Godlewski said Metroplex is a good agency, but not the only answer. He said the community has to work together to reinvigorate the economy. He said more manufacturing jobs have to come in along with a means to educate a skilled workforce.
That is the most vague answer I've ever read.......The community has to work together?? What kind of public policy is that?? Your running for office to become a policy maker. How does the community work together? What's his next quote going to be, we need to love one another.
I guess he was doing his imitation of Hillary's "It takes a village."
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I got a copy of the District 4 League of Women Voter's Debate that is being broadcast on SACC, directly FROM SACC! Guess what people??? Either the League OR SACC took the liberty of EDITING OUT THE PARTS IT DIDN'T LIKE!!!!!!
Can you believe they took out the entire question and the responses on the questions "Should illegal aliens receive driver licenses?" and "Would you eliminate patronage jobs to cut the budget?"
It is AMAZING that these people would have the moxie to take out "politically incorrect" questions that might embarrass the Democrat Dictatorship! I wonder who applied the pressure to make sure the this info is not seen? Also, in a most bizzare fashion, the footage was destroyed, leaving ONLY the edited version to be shown. Nice huh?
What does anyone make of this, and why is this acceptable on behalf of either the League OR SACC, who are BOTH supposed to be "non-partisan?"
Interesting to find as board members of SACC-Gary McCarthy, Chris Gardener, Barbara Blanchard, Beth Petta as prominent Democrats. Which one of these not QUITE like the other. Which one of these names does not belong?
Could any phone calls have been made? Could anybody have been pressured to fix what the people saw? I am not talking about a few sentences. I am talking about HALF of the debate!!!!!!!!
Also, in a most bizzare fashion, the footage was destroyed, leaving ONLY the edited version to be shown. Nice huh?
Sounds like the Nixon tapes, doesn't it? I didn't think that happened anymore. I would think that the League of Women Voters will not be too happy with this.
I had heard about this earlier today. I am interested to see how it developes. If there is anything shady going on I too feel the LWV will be outraged. I would hope so anyway. It does seem odd that the two questions missing are the ones that Jasenski and Godlewski had difficulty answering. If I recall, all four agreed that the drivers licenses to illegal aliens is a horrible idea. Which I imagine had to irk the county majority.
I agree Rene but it sure surprises me that in this day and age we're dealing with a real censorship issue like this so as not to upset the Dem majority at the City, County, and State levels. The voters have the right to know what the candidates think and are going to do when and if they're are elected.
Not to worry! This is digging an even deeper hole for the seated dems....soon to be unseated. It clearly makes sense why the dems would (if they did) edit out the part of the debate that made them look like jerks. I mean, wouldn't anyone do that too if they had that option? Come on, lighten up. We all know it was either the dems, the Women League of Voters or Channel 16 who edited the tape for one reason or another. HOWEVER...whoever did it clearly made the dems look like real jerks. And only re-enforces the fact that the dems are a socialist, dysfunctional dictatorship. Come on this definately works against the dems! APPLAUD!!
SCHENECTADY SACC tape-cut allegation denied Legislator suggests politics influenced editing BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Michael Lamendola at 395-3114 or lamend@dailygazette.com
A Republican county legislator is accusing SACC-TV of censoring for political reasons a recorded candidate forum, a charge denied by the manager and chairman of the local public access station. Joseph Suhrada, R-Rotterdam, said Channel 16 edited out two of five questions asked of four candidates running for District 4 at the Oct. 3 forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. District 4 comprises Rotterdam, Princetown and Duanesburg. The forum, which lasted more than and hour and included debates involving other candidates, aired once on Channel 16. It was recorded at the Rotterdam library. The two edited questions were: “Should illegal aliens receive driver licenses?” and “Would you eliminate patronage jobs to cut the budget?” Station Manager Todd Wilson said the questions were removed due to poor sound quality, length and redundancy of answers. He promised to replay the entire debate Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at 9:30 p.m. and Saturday SACC-TV to film and air the foat 9 p.m., and repeat it again next rums, which are held annually. week. Foster said she did not believe Wilson said, “One thousand percent it was not political. No one from the board talked to the videographer about this and told him to do anything. There was no political influence on this issue, and this has been resolved and the full version will be shown.” Zeb Schmidt, Channel 16 program director, filmed the debate and edited the tape for airing. Both Wilson and Schmidt are paid employees. Schmidt said he made a mistake in editing the questions, and there were no instructions to do so. He said the segment cut amounts to two or three minutes from a tape of an hour and 11 minutes. League of Women Voters spokeswoman Jacqueline Foster said she was concerned to learn SACC-TV edited the forum questions. “We would not be asking for editing. The questions are written out and presented to candidates on floor. We put them out for public view and we would not want them edited,” she said. The league pays SACC-TV edited the tape for political reasons. “There is no reason for me to believe the photographer did this intentionally, or that there was any conspiracy,” she said. She said that if the tape had audio problems, the TV station should have printed the questions on screen and let the tape run as is. Suhrada, who has clashed often with the Democratic leadership in the county and is actively involved in the District 4 race, said he sees more than coincidence in the issue. “I tend to be suspicious when it comes to political instances like this. You have a Democratic councilman as chairman and a Democratic boss on the board. If the tape was edited because Chris Gardner is on board, it is a conflict of interest,” he said. He said SACC-TV should have broadcast “every sneeze and sniffle. It doesn’t look good. You have taken the most controversial topics out of the debate, the ones the voters are most concerned about.” SACC-TV Chairman Gary Mc-Carthy is a Democrat on City Council. The SACC-TV board also consists of Doug Sayles, Cathy Lewis, Barbara Blanchard, Beth Petta and Chris Gardner. Gardner is former chairman of the county Democratic Committee and is now county attorney. McCarthy denied any SACC-TV board member exerted influence on the editing process, or that it was edited “with regard to political favoritism.” Gardner also denied he was involved in having the tape edited. “I joined board last week. There is no connection between me and the debate.” He called Suhrada’s accusations “malicious.” Carolina Lazzari, Republican incumbent in District 4 who participated in the forum, supported Suhrada’s contentions. She called it “ludicrous” that one person alone could decide to edit forum questions. “There should not be any editing, even if the sound quality is poor. That has never been the intent. I am glad to hear they have the original tape and will run it again,” she said. The other District 4 candidates are Republican Angelo Santabarbara and Democrats Robert Godlewski and Anthony W. Jasenski. McCarthy said Suhrada generated the issue about the debate because, “If you don’t have anything of substance to talk about, you create issues.” Lazzari called Suhrada “a great guy” and “a publicity hound.” McCarthy saw a silver lining. “Hopefully this will create a little controversy and more people will use Channel 16,” he said.
McCarthy saw a silver lining. “Hopefully this will create a little controversy and more people will use Channel 16,” he said.
Why would we watch channel 16 even more now? I guess instead, this would force more people to get OFF their couch and go to the actual meetings, as they now have a reason to believe that no matter WHAT they watch on channel 16, it could be edited for political reasons.
Maybe SACC-TV should now hire Paul Harvey so we can get "The Rest of the Story."
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Gardner also denied he was involved in having the tape edited. “I joined board last week. There is no connection between me and the debate.”
We are looking at government controlled media in Schenectady County. As the article points out, "Gardner is former chairman of the county Democratic Committee and is now county attorney".
Government censorship of the media is a threat to our democracy. The public should be outraged that the Democratic majority in Schenectady County is influencing the manner in which their actions are reported. Gardner needs to step down from the board of SACC.
Channel 16 is just another puppet for the democratic dictatorship. Funny how the station states that some material was cut due to a time restraint. Wasn't the material cut out in the middle of the debate? And where is the outrage from the LWV? They are clearly out there stating that they are non-partisan. Where is the outrage from them. Or perhaps the LWV isn't quite as partisan as they state.
Putting all of this aside, you won't see me contributing to this station any longer. But then again, I guess I will be through my tax dollar that the dictatorship will dole out to them.
From now on I won't be believing everything that I see on Sacc as fact just politically influenced information edited by the Dems and yes Bumble hit them in their wallets.
Maybe we should suggest to the town board that since there was this issue, that the town should break the contract as they cannot be trusted to put the full information on the show. After all, didn't we recently have a REALLY long board meeting that they never finished playing the end of? Isn't this the way that they want to keep the townspeople notified of what's going on?
If SACC doesn't hold up to their end of the bargain, we shouldn't have to hold up to ours.
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And that is the point BK...Rotterdam's town meetings are slotted from 1pm to 3pm every saturday. If the town meeting goes OVER those 2 hours, it gets cut. Now I can almost understand that. But in this case, the meeting in question here with the LWV, it was cut from the MIDDLE of the airing.
So without sounding parinoid, what would the chances be that a public access channel, supported by and who's board is almost the entire democratic dictatorship, happen to cut out the MIDDLE of an airing involving the hot topic of illegal's aquiring drivers licenses? And just when the dems were responding in their usual dumb selves.
Well, it certainly appears that the dems are pretty much destroying just about everything they say and touch these days. And with the upset within it's own party, I can see them melting away in the very near future.
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