Irondequoit Supervisor Mary Joyce D’Aurizio’s latest propaganda piece titled “We’re all in this together” (Sept. 6 issue) is an insult to the intelligence of every resident in Irondequoit. Mary Joyce's endless steam of nonsense in the Irondequoit Post is detached from reality.
I helped Mary Joyce get elected in the fall of 2009 after watching Joe Morelle‘s hand-picked Town Board members virtually bankrupt our town paving Stephanie Aldersley’s friends’ private roads In Huntington Hills Estates EI and signing the worthless Medley Deal.
I wrote Mary Joyce’s speeches and robo-calls, designed her political signs and newspaper ads, and met with her in my home over 20 times in October/November 2009 prior to the November election in the belief she would move our town forward. Mary Joyce assured me that she was the “Daughter of a Dairy Farmer” and wanted to help Irondequoit. I believed her.
I have known many farmers in my life and after watching her in office for three years I can assure you she forgot everything she learned from her father and mother on the farm.
Supervisor D’Aurizio, and her pals Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone, spend their summers running up their tab at the Rochester Yacht Club while average families struggle to pay their ridiculous taxes, keep health insurance, buy groceries and worry about their jobs. We are definitely NOT “in this together.” While town officials are living the high life, they voted to cut funding for the summer neighborhood rec program to save a few thousand dollars, gutting a 40-year tradition.
In her first term as supervisor, she immediately tried to raise the no-bid contract limit to $35,000 and was rebuked by the only honest member of town government, Councilman Paul Marasco. Unable to secure a majority vote to circumvent ethical bidding practices, Ms. D’Aurizio, Aldersley, Debbie Essley and Perticone approved a no-bid contract for the $250,000 roof repair at Pinegrove. To this very day the facility is unfinished and looks like a tar shack from Appalachia.
Watching Town Board meetings is like watching a Sopranos sitcom. The real beneficiaries are connected business friends and prolific cash donors like Peter Kelderhouse. Supervisor D’Aurizo retained our chief of police whose department is riddled with incompetence, with officers in jail or on trial for alleged assult and other felonies.
Given our extraordinary natural resources and location, Irondequoit could have vaulted to the top of Monroe County. Instead, we have fallen off the map.
Robert Ament is an Irondequoit resident.
Irondequoit Supervisor Mary Joyce D’Aurizio’s latest propaganda piece titled “We’re all in this together” (Sept. 6 issue) is an insult to the intelligence of every resident in Irondequoit. Mary Joyce's endless steam of nonsense in the Irondequoit Post is detached from reality.
I helped Mary Joyce get elected in the fall of 2009 after watching Joe Morelle‘s hand-picked Town Board members virtually bankrupt our town paving Stephanie Aldersley’s friends’ private roads In Huntington Hills Estates EI and signing the worthless Medley Deal.
I wrote Mary Joyce’s speeches and robo-calls, designed her political signs and newspaper ads, and met with her in my home over 20 times in October/November 2009 prior to the November election in the belief she would move our town forward. Mary Joyce assured me that she was the “Daughter of a Dairy Farmer” and wanted to help Irondequoit. I believed her.
I have known many farmers in my life and after watching her in office for three years I can assure you she forgot everything she learned from her father and mother on the farm.
Supervisor D’Aurizio, and her pals Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone, spend their summers running up their tab at the Rochester Yacht Club while average families struggle to pay their ridiculous taxes, keep health insurance, buy groceries and worry about their jobs. We are definitely NOT “in this together.” While town officials are living the high life, they voted to cut funding for the summer neighborhood rec program to save a few thousand dollars, gutting a 40-year tradition.
In her first term as supervisor, she immediately tried to raise the no-bid contract limit to $35,000 and was rebuked by the only honest member of town government, Councilman Paul Marasco. Unable to secure a majority vote to circumvent ethical bidding practices, Ms. D’Aurizio, Aldersley, Debbie Essley and Perticone approved a no-bid contract for the $250,000 roof repair at Pinegrove. To this very day the facility is unfinished and looks like a tar shack from Appalachia.
Watching Town Board meetings is like watching a Sopranos sitcom. The real beneficiaries are connected business friends and prolific cash donors like Peter Kelderhouse. Supervisor D’Aurizo retained our chief of police whose department is riddled with incompetence, with officers in jail or on trial for alleged assult and other felonies.
Given our extraordinary natural resources and location, Irondequoit could have vaulted to the top of Monroe County. Instead, we have fallen off the map.
Robert Ament is an Irondequoit resident.
