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Laura J. Barry: Case of the clerk with cold feet?

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One of the candidates in the November 2021 elections was Laura Jane Barry (R), who ran for the office of Town Clerk; Barry was opposed by Sherle L. Slingerland (D). Barry received a total of 1,234 votes, while Slingerland received 881 votes; according to the Board of Election tallies, Barry was the clear choice of voters on November 3. Two months later, on January 1, 2022, Barry took the oath of office and officially assumed the elected office of Coeymans Town Clerk. Two days later, on January 3, only two days after taking the oath, Barry unexpectedly submitted her letter of resignation, citing “medical reasons” for her resignation but gave no further details about her alleged medical condition, and according to an article appearing in the January 13, 2022, issue of the Ravena News Herald, “Barry refused to comment further on her reasons for resigning.” According to the News Herald, Barry did not mention any “medical reasons,” even though she could have confirmed McHugh’s statements, but she didn’t. Most if not all readers should find this turn of events not only bizarre, but very suspect. We think Barry’s only medical condition was a severe case of cold feet!

Why bizarre? We think there’s a more sinister reason for Barry’s resignation after months of campaigning, a successful election, two months lead-up to taking the oath, taking the oath, and then, out of the blue, resigning. Something happened in those two days and it wasn’t a medical diagnosis! We all know that the most common cover-ups used by politicians for suspicious resignations are “I want to spend more time with my family” and “health issues.” Does McHugh and his mob really really think we’re that gullible? Well, some of you are because you swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

Why suspect? Because no sooner had Barry resigned (on January 3) than McHugh had hand-picked his “confidential secretary” and sister-in-law, Candace McHugh, to be Coeymans Town Clerk! McHugh appointed his sister-in-law, who has no experience in the duties of Town Clerk, on January 7, barely 3 days after receiving Barry’s letter of resignation. Sounds like a set-up, doesn’t it? That’s because it is a set-up.

In a sneaky but strategic move to gloss over the glaring political nepotism of Candace McHugh’s appointment to be Town Clerk, McHugh and his puppet Town Board hired Sherle Slingerland, the runner-up in the Town Clerk race, to be part-time deputy clerk, to work under McHugh’s sister-in-law, Candace McHugh. Rather than appoint Slingerland, she was hired to be part-time deputy clerk at an hourly rate of $20.90. It is obvious that McHugh is attempting to distract attention from Candace McHugh, while offering an olive branch to Slingerland and her supporters. Slingerland sold herself pretty cheaply to McHugh and his puppet board. Now we know what she is and how much, as the saying goes.

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Because Barry’s story is so bizarre and suspect, we’d expect any news reporting agency or any reporter worth his or her position to have done some serious investigational reporting, and to have gotten the real facts behind Barry’s untimely resignation. We’d like to know the true story. We think Coeymans residents and voters would like to hear the truth, too!

Then, because Candace McHugh doesn’t have a clue what to do in the Clerk’s office, McHugh and his board call Bonnie Keyer, deputy Town Clerk under Cindy Rowzee, out of retirement, to “train” Candace McHugh. Question: Why call back Keyer and not the very popular and competent Rowzee, who just left the position and would provide some continuity. (“Continuity,” by the way, is the new buzz word in Coeymans Town Hall, now that McHugh wants to extend the term of the Town Supervisor from 2 to 4 years! More on that later, when we cover McHugh’s attempt to get his term as supervisor extended from 2 to 4 years!) Or, why not appoint the runner-up in the elections, Sherle L. Slingerland, to fill the position until the 2022 elections? After all, it was a close race, and Slingerland did receive a considerable number of votes; the community sent a message that although Barry was their first choice, Slingerland was a first runner-up for the job. Not Candace McHugh, who is totally obscure, a nobody!

First of all, it should be obvious what is going on here: McHugh wants control of the Clerk’s Office, which is a key function in Town government; the Town Clerk is an elected office in order to ensure that the Clerk is independent and impartial. That’s not the case now.

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Editor’s Note: The whole Town Clerk issue is a farce, and if the people of Coeymans put up with this conspicuous slap in the face, they’re in for even more disturbing misconduct. But one hilarious point we enjoyed in the News Herald report was town board member Daniel Baker’s comment, quoted in the report: “Me and Laura spent a lot of time together…” That’s your deputy Town Supervisor speaking hillbilly backwoods English. McHugh appointed Baker to be deputy Supervisor, probably because Baker doesn’t have the brains to put together a grammatical English sentence. McHugh likes his puppets dumb or dumber! Or at least family members…Right, Candace?

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Why the Town Clerk is an Elected Office

There are very good reasons why the office of the Town Clerk is an elected office and not an appointed office. Take heed, Mr. McHugh! Here are a dozen reasons off the top of our head:

The office of the Town Clerk fulfills requests made for disclosure of public access information kept by the Town. The Clerk is required to provide that information under the provisions of the Public Officers Law and the Freedom of Information Law (F.O.I.L.). In other words, the Office of the Town Clerk is essential to transparency and accountability in local government, providing everything from minutes of meetings to police reports. Now that George McHugh has the Police Department – and we know how corrupt the Coeymans PD is — in his one pocket and the main source of Town information in his other pocket, his sister-in-law, Candace McHugh, now Town Clerk. How much transparency and accountability do you think you can expect? This is the start to controlling what you get to know under New York State Law.
The office of the Town Clerk is an elected office; that is, it is the choice of the electorate, not the choice of Mr. McHugh or his puppets on the Town Board, at least two of whom are or were McHugh appointees as well (Bruno and Tutay). Polarization appears to be McHugh’s agenda. An elected Town Clerk is accountable to the voters, the electorate; an appointed Town Clerk, Candace McHugh, is accountable to McHugh, who appointed her. Could it get any more arrogant? George McHugh is Candace McHugh’s brother-in-law; she’s married to McHugh’s brother! McHugh is so arrogant that he doesn’t give a damn what Coeymans thinks, he’s going to commit glaring political nepotism right under your noses!
Candidates for Town Clerk campaign for the office based on their credentials and experience. The Town Clerk is elected because the People feel they can trust the candidate. Candidates are elected on merit, not their connections. Being the Town Supervisor’s sister-in-law, and his former “confidential” secretary are not credentials qualifying a candidate or an appointee for the office of Town Clerk.
Elected Town Clerks must remain independent and impartial in their actions and the execution of their duties according to governing law, and service to the public. Their allegiance is to the public, not to the guy who appointed her, who happens to be her brother-in-law! The competent Town Clerk has to be completely familiar with the laws governing the position such as the Open Meetings Law and the Municipalities Laws. In Coeymans, the Town Clerk also manages cemeteries and is the Tax Collector, so the Clerk must be familiar also with the laws concerning those activities. Candace McHugh does not have those qualifications.
The Town Clerk must be independent, impartial, and must have a wide range of knowledge of the law, because the Clerk must sometimes oppose actions of the Town Board. As a McHugh appointee and being confirmed by the McHugh Town Board, made up of McHugh appointees and puppets, as well as being McHugh’s former “confidential” secretary and his current sister-in-law, Candace McHugh cannot perform as required.
It is a well-known fact that nepotism runs rampant and wild in town and village government. An elected Town Clerk largely avoids the potential for politics, corruption, misconduct. The Town Clerk has a very sensitive and responsible role in the administration of elections, town meetings, and generally much of town government operations. The Clerk should not be obliged or beholden to any town official based on kinship or favors, like an appointment!
The Town Clerk can be removed from office every 4 years for good cause or for no cause, most likely because a stronger candidate runs against the incumbent. That’s called an election. In contrast, an appointee can be removed from office only for good cause.
The office of Town Clerk is a hybrid office that combines town, county, and state responsibilities. The office of Town Clerk runs much less efficiently if it is controlled, as it is in the Town of Coeymans, by any single entity, as in Coeymans, by the Town Supervisor and his hand-picked Town Board!
In terms of supervision and management, and in view of the fact that Candace McHugh is inexperienced and untrained for the position of Town Clerk, and further is expected to fill the position only until November 2022, when a replacement can be elected, she cannot be properly supervised. George McHugh is unable to supervise his sister-in-law because he is still running a law practice and is also town attorney for several local towns. The members of the Town Board are all only part-time, most have other jobs, and none are compensated to supervise the operations of the Town Clerk’s office, even if that were lawful! The former deputy Town Clerk, Bonnie Keyer, too, is an insider, her husband, Douglas Keyer, being the controversial Coeymans Police Chief, a McHugh hiree and as close to an appointment as possible.[4] But former deputy clerk Keyer has been brought in to train Candace McHugh! Why wasn’t former elected Town Clerk Cindy Rowzee called in to be interim Town Clerk and save a lot of time and effort, while keeping the Town Clerk’s office honest. We all know the answer to that question, don’t we?
After election, Town Clerks generally attend intensive training, and while in office, are required to attend regular continuing training. More often than not, town clerks are re-elected multiple times and their job knowledge accumulates over the years, resulting in better job performance and service to the community. It is reasonable to expect that an appointee does not go through the rigorous scrutiny by the voting public, and may not be the best choice for the job, as in this case. If appointee Candace McHugh is sent for training, it would be an irresponsible waste of public resources and taxpayer dollars.
The Town of Coeymans is not a private club nor a private business. Even in private clubs, officers are elected by the general membership; they may be appointed or elected by the board of directors in corporations and other private business forms, but they are not required to use democratic process. The Town is a New York state municipality, a service organization, intended to serve the needs of Town residents with whatever it takes, within the provisions of law, not the ambitions, agendas, or whims of the Town Supervisor or the Town Board as alter egos of the Town Supervisor.
The Town Clerk is a key person in maintaining what we know as a system of checks and balances in local government. The Town Clerk serves at the pleasure of the People, not at the pleasure of the Supervisor or any board member. The Town Clerk should have the wherewithal and the courage to step forward and oppose any town official’s act or conduct or anything that stretches the provisions of law, or anything that goes counter to the best interests of the People. Under the circumstances, we do not think that Candace McHugh has the integrity or the qualities to do that, after all, she would be inviting family problems if she were to go against her husband’s brother.

The current situation in the Town of Coeymans offends and abuses any sense of fairness and good government, and the People of Coeymans should rise up in active protest to stop what’s going on in Town Hall at the hands of George McHugh!

Of course, residents in the Town of Coeymans are certainly aware that the Coeymans Town Board annually designates the Ravena News Herald to be the Town’s official newspaper, the place where you’ll find all the news McHugh and his mob want you to know about in your lovely Town of Coeymans.[6] If it seems that incest is best in Ravena-Coeymans, it’s because it is part of the culture; everyone has his or her hands in the other’s pockets or panties.

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Town of Coeymans: George McHugh’s Little Uganda
The Ravena News Herald – A Dirty Rag

Notes:

[1] Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.” Part I
Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.” Part II
Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.” Part III
Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.” Part IV
Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.” Part V

[2] McHugh and his Town Board take good care of themselves. On January 29, 2021, the Coeymans Town Board gave notice of a Resolution Authorizing the Transfer of Certain Lands Owned by the Town of Coeymans to Albert F. Collins Jr. and Lori Collins, in which two parcels of land were to be transferred to the Collins for $66,300.00, which “represents the amount owed by the Town to Collins & Son, Inc. under a contract for prior cleanup work performed on the property.” That must have been on hell of a cleanup job! How many Coeymans residents knew about this and was it published conspicuously or even reported in the Ravena News Herald? (See our article, “Coeymans: Send McHugh and His Nuggets Down The Tube.”)

[3] The County Legislator’s seat was left vacant in 2021, when George Langdon, representing the Town of Coeymans and previously a sitting member of the Town of Coeymans Town Board, a member of George McHugh’s so-called Comeback Team, was forced to resign in disgrace from the Albany County Legislature. McHugh moved quickly to tap another of his Comeback Team, rookie Town Board member Zachary Collins, son of McHugh appointee to the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals, to run for Langdon’s vacant seat, even though Collins had not completed even half of his 4-year term on the Town Board to which he was elected in 2019! That’s exactly what the Albany County Legislature needs: corrupt inexperienced puppets elected by sheeple.

[4] Chief of Police Douglas Keyer himself is in the hot-seat as we write, since he is named in the pending Claims as having abused his office as Chief of Police, as having knowingly engaged in clear conflict of interest, as having obstructed or impaired a police investigation, and as having conspired with George McHugh to influence the process and outcome of a police accident investigation, among other charges.

[5] “Gabler Realty revitalizes long-vacant Main St. building,” RNH, January 13, 2022, p. 1.

[6] Re: New York Town Law. The promulgation of notice provisions in the Town Law frequently deters effective publicity. Although the Town Law does not suffer from the politically oriented designation procedure of the County Law, its provisions often cause confusion and injustice, however. Unlike counties, towns need not designate an official newspaper but have the option to do so. Being an “official newspaper” does not mean that everything pertaining the events in a municipality must appear in the newspaper but legal notices, notices of hearings, various administrative and legislative actions are examples of what should be published in a municipality’s designated “official newspaper.”

Town of Coeymans: George McHugh’s Little Uganda

24 Jan

Unless George McHugh and his Coeymans Town Board sold the Town to a billionaire Russian pot-grower (See our articles, “The Russians are Coming!!!” (June 28, 2019) “Please don’t Mug Me! Just Pot Me!” (July 5, 2019)), the last time we checked, the Town of Coeymans was still in the sovereign territory of the United States of America and the State of New York but if we rely on the “facts” — or should we say the ‘factoids’ — we read in the Ravena News Herald and the crapola coming out of Coeymans Town Hall, we probably should be looking for Coeymans somewhere in the Russian Republic, the People’s Republic of China, or Uganda! What’s happening in Coeymans has no resemblance to anything American or Constitutional! But the corruption may soon be coming to an end (See our article, “Net Closing in on Coeymans & McHugh” .)

The Founding Fathers and the Constitution of the United States, and the New York State Constitution provide for free elections and assurance of democratic rule in the federal system and in local governments, and for freedom of expression and a free press. There is no provision in the Law of the Land made for replacement of elected officials with appointees, nor for Town Hall nepotism, nor for misinformation and a lying press and a corrupt media institution.

Article II, Section 1 of the New York State Constitution reads:

Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years of age or over and shall have been a resident of this state, and of the county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election. (NY Const art II § 1)

That’s the Law and free citizens should not have to put up with loopholes, lies, and conniving when selecting their public officials at the polls. When you hand them your vote and confidence, that becomes a contract and they are obliged to do their part!

Freedom of expression is one of the most treasured rights protected by the Constitution of the United States as well as by the New York State Constitution; Americans, despite the extreme politization of the mainstream media, sincere Americans recognize that in order to participate in a democratic form of government, citizens must be well-informed, and the press and media have the obligation and responsibility, to obtain, check, and report true facts that the public can rely on when making decisions or forming their opinions. Again, citing the Bill of Rights of the New York State Constitution,

Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. (NY Const art I § 8)

A very important part of that section needs to be highlighted: “being responsible for the abuse of that right.”

In addition to the Law, there are volumes written on Codes of Conduct and Ethics for the press and for journalists, who, if professionally employed to report the news, must adhere to those ethics. Local media — a good example of an abuser is the Ravena News Herald — appears to have missed the bus when it comes to press and media ethics. (See our article, “News Herald Still Tries to Polish a Turd” .)

We can all agree that because of their influence, positions, and the power they wield, public officials, whether appointed or elected, and the and members of the media and press must be held to high standards of accountability, far higher than the average citizen. Now isn’t it about time that we held politicians and media in Albany County and particularly in the Town of Coeymans to an acceptable standard of conduct?

If law and professional ethics aren’t enough, public opinion should close the gap. According to a major public opinion survey organization, the Pew Research Center, the majority of Americans expect the press to report true facts. In a recent survey, Pew reports:

A majority of U.S. adults (59%) reject the idea of adding interpretation, saying that the news media should present the facts alone, a recent Pew Research Center survey found… One thing the public does approve of to encourage clarity in presenting the news: fact-checking. The vast majority of registered voters say that fact-checking is a responsibility of the news media. And even those who oppose interpretation of facts generally favor the fact-checking role of the news media.

Fully 81% of U.S. adults want facts without interpretation believe fact-checking is a major responsibility of the news media; 86% of U.S. adults who think some interpretation of news is OK believe that fact-checking is important. So we can agree that most Americans want true facts that are fact-checked in their news media.

Both the US Constitution and the NYS Constitution provide for fair elections and freedom of expression and press, the majority of Americans expect that elections and voting be fair and honest, and a great majority of Americans expect that the news media report fact-checked, accurate, and truthful news and information. It’s that simple.

When we pick up a local newspaper like the Ravena News Herald we can’t help but believe that something has gone terribly wrong! The reporting is partisan, partial, and propaganda.

We think that most, if not all, of our readers would agree with the above. We think that most of our neighbors and fellow Americans, yourself included, would fundamentally reject any conduct that does not comply fully with these very reasonable and fundamental principles of American democracy. And we’d expect not only our local officials but also those government agencies, whose responsibility is to oversee local government, to abide by the US Constitution, the NYS Constitution, our laws, and the expectations of the American public. Right?

We also have the County District Attorney (P. David Soares) and the New York State Attorney General (Letitia “Tish” James), and the county and state Boards of Election, all of whom have the duty to investigate and to prosecute abuses. Those offices and boards are responsible for ensuring the integrity of public servants and elected officers, and elections, and to enforce the laws, and investigate and prosecute abusers. Sure, we have them, but why aren’t they doing their jobs? (See our articles, “McHugh Poll Misconduct to be Investigated”, “Coeymans: Gross Misconduct! George McHugh, Supervisor, and Douglas Keyer, Chief of Police, Must Resign!”, and “County & State Boards of Election, NYS Attorney General on Notice”.)

Well, that’s clearly not happening in a vast number of communities, most notably right here in the Town of Coeymans, which has apparently turned into a community of sheeple, self-serving special interests, and an elite class with it’s cowing, butt-kissing trolls-in-tow. The two-class system doesn’t include the majority of residents! In the Coeymans community there are the arrogant elite and their trolls-in-tow, and then there’s the rest of us. (See our five-part series, Coeymans: Poster-Child of the “Sick Community Syndrome.”)[1]

According to New York Consolidated Laws, Town Law – TWN § 52.
The supervisor shall be the chief executive officer of a suburban town and head of the administrative branch of town government. He shall be responsible for the proper administration of town affairs, law enforcement and the maintenance of peace and order in the town.

George McHugh has failed miserably in that role and has conspicuously abused the office of Supervisor.

With election in 2019 of George D. McHugh and his mob to fill Coeymans Town Hall with so-called “elected” officials representing not the residents and community of the Town of Coeymans but clearly representing their own innterests and those of a few local business organizations, many of whom are associates of McHugh or his board members. Even before George McHugh was officially in the Supervisor’s office in 2019, immediately after election he moved to combine the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals into one board, and then to pack it with either relatives of town board members or local business owners with less-than-honorable plans. We’re talking specifically about the appointment of Albert Collins, owner of Collins Fuel and Excavation and father of former town board member Zachary Collins,[2] who is filling an Albany County Legislature seat,[3] and Robert Nolan, owner of Nolan Propane, a major business and developer in the Town of Coeymans. (See our article, “Nolan, Biscone, Miller vs. Albright & Sons: News Herald a Day Late and a Dollar Short”.) We should also mention that McHugh appointed one of his “Friends of Coeymans” thugs, Nathaniel Boomer to the Board, apparently to reward him for his intimidation services during the 2019 campaign. (See our articles, “’Friends of Coeymans’ a.k.a. ‘Fiends of Coeymans’: McHugh’s Thugs” and “The Coeymans Clowns, the FoC, Are True to Their Reputation: Thugs”.)

In addition to McHugh’s thugs intimidating citizens at public meetings and harassing others representing ‘undesirable interests,” like environmental conservation and integrity in government, the McHugh thugs calling themselves “Friends of Coeymans” but known locally as “Fiends of Coeymans,” were at the top of the suspects list when town officials and residents began receiving Poopsenders packages through the United States Postal Service. Yes, residents were receiving feces though the mail, and McHugh’s friends were the prime suspects. (See our articles, “Coeymans Only Gets Sicker; Criminal Perps Being Investigated” and “Information on the Poop Senders Investigation” https://wp.me/p2jPFe-3MI.)

The CoViD-19 pandemic did much to add to general fear and anxieties, and had a catastrophic effect on participation in local government and, clearly, on voter turnout for the elections in November 2019. If American voters are disillusioned and apathetic about elections in good times, they were morbid about anything having to do with news media and government in 2021. As a result of the anxiety and apathy, voters made some poor choices. One of those poor choices was to re-elect George McHugh and his mob.

If the conduct of McHugh supporters in 2019 was not enough, and McHugh’s actions as Town Supervisor, with the support of his puppets on the Town’s boards didn’t send alarm signals to anyone with eyes to see and a brain to think with, the events leading up to the 2021 elections should have closed McHugh out of the Town Supervisor’s office for good. (See our article, “George McHugh: Conspiracy, Misrepresentation, Possible Fraud?“.)

But thanks to local news media, particularly the Ravena News Herald and its staff of McHugh cronies, much of the information was kept from public scrutiny.

One significant event was a two-car accident that occurred on September 8, 2021, on US Route 9W, in which George McHugh, then campaigning for re-election, was involved. The accident was “investigated” by the Coeymans Police Department, under the “expert” supervision of Coeymans Police Chief Douglas Keyer, or should we say under the supervision of George McHugh, Keyer’s boss. There were conspicuous conflicts of interest involved, and both civil and criminal violations on the parts of McHugh and Keyer, including obstruction/impairment of justice, defamation, etc. There is good reason to believe that the Police Accident Report was fabricated to favor McHugh. (See our article, “McHugh Tries to Put a Spin on Accident”.)

It is indisputable fact that McHugh, with the willing cooperation of members of his Coeymans Police Department, most scandalously that of Coeymans Police Chief Douglas Keyer, did everything possible to underhandedly disadvantage and defame the other party, to make himself, McHugh, look better. After all, he’d do anything for another two years in the Supervisor’s office. More on that later.

George McHugh Misused Public Resources for Personal Benefit

On Thursday, September 9, 2021, the day after the accident, in a video recording made prior to an official public Coeymans Town Board meeting, a video made of George McHugh, the Coeymans Town Board, seated in Coeymans Town Hall in the public meeting space, and video-recorded as part of the Town Board meeting, McHugh and members of the Coeymans Town Board openly discussed the September 8 accident, and McHugh, together with his 4th wife, Rosemary McHugh, published misinformation and false facts. That video was then published on the Town of Coeymans official Facebook page and was accessible by and viewed literally by hundreds of members of the public. McHugh openly defamed the other party in the accident, and misused Town of Coeymans government and public resources to perpetrate his unlawful conduct. (See our articles, “McHugh Tries to Put a Spin on Accident”.)

Early in December 2021, Mr. Laszlo Polyak, the other party in the accident, filed an extensive Notice of Claim against the Town of Coeymans, including George McHugh, the members of the Coeymans Town Board, Coeymans Police Chief Douglas Keyer, Coeymans PD Detective Edmund Seney, and Coeymans PD patrolperson Kelly Arnold, citing numerous charges of misconduct, both criminal and civil, against the defendants. The charges are currently under investigation.

George McHugh’s Election Misconduct

McHugh is the Candyman! At the November 3, 2021, elections McHugh was observed to be delivering boxes of candy to polling places, particularly in the Town of Coeymans, during a period of heavy voting activity. McHugh’s conduct was in clear violation of election law, and could be interpreted as unlawfully influencing voters or vote-buying. The incident is or should be under investigation by oversight agencies, particularly the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the Albany County District Attorney, the Albany County and New York State Boards of Election, and others. (See our article, “McHugh Poll Misconduct to be Investigated”.)

McHugh’s Arrogance and Conspicuous Political Nepotism

One of the candidates in the November 2021 elections was Laura Jane Barry (R), who ran for the office of Town Clerk; Barry was opposed by Sherle L. Slingerland (D). Barry received a total of 1,234 votes, while Slingerland received 881 votes; according to the Board of Election tallies, Barry was the clear choice of voters on November 3. Two months later, on January 1, 2022, Barry took the oath of office and officially assumed the elected office of Coeymans Town Clerk. Two days later, on January 3, only two days after taking the oath, Barry unexpectedly submitted her letter of resignation, citing “medical reasons” for her resignation but gave no further details about her alleged medical condition, and according to an article appearing in the January 13, 2022, issue of the Ravena News Herald, “Barry refused to comment further on her reasons for resigning.” According to the News Herald, Barry did not mention any “medical reasons,” even though she could have confirmed McHugh’s statements, but she didn’t. Most if not all readers should find this turn of events not only bizarre, but very suspect. We think Barry’s only medical condition was a severe case of cold feet!

The Ravena News Herald – A Dirty Rag
Laura J. Barry: Case of the clerk with cold feet?

Of course, residents in the Town of Coeymans are certainly aware that the Coeymans Town Board annually designates the Ravena News Herald to be the Town’s official newspaper, the place where you’ll find all the news McHugh and his mob want you to know about in your lovely Town of Coeymans.[6] If it seems that incest is best in Ravena-Coeymans, it’s because it is part of the culture; everyone has his or her hands in the other’s pockets or panties.

Notes:

[5] “Gabler Realty revitalizes long-vacant Main St. building,” RNH, January 13, 2022, p. 1.

The Coeymans Thugs Invade New Baltimore. Resident: “Get outa here!”

14 Aug

A resident, Randy Lent, of the Town of New Baltimore is seeking approval to open a business in the Town of New Baltimore. His application is currently before the New Baltimore Planning Board, and Mr Lent’s application is being considered. The Town of New Baltimore is in Greene County, NY. How is it that Robert Nolan, Aaron Flach, and Michael Biscone of Ravena, in the Town of Coeymans (Albany County), are appearing before the New Baltimore Planning Board opposing a New Baltimore resident’s plan? What business do these well-known thugs and bullies from the Town of Coeymans and the Village of Ravena have pushing New Baltimore Planning Board chairman, Robert vanEtten around like the marshmallow he is? The Town of New Baltimore is a sovereign, municipality independent of Albany County, and particularly independent of the Town of Coeymans and the village of Ravena. New Baltimore can handle its own business, Thank you! New Baltimore doesn’t appreciate the interference of the Thug Squad from Coeymans, Biscone, Nolan, Flach, or McHugh. Furthermore, if the New Baltimore Planning Board chairman, Rob van Etten can’t keep his sights on New Baltimore and avoid his own business interests and pals in Coeymans, we think he should resign from the Board or, failing that, he should be fired by the New Baltimore Town Board, and replaced by someone who can do the job honestly and ethically. Now that would be a 180º turn for New Baltimore, wouldn’t it? Honestly and ethically? Now that would be news.

New Baltimore may be a little backward but some more evolved residents will not put up with the invasion of the Coeymanazies! One resident stood up and addressed the New Baltimore Planning Board at the public meeting on August 13, 2020, and, directing his no-nonsense comments straight to shyster attorney Michael Biscone of Ravena and his lapdog Robert Nolan with some pretty clear words:

“It’s not right that thugs from out of town are allowed to come to New Baltimore and tell New Baltimore what to do. Just because people think they have money…doesn’t mean they can come bully us in our town. If the Board is not able to push back, they need to be replaced.”

Residents came out in big numbers in support of local businessman Randy Lent of Albright’s Garage, a landmark historical business in the Town of New Baltimore and in Greene County. Residents spoke out against the unprecedented invasion of the so-called Coeymanazis, the thugs from the Town of Coeymans, and the Village of Ravena. The thugs’ mission: to bully the New Baltimore Planning Board, under the chairmanship of the marshmallow-fluff chairmanship of Robert Van Etten, owner of VanEtten Excavating, a well-known collaborator and business associate of the thugs. Van Ettan was recently accused of official misconduct (see below). Marshmallow-man vanEtten offered no resistance to the thugs — Why would he? Too much to lose if he does his job for New Baltimore and the residents of New Baltimore! That is, until the courageous New Baltimore resident and business owner stood up and put vanEtten, the Planing Board, Biscone, and Nolan, the in their kennel crates à la mode.

Resident puts two dogs, two mutts in one crate and ships them out.

The speaker went on to ask Mr Biscone, a known local shyster attorney operating in the Town of Coeymans and Ravena, asking Biscone, “Did Nolan pay for your nice car?” He was referring to the local scandal that Biscone likes to drive his ostentatious and overdone Bentley around town like some juvenile with an expensive toy. Some locals call the Biscone Bentley the Biscone Bloodmobile, probably because his scurrilous and leechlike law practice paid for his toys with the blood and tears of local residents.

Biscone is a mercenary and would sell his mother — but not his Bentley — for a price. His loyalties are well known in the area and he’s a legal whore, professional harlot who would do anything for a buck. Now that his pal George McHugh is sitting in the Town of Coeymans Supervisor’s office buttering his coneys’ bread, Biscone is kissing Carver Laraway’s hairy butt (Carver Companies/Port of Coeymans) as counsel, a post George McHugh held before stepping down to run for Town Supervisor. More on that scandalous plan below.

Robert Nolan is another thug. Nolan runs a fuel business and has a basic monopoly in the region supplying propane gas to businesses and residences. He is opposing the New Baltimore resident’s plan to establish a propane distribution business in the Town of New Baltimore, apparently feeling that the NB resident might break Nolan’s strangle hold on the propane business in the region! Local consumers might have a choice; God forbid!

Michael Biscone of the Biscone Bloodmobile is Robert Nolan’s attorney. The question that raises its ugly head is this: Why is Nolan interfering in New Baltimore business, and why is he bringing in a shiftless, evil shyster like Michael Biscone? This isn’t the Town of Coeymans or the Village of Ravena, where they run and hide when the thugs appear. This is New Baltimore where we eat thugs for breakfast, and then deposit them properly by flushing in the local sewerage treatment plant.

New Baltimore Resident Tells them To Get Lost; Stay out of New Baltimore’s Business!

Editor’s Note: The Town of Coeymans (Albany County) and the Town of New Baltimore (Greene County) are pretty much one-horse towns. Local town governments grant franchises to local providers, who then suck residents dry because there’s no choice, no competition! The area is looted by a single telecommunications company State Telephone, cable services are provided by a single provider, MidHudson Cable, who regularly up rates and drop services, most recently discontinuing email services but not adjusting local residents’ and businesses’ bills to reflect the loss of service.Electrical power is supplied by a single company, Central Hudson. With no competition, the infrastructure is constantly failing. It’s Third World at best.

It gets better. Aaron Flach, local parasite so-called businessman, the guy who got seed money from his father, and now tries to make the impression he’s self-made. Flack would be sleeping under some bridge if his father, whose methods were not always the most ethical or honest, didn’t make the money that Flach boys later used to go into their businesses. Anyone who knows the local history and characters will laugh in Flach’s face if he were ever to try to say he made his money by the sweat of his brow!!! He’s a phony, and like Biscone and Nolan, is sucking the area dry. Flach is chairman of a local business association (surprised?), on the board of directors of a local bank (still surprised?), and is a member of the local Rotary Club. Don’t let the Rotary Club thing fool you; the local RC is a farce and a hotbed of hypocrisy and backstabbing; just another beaverly hillbilly country club.

The problem we see is that Robert Nolan — Yes! The same Nolan of Nolan Propane and the same Nolan bullying Robert vanEtten on the New Baltimore Planning Board — is also on the Town of Coeymans Planning Board/Board of Zoning Appeals. That’s an unusual name for the Town board that oversees development and land use, zoning, the comprehensive plan, and other matters in the Town. There’s a story of corruption behind that, too. Here’s what happened:

Coeymans Center for Un-American Activities

And Michael Biscone, Robert Norton, and Aaron Flach want to do the same for New Baltimore.
With a little help from their friends Rob vanEtten, Jeff Ruso, and Nick Dellisanti, they may succeed!

HAS NEW BALTIMORE TOWN HALL BECOME
THE NEW BALTIMORE CENTER FOR UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES?

Say what you like about Phil Crandall and Tom Dolan and the Crandall Board, at least they didn’t have their hands up LaFargeHolcim’s and Carver Laraway’s butts up to their shoulders. At least Crandall and Dolan were unbeholden to big business and did not stand to profit by any official actions they took while in office. At keast Crandall and Dolan gave residents a voice in how the town was run and there was an independent Planning Board and a separate Zoning Board of Appeals. That can’t be said of George McHugh. What can be said about McHugh is that this is a replay of his last one-termer, and the scandal after his first term in office back in 2000-2001, when he set himself up to make big local real estate deals and remap Ravena-Coeymans to his advantage. And it can’t be said about McHugh’s current term, when he’s already taken steps to benefit his former clients, who will still be his clients when he leaves office, and they’ll be owing him big time. We’re watching and biding our time; we expect the Feds are, too.

Flag as flown at King Georgie’s Coeymans Town Hall.

In November 2019, after a scandalous and tumultuous local election, the Coeymans Town Hall became the Coeymans Center for Un-American Activities. With the election of local shyster attorney, Georgie Deflumer McHugh, backed by a number of local thugs calling themselves the Friends of Coeymans, but actually three local bullies, and with the glamour of two young, inexperienced local boys — pet puppies — George Deflumer McHugh ran for the office of Coeymans Town Supervisor. McHugh was elected, as were his two puppies. The writing was on the wall but the illiterate sheeple of Coeymans couldn’t read it. So then, McHugh crowned himself King Georgie of Coeymans.

Lefevre, McHugh, Collins, Langdon
They’re The McHugh Puppet Show..

Shortly after being elected, McHugh, not yet supervisor and not yet sworn in to office, announced by letter on his law firm letterhead, that he, McHugh, intended to abolish the Town of Coeymans Planning Board. The letter was dated December 20, 2019, and sent to the incumbent members of the Coeymans Planning Board. He also advised the Town of Coeymans CAC, the Conservation Advisory Council, that they, too, would be abolished. The Coeymans Planning Board’s responsibilities included reviewing of proposals for development and land use, and developing the town’s comprehensive plan. The CAC, or Conservation Advisory Council, was a panel who advised on and planned environmental issues.

The Ravena News Herald, the local rag formerly owned by McHugh and now owned by close McHugh friend, Mark Vinciguerra, reported in its January 1, 2020, issue:

“Incoming town officials hit the ground running New Year’s Day with several changes, including dissolving the Coeymans’ Conservation Advisory Council. The new Coeymans Town Board voted Jan. 1 to abolish the CAC, to propose a law to dissolve and combine the Coeymans Planning Board with the Zoning Board of Appeals, approved a five-year Payment In Lieu of Taxes agreement for an incoming business … Three men [McHugh, Lefevre, Collins) were sworn in 9 a.m. New Years Day to a packed room at Coeymans Town Hall, 18 Russell Ave., Ravena, for their new term on the town board.”

McHugh wasted no time in keeping his promise made even before he took office, that he would abolish the Planning Board and the CAC; both actions would pave the way for McHugh’s handlers to have free reign over the Town of Coeymans. McHugh and his Coeymans Town Board, now packed with his Republican puppets, passed Local Law 1 of 2020, which reads:

“The purpose and subject of this Local Law is to: 1) Abolish the Town Planning Board, 2) Transfer all Planning Board functions and duties to the existing Zoning Board of Appeals, 3) Rename the Zoning Board of Appeals to the ‘Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals”, and 4) Amend the Town of Coeymans Code where necessary to effectuate these changes.”

With that one law, the people of the Town of Coeymans lost any say in how their Town was to be developed, how land was to be used, how zoning and re-zoning was to be done. The power was transferred to the Zoning Board of Appeals, which was then packed with McHugh supporters and local thugs, including Mr Robert Nolan of Nolan Propane. We see a conflict of interest here. Now the Board and local McHugh supporters and clients had nothing in their way. Even the Conservation Advisory Council was abolished; there’s nothing to stand in the way of how land is used, zoned, or developed. The people of Coeymans have no say!

Since McHugh increased the number of members on the Board from 5 to seven (?!?!), he also ensured that his clients now and in future have a packed board to do their bidding. That’s because the members on the board serve terms for the number of years that there are members on the board. How’s that for a sucker punch, Coeymans?

McHugh’s setting himself up to make big bucks after serving this term, and setting up his recent and future clients to have their way in Coeymans. He’s also setting up residents and small businesses in the Town of Coeymans for the ride to hell. Just keep an eye on the Port of Coeymans (McHugh/Biscone), Carver Companies (McHugh/Biscone), Collins & Son Fuel & Hauling (Zach Collins, VP, Collins & Son, fuel and hauling), LaFargeHolcim (watch Daniel Baker, who works for LaFarge), Yannis, Trickey’s Scrapyard, and others in the Town of Coeymans, including Nolan Propane (Rob Nolan is a member of the Town of Coeymans now combined Planing Board/Zoning Board of Appeals). And then there’s board member Ken Burns, Wimp-Waffler, who’s anybody’s for a price.

McHugh and his thugs didn’t stop there. They then passed laws requiring permit applicants to post escrow to cover the experts’ and consultants’ fees for reviews done by the Planinng Board/Zoning Board of Appeals, in order to have a permit application reviewed. What this does in practical terms is prevent many landowners from developing their properties because of this new requirement to post escrow to pay for experts and consultants to review the permit applications. Why do we need a Board if we have to pay for their experts? Well, that’s not the point, really. The only ones who can afford that kind of money have that kind of money and they’re names are Biscone, McHugh, Collins, Nolan, Carver Laraway, and a handful of others! Oh, did we forget to mention the Yanni’s restaurant extension and how that got pushed thru thanks to Carver Laraway (owner of the property), Michael Biscone, and George McHugh. They’re all in bed together, even picking up leftover wives (McHugh and Laraway).

McHugh and his thugs then passed laws redefining what a garbage disposal facility and a transfer station are. Remember the Clean Air Act? McHugh and his thugs hate it but said they would not repeal the law but they didn’t say they wouldn’t redefine it! Just another shyster lawyer trick with language and Coeymans fell for it — flat on their sheeple faces!

Bullies LaQuire-Hagen-Boomer

McHugh and his thugs passed laws in early 2020 putting a moratorium on solar energy development in the Town, a new law on how citizens can gather and assemble, a law controlling what noise can be produced in the Town, and the list of new laws limiting freedoms in the Town of Coeymans and favoring big business goes on and the first year isn’t even over yet!!!

A new law passed by McHugh and his puppets, LOCAL LAW 7 OF 2020 (Adopted July 23, 2020), regarding how citizens can meet and assemble, is Mini-Me McHugh’s version of a scandalous law passed in England in 1714 that prevented groups of more than 12 persons to meet; it was King George I — King George of England, not King Georgie of Coeymans — way of preventing public expression. The act allowed local officials to declare any gathering of more than 12 people “unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled.” The Riot Act, if ignored by the assembly, was punishable by death. King Georgie McHugh’s — now isn’t that ironic that McHugh’s name is George, too — new law reads in part:

“No person shall take part in or join or aid, assist or abet any riotous or tumultuous assemblage or unnecessary crowds upon the streets or in doorways or stairways adjacent thereto or loiter about such places.”

It’s the responsibility of the drafters of laws to be very plain and clear about what they mean; when they make a law that’s vague and ambiguous, it’s probably so that it can be very freely interpreted and abuses. Watch out! Other than that, the law as written, is a pretty serious violation of people’s protected Constitutional right of freedom of assembly. The problem with McHugh’s law is that it does not define any of the terms it uses. This means that the vagueness and ambiguity of the terms make the law open for abuse or, if challenged, useless! Read more about the historical Riot Act here: What Does It Mean to ‘Read the Riot Act’?

McHugh and Bisccone, together with their handlers Aaron Flach and Carver Laraway, and a handful of others including Rob Nolan, have the Town of Coeymans tied up, bagged, and slung over their shoulders.

We are watching this scenario very closely because we see charges of abuse of public office in the making and possible corruption and conspiracy activity that might land some of these guys either in professional limbo or in the new county jail.

Now they have their eyes on the Town of New Baltimore, the neighboring town to the South. it’s not enough that they have bullied and controlled Coeymans, they’re now trying to tell New Baltimore what to do and how to do it.

Rob Van Etten whenever Michael Biscone is in the Room.

Some residents won’t stand for that, particularly those residents of New Baltimore, who have businesses and property in the Town of Coeymans, and who know what’s going on there. The resident we quoted above is one of many who are up in arms at the arrogance and nerve of Robert Nolan and Michael Biscone skipping into Town Hall thinking they can call the shots. Well, at the public meeting on August 13, 2020, both Nolan and Biscone, were shown the door, and told not to let it hit them in the ass on their way out.

The Town of New Baltimore has it’s own serious problem: Robert vanEtten, owner of a local excavating company, and the chairman of the New Baltimore Planning Board. As we mentioned above, he has marshmallows for balls, and marshmallows don’t secrete testosterone. It’s pitiful how he lets himself be pushed around and doesn’t push back. What’s he doing on the Planning Board anyway if he can’t defend the interests residents of the Town of New Baltimore?

Van Etten has some skeletons in the closet and isn’t as honest or ethical as we’d like to expect a public servant to be. He’s running a business and is voting on proposals coming before the Board, and in which he has an interest. He stands to make money on some of those projects if they go through. We caught him in 2018 doing work for a local developer, William Brandt, who is developing a senior housing project in the Town of New Baltimore, and, incidentally is represented by Michael Biscone.

What do you think is going on here?

We demanded records of the operations of the Town of New Baltimore Planning Board in another matter and, in the course of our investigations, came upon documents that showed that Robert VanEtten, while on the New Baltimore Planning Board, had done work for Brandt, and vanEtten had participated in Board voting on the Brandt project!!! Michael Biscone also represented Brandt. That’s not only unethical, it’s illegal, and we notified the Town of New Baltimore Town Board and Supervisor Jeff Ruso but vanEtten was never fired and never resigned. Was that because his wife, Shelly van Etten is a sitting board member. We guess he has too many friends — one of them his own wife, Shelly van Etten, on the NB Town Board —, and stands to make more money before he leaves the Board. Not if we have anything to say about it! We reported on our findings in our article, “New Baltimore: Pick up rocks, find snakes. Part I.”

Marshmallow Balls!

Robert vanEtten is limp, impotent, a man with marshmallows for balls. He does’t and won’t stand up against thugs like Nolan, Biscone, Flach, and others, and he let’s himself be pushed around like a jailhouse bitch! The resident addressing the New Baltimore Planning Board hit the nail on the head: If you can’t do the job, if you can’t push back, if you don’t have the cojones to stand up for New Baltimore, get the hell out of Town Hall, vanEtten, and take your dummies with you!

Our advice to Mr Robert Van Etten, Chair of the New Baltimore Planning Board.

The Editor
And the People of New Baltimore

Totally Ridiculous!

What are we paying these people for? It’s as bad as paying the Town of New Baltimore Dog Catcher, Joe Tanner, more than $4,000 a year when he can play dog-catcher only after he gets off his other job! Even if we wanted to vet the information we have, it should be noted that only limited information is available, since the minutes of the Planning Board are not up to date and appear not to have been transcribed or posted for some time now. Although New Baltimore has half the population of the Town of Coeymans, New Baltimore has approximately twice the number of town employees! Still, not a lot seems to be getting done in NB Town Hall. It’s ridiculous that with so many people taking up space, they can’t keep the public informed or minutes properly transcribed and published.?!? It appears, if the Town of New Baltimore website is correct, that the last transcribed/published meeting minutes was for February 14, 2019 Pacheco et al. Public Hearing Minutes. That’s ridiculous and unconscionable! (Much of the Town of New Baltimore website is out-of-date, and poorly maintained.) The situation is similar in the case of the New Baltimore Zoning Board of Appeals!!! One Ms Marjorie B. Loux is the clerk/secretary for both the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals. We think she has some explaining to do, as do Supervisor Jeff Ruso and his deputy/croney Nick Dellisanti. What is going on in Town Hall or should we say, Town Country Club?

For Our Readers’ Information, Here are the Members of the New Baltimore Planning Board

Rob VanEtten, Chair (12-31-20)
Patricia Bruno (12-31-20)
Robert Court (12-31-20)
Frank Orlando (12-31-21)
Lee Salisbury (12-31-23)
Michelle Stefanik (12-31-23)
Ann Marie Vadney (12-31-23)
Marjorie B. Loux, Clerk

Well, Coeymans! You can’t say we didn’t warn you!

07 May

Here we are in the middle of a pandemic! Meetings, group assemblies, even church gatherings are forbidden. No public meetings. You’re made anonymous and invisible because you have to hide your faces! The supermarket shelves are bare. Government and utilities are forgiving or suspending payment obligations, and providing safety nets! But George McHugh and his puppets in Town Hall are sticking it to you when you’re down, hurting, and unable to gather to protest. Lousy sneaks!

Looks like Coeymans Sole Assessor, Dawn DeRose, has either joined the rat pack or has been bullied into supporting their plans.

Reactions: Scott Searles, Repubican Highway Superintendent, chimes in to defend his keepers saying that Smalbany is blaming and lying. Mr Searles was instructed in what an anus is: ” The anus has eyes to see but is blind to reality; ears to hear but is deaf to truth; a nose to smell but can’t find the rats under his own nose; a tongue to taste but has none; and fingers to feel but has no sense and so has no feeling.” We’re guessing Mr Searles doesn’t know what an anus is.

Trevor Walsick doesn’t address the assessment problem but rants that “the residents of the town Coeymans realized by aligning with someone sick as yourself that Crandall and Dolan were a lost cause! Record turnout sealed the deal… The residents have spoken and you again solidified the win!!” Record turnout? The only “turnout” was residents’ stomach contents when they found out what the few voters who went out did to the Town of Coeymans. Mr Walsick is true to the second half of his name: SICK! But that’s fine because Trevor Walsick is a fake and a coward. His Facebook page features a car photo as the profile picture and he doesn’t have the balls to provide profile information. What that means is that Trevor Walsick is probably a nobody being impersonated by one of the Fiends of Coeymans, McHugh’s neonazis. Even if Trevor Walsick actually existed, he doesn’t own any property in the Town of Coeymans, so he wouldn’t have much to say, would he? That’s if he were real.

Neither Searles nor the fake Walsick seem to recall their darling McHugh during his single term as supervisor in 2001, left Coeymans with a 16% tax increase. Most of the fools who voted for him probably weren’t even in the area at the time; those who were probably drink Ravena water, which would explain the brain liquefaction.

But George McHugh, his puppet Coeymans Town Board, Zachary Collins, Brendon Lefevre, Daniel Baker, and Kenneth Burns, and their town employees under their control are taking scandalous advantage of Town residents!

McHugh

Property owners are being slammed with incredible increases in their property taxes! Have you gotten your property tax bill yet? Some assessments have tripled. All of this during a pandemic when you can’t even go to a town board meeting to complain. All of this being done behind closed doors by your Friends of Coeymans!

You need to protest in numbers! You need to hit the streets! You need to organize! You need to put signs on your over-assessed properties pointing the finger at McHugh and his Town Board puppets!

Phil Crandall and Tom Dolan WARNED you about these bastards! Now you’re seeing it happen. Get ready for mass rape!

Flood Town Hall with Grievances! Send letters to your tenants telling them that because of the massive increases in property taxes, you’re going to have to massively raise their rents! Those tenants who are leasing, give them notice that their leases are going to be massively increased because of the Town of Coeymans sneaky, villainous behind closed doors robbery during a pandemic!

NOW THEY WANT A NEW TOWN HALL!!! WHY??? WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR IT??? WHO’S GOING TO GET THE CONTRACTS??? Anyone who benefits from the McHugh mob’s corruption should be shunned by the community. No one needs their money enough to have to sell his or her soul!!!

We warned you well in advance of the elections! You saw the Friends of Coeymans thugs in action at Town Board meetings! You knew all about McHugh’s lies and his puppets, Collins and Lefevre’, we warned you about Daniel Baker, sockpuppet and turncoat polecat!.

Maybe you should be asking if Carver Laraway’s properties have been massively reassessed. Or Lafarge’s. Or Aaron Flach’s? Perrine’s. Misuraca’s. How about Zachary Collin’s family’s business properties? Ask Questions. Get answers!

If you are outraged at the dishonesty and sneakiness in Coeymans Town Hall, we want to hear from you at rcs.confidential@gmail.com. We’re prepared to organize and coordinate protest actions against McHugh and his pack of thugs and liars. Contact us about your property, how much your assessment has increased, and what you think of this scandalous breach of trust!

Yeah! They’re business friendly all right! That’s how they attract new residents and businesses: raise property taxes 300%. That’s the McHugh plan! Then when people cant pay their taxes, McHugh, Carver Laraway, Michael Biscone, the Collins fuel and excavation business, and all their coneys will be there to get your property real cheap, after the tax sale!

You all need to get Phil Crandall and Tom Dolan on your team and advising your committees! They knew what was going on and what was going to happen! They tried to tell you but you listened to the thugs and liars instead. Nice going, dumbasses!

Contact us at rcs.confidential@gmail.com and tell us your story. Then storm the News Herald and force them to print the truth for once!

And start writing to your fascist Coeymans Town Board and let them know what you think! And don’t forget your Coeymans Sole Assessor, Dawn DeRose. Ask her what she thinks she’s doing? Ask her why she’s jumped ship to join the McHugh mob? Ask her if she’s been bullied by McHugh and his mob or if she’s just one of them?

Now’s the time to get on Facebook and start getting the ball rolling for mass protests and flooding Town Offices with complaints!

You need to get the word out about what McHugh and his mob are doing in Coeymans!
You need to file your complaints and grievances with the Town; let them know how unhappy you are with them.
Let your tenants know their rents are going to way up, thanks to McHugh and his thugs raising your property taxes!
Ask McHugh and his mob if that’s what they call business friendly. You know, their slogan to get themselves re-elected. How does raising property taxes help small businesses and encourage people to settle in Coeymans? Wasn’t that what McHugh, Collins, Lefevre, and Baker promised to get elected.
Ask yourself who McHugh’s tax hike is most likely to hurt? You or Lafarge? You or Carver Laraway? You or Collins Fuel (Zachry Collin’s company)?
Ask yourself how McHugh’s backstabbing is going to encourage families to buy [overtaxed] property and settle in Coeymans. Wasn’t that one of their campaign promises?
Ask yourself how many Coeymans businesses McHugh’s, Collins’, Lefevre’s, Baker’s and Burns’ lies are going to benefit.

Here is their contact information:

George D. McHugh – gmchugh@coeymans.org
Current Term Expires December 31, 2021

YOU’RE SCUMBAG LIARS!!!

Secretary to the Supervisor (Isn’t this McHugh’s wife?!?)
Candace McHugh – cmchugh@coeymans.org

Daniel D. Baker – Council – dbaker@coeymans.org
Current Term expires December 31, 2021

Kenneth A. Burns – Council – kburns@coeymans.org
Current Term expires December 31, 2021

Zachary S. Collins – Council – zcollins@coeymans.org
Current Term expires December 31, 2023

Brandon L. LeFevre – Council – blefevre@coeymans.org
Current Term expires December 31, 2023

YOU BETRAYED US!!!

Sole Assessor
Dawn DeRose
Phone (518)756-8927
E-mail – assessor@coeymans.org

UPDATE FOR THE 2020 REASSESSMENT PROJECT

…AND YOU’RE SICKENING!!!

Editor’s Note:

FOR THE RECORD

As most of our readers know, we interviewed Mr Crandall and Mr Dolan several weeks before the elections, and we posted the full-text transcripts of the interviews. As for the reval of Coeymans properties, Mr Crandall had this to say:

“We, looked into a “reval” And it was due; it was overdue. It should be done every 10 years so now it’s 12 years. However, the businesses in Town were at approximately 85% of true market value (TMV) and home ownership was at 95% of TMV. That should all be at 100 percent. So, in essence the homeowners were partially subsidizing the businesses in the Town. So, with the reval coming through that will all be taken care of, there will be a fair tax rate for everyone. Some will go up a little bit, most will go down a little bit. But businesses will definitely have to come up with their fair share, where they should be.” [My underlining for emphasis]

For those of our readers who do not know what “reval” means, it’s short for revaluation. Revaluation rates are market rates from a specific point in time that are used as a base value to assess whether rates are too high or too low for certain categories of property, activities, etc. Revaluation rates are often referred to as “reval rates.”

Mr Crandall was up front in saying that the reval of town properties was overdue, and that businesses were going to carry their fair share. He also was honest when he said that some properties will increase “a little bit.” He emphasized fairness.

Mr Crandall also emphasized that larger businesses sucking the community dry and repeatedly asking for tax breaks and consideration under the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) program were no longer going to get a free ride. Again, Mr Crandall emphasized fairness to property owners and small businesses.

This is all water under the bridge now but the complete interview transcripts are still available for anyone who wants to read them and learn what Mr Crandall and his Town Board planned to do. That was black letter commitment, and Mr Crandall knew that once he said something and it went on record, there was no turning back.

No one can say the same for Mr McHugh and his mob. McHugh refused to be interviewed and refused to debate. That should say it all. Now Coeymans residents and taxpayers have to deal with the reality of what’s happening in the town!

Our question would be to Mr McHugh: “How do you expect to attract more small businesses and new families to Coeymans when you have increased Full Market Values and Taxable Property Values?”

We will be watching the grievances and the final tax rolls very closely and we’ll compare 2018 and 2019 property values and assessments with the 2020 finalized tax rolls, and report on what we find.

The Editor

Information on the Poop Senders Investigation

24 Nov

Since some — actually quite a few — crimes seem to get swept under the carpet or lost completely by incompetent investigators in Coeymans, and selectively prosecuted — depending on who you are or whom you know — by the Albany County District Attorney, P. David Soares, we thought we’d help this one along. This case is so obscene, it has to be thoroughly investigated and the perps identified, apprehended, prosecuted, sentenced, and publicly shamed!

Read the first article on this case at: Coeymans Only Gets Sicker; Criminal Perps Being Investigated

Can Contento handle the case? We doubt it!
Better call in the Girl Scouts; they’ll do a better job!

Can Law Enforcement, Coeymans Police and the Albany County DA even spell the word?

A note from the Editor:

It’s always best to take affirmative steps to protect yourself and your family against criminals and criminal activity. Terror and terrorists come in any number of packages and flavors, some foreign, others domestic. Here are some tips from the FBI:

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover “”domestic,”” as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act “dangerous to human life” that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; recently engaged in activities that could subject them to being investigated as engaging in domestic terrorism.

How Citizens Can Protect Themselves and Report Suspicious Activity

It is important for people to protect themselves both online and in-person, and to report any suspicious activity they encounter. The simplest ways to accomplish this are to:

Remain aware of your surroundings.
Refrain from oversharing personal information.
Say something if you see something. The insular nature of today’s violent extremists makes them difficult for law enforcement to identify and disrupt before an attack. Many times, a person’s family or friends may be the first to notice a concerning change in behavior that may indicate a person is mobilizing to violence.

(Source: Terrorism, https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism, last accessed on November 25, 2019)

The Facts

On or about November 13, 2019, a person or persons yet to be identified, made a purchase from the online vendor poopsenders.com, and caused to be mailed via the United States Postal Service, at least 5 packages containing feces of an unspecified species, to addresses in the Town of Coeymans.

This sums up the perps.
Poop-in-a-Bag

The Vendor[1]

The seller of the product sent by first class mail via the United States Postal Service operates a business from an Internet site at poopsenders.com, and offers for sale a variety of animal by-products, namely, feces, which for payment the company will send by United States Postal Service, to recipients, whose names and addresses are provided by the purchaser of the product, namely animal feces.

The seller of the product packages the product for shipment but does not indicate on the shipping container that the container contains hazardous, dangerous, or offensive material.

The container containing the product is sent in a plain white envelope with no indication of its contents, and is apparently mailed via general mail-handling channels. The package shows a tracking number, which can be used to track the package en route, up to the point of delivery of the package.

The seller’s Internet site clearly states on its home page that their product is:

“The Ultimate Gag Gift
“Sweet Revenge At Its Finest
“Guaranteed Anonymous”

The words in that description “gag,” “revenge,” “anonymous” are key to an understanding of the intent and purpose of the product.

The Seller’s Guarantee[2]

The seller allegedly promises that the purchaser/sender will remain “guaranteed anonymous,” that Poop Senders will “NOT” let the recipient know who sent the package, and even offers a cash payment option to avoid tracing the purchase. In that same section Poop Senders acknowledges that the product they will send will be “a healthy heap of some of the nastiest, stinkiest, fresh poop packages that anyone has ever seen.” The seller finishes with the statement, “We will never tell.” Well, both Poop Senders and their clients are in for a big surprise!

ONLY COWARDS DO IT ANONYMOUSLY

The Seller’s Reasons for Sending their Product[3]

The seller lists at least ten (10) reasons for sending their product:

For your ex
Neighbors pet crapping on your lawn
For your mean boss
For a salesperson or mechanic that ripped you off
A Last minute gift for someone who has everything
A gag gift
For that rich gloating friend, knock them down a peg
To the teacher that gave your son/daughter a poor grade
Some one left you a negative review or feedback
You just don’t like them

At least eight (8) out of the ten (10) reasons for sending the seller’s product are obviously with the intent to punish, intimidate, offend, alarm, or otherwise annoy the recipient; in other words, at least eight (8) out of ten (10) reasons published by the seller are for the ostensible purpose of harassing the recipient.

The seller publishes on their website testimonials that are obviously meant to emphasize the adverse intent of the product. Examples of some of the statements made include:[4]

“This is a gift that every asshole neighbor should get.”
“I sent one to my jackass brother in law and the whole family found out about it and they are all teasing him. He doesn’t know who it came from. He’s so pissed off its great.”
‘[I] have already sent out 3 “poop packages” and the shit is just starting to fly.”

The published “testimonials” published on the seller’s website clearly prove that the seller is aware of the intentions of the individuals purchasing their product and clearly uses that information as a motivation for purchasing the product, that is, for the purpose of punishing, intimidating, offending, alarming, or otherwise annoying the recipient.

The fact that the seller emphasizes the value of anonymity in perpetrating the harassment is further proof of the seller’s intent to facilitate the commission of the criminal behavior by the purchaser, and not only facilitates the commission of the unlawful and criminal acts but explicitly encourages the commission of the unlawful and criminal acts.

The seller uses anonymity or the guarantee of anonymity to further promote the sale and purchase of their product, thus accomplishing the purpose of selling their product by encouraging unlawful and asocial behavior in persons who may be prone to such behavior but would avoid the behavior out of a fear of social shame if found out; the promise of anonymity claims to remove the risk of shame, and so removes a powerful deterrent to asocial and unlawful conduct, thus encouraging, promoting, and facilitating such conduct.

The price ranges from 1 quart of cow dung for $17.95 + $9.95 S/H to $249.95 + 19.95 S/H for a 5-lb special package. The package sent to the Coeymans recipients are believed to be 1 quart cow dung packages ($17.95 + $9.95).

Criminals at the Computer.

The seller’s FAQs further confirm their encouragement of anonymity as well as the offensive nature of the product they offer:

“Does it have to be anonymous?
“Yes. We guarantee it. Now if you want to wait about a week after ordering your package and call or e-mail that special someone and ask them if they just got a special package that is up to you, but rest assured we will never tell. Want to be extra careful? Pay with our cash option where you mail in the order form (or just number) and payment.”

“Is it real poop?
“Only the mad scientist that packs this stuff in the back room knows for sure and he wouldn’t tell us, but we do know this, it really smells bad back there, he is mixing up shit, and he does visit the local dairy farm and zoo about twice a week. (We also don’t want the delivery company to actually know what kind of shit they’re delivering.) We can assure you that it looks nasty and really stinks. It will get the point across to your intended victim.”

The seller provides legal advice, although they are not attorneys, as to the legality of their operations and practices.

“Is this legal?
“Yes and we’ve been in business since 2007. Sending an anonymous non-hazardous package through the US Postal Service is indeed legal. Please review our legal page for more information.”

What do you expect them to tell you? That it’s illegal maybe? The statement in the above FAQ is misleading because it states a truth but in a misleading manner, because animal feces is hazardous both physically and psychologically, and the seller is sending such material through the United States Postal Service.

Synopsis of the Criminality of the Act

Poop Senders and their Customers misuse the USPS in the Commission of Criminal Acts.

The vendor, Poop Senders, is misinforming the public by stating that what they and their customers are engaging in is legal. It is NOT. Poop Senders clearly and explicitly states that their product is intended to annoy, offend, irritate, disgust, intimidate the recipient of the product. Poop Senders provides examples of situations in which customers can use their product for the purpose of “revenge.” Testimonials are provided which clearly and explicitly state that the purpose underlying purchase of the product was to annoy, intimidate, disgust, or offend the recipient. Poop Senders literally guarantees the effect of disgust, offensiveness, annoyance, intimidation. Anonymity is offered to prevent their customers from public shame and, ostensibly, to avoid prosecution — in other words, Poop Senders is conspiring to aid in concealing the commission of a crime, and so facilitate their customers in the commission of an unlawful act. Poop Senders, by their own statements, provides clear evidence that their product is intended to harass or to harm the recipient. Poop Senders uses the USPS to effect these purposes. These purposes are clearly described as harassment in the penal/criminal codes of both New York and Pennsylvania. Therefore, Poop Senders is using the USPS to perpetrate a criminal act; Poop Senders‘ customers are availing themselves of Poop Senders‘ guarantee of the desired effects and are therefore employing Poop Senders to commit an unlawful act, a criminal act in both New York and Pennsylvania — misdemeanor harassment —, a criminal act across state lines, an interstate criminal act, using the USPS as the effective vehicle to consummate the act. The Internet is being used as the medium over which the directions for the commission of the crime are being transmitted. Poop Senders is cooperating with the purchaser for payment for the commission of a criminal act.

OK, Law Enforcement, USPS Inspection Division, what is it you don’t understand?
SHIT IS HAZARDOUS, BIO-HAZARDOUS!!!

Moreover, despite the clear and conspicuous intent of the seller’s product and the content of the testimonials, which explicitly state the unlawful intent of the product, the seller provides a “disclaimer,” which does not eliminate the seller’s liability and would have no legal effect given the overwhelming evidence of the seller’s intent and the purchasers’ stated intended effects in the testimonials section of the website.

The Unlawful, Illegal, and Asocial Nature of the Product

We believe that the seller knowingly sells a product whose sole purpose and intent is to annoy, alarm, intimidate, offend the recipient of the product. That intent is clearly stated by the seller to be “revenge,” and the seller explicitly lists at least ten examples of situations in which the clear intent of sending the product is to punish, annoy, intimidate, offend, etc. the recipient for no objectively lawful purpose.

The contents of the package is animal feces, that is, an animal waste product that is potentially hazardous to the health and well-being not only of the recipient but also of the USPS employees handling or coming in contact with the package. The product is hazardous.

The postal service employees and the recipient are not provide with due notice of the nature of the contents and are therefore knowingly put at risk by both the seller/sender and the purchaser of the product.

The sending of hazardous or potentially hazardous material via the United States Postal Service is a priori unlawful and criminal, unless there is compliance with the relevant regulations. There is no evidence of any compliance whatsoever. The sending of hazardous or potentially hazardous material via the United States Postal Service with the clear intention of committing a crime is egregiously and aggravatingly criminal.

Given the clear and explicit statements of the seller on their website, the product’s primary intention is to annoy, intimidate, offend, or otherwise elicit an adverse reaction in the recipient; the seller guarantees that effect in order to encourage the purchaser to purchase the seller’s product for the ostensible purpose of annoying, offending, intimidating, or, as stated in the seller’s published material, as “revenge.” The purchaser purchases the seller’s product with the intent of eliciting the guaranteed effects.

The seller further entraps the potential purchaser by ensuring anonymity.

The seller states they they “ship only to [sic] the Continental United States.” The seller ships via the USPS across state lines, that is, engages in interstate commerce of hazardous or potentially hazardous materials. In the present case, the seller shipped across state borders, that is, from a location in Pennsylvania to locations in New York state.

The Criminal Codes of New York State and the State of Pennsylvania

Both New York and Pennsylvania have in their Criminal Codes provisions describing the crime of harassment.

The New York State criminal code, NY Penal L § 240.30, describes the crime of misdemeanor aggravated harassment as

“240.30 Aggravated harassment in the second degree.

A person is guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree when, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, he or she:
she:
Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or

(b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic means or otherwise with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm.

The Pennsylvania criminal code, Title 18, § 2709. Harassment.

(a) Offense defined.–A person commits the crime of harassment when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another, the person:
(3) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which serve no legitimate purpose;
(4) communicates to or about such other person any lewd, lascivious, threatening or obscene words, language, drawings or caricatures;
(5) communicates repeatedly in an anonymous manner;

The seller and the purchaser of the seller’s product have perpetrated and committed or have caused to be perpetrated or committed, or are accessories to the perpetration or commission of misdemeanor harassment under the criminal statutes of both New York and Pennsylvania.

The Primary Suspects

As in any investigation, an investigator must take into consideration motive, motivation, purpose, intent, knowledge, pattern, previous conduct, etc. and form a list of persons who would be most likely to perpetrate the unlawful acts.

Given the contentious conduct of the Comeback Team candidates and their close association and alliances with the so-called Friends of Coeymans principals, we feel that the following individuals are and should be considered primary suspects in the present situation:

The Whole Community Knows Who is Behind This Atrocity!

Boomer

Nathan P. Boomer (Friends of Coeymans)
212 Biechman Road
Ravena, NY 12046

Hagen

Christopher J. Hagen (Friends of Coeymans)
32 Lindskoog Road
Alcove, NY 12007

LaQuire

Jeffrey Laquire (Friends of Coeymans)
11 Albright Court
Ravena, NY 12143

Collins

Zachary Collins (Comeback Team)
898 Route 143
[Coeymans Hollow]
Ravena, NY 12143

Lefevre

Brendan Lefevre (Comeback Team)
250 Buschendorf Road
[Coeymans Hollow, Parent’s Basement]
Ravena, New York 12143

McHugh

George D. McHugh (Comeback Team)
100 Lawson Lake Road
Feura Bush, NY 12067

The tactics and publications of the principals, organizers, and administrators of the Friends of Coeymans, serve to evidence that the purchase and sending of the packages in question is not something that can be easily or otherwise ruled out, since such conduct would be easily presumed from the group’s paste and ongoing practices and tactics. Such harassment would be completely in the character and repertoire of the group given their pattern of harassment, bullying, disruption, degradation, and annoyance of persons, whom they have targeted.

And NO! The Comeback Team does not have a mandate from the “People;” they have only the votes of their supporters. That’s all. After the pre-election antics and the performances of the Coeymans Clowns, the so-called Friends of Coeymans, most of the People stayed safely home; the beasts, the Fiends of Coeymans were out, and a few stalwart citizens defied the neonazis and made their way to the polls, only to be harassed afterwards. Let’s admit the truth!

Given the close association and the support derived by the so-called Comeback Team, that is, the candidates in the most recent local elections, George McHugh, Zachary Collins, and Brendan Lefevre, their knowledge of and concealment of the unlawful conduct of the primary suspects cannot be ruled out.

Law Enforcement Investigation of the Criminal Activities

The Coeymans Police Department has been notified, and the victims who received the offending packages at Coeymans Town Hall have turned over the packages received at Coeymans Town Hall to the Coeymans Police for investigation.

Have the Coeymans Police Interviewed the Friends of Coeymans or the Comeback Team?

Given the current state of facts in the Town of Coeymans, we expect that the Coeymans Police have called at least the primary suspects in for questioning; furthermore, we expect that in the interest of efficient police work, the members of the Comeback Team have been interviewed and questioned as to their knowledge of any facts relevant to the unlawful acts.

We expect that any interviews or interrogations have been duly documented for the record as part of the investigation process.

The Albany County District Attorney, P. David Soares, as the chief law-enforcement officer in the County of Albany, must be informed and an investigation initiated through his office.

The Allegheny District Attorney, Stephen A. Zappala, Jr., should be notified and his office requested to collaborate with the office of the Albany County DA, in the investigation of the seller’s activities in Pennsylvania. The offices of Albany County and Allegheny County DA must collaborate and cooperate in a joint effort to identify, apprehend, and prosecute the offenders in this case.

The United States Postal Service Inspection Divisions responsible for and competent in Albany County (NY) and Allegheny County (PA) must be notified and requested to assist in the investigation of the unlawful conduct in this case. The Coeymans Police Department must be proactive in requesting the assistance of the United States Postal Service Inspection Division.

The perpetrators, both the seller and the purchaser(s) of the product(s), must be charged with various counts of criminal activity including but not limited to, misdemeanor harassment under the criminal codes of New York and Pennsylvania, violations of interstate commerce, violations of the USPS regulations regarding the use of the mail (1) to send hazardous or dangerous materials and (2) the use of the United States Postal Service and the mail in the commission of a crime, endangerment of the health and safety of not only the recipients of the packages but also of the USPS employees handling the packages or coming in contact with the packages.

THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE, SICKO-S!

Notes:

[1] For the purposes of this document, the vendor or the seller or shipper of the offending product is called “Poop Senders,” and the information cited in this document is extracted from the “Poop Senders” Internet site at https://www.poopsenders.com/ (last accessed on November 23, 2019). According to the return address shown on the shipping container, Poop Senders uses the moniker A.S. Enterprises located at P.O. Box 572, Allison Park, Pennsylvania 15101. The origin of the packages has been confirmed using the USPS tracking number appearing on the shipping package.

[2] The seller makes a number of “guarantee” claims: “Guaranteed Anonymous” (https://www.poopsenders.com/#order, last accessed on November 23, 2019), “Frequently Asked Questions” https://www.poopsenders.com/faq, last accessed on November 23, 2019).

[3] “Top 10 Reasons to Send Someone Poop!” (https://www.poopsenders.com/#order, lass accessed on November 23, 2019).

[4] “Testimonials” (https://www.poopsenders.com/testimonials, last accessed on November 23, 2019).

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Save Coeymans from the Comeback Team!

04 Nov

“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good People Do Nothing!”

Edmund Burke/John F. Kennedy

This just in (November 4, 2019): Jeff LaQuire has been identified as Jay Faith, a fake profile he has been using to post on various Facebook pages! Just another example of the dishonesty and sleaziness of the Comeback Team and their supporters, the Friends of Coeymans a.k.a. Coeymans Clowns, a.k.a. Fiends of Coeymans! Something about Jeff LaQuire…maybe it’s the ‘quire” part…but his fake profile features a woman with two children. We find that a bit odd for a man to be posing as a woman. But then, it’s the FOC and they’re supporting the Comeback Team…It’s just so unnatural.

George McHugh – Liar and Evil Puppetmaster
Any man who associates lies with a national tragedy and the uniform is a disgrace!

The Comeback Team is Evil. They will triumph if good people sit back and do nothing.

Collins & Lefevre: Perhaps not entirely evil…YET
No experience, no independence, McHugh’s puppets.

As can be expected, the Ravena News Herald wasted good deal of ink repeating George McHugh’s weasel-words in an 11th hour effort to distract from his scandalous lies. They’re still offering him air-time to backpedal and save himself. How many more lies can he manage to tell be for the polls open. Let’s start counting, shall we? He’s still as devious and dishonest as ever. It’s just that his previous lies were discovered and made public that he’s now softened them at the last minute. Smalbany published two articles on the Interview that wasn’t, the interview, which, had McHugh had the courage and integrity to accept, would have forced him to admit his lies. Period. The image adorning those articles is one of a pig wallowing in mud and cites Proverbs and 2 Peter 2, scriptural passages, that refer to the fool’s folly, in other words, the fool never changes. McHugh is what McHugh is and McHugh does what McHugh has always done: taken very good care of McHugh at the expense of everyone else. 4 wives and how many other women has he used. He’s going to use, abuse, and then leave Coeymans as soon as he’s gotten what he’s after. Mark these words.

He’s got plenty of weasel-words to weasel around his ethics violations. Yeah, the check is in the mail, Georgie. All we have to say is that so many charges of ethics violations just don’t drop out the sky like snowflakes. Where there’s smoke, Georgie, there’s reason to believe there’s fire. Don’t treat this community and its voters like fools. We’re not…well at least some of us still have our marbles, no thanks to George McHugh!

Liar, liar! Your tail’s on fire, Georgie!

Get out and VOTE!

CRANDALL, DOLAN, MCGUIRE, TOUCHETTE

George McHugh: Wallowing Sows and Vomiting Dogs – Part I

27 Oct

Smalbany’s Summary of why George McHugh and his Comeback Losers would be really bad news for Coeymans will be posted on Sunday, November 3, 2019. Stay tuned!

It’s Sunday so let’s talk Holy Scripture:
“As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”
(Proverbs 26:11 / 2 Peter 2:22)

How Proverbs and 2 Peter apply to George McHugh.

2 Peter 2:22 concludes Peter’s teaching about those who had gone astray and fallen in the gutter by their deceits. He has in mind those who had come into contact with the community of the righteous, only to return to the sinfulness of the hypocrites and the world. Similarly, those kind of men are like a pig who can be scrubbed clean, but soon returns to wallow in the muck again. In other words, these men never truly changed in their nature or their character. Dogs and pigs do what dogs and pigs do; there’s no changing them. Men like that show that they never changed, and it stands to reason that they are still exactly what they used to be. The verse describes George McHugh perfectly.

At this point, we believe that when George McHugh started his campaign, he thought it would be Coeymans-as-usual. Just go out there, tell them what they want to hear, trash your opponents, tell some lies, make some promises you’ll never keep, and they’ll repay you with their vote. Not this time, boys.

We don’t think that McHugh had a clue about how his campaign would draw such attention. He never planned on the inquiries, the investigation, the uncovering of so many unsavory and off-putting examples of his dishonesty, unethical conduct and professional ethics violations, his deceitfulness, and his disdain for transparency and answering the public’s questions. His arrogance is particularly troubling.

Sorry, Georgie, did we surprise you?

McHugh never expected the analysis and the scrutiny that his background and his conduct would elicit. But here it is, Georgie Boy.

That’s why we chose those Bible verses especially for you; the have particularly special meaning that applies beautifully to you, George McHugh.

Back in September, we invited both candidates for Coeymans Town Supervisor, incumbent Phil Crandall and challenger George McHugh, to be interviewed by an impartial, non-partisan, interviewer, in the presence of an observer for the interviewee and a community observer. Smalbany provided both candidates with a set of Proposed Interview Questions, so that the interviewees would have the opportunity to do their preparation and provide the best-possible answers. Smalbany’s interviewer would be expected to ask the set questions but also had the discretion to ask additional questions.

The current Coeymans Town Supervisor, Mr. Phillip Crandall, responded almost immediately to our invitation with a confirmation that he would be willing to be interviewed, and left it up to Smalbany to suggest [a] possible date[s]. Mr. Crandall was interviewed on October 16, 2019, for more than two hours. Smalbany published selected excerpts from the Crandall Interview in three Segments, and provided the full transcripts for readers to view or download.

We are providing the links below to those excerpts, where you will also find links to the complete transcripts of the interview.

George D. McHugh, candidate opposing Mr. Crandall, is running alongside Zach Collins and Brendan Lefevre, both running for seats on the Coeymans Town Board, and George Langdon, a former Coeymans Town Board member, now running for a seat on the County Legislature. The closest classical saying we can come up with is from Benjamin Franklin:

This one’s for Zach Collins and Brendan Lefevre.

Smalbany contacted George McHugh at the same time that we contacted Mr. Crandall. Mr. Crandall responded almost immediately; McHugh refused to respond. Smalbany contacted McHugh in two follow-ups but McHugh continued to refuse to respond.

McHugh refused to answer questions.

McHugh followed the same pattern when it came to the proposed debates between Mr. Crandall and McHugh: three opportunities and McHugh refused all three.

This raises important questions for the Coeymans community: First: If McHugh won’t respond to questions now, what can you expect if somehow he gets elected? Second: What is he hiding?

There is a legal maxim that goes like this
“”Silence is admission of guilt when when the accused ought to have spoken and was able to.”
Mr. McHugh, being an attorney, must have applied that maxim many times; now we apply it to him.

We’ll start with the actual questions we sent to George McHugh with all three of our invitations to interview. We’ll then move on to questions that have been raised in the course of our research, questions that point to very serious character and professional defects in George McHugh that make him unfit for public office, and may even subject him to professional discipline as an attorney.

We will present the questions and our findings in two parts, the first of which we will publish today and Part II, on Tuesday.

PART I – The McHugh Interview that Wasn’t.

Questions that George McHugh has avoided answering

You were elected to be Town of Coeymans Supervisor back in 2001, served one term, and then did not run for a second term. Why was that?

McHugh refused to answer this question. McHugh admits his guilt.

We actually covered this question in two separate articles on the Smalbany blog, so we’ll just refer you to those articles for the details, and recap briefly here: In a Ravena News Herald Article back in 2001, and in a letter to the editor in May 2001, McHugh gave as his reasons for not running for re-election in 2001: his family and his law practice. In March 2019, he changes his story: In an article in the Ravena News Herald, and in his campaign pieces mailed to Coeymans residents, McHugh now claims it was his sense of duty and patriotism after the events of 9/11. George McHugh desecrates the memory and sacrifices of 9/11, and attempts to exploit the giref and emotions associated with the national tragedy of 9/11 to gain political benefit through an outright lie! We say that’s disgraceful and despicable. That alone should cost him your vote. A liar before election is likely to be a liar after the election. (See our Smalbany article: George McHugh: Dishonorable Scoundrel! How Dare You!!!)

The question of the Blaisdell Farm property and your [McHugh’s] housing project on that property has been the subject of a number of inquiries, particularly the fact that the property was annexed by the Village of Ravena at about the time you were Coeymans Town Supervisor, or shortly after you left office. Would you please comment on the circumstances of that annexation and how you benefitted from it? (See our Smalbany article at To McHugh or Not to McHugh.)

McHugh refused to answer this question. McHugh admits his guilt.

One of McHugh’s former wives — he’s gone through 3 and is on his 4^th so far — was running Darby Real Estate back in 2001. McHugh was a one-term Coeymans Town Supervisor back then. McHugh acquired a number of properties in the Town of Coeymans and “the McHugh family” held real estate in the Town of Coeymans and the Village of Ravena. McHugh acquired the Blaisdell Farm property (now accessed along North Clement Street and Laura Lane) and planned to “develop” that property but the property did not have access to water or sewerage, which was an obstacle to development. Evidence points to McHugh’s possible abuse of his public office as Town Supervisor, and his Republican controlled Town Board, to get the McHugh property annexed by the Village of Ravena, and so to get access to water and sewer. Once McHugh hatched the plan and had the annexation plan rolling in the right direction, he was ready to leave public office, and get back to his real estate operations. After a lawsuit the property was annexed to the Village of Ravena, and McHugh built and sold several single-family residences. We reported on this egregious abuse of office in a Smalbany article.(See our Smalbany article at To McHugh or Not to McHugh.)

A crook before the election will be a crook after the election; if he abused public office before, he’ll probably do it again.

You were appointed to a federal administrative law judgeship. It would appear that you are no longer serving in that capacity. Can you tell us what happened to the judgeship?

McHugh refused to answer this question. McHugh admits his guilt.

In 2015, McHugh was appointed to be an administrative judge for the Social Security’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (SSODAR). That appointment was a federal position and was a lifetime appointment. McHugh lasted about a year in the position and then returned to be Carver Laraway’s general counsel. For most attorney’s such an appointment would be a feather in their cap, a star in their career. But for McHugh, it was an obstacle, because he would not be able to practice law for private clients. In other words, he wouldn’t be Carver Laraway’s general counsel, and make the huge bucks he had his eye on.

McHugh is generally silent as to the reasons why he gave up the judgeship or lost it. True, he does have a history of significant and serious ethical problems. Were they the reason?

Given McHugh’s ethical problems, the ones he was caught with, that is, and his apparent abuse of the Supervisor’s Office in 2001, how can Coeymans residents and voters trust him in 2019, now that he has his eyes on a piece of the pie with Carver Laraway and Lafarge?

In a recent Times Union article and interview done in May 2019 by Laurin Stanworth, “Is Coeymans candidate too close to port owner?” quoting directly from the Stanworth article: “McHugh, who is running as a Republican for the town’s $35,000 part-time post, acknowledged his ongoing connection to Carver Companies. In an interview with the Times Union, he [McHugh] said he would continue to do legal work for Laraway if asked.”

Conflicts of interest before the election are conflicts of interest after the election.

Your campaign slogan is “Take Back Our Town,” from whom do you expect to take it back?

McHugh refused to answer this question. McHugh admits his guilt.

Our research and McHugh’s own statements answer this question: McHugh wants to take back HIS town from honest men and women, and hand it over to his keepers and clients, Carver Laraway and LaFarge. It’s clear from a Times Union interview done in May 2019 by Laurin Stanworth, “Is Coeymans candidate too close to port owner?”

Quoting directly from the Stanworth article: “McHugh, who is running as a Republican for the town’s $35,000 part-time post, acknowledged his ongoing connection to Carver Companies. In an interview with the Times Union, he said he would continue to do legal work for Laraway if asked.” What about conflicts of interest? Stanworth asked the question and when “[a]sked about the appearance of conflict of interest in his running for supervisor, McHugh said, “The only people who have brought it up [the question of conflict of interest] is the Times Union.”

That’s not true, McHugh! The question is a glaring question already asked by many people, many times. You and your hoodlums are just ignoring the people.

McHugh would probably respond that if any issues about Carver or LaFarge were to come before the Coeymans Town Board, he would “recuse himself.” Not good enough, Georgie!

You see, McHugh is running with two young pups with no life experience to speak of and certainly no political experience. You might gloss over that by parroting McHugh’s line that the Board needs young people. Or that he wants to appeal to younger voters by having younger running mates. But the actual reason is much darker, much more sinister. You see, if by some catastrophic stroke of bad luck, McHugh were actually to be honestly and legally elected, which is a longshot, indeed, he would control the Coeymans Town Board with at least a 3-2 majority or a 3-1 majority, even if McHugh actually were to recuse himself. Given the characters and immaturity of Zach Collins and Brendan Lefevre, McHugh would have no problem controlling them to do whatever he told them to do. They are mere puppets. Then there’s Daniel “Dan” Baker, who’s already shown himself to be a member of the McHugh camp while being on the Crandall Board.

The point is this: with a Town Board packed with McHugh puppets, McHugh can still recuse himself and still give Carver Laraway or LaFarge exactly what they ask for.

It sure is a “Comeback Team” and they sure will “Take Back” the town, but not like you were thinking and not how they want you to think. McHugh wants a come-back so he can take back the town and get what he wants and what his keepers want. He wants it just like he had it in 2001, when he wanted water and sewer for his planned project.

Who are the Friends of Coeymans? Do they have names?

McHugh refused to answer this question. McHugh admits his guilt.

At this late date, nearly everyone in Coeymans and beyond know who the Friends of Coeymans are, and why they’re known by most residents as the Fiends of Coeymans or the epithet, Coeymans FOCs. We also know what, why, and for whom they are doing what they do. Jeff LaQuire (the Coeymans Clown following people around with his smartphone recorder going), Nate Boomer (Bacon Boy who off camera is a thug, on camera is a pathetic whiner), and Chris Hagen (brother of killer Travis Hagen. By the way, whatever did happen to that investigation.) are McHugh confederates and bullies posing as concerned citizens, but doing McHugh’s dirty work and propaganda for him. McHugh’s using them, advising them, and keeping his own hands clean. That’s how McHugh works: he uses anyone he can to get what he wants. Collins, Lefevre, Baker, 4 wives, anyone.

In general, the FOCs are just ignorant clowns attracting other ignorant clowns to support a self-interested, greedy Scoundrel.

Neonazis. If you have ever had the opportunity to observe their sillyness at a Coeymans Town Board meeting where they make animal noises (which come natural to them), call other residents names, follow attendees around with a smartphone recording or videoing them, interrupting private conversations, force people to leave the meeting and even the Town Hall, make it necessary to have police present at public meetings, you’ll know what we mean when we call them neonazi thugs. They use the same tactics. They are schizoid. One minute, for example, Nate Boomer is in the middle of the FOC pack spewing insults and abuse, and in the next moment, posing for Jeff LaQuire’s video, he’s standing at the mike making a passionate and pitiful appeal for cooperation. The live clown performance at the meeting is to send a message to residents; the video is for posting on their Facebook propaganda site. Reminds you of some third world dictator, doesn’t it?

Thugs before the election are certain to be worse thugs after the election.

Could this be out of the Friends of Coeymans highschool yearbook?

It makes you want to vomit when they then preach freedom of speech, truth, etc. That’s not the message their behavior sends. Ask Coeymans residents.

The real message being sent by Friends of Coeymans, George McHugh’s thugs.

Part II of the McHugh Interview that Wasn’t will be Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
Stay tuned!

Read the Excerpts from Segments 1, 2, and 3 of the Crandall Interview:
Crandall Interview: Segment 1
Crandall Interview: Segment 2
Crandall Interview: Segment 3

Plus the Featured Resident Comment:
The Coeymans Clowns, the FoC, Are True to Their Reputation: Thugs

Specifically about George McHugh’s Lack of Character
George McHugh: Dishonorable Scoundrel! How Dare You!!!
George McHugh: Conspiracy, Misrepresentation, Possible Fraud?

George McHugh: Dishonorable Scoundrel! How Dare You!!!

17 Oct

George McHugh goes far beyond just being a liar and a crook. He’s lower than a snake’s belly. It wasn’t enough that he lies through his teeth on unimportant issues because he’s ignorant, and a greedy bastard. We could almost stomach his total lack of scruples and serious problems with the truth but his most recent lie shows the man has no character at all. He’d dirtier than dirt.

After the First Lie, Everything Else is a Lie

On September 11, 2001, forever to be known as 9/11, the American people experienced the most horrendous act of terrorism to have happened in the American Homeland ever. The death toll was 2,996, not including deaths related to the aftermath of the tragedy. Perhaps we’ll never know the total suffering that came into American lives on that September morning!

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Scenes of Unimaginable Horror and Suffering

Anyone Who Would Lie about His Military Service and Connect that with the Incredibly Tragic Deaths on September 11, 2001, should be Tarred, Feathered, Run Out of Town on His Bare Ass!

There were heroes made on September 11, 2001, real heroes. Firefighters, police, first responders, clergy, Joe and Jane Average, who went in risking their lives, some of them losing their lives in acts of pure heroism!

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The real-life heroes of September 11, 2001

What kind of person would lie about why he didn’t run for a second term. Worse still: Why would he try to make himself into a war hero by lying and then trying to cash in on the emotions associated with 9/11. We’ll tell you what kind of worthless piece of crap: George McHugh!

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Real men in uniform, facing death and horrible injury in a place far from home, suffering every kind of suffering in the field

All of you morons who are flocking around this phony so adoringly had better wake up and see the rat that he is.

You don’t have to believe us. Worse still, you don’t have to believe McHugh’s media whore, the Ravena News Herald, or its whatever editor, Kate Lisa, much less McHugh’s long-time friend, buddy and puppet, Mark Vinciguerra. We’ll get to Carver Laraway and Billy Biers in an upcoming exposé but right now, we have to take care of the arch-scoundrel, liar, phony, and fake-patriot, George McHugh.

If you received this McHugh campaign card…

Read this very carefully:

Any man who associates lies with a national tragedy and the uniform is a disgrace!

After the first lie, everything else is a lie!

Perhaps the News Herald should check their facts before printing the weasel-words of a lying shyster, George McHugh. Had the News Herald checked their own archives, they would have found the very same thing we found when we checked back issues of the News Herald, in our research as to Why? McHugh didn’t run for re-election after his single term as Coeymans Town supervisor. But truth don’t figure in fake news, do they. And, hell, when you’ve got the Friends of Coeymans doing your dirty propaganda work for you, abusing honest and community-minded citizens, why would you need the truth?

In May 2001

“McHugh says one term enough” (Thursday May 10, 2001, Gene Levy)

“Coeymans – Saying he needs more time to devote to his family and law practice, George McHugh announced last Friday he will not seek a second term as supervisor.

McHugh made his thoughts known in an open letter to town residents that will appear in this week’s News-Herald.

“I’ve given vigilant service to the town. I also need to be a good husband and father and look after an expanding law practice.”

“I’m still hoping I can help bring about one hall for the village and town, which would be the village hall,” he said.”

Ravena News Herald, Thursday, May 10, 2001: Letters to the Editor: “Open letter from the Town Supervisor,” McHugh himself writes, confirming what was reported in the Levy article:

“With a growing law practice and a young family, I do not feel that I can continue to perform the duties and responsibilities of the office of Supervisor for a second term to the level at which the position requires.”

McHugh’s a moral mess! He can’t keep a family intact; how is he going to keep a community intact?

Just another bloodsucking attorney in town.

Well, half of McHugh’s plans were real: he kept his law practice going. But even more troubling than another blood-sucking attorney in town is the really disturbing fact that McHugh is such a failure at family. Isn’t family one of the touted Republican values? Family values. You’ve heard that expression before, haven’t you? He’s had four freakin’ marriages to date. Now, admittedly, some marriages are doomed to failure for very understandable reasons. Anyone can fail in a very early marriage, but most people hold out for a lifetime, working, sharing, etc. How can a man who has gone through four marriages ever hope to persuade normal people that he has anything worth salvaging, anything honestly worthwhile. The man’s a moral mess! He can’t keep a family intact; how is he going to keep a community intact? We’ll we already have the answer to that: McHugh and his Coeymanazi Clowns are tearing the community apart just like McHugh apparently tore his families and marriages apart.

If you can’t keep a marriage together, how are you going to keep a community together, McHugh?

March 2019

McHugh’s story changes in 2019, when he is quoted by the News-Herald’s Melanie Lekocevic, in a front-page article, “McHugh at top of Coeymans Republican ticket” (Ravena News Herald, Thursday, March 7, 2019), in which McHugh is quoted:

Lekecovic writes in her article, “But when 9/11 took place, McHugh said other responsibilities took priority,” and Lekocevic quotes McHugh:

“The first and foremost reason I didn’t run for reelection was Sept. 11, 2001.” McHugh said, “As an army officer the operations tempo got considerably greater and I did not think I could do justice to both the town and my country, so I did not seek re-election. I don’t regret that move.”

So, on or before May 10, 2001, fully 4 months almost to the day prior to the events of September 11, 2001, Mr. McHugh announced his decision not to run for re-election for the office of Coeymans Town Supervisor. The News Herald article and McHugh’s own letter to the editor, give as his reasons that he wanted to devote more time to family and to his law practice. Both good reasons at the time but McHugh doesn’t mention 9/11 as one of his reasons. Perhaps because 9/11 was four months to the day in the future!

So here’s where we get a taste of McHugh’s real lack of character, and his misuse of any noble military service or patriotism: In a front-page article announcing McHugh’s candidacy for Town Supervisor in 2019, McHugh now claims that the reason he chose not to run for re-election in 2001 was “first and foremost…was September 11, 2001,” and that he “could not do justice to both the town and my country.” The man’s a bare-faced liar! And he’s playing everyone in Coeymans for the fool!

No honorable officer in the United States Army, National Guard twerp or not, would ever stoop so low as to misrepresent himself, to dishonor the dead of 9/11, to dishonor the real heroes of 9/11, to dishonor the real combat soldiers of Afghanistan and their dead, by trying to spin his reasons for not having sought re-election, and turn 9/11 into political capital and use 9/11 to fraudulently make himself look better. How can someone want political office so badly to act so dishonorably. How can anyone with any conscience, any sense of patriotism, any feeling or sympathy for the dead, the suffering, and the heroes of 911, stomach even looking at George McHugh, a piece of s**t that has dishonored his community, his uniform, his Republican party, and his country by his lies.

If any of you rabid McHugh fans doubt anything we’ve written here, you or your neighbors have received the campaign card. The RCS Community Library has the back editions of the Ravena News Herald, so you can see for yourselves. You might want to ask Kate Lisa, the editor of the Ravena News Herald, or Mark Vinciguerra, the publisher of the News Herald why they published McHugh’s lies in the first place. Why didn’t they check their own archive. We did!!!

And we’ve got more, much more on McHugh, his keepers LaFarge, Carver Laraway, Billy Biers, Daniel D. Baker (sitting board member and McHugh mole on the Town Board; he’s the one who wanted to appoint Nate Boomer to be on the Planning Board, and wouldn’t listen when the Town Lawyer told him he couldn’t do that because there were no vacancies. DUH!). We’ll publish the rest of the dirt in a week or so. This really couldn’t wait!!!

Now you’ve really pissed me off, McHugh!
The Editor

Read the Excerpts from Segments 1, 2, and 3 of the Crandall Interview:
Crandall Interview: Segment 1
Crandall Interview: Segment 2
Crandall Interview: Segment 3

Plus the Featured Resident Comment:
The Coeymans Clowns, the FoC, Are True to Their Reputation: Thugs

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“Friends of Coeymans” a.k.a. “Fiends of Coeymans”: McHugh’s Thugs

10 Oct

Coeymans has always been fertile ground for a bumper crop of bullies but the so-called “Friends of Coeymans,” popularly known by many Coeymans residents as “Fiends of Coeymans,” is a real special brand of domestic terrorist, the George McHugh campaign’s answer to Nazi Germany’s roaming fascist bands of thugs.

Thanks to a number of tips received from a number of Coeymans residents, who appear to be concerned about a new bully group in the Town of Coeymans — as if Coeymans didn’t have enough bullies as it is —, a local group calling themselves “Friends of Coeymans. ” The group’s bully tactics and brutish conduct in public meetings has earned them the dubious epithet of “Fiends of Coeymans.” So, in response to residents’ requests to investigate and to publish our findings, we’d like to respond in this initial post, pending our more in-depth investigations.

First of all, we note that these so-called “Friends of Coeymans” are a very small group consisting of three local clowns — for now let’s just be kind and call them the “Coeymans Clowns” —, with all the charm of a John Wayne Gacy clown, are closely associated with the McHugh campaign for Town Supervisor.[1] We’ll get to McHugh in a very revealing and troubling report on his past and present activities.

The Fiends of Coeymans appear to have an agenda of disrupt, disorder, and confuse the issues of the elections, the candidates, and to create general confusion and conflict in the Coeymans community. Far from being anything you could possibly define as a friend, these Coeymans Clowns are destructive and damaging. Of course, being on Facebook, they have collected a gaggle of Facebook freaks, addicts who spend their waking hours scrolling through illiterate comments posted by their fake friends.

If a group wants to be acknowledged as “friends” of any community, they should first state their goal as being for the public good and acting in the interests of the public, not a partisan political campaign. These Coeymans Clowns are interested in nothing but their Neanderthal sadistic pleasure, something that appears to be their perverse notion of masculinity or good citizenship. Maybe in Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, but not here in the United States.

Unfortunately, some of the more ignorant and misguided souls (read: Mary Driscoll and her ilk) seem to have adopted this contemporary re-casting of the Three Stooges — and we believe they are actually stooges, stooges of George McHugh and his keepers [2]

Of course, the Fiends of Coeymans have a Facebook page, the Clowns practice their own brand of censorship, propaganda, and abuse on that page, which has also been a problem, say residents.

Creatures from the Shadows: Fiends of Coeymans.
[From left to right, Jeff LaQuire, Nate Boomer and Chris Hagen.]

This is a Fair Use site. One of our contributors received a threatening email from a woman called Kate Lisa, who is working for the rag, the Ravena News Herald, demanding that the Smalbany blog take done the photo of the Fiends of Coeymans. George McHugh is apparently still running the Ravena News Herald, despite the fact that Mark Vinciguerra has purchased it and his misnamed Capital Region Independent Media is mismanaging it. McHugh isn’t going to let his lackeys take any punches. At the contributor’s request, not Kate Lisa’s, we have removed the photo not because we had to, but out of courtesy. Our contributor asked Kate Lisa to give permission to use the photo, just to be friendly, but she refused. No problem, we got our mileage from it. But we do recommend that the RNH watermark their images or at least place a clear and conspicuous © on their images, like anyone else would have the good sense to do. Provincial is as provincial does. Do you smell pork belly burning?

The three clowns behind the Friends of Coeymans, and the operators of the Facebook Friends of Fascism page, have been identified as Jeff LaQuire (is that really pronounced “la queer”?), Nate Boomer (Boomer?!? Is he booming Jeff?) and Chris Hagen. It may be worth knowing that one of the Clowns, Chris Hagen, is the brother of controversial Travis Hagen, the individual involved in the tragic death of 19-year old Riley Kern last year. It seems the Hagens have a tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. As we mentioned above, the Clowns are associated with the McHugh campaign, and are garnering support from the News Herald, George McHugh’s pet.

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The Coeymans Clowns are a very good example of the worst in abuse of free speech. They are using not only the local opportunities for signage to mislead Coeymans residents — the Clowns can’t possibly afford to rent the billboard space they have on 9W, so our question is: Who is paying for it? Marc Vinciguerra of the Ravena News Herald? George McHugh? Carver Laraway? — they’re all in bed together — and they have the willing ear of McHugh’s pet newspaper, the Ravena News Herald, the local media whore. What’s worse is that they have a Facebook page that most social media addicts can find with no problem, and, if they say what the Fiends of Coeymans, rather, the Clowns of Coeymans want to hear, and if it supports their special interest agenda, it gets posted for all to read. But if you question any of the propaganda or disagree, look forward to being banned, and then after being banned and deprived of the opportunity to respond, they’ll proceed to trash you. Friends of Coeymans, Clowns of Coeymans, at their democratic best.

Lequire, Boomer, and Hagen are three very scary clowns!

Here’s the hypocrisy of the whole Fiends of Coeymans Facebook scam: They invite free and open discussion and even tout freedom of speech but, as in most dictatorships and fascist regimes, your freedom of speech goes only as far as the narrow limits of what the Clowns want to hear, and what they want their “friends” to see. In my book and by my definition, that’s called censorship and propaganda. It has no place in a free and democratic society.

But when the thugs get some computer skills, that’s the place where things go. Fascist thugs and computer skills are a toxic mix.

Problem is, there are so many gullible, ignorant, even downright stupid residents in Coeymans, who are such pitifully lonely creatures, they’ll do anything to get a friend. Hell, they’ll swallow anything — and I mean anything — if you’ll just say Hi! to them. So it’s that bunch that are really attracted to the Clowns’ group. The burning question is: Are you one of them?

If anyone has seen the movies about dictatorships like Nazi Germany or any place where fear ruled, you always have the scene where the thugs enter a public meeting, a gathering, or even a church service and intimidate or brutalize those present to the extent that no one goes to the public meeting because they’re afraid of meeting up with the thugs. Well, that’s exactly what we’re seeing now in Coeymans: the Clowns, the Fiends of Coeymans, are appearing at town government meetings ranging from regular town board meetings to planning board meetings and making unpleasant and embarrassing scenes. Just like in Fascist Germany. Their main purpose: to embarrass our elected officials and to intimidate citizens. Some of their Facebook freak friends actually congratulate them on “the good work they’re doing in the community.” Pure insanity! You can’t make this stuff up!

This sort of bullyism has to stop. Only YOU can stop it. Some of Coeymans misguided residents are urging these freaks on; others are encouraging them by giving them attention on Facebook; others are supporting them indirectly by staying away from important democratic institutions like town board meetings, planning board meetings, and public gatherings. Why? Because fascist thugs work that way: they work with lies, threats, bullyism, and intimidation.

Next time you express support for our military and our servicemen, just remember one thing: Our fathers and grandfathers fought against Fascism. Their sons and our brothers and sisters fought against totalitarianism in Korea and Vietnam. Our brothers and sisters fought terrorism in the Middle East. How can Coeymans residents support those sacrifices and still support a group like the Fiends of Coeymans, who are creating their own special brand of domestic terrorism?

Open your eyes! Open your ears! Open your mouths! Say NO! to the fascist thugs in your own front yard! You owe it to him or her who made the ultimate sacrifice so you can talk freely, assemble without intimidation, and exercise your free right to vote!!!

Editor’s Note: Mr George McHugh has recently published some misleading statements relating to his military service, if you can call National Guard service “military” and a cushy office job in the Staff Judge Advocate’s office (That’s where all the attorney’s hang out, far from any bullets or landmines!). We think he has no clue about what it is to be a real soldier. We’ve invited him to be interviewed to clarify those and other questions about his past but he has so far ignored two of our follow-ups. A third one will go out this week and, if he doesn’t have the guts to interview and answer the questions, we’ll publish the facts that we have. No one can say we didn’t give him the chance to clear the air.

[1] John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. All of Gacy’s known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park ranch house.

[2] The dictionary definition of “stooge” is “a person who serves merely to support or assist others, particularly in doing unpleasant work; perform a role that involves being the butt of a comedian’s jokes; move around aimlessly; drift or cruise.” Aptly applies to the Coeymans Clowns in all aspects.

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Is George McHugh Avoiding Us?

26 Sep

Is Supervisor Candidate McHugh Avoiding us? Maybe hiding?

Rumor is that Coeymans Supervisor Candidate George McHugh is disguising himself to avoid being interviewed. Please let us know if you spot him!

As most of the local Albany County and Greene County residents and voters are aware, we recently contacted both Mr Phil Crandall, the incumbent Town of Coeymans Supervisor, and Mr George McHugh, a local lawyer seeking election to replace Mr Crandall. We invited both Mr Crandall and Mr McHugh to be interviewed by us and we published on this blog some of the questions we would be asking.

McHugh with Running Mates (L-R: Lefevre, McHugh, Collins, Langdon). They’re a colorful quartet, aren’t they?
They want to “take back Coeymans.”

Our posts announcing our interest in interviewing the two candidates are part of the series: “If they want to be elected, we’re going to grill them!” (Click on these links to read the articles: Mr Crandall — Mr McHugh)

To his credit, Mr Crandall responded almost immediately accepting the invitation to be interviewed. We will be asking him for a date and time in the first two weeks of October, some time later this week.

Although we contacted Mr McHugh at about the same time we contacted Mr Crandall with the same request, and published the questions we want answered, Mr McHugh has so far refused to respond as to whether he will accept our invitation to be interviewed prior to the elections.

George McHugh’s law office in the former Ravena News Herald building, Main Street, Ravena. A strange woman in Mardi Gras costume has been seen entering and leaving the building.

We followed up today with an email to Mr McHugh’s law offices, again attaching some of the questions for his information, and sent the following message:

Dear Mr McHugh:

We contacted you earlier this month to invite you to be interviewed as a candidate for Town of Coeymans Supervisor.

As of this date, we have not heard back from you, and we’d like to reach out to you a second time to invite you to be interviewed by us for the information of our many readers and the local community.

We would be very pleased to schedule your interview at any time between Wednesday, October 2 – Wednesday, October 16, 2019, between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

The purpose of the interview, of course, will be to vet facts we already have as well as to explore other relevant issues concerning your fitness to be Coeymans Town Supervisor.

For your convenience, we are attaching a list of questions, which we expect to ask at the time of interview. We do reserve the right to substitute or to add additional questions at the time of interview.

Please be advised that should you choose not to respond or otherwise decline interview, we will proceed with the information we have.

Thank you very much for your attention. We look forward to sitting down with you face-to-face to better inform the voting community.

Once we receive your response, we will provide you with the name of an independent, non-partisan interviewer, who will conduct the interview.

Is Mr McHugh avoiding us, attempting to avoid answering some burning questions about his past? Is Mr McHugh afraid that he’ll have his feet to the fire when we start asking questions about his fitness to be Coeymans Town Supervisor?

We are trying to be fair to the candidates and are offering them both the chance to come clean on some very important issues. Mr Crandall has come forward and agreed to be interviewed.
Will Mr McHugh continue to attempt to hide?

Sorry, George, you can run but you can’t hide!
There are some questions we’d like to ask you.

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“It’s not right that thugs from out of town are allowed to come to New Baltimore and tell New Baltimore what to do. Just because people think they have money…doesn’t mean they can come bully us in our town. If the Board is not able to push back, they need to be replaced.”

Coeymans Center for Un-American Activities

And Michael Biscone, Robert Norton, and Aaron Flach want to do the same for New Baltimore. With a little help from their friends Rob vanEtten, Jeff Ruso, and Nick Dellisanti, they may succeed!

HAS NEW BALTIMORE TOWN HALL BECOME THE NEW BALTIMORE CENTER FOR UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES?

Totally Ridiculous!

Looks like Coeymans Sole Assessor, Dawn DeRose, has either joined the rat pack or has been bullied into supporting their plans.

You need to protest in numbers! You need to hit the streets! You need to organize! You need to put signs on your over-assessed properties pointing the finger at McHugh and his Town Board puppets!

Phil Crandall and Tom Dolan WARNED you about these bastards! Now you’re seeing it happen. Get ready for mass rape!

NOW THEY WANT A NEW TOWN HALL!!! WHY??? WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR IT??? WHO’S GOING TO GET THE CONTRACTS??? Anyone who benefits from the McHugh mob’s corruption should be shunned by the community. No one needs their money enough to have to sell his or her soul!!!

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A note from the Editor:

How Citizens Can Protect Themselves and Report Suspicious Activity

The Facts

The Vendor[1]

The Seller’s Guarantee[2]

The Seller’s Reasons for Sending their Product[3]

The Unlawful, Illegal, and Asocial Nature of the Product

The Criminal Codes of New York State and the State of Pennsylvania

The Primary Suspects

Law Enforcement Investigation of the Criminal Activities

Have the Coeymans Police Interviewed the Friends of Coeymans or the Comeback Team?

“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good People Do Nothing!”

The Comeback Team is Evil. They will triumph if good people sit back and do nothing.

Get out and VOTE!

CRANDALL, DOLAN, MCGUIRE, TOUCHETTE

Smalbany’s Summary of why George McHugh and his Comeback Losers would be really bad news for Coeymans will be posted on Sunday, November 3, 2019. Stay tuned!

It’s Sunday so let’s talk Holy Scripture: “As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly” (Proverbs 26:11 / 2 Peter 2:22)

PART I – The McHugh Interview that Wasn’t.

Questions that George McHugh has avoided answering

Part II of the McHugh Interview that Wasn’t will be Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Stay tuned!

After the First Lie, Everything Else is a Lie

The real-life heroes of September 11, 2001

What kind of person would lie about why he didn’t run for a second term. Worse still: Why would he try to make himself into a war hero by lying and then trying to cash in on the emotions associated with 9/11. We’ll tell you what kind of worthless piece of crap: George McHugh!

Read this very carefully:

After the first lie, everything else is a lie!

Open your eyes! Open your ears! Open your mouths! Say NO! to the fascist thugs in your own front yard! You owe it to him or her who made the ultimate sacrifice so you can talk freely, assemble without intimidation, and exercise your free right to vote!!!

Is Supervisor Candidate McHugh Avoiding us? Maybe hiding?

We are trying to be fair to the candidates and are offering them both the chance to come clean on some very important issues. Mr Crandall has come forward and agreed to be interviewed. Will Mr McHugh continue to attempt to hide?

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And Michael Biscone, Robert Norton, and Aaron Flach want to do the same for New Baltimore.
With a little help from their friends Rob vanEtten, Jeff Ruso, and Nick Dellisanti, they may succeed!

HAS NEW BALTIMORE TOWN HALL BECOME
THE NEW BALTIMORE CENTER FOR UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES?

It’s Sunday so let’s talk Holy Scripture:
“As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”
(Proverbs 26:11 / 2 Peter 2:22)

Part II of the McHugh Interview that Wasn’t will be Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
Stay tuned!

We are trying to be fair to the candidates and are offering them both the chance to come clean on some very important issues. Mr Crandall has come forward and agreed to be interviewed.
Will Mr McHugh continue to attempt to hide?