Local Action Works slams mayoral candidate Andy Montroll

Andy Montroll refuses to answer questions. Last month Local Action Works sent Andy Montroll candidate for mayor, who is a demorcrat and ward 6 city councilor, a simple questionnaire. He responded by email thanking LAW for the questionnaie and said he would get back to LAW very soon with his responses. That was on November 17th. After several phone messages went unanswerd to follow up, LAW finally gave up. In LAWs opinion, Andy Montroll represents more of the same; unresponsive government and horrendous consitiuent service. Please think twice before casting a vote for him on Tuesday March 3rd 2009.
vist Locl Action Works at
www.localactionworks.org


I have to say that i am very disapointed in Andy, AND DON'T KNOW IF CAN GET BEHIND HIM. There were only 4 qustions. He could had money and volenteer help. Any way i am still mad at him for slaping people of this fine city by supproting the moran plant.

Kurt Wright to run for mayor

Event: Kurt Wright to Announce Run for Mayor of Burlington

Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008

Time: 5:45 p.m. - 7:00pm

Burlington City Council President Kurt Wright will be announcing his run for mayor this Thursday, December 11th in Contois Auditorum at Burlington City Hall beginning at 5:45pm. We hope to see you there!

Location: Contois Auditorium at Burlington City Hall

Contact: | 802-658-1410 | vinewright@burlingtontelecom.net

PEOPLE READY FOR CHANGE

My first poll closed, and 77% said they would vote for a Republican over Mayor Kiss. by by Kiss thanks for the 3 years of crap that you put us threw.

what i want in a mayor.

first just to let you know i will not vote for Kiss. I will not vote for Dan Smith, because I can not trust some who has Eric Hostra and Stu McGowin in his coroner. Who dose this leave Kurt Wright, Andy Montroll, and maybe Cowman. Well I will get behind any of the candidates that will do the following,
dump Ben Pacy,Wayne Gross, John Leapold, Kristin Mariman Shaperio.

Will work for the people who lives here year around i.e shopping stores not like City Mark Up or the Moran plant that leaves out the poor, Seniors, disabled and the environment behind.

Will work to fix the homeless problem.

Will discontinue the direction that the progs have led us in the now the city is for the rich yuppies.

Will make sure that the admin is working together not like Wayne Gross who should be fired for his childish behavior. If none of the candidates reflect this then expect a surprise in February.

gross is gross

what is up with Kiss and his admin. what Gross said was a slap in the face to the people of this city and now Kiss, thinks it is alright. the corruption lies deep.

floride campagin is a joke

Swab(Safe water advocates of Burlington) was formed three years ago. Now Swab is back but, without any of the founding members. The currant group is being lead by Deb Loring and Kevin Hurly. recently Kevin has been using Owen and Jay to get information to run the campaign. After they got the information they needed Kevin hung up on Owen and now they are cut down the founding members like Deb Loring called me(Loyal) a nut and other names were tossed at Owen and other members. This is disrespectful and hurtful to the people who worked very hard door knocking and dropping lit while Deb was sitting on her butt. The other problem is they are using our name swab. They are not going to get any where by running a campaign like this they are burning Bridges when they going to need everyone and not turning people away. this is where they messed up because you need to work together with other groups to make this successful campaign. The other problem is that it is not the right time for this we need more information. support the founding member by not voting on this ballot measure this spring.

upcoming event

Why can't Progs and Dems just get along?
Vermont voters, post election, still want to know. join Seven Days political columnist Shay Totten as he question to the politicians at a public forum.



Thursday, December 4 7 p.m. this a free event.
Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center,
Burlington's Waterfront, Lake &College Streets

mayors race is shaping up /Adian drops out

Ed Adian drops out leaving Andy Montroll as the candidate for mayor. Now we are waiting to see if Kurt Wright will jump in or will he back Andy. I will be backing Andy he will be the best. It is time to vote for a change we have not had a dem for over30 years.

recount to start

State senate recount to start in dec 3rd. the biggest problem is why is there 2,211 spoiled ballots in one WARD? I was the ward clerk for ward three and the most spoiled ballots I had was 20 now over 2000 seems like a big problem. I think the problem is in ward 3 were the prog ward clerk does not know what he is doing and i am sure Ben Pacy has his hands in this, I am going to be working on the recount. I don't think Tim Ashe won and this is the 3rd election that has been a mess under the Kiss admin. Time for a change don't you think.

the race for mayor begins

December 3rd at the Champlain school, both Ed Adrian and Andy Montroll who is trying for the 3rd time are trying to win the democratic caucus at 6:30 p.m. to face Bob Kiss for mayor. I think they both will be better then Bob Kiss.

progs dying ash lucky

progs lost another seat in burlington as the dems crushed chis pearson. Now they have 5 state house members. Tim Ashe seamed to get lucky. Burlington made a data entery mistake, some think still seams fishy hear. I would not put past Ben Pacy to lie.

results coming in small NH towns

reported by the AP in Dixville North Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by 15 to 6. In the town of Hart location reported 17 votes for Obama and 10 for McCain, 2 for write - in Ron Paul and Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns but no votes.

Election day today

the polls open at 7 and stay open until 7, so lets go and all vote. We are going to have record turn out I am thinking 75%. I don't think there will be any real change here in Vermont. The gov will not get the needed 50% so the 150 house members will decide that for us. Dexter Randall Prog will lose and I think Chis will out of Burlington will lose to Kesha Ram.

gay marriage

Now gay marriage is starting in Connecticut Nov, 12. What is Vermont waiting for, we are behind the times for a left state.

do not vote for Charlotte Dennett

I walk dogs for a living and Charlotte canadate for Attorney General did not pay me for my work about 2 or 3 years ago. I don't thing she can do the job if she can't pay people who do work for her. the progs should be careful who they pick to run.

up comming community film series

Lake Champlain men's resource center has it's 2nd annual community film series at Fletcher Free Library college st Burlington from 6:45 to8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5
Wrestling with manhood,boys,bullying and battering.
Wedenesday, december 3
Tough guise violence, media and crisis in masculinity

suggested donation : $5
no one will be turned away for lack of money
following the films will be a q and a session and discussion
to find out more call 434-8180 or lcmrc.org

moran ballot question to end

I regret to have to inform everyone that it has to end. I feel bad. I know there are people counting on this, but i have no help and can't do this by myself.

local horror movies help wanted

Dead hand man spring 2009 I need 2-guys and a woman and other help email me at barkforawalk@yahoo.com

be dead 2009 ? 3 guys and a masked killer

bennington triangle spring and summer 2010 full langeth
4 guys
3- women

if you like to help let me know thanks
loyal

more trouble for Mayor Kiss

Adam Cate,The Burlington Waterfront supervisor.Who has been suspended with pay since June is appealing the case that was brought up by Parks Director Wayne Gross. Mayor Kiss wants to close the case against Adam Cate. There are lingering questions that need to addressed before that happens. Why have we not heard from Wayne Gross? Why is Adam still suspended, when no crime was committed? What was the cost of the investigation? What happened to Mayor Kisses open government? The city council clearly was left in the dark and received little information. Again this shows the problems we have with the Kiss administration. I have been disappointed in this administration have you?

Interveiw with Larkin Forney for state senate

1. I am running because over two years ago I was stalked and falsely accused, and I witnessed a serious lack of integrity in the legal system when their was no investigation and in the judicial system when I was wrongfully convicted/violated by the same judge who had previously ignored a restraining order against Brian Rooney. I don't think it is good for the system or society when lies are more important than the truth, and the people in charge of "judging" things make such bad determinations as is indicated in my situation. More about my situation can be read at my website, http://justiceforvermonters.org/.

2. Kids need protected from actual predators and pedophiles, and I would say that we need to use our resources to protect our children from people who prey on them, not everybody who is charged or convicted of some sort of "sex offense." I would say that anyone charged with a sex offense, such as sexual assault on a minor, which has a broad range of different conditions behind the charge, should be evaluated by a certified psychosexual evaluator to determine if they are predatory or pedophilic, or whether the relationship was consensual, and other mitigating circumstances that could arise from things such as a teen lying about his or her age. Those who are diagnosed to be predators or pedophiles should be held in jail for life, because I don't believe they can be treated. Anybody charged and convicted with sexual assault or contact with a person under 10 years old shall get a maximum of 20 years, unless if they are diagnosed predators or pedophiles, at which point they would serve life. We need to use our resources for actual predators and pedophiles, and not fill our jails with people who aren't actual dangers, but may have broken a "sex offense" law by peeing in an alley and getting charged with indecent exposure instead of public urination, and a person who has consensual relations with a sexually active lying teenager and a person who actually molests children or forces themselves on women.

3. I would start by having a couple more shelters built or opened in parts other parts of Chittenden County. Affordable housing is dependent on the supply and demand market. Right now, since there is a crisis, prices are low, but people are still going to have problems affording even seemingly affordable prices. As your Senator, I can't make a house that you can afford, but I can help reform laws and regulations to make it easier for businesses to come into Vermont to create more jobs so more people can afford a house, as well as encouraging other developers to come into Vermont to create more competition and thereby reducing prices on other existing properties.

4. I would support closing Vermont Yankee, if they continue to have problems that could endanger Vermont's citizens and environment, if their decommissioning fund isn't fully funded by 2012, and it is economically safe for ratepayers to afford electicity by other means, then I would support fully closing Yankee with the option of suing Entergy for the remaining costs in the decommissioning fund so that taxpayers are not left with the bill.

5. My goals for my first term would be to make sex offender laws more effective by preventing predators and pedophiles from ever having the chance of harming another child, woman, or even man again, and making sure resources are used for that instead of scapegoating somebody for having consensual sex with a lying sexually active teen who may have already been the product of abuse which should have been stopped sooner, but real predators and pedophiles are hard to catch. I would support an Internet task force in Vermont dedicated to catching people who are seeking people underage. I think the age of consent law should be reconsidered to 14, so that a lying 14 year old can't cause problems for somebody else by having consensual sex with them. Parents need to also pay more attention to what their kids are doing, and teens, and educating them, because the police can't be everywhere, and society really doesn't want them everywhere. We have to do what we can to protect and educate our kids ourselves so that they make the right decisions not to have sex with anybody, even their own age, when they are 14, but if they do, then it shouldn't be a crime, if it is consensual.

I would also legalize hemp (oil) and marijuana. More about my views with those can be viewed at my website as well.

I would also do things that would encourage more businesses to come to Vermont to provide more jobs, and possibly loosen some of the 2,000 mandates on insuarance providers so that more providers come to Vermont and make health insurance premiums more competitive and more affordable in the long-run.

Closing Statement:

Over two years ago, you would have never seen me in politics. I used to be a very introverted person, who just wanted to be left alone and be a part of my daughter's life, but then I was stalked and falsely accused by her mother's friend. The system went out of it's way to make the charges stick, didn't investigate anything, and wasted thousands of tax dollars in the process, just so they could prevent a precedent from being sent by allowing justice to prevail. If they had conducted an investigation, then they would have realized my daughter's mother and the person who falsely accused me was her friend, and that is why she did it--to help her friend eliminate me from my daughter's life, while they, actual predators and pedophiles, abuse my daughter, born 11-15-02, and my words and concerns are discredited because of a lying sexually active teenger. A lot of the things the system does doesn't make sense. Politicians make laws that say sex with teens is wrong, but then they're caught with pre-teen children, and sexually active teens are usually the products of abusive homes.

I have a lot of integrity and honesty, and I am courageous enough to admit when I'm wrong, and I am strong enough to fight when I'm wronged.

I have survived a lot of things, and I am stronger and wiser because of them. My past is my past, and the last time I got in trouble was in 2002, when games were being played surrounding the conception of my daughter, while her mother's friend pursued me and lied to me about her age.

I would fight to have a system that functions for justice and actually protecting society and preventing crime with things that actually work like a good early education with good schools and teachers, and more jobs in Vermont.

While I have no actual experience, I am a fast learner, and I would be shown everything I need to know after election, before being sworn in, and ready to hit the floor running by January, 2009. I am worth a vote, because you will always know at least where I come from and that I am not hiding anything.

McNeil still with the city

Joe McNeil's law firm is still work for the city of Burlington as John Briggs a Free Press Staff Writer report in the artical below. Again, Kiss fails the city of Burlington again for spending our money. He has resigned and still getting our money. This is wrong, what is wrong with Kiss he is not thinking at all.

City Still has confidence in McNeil

Despite resignation attoney's firm doing work for Burlington
The law firm of Joseph McNeil, who resigned as city attorney for Burlington after admitting a close relationship with a city consultant, continues to receive considerable payments for city legal work.


City officials plan no change in that arrangement despite a court decision this month that revealed a second relationship between McNeil and a city official and found that McNeil did nothing to head off conflicts of interest represented by the two relationships.
Burlington has paid the law firm of McNeil, Leddy and Sheahan more than $599,000 since McNeil resigned in early April 2007, city records indicate.Mayor Bob Kiss said last week the city has received good value for the money and will continue to use McNeil and other attorneys from the firm. The mayor said the judicial finding has not changed his view.
The Burlington Free Press sued in Washington Superior Court to force the release of a number of e-mails exchanged on the city's computer system between McNeil and two women. Superior Court Judge Brian Grearson released his decision earlier this month.
McNeil resigned following disclosure in the Free Press of his relationship with zoning consultant Owiso Makuku. McNeil, who is married, formed a relationship with her when she worked in the Planning and Zoning Department and then arranged for her to work for him on the city's zoning rewrite at approximately double her rate of city pay.
Makuku submitted her hourly work records to McNeil, who approved them for payment.Simultaneously, Grearson wrote in his decision, McNeil had a close relationship with Karen Wingate, the former assistant to Mayor Peter Clavelle's chief administrative officer, Brendan Keleher. After Keleher resigned in fall 2005, Wingate became the interim CAO and held that position until the Kiss administration took office in April 2006.
Makuku could not be reached for comment. Wingate did not respond to a request for comment.Grearson based his opinion on his review of more than 1,500 e-mails sought by the Free Press. The e-mails were between McNeil and Makuku and between McNeil and Wingate.
Grearson said the e-mails "would lead a reasonable person to believe" that McNeil had "a close personal relationship of a romantic nature for an extended period of time" with both Makuku and Wingate. His relationship with Wingate, Grearson said, extended to the period when she headed the city's financial office.
Grearson said those relationships created a conflict of interest for McNeil as he provided legal guidance for the city.The judge did not release e-mails sought by the Free Press, citing the likelihood they would be embarrassing to McNeil, Makuku and Wingate if they were made public.
Neither Makuku nor Wingate works for the city.In his resignation letter, McNeil apologized for what he called a "lapse of judgment" that created an "appearance of a conflict," but strongly defended the quality of Makuku's work. In an e-mail Friday to the Free Press, McNeil said that in his work on the zoning ordinance, "I applied the same pride of workmanship I had applied over the 37 years I was the city's chief legal officer."
Keleher told the Free Press in 2007 that he had not been aware of McNeil's relationship with Makuku, and former Mayor Peter Clavelle declined comment. This week both declined to comment for this article.
Grearson said he could find no indication in the e-mails he examined that McNeil "took any significant steps to mitigate any conflicts of interest related to these relationships" or that city officials did. Grearson noted that all three individuals held "important positions" in city government.
Kiss said McNeil's firm has had two contracts with the city since his resignation, both reviewed by the Board of Finance and the City Council.Those contracts were accepted, he said, "clearly because of the skills Joe brings to this position and the long history and experience he has."
He said McNeil had "disclosed he had a close relationship with Owiso that could create an appearance of a conflict of interest, and he resigned." Kiss added that an independent audit of the billing for Makuku's contract, which paid her more than $213,000 from November 2004 to early 2007 and provided her with health insurance, revealed no billing problems.
"Out of this," Kiss said, "what we've continued to do is appreciate Joe's forthrightness in this ... situation."McNeil acknowledged the relationship with Makuku after inquiries by the Free Press. He did not publicly acknowledge the relationship with Wingate. In his e-mail Friday to the Free Press he noted he was not a party in the Free Press' e-mail suit and said he would "not engage in any discussion or debate (of) any aspect" of the case.
The independent audit cited by Kiss confirmed that the city had paid the bills for Makuku submitted by McNeil and reconciled some bills with meetings both attended.
Kiss said Oct. 10 he was unsure whether the Human Resources Department has changed or clarified the policy on personal relationships between city workers. He said the city relies on "self-disclosure" to allow the city to adjust working relationships to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
He said in the case of McNeil's acknowledgement of his relationship with Makuku, "there is room to judge whether that was timely or not."McNeil's resignation and the departure of Makuku and Wingate, he said, "in some respects," made questions of a conflict of interest a moot point. Kiss said he had no plans to consult the state's Professional Responsibility Board or "pursue anything in regard to (McNeil's) professional conduct."
Figures provided by the Clerk-Treasurer's Office in 2007 showed that the firm of McNeil, Leddy and Sheahan was paid a total of $2,616,959 by the city (including work for Burlington Electric Department and the School District) for fiscal years 2003 midway through fiscal year 2007. The firm was paid $602,969 in fiscal year 2005 and $585,236 in fiscal year 2006.Contact John Briggs at 660-1863 or jbriggs@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com
In your voice

VPR a disgrace

VPR hosted the vermont gov race, with major party canadates Symington, Douglas, Diamonstone, Pollina. The problem i have is Pollina is not running under a major party. He should not be there unless VPR lets all canadates at the debate. Again VPR slaps our voting rights in the face. Thank you VPR FOR SHOWING YOU REAL FACE.

this blog is about

This is a new blog. I am going to cover local and state political stuff along with sports and movies. I am new to this and will get better with time so please hang in there.

moran heading back to the ballot

Local Action Works has begain to petition the moran, it reads "shall the city of Burlington be advised to revoke the $21 million proposal to renovate and redvelop the moran plant with the understanding that the voters have lost confidence in the way proposal agreement has been proceeding?"

dump Kiss

It is time for Kiss to go, but he is not the only one. The progs have slowly killed the city over the years. Burlington was a great place with energy now it is gone. We had night clubs, stores that everyone could shop without spending all of your money. Under Kiss we had two bad elections, westlake, moran but no affordable housing wow.