Comments on: Who Gives? (Part 1)

By: Mr. Bumble

Mr. Bumble — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:25 +0000

Someone should start a fund to clean up the interior of City Hall
and get the water restored to the drinking fountains.
I wonder if all those City Hall employees would contribute $500 to that.
Thanks to the hundreds of millions we receive from the State, the City is $76 million in the black.
It’s time to spend more than $20,000 on the building that’s always in the dark!

By: WNYMind

WNYMind — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:03:18 +0000

This is typical Buffalo patronage. Unfortunately, it is a problem that goes all the way to Albany. New York State is know as the most currupt state in the country. Lousiana use to have that title, but Katrina brought so much embarassment to their patronage system that they started to make reforms (at a snails pace). So NY now has the trophy.

The first step would be to get the state legislature to pass an initiative process so regular people could putt things on the ballot to reform the system. We could start with initiative to break up the patronage system (i.e. a city manager for Buffalo, recall provisions for elected officials, stronger ethics laws for politicians, property tax reform, school budget reform etc… etc… etc…)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:47:39 +0000

This is why the City of Buffalo needs a Hatch Act. Let’s get rid of these political machines paid for at taxpayer expense and have employees who work for the people, not the politicians.

By: wastingfedtax$

wastingfedtax$ — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:56:45 +0000

Thats why so many people who work in City Hall have no work ethic,they contribute and figure they are on the freinds and family plan, I have always refused giving these contributions, its a slap in the face to people who work for the city that actually work hard. Buffalo has gone no where and is going no where until we have until we rid our selves of this administration.