Lancaster Democrats lead the way to pay enhancements/patronage in Erie County

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Once again Lancasters Town Controlling Members lead the way and the County follows - Its only tax dollars

Democrats taking care of their own!

(If you don't believe this - just ask Mr.Irish appointed to Lancaster's Parks Department - $39,000.00 home owners tax dollars to sweep floors - plus home owner tax funded benefits $19,000.00 - plus eligibility for a life time tax funded pension)

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Buffalo News Columnist
Position: News Urban Affairs Editor By Rod Watson

Excerpt from his article:


The raises handed out by soon-to-be jurist Dennis Ward is a two-fer, demonstrating not only what we want in a new judge – excellent judgment – but also that government can indeed be a growth industry.

After all, where else – outside the top 1 percent – can you grow your salary 17 percent in one day? That’s what Deputy Elections Commissioner Arthur O. Eve Jr. did when Ward boosted his salary from $79,115 to $93,101 on Ward’s way out the door to his new, laborious job as a State Supreme Court justice.

Ward justified the hefty hike for his deputy by patiently explaining that Eve, with the commissioner’s departure, will take on more work – just like you’ve done at your job while wondering when you’ll get your 17 percent hike.

In fact, as a taxpayer funding the Board of Elections budget, you must surely be inspired by knowing that such raises are still possible.

Rather than resenting this municipal munificence, you will march right into your boss’ office, Buffalo News story in hand, and demand equal treatment.

That’s how an economic recovery gets started. It’s what economists call a “virtuous” cycle – though you may have another word for Eve’s pay hike.

Of course, Eve – son of the former longtime Assembly deputy speaker – wasn’t the only beneficiary of Ward’s last-minute decision to use government to stimulate the economy. Other Board of Elections workers – including the brother of County Executive Mark Poloncarz and the mother of county Democratic Chairman Jeremy Zellner – also got going-away presents.

But rest assured: None was rewarded based on their surnames. Ward – who gets his own present in the form of nearly assured election to the $174,000 court seat after a cross-endorsement deal – said the lucky workers were among a third of Democratic board employees who got raises to make up for prior cuts.

It’s all part of the Democrats’ innovative new strategy for taking economic growth to the next level. While Republicans want to talk about job creation, Democrats are pushing the boundary with job enhancement.

Not that they aren’t creating jobs, too. The president brags about 54 straight months of job creation – and he hasn’t even counted the job Democrats on the Lancaster Town Board found for one of their own, who just happens to be a business associate of one of the board members.

Put it all together, and no one can say the party of FDR doesn’t have a plan for creating jobs and boosting take-home pay.

What they’re doing at the Board of Elections and in Lancaster is just a pilot project that has promising implications for the entire Western New York economy.