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Scenes From A 'Debate'

Elwood Taxpayers' meet and greet

Random ramblings from last week's "Meet the Candidate" night in Elwood:

  • Susan Berland will not be attending SaveHuntington's Christmas party
  • Glenda Jackson is still trying to figure out what 'precedent' means
  • Susan Berland knows what 'precedent' means.  Webster's Dictionary is wrong.
  • Providing housing for people through government 'fiat' is not in the town board members' job description.  Now that I think about it, where is Stu Besen's job description?
  • The '$1,000' line item for pet food was a line item for the Sewer District budget.  Not from the animal shelter budget.  But, the incumbents sounded like they were on to something so I just let it go.
  • Susan called me out when I said to Herb Morrow (a little too loud, my fault) that we can save money by getting rid of her job.  In the past she has interrupted so many times I can't remember.  But, she persisted in trying to point me out to the crowd so I went along with it.  And yes, Susan, we can save money by throwing you out of office.
  • It seems that taking credit for spending other people's money is what incumbents do best
  • I wish I had time to grill Susan and Glenda about the $150 million in serial bond debt but Herb took that question.
  • Why Susan took credit for the town hall broadcasts while I was in the room is another reason why we need to dump her.  Does she even care that it was part of my campaign platform in 2009?  Politicians are shameless.
  • Esther Bivona's argument against term limits was so bad it made the case FOR term limits.  She claims we already have term limits - 'they're called elections.'  No.  They're actually called 'elections' not term limits.  There is no limit to how many times they can run - that's why we need a limit.
  • Conte and Cook need to get together and watch the movie "Men Who Stare At Goats" in order to beef up their presentation.
  • I think Angie Carpenter is still wondering why she sat next to me.
  • Deborah Poulos said I took the idea of a 'Performance Audit' from her.  Yeah, ok.
  • Too many people blog about 'liberty' and 'freedom' just to get attention
  • Ideas are better than lawn signs.  Unfortunately the 'registered' candidates have more of the latter than the former - which is why I'm running.
  • The AAA bond rating is not like getting an 'A' in class.  It's a credit score given by people who don't live here and who think the town does a good job of taxing the hell out of us.  And collecting.
  • For some reason Ms. Berland thinks she helped with the lighting problem at the nursing home across the street from me.  This issue was settled back in the '90's, long before she wowed the crowd with her pizazz.  Then she said it was because of her recent 'Dark Skies' campaign, which I then pointed out she ripped off from Susan Harder who did it over 15 years ago!

In the end, I'm not sure if the debate or meat and greet did much of anything - other than proving the point that you don't need the political bosses to give you permission to run for office.

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