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Following on the past two stories about this, News That Matters published the following this morning.
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Just When You Thought…. ReduxSometimes it seems we’re living in a world that even Franz Kafka could not have envisioned and that Philip K. thingy has never had even in wildest nightmares. The Russian bureaucracy of Kafka’s day has nothing on Putnam County today. For just when you think it’s safe to go on about your lives our elected officials do something so outrageous that you want to take the entire lot and have them locked in stocks along Lake Gleneida. Just such an event took place last week when a letter from Vincent Tamagna, written on official Legislative stationary, ended up as an insert in the Putnam County News and Reporter. (Tamagna Letter)
I don’t know about the legality of such and as far as I can tell his use of the Legislature’s letterhead is, at the very least, unethical, as it gives the impression that body supports and endorses the position outlined inside. And what position is that? Yeah, you guessed it: it’s a ham-fisted, illogical treatise on how giving Paul Camarda $3.7 million taxpayers dollars to upgrade highway infrastructure near his proposed Patterson Crossing project isn’t giving Paul Camarda $3.7 million taxpayer dollars, that somehow it’s different.
Yeah, as different as apples and apples.
In the letter, Vinnie T says there’s a safety issue so important that we cannot wait another day else a school bus filled with high school cheerleaders is rear-ended by a prison van filled with level 3, syphilitic sex offenders bent on mayhem. And the environmental concerns are do dire that if we don’t fix them at this very moment, Lake Carmel will shrivel and dry up leading to the discovery of an old bicycle or two – and Jimmy Hoffa’s body.
And while I could go after his letter line by line and word by word exposing every twist and turn and paranoid fantasy, I’d rather have my eyes gored out by a rusty nail – yeah, it’s the most inane piece of crap I’ve almost ever seen coming from an elected person. (Though the County Executive on his best days can do better.) And though he claims there has been “misinformation” concerning the issue (which he never explores) I have just one question to ask Mr. Tamagna: Which part of the following don’t you understand?
From Camarda Development’s website about the project they have this:
Center will pay for the vast majority of high-cost road and stormwater improvements needed to address existing problems
I’ll grant that it’s in the small print and is the very last line on the page, but as of 8:44AM on May 25th, 2010, it’s there and the language is clear. “Center will pay….”
In the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the project dated July 17, 2008 and available here (PDF), we read the following:
The FEIS has identified several improvements that will be completed by the Project Sponsor [emphasis, mine] to mitigate the increase in traffic resulting from the retail center including:
• NYS Route 311 at the Project entrance would be improved with right and left turn lanes and a new traffic signal;
• At the Fair Street/NYS Route 311 intersection the curb radii will be widened;
• At the NYS Route 311/Interstate 84 Westbound ramp a left turn lane, off-ramp turn lane, signalization and queue detection will be added; and
• At the NYS Route 311/Interstate 84 Eastbound ramp a left turn lane, off-ramp turn lane, signalization and queue detection will be added.
The rest can be read in an article called, “Corporate Welfare, Putnam Style” posted on May 25th to the News That Matters website.
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