I recently received a letter from the BTVFC Lawyer Jim Shaw who basically wants me to apologize and then to shut up about the BTVFC. I think this is an act of desperacy on their behalf.
Mr. Shaw goes to great length to proclaim that Mrs.Covert never made any comment on my site and he wants me to apologize to her for claiming that she did. However, Mr. Shaw doesn’t touch the fact that three comments/e-mails were received from kcovert33@verizon.net and that e-mail address has been verified by three different sources as her husbands e-mail address at the same home that Carol Covert lives. Oh, and by the way, I never accused her of using a BTVFC computer! I believe I said it was her personal one from her home. Get it right Shaw, it’s the least you could do for the tax dollars we are paying you to write this letter!
Don’t you people who read this blog get annoyed at the fact that the BTVFC is paying our tax dollars to a lawyer, to write a letter to me, to essentially say “shut up”? I find it extremely aggravating that my taxes keep going up and people like Carol Covert are spending tax dollars on frivolous shit like how she looks in the public eye. Get a spine Carol, or go have a few more kids and be a stay at home mom, where we don’t have to put up with your BS any longer!
LOL!! Even if carol wasn’t the person behind the keyboard, her family are prominent members of the BTVFC and I will consider any comment by her or a member of her family as a response from the BTVFC, PERIOD!
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR CALLING OUT ANY MEMBER OF THE BTVFC FOR THEIR COMMENTS!!!
They are keepers of the public trust and should have the balls to put their names on anything they say. If they feel they can’t, then they should remain silent and stay the spineless creeps they really are. Is anyone aware that Carol Covert was a principal witness against Ray Pawlowski and the lawsuit that was filed for defamation and other issues? Is anyone aware that because of statements made by Carol and her cronies at the BTVFC that the fire company was forced into a hefty financial lawsuit settlement? Who do you think pays that settlement? AH, OH YA…. it must get paid out of tax dollars since that is their main source of income at the BTVFC!!!
Is that what you pay your taxes for? To pay for incompetent statements made by people like Carol Covert? Perhaps her and her hubby should just shut up and not make the matter worse for the fire company. Anyway, NOTE TO MR. SHAW… ask your clients why they posted three comments, two that I never listed because they were so defamatory at myself and my family, but you were only told about the one I did post? Perhaps they should apologize to me!
Next on the agenda is that the Hamburg Sun is running an expose on all this stuff about the fire contracts in this town! YEP, that’s right folks, little ol’ me got the big bad news paper to take a look at how money is being spent at the BTVFC! LOL!!! I can’t wait to see just how the leadership of the BTVFC tries to run from this one. I was also told that Jeff Roth, BTVFC President, has written in to the Sun News to try and quell some of my comments. Seems as if the public is in an uproar over the money issue and Jeff is being put on the spit.
Finally it has come to my attention that last night Oct 9th, the BTVFC leadership and Supervisor Walters met to discuss their contract and the BTVFC refused to reduce their requested amount. I also need to say that meeting in secret with any company, fire or otherwise, and discussing contract issues privately is in violation of the NYS Open Meeting clause. I consider Supervisor Walters a friend of mine and don’t want to see him get into trouble over any of this, but he better watch out if BTVFC gets their way. I expect lawsuits to start flying and people to request the state to intervene for some oversight issues. It’s my understanding that no decision has been made and the full town board will meet in a week or so to discuss what to do about the BTVFC and their outrageous behavior.
Anyway here is the letter sent by Mr. Shaw. As I said before that I believe in full disclosure.
Funny how you don’t mention that you are also the subject of a commentary by The Sun calling your methods and practices into question. The only thing you are doing is promoting your own self interest. You need to find something better to do with your time than waste everyone elses with your trivial rants and baseless remarks. I’ve read your other posts and it left me feeling one thing…SICK.
Ah, another county worker, the voice of the machine speaks out. Your IP just happens to trace back to a county computer. Very interesting, does your boss know you are using county time and equipment to surf the net and send posts to my site? Perhaps I should contact the county web masters and alert them to your practices.
Now thats funny. You will not here from them again
I tried to post this once before, so hopefully it shows up this time. I’m wondering if WordPress.com condones you releasing people’s e-mails that they entered under the pretense that it would not be published. The website is pretty clear that if you enter your e-mail, it will not be published.
Also, I wonder if you think it is appropriate to release where people are blogging from in an effort to suppress their comments. Whether or not someone is posting from a County computer has nothing to do with the validity of the content of their comment. Are you afraid of what they are saying? If not, why not address the content of their comment rather than calling them out on where they are posting from?
I don’t think it’s proper that we are paying people to be working on the county dime and they are spending that time surfing the web to argue with me. As far as wordpress is concerned, they have never said a word to me.
I don’t disagree that it is improper for a public employee to be using the taxpayer’s time to blog on a political website, however, why not address that issue and then address the content of their coment?
Just trying to scare people off from posting, wihtout even attempting to address their comment doesn’t make for much of a blog. Quite the oppossite, it is obvious that you would prefer no dissenting comments.
Here is the issue. Very few people are willing to comment on an issue without throwing in some insult about me or my family. Those who come even close to a decent comment I post. However their are bigger issues than what they say. I think it’s a huge insult to me and every tax payer when someone posts from a county computer during the time they are supposed to be working. It’s actually stealing from me and every other tax payer.
for instance the person who calls him/herself “you’re unreal” makes a crappy comment about me and this site. But he/she is the one who took the time to come here to argue and say something nasty. I didn’t go to their home or office and start an arguement. They came here!
I never understood why people go to sites they hate and argue with someone they can’t win against. It just shows how stupid people really are. This is my site and I post my points of view. I allow people to participate if they are civil but 99% of the time they aren’t. I litterally delete 10-15 post a day because of the content.
From The Buffalo News Today 11/22/2008
Did we fall through the looking glass? How does it happen that volunteer fire companies are coming under criticism because they’re budgeting carefully and paying cash for big expenses, rather than begging or borrowing? If that’s bad management, we wish all government were run so poorly.
The complaint from some taxpayers and public officials seems to be that many volunteer fire companies are putting away a portion of the funding they receive from local governments, then using the cash to buy new fire trucks, buy land for new fire halls and otherwise fulfill the vital mission for which they were formed. This is a problem?
The state comptroller’s office doesn’t think so. Annual savings toward capital acquisitions can be prudent, a spokesman said. Red flags might go up if the savings were excessive, he said, particularly if no capital plan documents their need. Save, then spend, seems to be the best practice.
Other related criticisms may be more valid. Clarence Town Councilman Joe Weiss, for example, complains that the system, itself, has become outdated. The Harris Hill Fire Company in Clarence is only 1 1/2 miles from the Main-Transit fire station, he observed. That’s hardly efficient, and the response by Erie County Fire Coordinator James McCullough — “You need to be prepared for the worst” — doesn’t hold up. If that were the case, we’d have a fire station on every block. There may be room to look to reshape volunteer fire services in Western New York.
Still, there is a bottom line here and it is this: These departments are served by volunteers, a fact that saves taxpayers millions of dollars — even counting in capital costs such as equipment that may be newer than paid departments have or buildings that include amenities. Those features help attract volunteers, which are becoming increasingly difficult to recruit. It’s fair to look at the fire protection landscape and argue for greater efficiencies, but it’s nonsensical to complain that volunteer departments pay for their purchases with cash, and it’s dangerous to approach fundamental questions of their operations without understanding the story about the goose and her golden eggs.