Yes, Madam Supervisor – campaign promises do carry over into a new decade

Just in case anyone had forgotten the little back-and-forth that took place during the January Town Board meeting between Supervisor D’Aurizio and Councilwoman Aldersley, in which Councilwoman Aldersley made the point that the MJD campaign had criticized former Supervisor Heyman’s administration for hiring out-of-town residents…



…here is the mailing which I believe Councilwoman Aldersley was referencing. If you recall, during that meeting Supervisor D’Aurizio denied that any such attacks were made during the campaign.

I wonder if the Republican Party now takes issue with the fact that some guy from Brighton is now one of the highest-paid staff members at Town Hall, more so than Irondequoit’s own Marty Piecuch – who, incidentally, was not retained due to his apparent lack of loyalty to the Republican Party.

Nevertheless, we just wanted to make the point that this was, in fact, a Republican attack made on the Democratic candidates. Therefore, unless Supervisor D’Aurizio is going to publicly admonish the content of this mailing, she can’t deny that this mailing that was done to bolster her election efforts – one that I’m sure her campaign helped coordinate and was thrilled to see hit mailboxes in October of last year. And if she argues that she didn’t know about any of this, well frankly she’s being disingenuous. She might be the artsy-type, but she can’t act her way out of this one.

Just so I’m getting this right: A negative mailing comes from Republican HQ that says “Vote For Change to Keep our Jobs and Tax Dollars in Irondequoit.” Yet, the Republican candidate (who I’m assuming this mailing was referencing with the word “change”) claims it has nothing to do with her.

I wish they could hand out “Explain this to me again?” violations. If so, Supervisor D’Aurizio might compete with her husband’s collection of code violations that rival most 12 year old’s baseball card collections.