers. And in some heavenly Hyde Park, the great liberal god of the 1930s is saying he saw it all along.

    Roosevelt's reign certainly was the bright dawn of modern unionism. The legal and administrative paths that led to 35% of the nation's workforce eventually unionizing by a mid-1950s peak were laid by Roosevelt.

    But only for the private sector. Roosevelt openly opposed bargaining rights for government unions.

    "The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."

    And if you're the kind of guy who capitalizes "government," woe betide such obstructionists.

    Roosevelt wasn't alone. It was orthodoxy among Democrats through the '50s that unions didn't belong in government work. Things began changing when, in 1959, Wisconsin's then-Gov. Gaylord Nelson signed collective bargaining into law for state workers. Other states followed, and gradually, municipal workers and teachers were unionized, too.

    Even as that happened, the future was visible. Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's mayor in the 1950s and the last card-carrying Socialist to head a major U.S. city, supported labor. But in 1969, the progressive icon wrote that rise of unions in government work put a competing power in charge of public business next to elected officials. Government unions "can mean considerable loss of control over the budget, and hence over tax rates," he warned.

    There was "a revolutionary principle rather quietly at work in American government," he wrote.

    The principle was working at about 100 decibels in Wisconsin's Capitol last week, once the union drum-beaters got going. What worked them up was the money they'd concede, they said, but even more that Walker would make their unions surrender the control they'd gained over every government budget.

    Walker, like other Republicans, was long accused of hating government. For eight years as chief executive of heavily Democrat Milwaukee County, he would not raise taxes, which opponents said showed his contempt for government.

    Yet all this past week, he praised public employees and he said the work government does is so necessary, taxpayers should get as much of it for their money as possible. Meanwhile, thousands of schoolteachers on the Capitol lawn manifested their intent to obstruct Government and their belief that the tots back at Roosevelt Elementary could darn well spend a day or three watching Nickelodeon at home.

    And, to beat all, the president who now professes to be the new Reagan weighed in to say Walker was being unduly mean to unions. President Obama gave no audible word on whether unions were being unduly mean in shutting down schools.

    Walker, good Republican, is no FDR but he is offering Wisconsin a new deal, lower-case. Wisconsin's been a seedbed of bad ideas since it hatched Progressivism, and for years it's stuck with unionized government even as the price swelled. Walker's radical shift is to try securing necessary government at a better price. The unions, whose model depends on making government labor as costly as taxpayers will bear, object.

    May they be haunted by the ghost of the 32nd president, and his little dog, too.

    Patrick McIlheran is a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial columnist who blogs at jsonline.com/blogs/mcilheran. E-mail pmcilheran@journalsentinel.com

    Here is the link to the post on his web site.

    sound like the saps are getting tired of the public sector. all the screaming and yelling can't save the fact that we are broke and need a major change in the way we do and conduct business. the gravy train is over. hey if you want to see the results of the progressive socialist movement take a look a greece and next watch portugal and italy. you are just another idiot to add to the crowd.

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    Pat McCusker

    1978 Graduate of Lackawanna High School

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    Drive business back into Lackawanna:
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    I've herd what Pat has to say and it soudns good, but everyone has a plan going in its jsut what can he make of it once he is in? Does he have anyone running with him or council president? I herd there is someone out of the first ward running but besides one aarticle in the front page i havent seen or herd anything from him. Anyone know if he is stilll running?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    I'm not asnwering for anyone... just pointing out it took him 12 years to get a 4 year BS degree.
    I'd agree with you. I'd want to know what he was doing before attending college. I graduated in 2000 and had my BS from UB by 2003 (went thru the summer to finish early).

    I'm not saying anything negative either way, just being curious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lackawanna #1 View Post
    The Council is the Legislative Branch of city government, represented by a Council President and four Council Members, one representative from each of the four wards. The Council establishes policy for the city and appropriates the funding for it's operation. The Council controls the finances of the City, approves all contracts, can override Mayoral vetoes with a super majority vote of the Council.
    So how are both Hank and SBS qualified for this position? They have never even been to meeting until recently. They started going after they announced I hear. I know for a fact neither has ever been to one I have been to. How do you really know what's going on? The Front Page, Buffalo News or the city website do not post what was exactly said at the meeting. Good luck Lackawanna your going to need it.

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