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GrahamBonnet

October 6, 2011, 8:36am

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#DelGallo transferred his supervisor salary of $13,000 to town projects in 2010 and 2011 — senior center kitchen repairs and a new veteran memorial — but this time he went after the entire board’s compensation. No board members voiced any opinions on this move, but Diane Marco, Democrat candidate for town clerk, shared her bafflement.

#“The entire Town Board will have a zero salary in your budget?” Marco asked DelGallo. “What an embarrassment.”

I would ask Diane Marco why it is an embarrassment to share the pain? Do the political aristocracy think they are ABOVE sharing the pain of the private sector employees, and town workers who are getting big reductions, losing jobs or are in foreclosure. Just because she has a paid political no-show job at the city of Schenectady under the tutelage of the downtown Schenectady political bosses, and gets her check every Friday, there are a lot of people who DON'T!

"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."

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William Pen

October 6, 2011, 8:43am

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Will the elimination of salaries for elected officials result in any candidates dropping out of the race? Does Ms. Marco still
want the position at the reduced salary?

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Will the elimination of salaries for elected officials result in any candidates dropping out of the race? Does Ms. Marco still
want the position at the reduced salary?

Luckily, it's only down 10%. Maybe it's still enough to interest her, but there could have been deeper cuts in this in order to help to contain costs. The position has been getting raises for years and years. This year, there will be a new town clerk. This person should now be going back to the starting salary for this position. cut another 10-15% off of it.

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