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I share Ruffino's concerns about the mass transit issues, but why does it appear that he is such a high-profile advocate for public transportation restrictions, and in that regard, are not our county and state officials armed with adequate insights and skills to confront and resolve any such broad intra-state and inter-county problems?Ruffino shared his concerns about public transportation still running. He said he understands essential workers need to get to work, but they should find a way to only let essential workers use public transportation. He said he expressed his concerns to the state and county officials.
I am old enough to remember a time when buses ran on, at the very least, an hourly schedule from Lancaster into the city, and vice versa. However, as the years passed, that schedule has been reduced to the point where bus transport to and from Lancaster into and out of Buffalo, is almost non-existent.
Ergo, it seems to me that the general topic mass transit restrictions may be of limited impact to Lancaster residents.
IMHO, Ruffino should remember that he is Supervisor of Lancaster, not the County Executive or the Governor.
In that connection, I would ask that he focus on his own urgent responsibilities as Lancaster Supervisor, and on ways to get what he termed in a paraphrase, "non-essential" food to those residents who simply will not permit their children and elderly go hungry.
I believe that rather than a focus on what to Lancaster residents most probably will be the less-urgent issue of mass transit restrictions, Supervisor Ruffino would better serve his constituents if he asked the Governor...
Also, would it not be more meaningful to Lancaster if Mr. Ruffino would fully mobilize his efforts to more completely apply his efforts toward protecting the interests of Lancaster's indigenous small businesses, and to more comprehensively engage the good offices of LIDA in such a process?
Ron Ruffino during his previous campaign said that he was "for the people."
I assume he meant for the people of Lancaster, eh?
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LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
You are exactly right. He has a taste of totalitarian government and he loves it. It’s going to take extended court action, probably in the US Supreme Court, to return freedom to this state. Keep in mind, totalitarian government has been the goal of the Democratic Totalitarian party going back to the end of the Civil War.
Seriously Gorja?
I know of a rather young individual who was scheduled for prostrate cancer surgery, which has been since deemed "elective." I have always understood that if prostrate cancer is resident in one in his 40s or 50s, the cancer is far more aggressive than if an old codger like me gets it.
Ergo, since elective" suggests a choice between two options, in the instant case, "elective" is perhaps a choice between life and premature death.
Regarding the Cleveland call, try to understand that I am writing, TRUTHFULLY, the concerns of these Lancaster residents as expressed to me.
If you wish Gorja, I can provide you privately, the name and telephone numbers of all concerned. You may wish to call them directly to determine their concerns---good luck with the response that one of them will give you.
That is why absolute clarity in our leaders' messages are important.
Last edited by mark blazejewski; April 9th, 2020 at 01:27 PM.
LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
It doesn’t matter whether it’s crucial or elective. It’s a medical procedure for Christ’s sake!! It should be between the doctor and the patient, not up to some elected official who has absolutely no knowledge of the patient, his or her condition or ANYTHING about it. Oh hell, let’s just bring on the Obamacare death teams. Anybody who thinks a town supervisor should have the power to make such a determination is a fool, pure and simple.
Gorja, he was simply relying on the statements of the supervisor. If the supervisor has already determined that shopping for groceries isn’t important and should be governed by his edict there’s no telling how far he intends to bully citizens. Please don’t kid yourself; the ability to wield power is intoxicating and that power is not readily relinquished. It’s already becoming clear that Il Douche will not easily give up the authority to direct the military to seize property at his whim and other powers he’s claimed in this crisis. Perhaps had he been successful in his efforts one could understand it but NYS is the world-wide poster child for Coronavirus disaster under his failed management.
Gorja, please stop pursuing your deflecting claptrap.
I never wrote that the Supervisor should have the power to make medical decisions, and, absent an all-encompassing remedy to shopping for food, I certainly do not think that the supervisor should have the power to determine the "necessity" to buy one's groceries.
With your disgusting deflective observation disposed of, I ask why did Ron Ruffino, THE SUPERVISOR of Lancaster, say that grocery shopping, even for a loaf of bread, was not an essential activity?
Again, does the dancing clown have a satisfactory remedy for the resultant hunger?
If he does, he should proclaim that remedy.
By the way, it is not a question of what "Mark" feels, it is a question of what the reckless Ruffino publicly and authoritatively said...
...which attended these comments in The Bee...“Going to get a loaf of bread at the grocery store to me is no longer essential,”
...which have left many Lancaster residents confused and speechless.Supervisor Ronald Ruffino said at Monday’s town board meeting that Lancaster is onboard with the PAUSE order, and the Lancaster Police will issue tickets and fines to those who do not comply.
The PAUSE order includes social distancing, closure of non-essential businesses, ban on non-essential public gatherings, limiting outdoor activities to non-contact activities, and limiting the use of public transportation to essential travel.
Bear in mind Gorja, Mark is not the Supervisor;
Mark did not declare the State of Emergency in the Town of Lancaster;
Mark did not give the interview to The Bee;
Mark did not say that grocery shopping is not "essential;"
Mark did not say that the "Pause" policy and sanctions would be vigorously enforced in Lancaster.
Ron Ruffino did.
Mark, as those to whom he has spoken with privately, as well as other posters on this medium, is only asking for clarification for an obvious reckless statement from the Supervisor.
Would you not agree that if food, a stipulated essential to the preservation of life, has been deemed non-essential, that it is entirely reasonable that many will further probe the status of other activities, formerly or normally considered essential?
Should the Lancaster citizen take for granted the supremacy of their own interpretation, or make pre-activity query to the governing authorities?
Personally, I am of the opinion that the the Supervisor needs to simply clarify his comments, what the Hell is wrong with that?
Lastly, I did not make any assumption, and kindly do not presume that Mark "feels" any specific way.
My truthful anecdotal comments memorialize the concerns of others, and do not necessarily represent my view point, although I fully understand and appreciate their concerns.
Last edited by mark blazejewski; April 9th, 2020 at 05:57 PM.
LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
Wasn't it you making up the stupid Ruffino meme's?With your disgusting deflective observation disposed of, I ask why did Ron Ruffino, THE SUPERVISOR of Lancaster, say that grocery shopping, even for a loaf of bread, was not an essential activity?
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Gee, I wonder who will weigh in next, as if I don't know.
I don't know what your comment has to do with the topic of this thread, which seemingly was started to seek for clarification for a comment made by a Lancaster government leader. That comment remains of prominent concern to the people of Lancaster; a town in which, BTW, you do not reside.
Further, how do you know that I made "the stupid Ruffino memes," that is a plural, not a possessive (meme's), by the way. More assumptions, eh?
With that said, yours is an interesting comment coming from one who seemingly bans people from this medium, like a little tyrant, when they are perceived to be critical of Speak Up. The purported meme, and the resultant exchange to which you apparently refer, appeared on my personal page, so kindly apply to my page the same courtesy that you demand.
But to answer your in-congruent question directly, no, you said that such a meme, which I held to be in the tradition of the political cartoon, was "stupid." You are familiar with the saying about "opinions," are you not?"
I try to permit free expression on my page, what say you?
Capeesh?
Last edited by mark blazejewski; April 9th, 2020 at 07:12 PM.
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Sorry... I thought you created this comment "With your disgusting deflective observation disposed of, I ask why did Ron Ruffino, THE SUPERVISOR of Lancaster, say that grocery shopping, even for a loaf of bread, was not an essential activity?"
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I am troubled as to why a poster would seemingly try to re-write, color, or otherwise slant my comments in such a way as to to ascribed to me comments which I never made, along and with an attached presumption of "feelings" that I never held...
I merely related the concerns of others, and requested that Supervisor Ruffino clarify his comments, is that okay with you counsel?...
...along with a previous quote...
...and in a further response wrote...
Where for Heaven's sake, do I state that I feel or assume that the Supervisor, or any town official, should or have any say about the necessity of, or otherwise determine the essential need of medical procedures?
I related the concerns of others, as related to me, and on their behalf, asked for clarification.
Ergo, absent the presence such comments described above, I suggest that the comments posted in regards to me, reflect in my opinion, deflection.
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