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Reader says this obsession with tagging specific people with specific posts only reinforces the need for PJ to maintain the policy of permitting residents to post anonymously

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This obsession on the part of the Three Amigos and their supporters with tagging specific people with specific posts perceived as being critical to the regime is getting old and only reinforces the continuing need for PJ to maintain the policy of permitting residents to post anonymously within the bounds of propriety. To hear their arbitrary detractors tell the tale, nothing Mr. Sedon or Ms. Knudsen might wish to raise as an issue could ever resonate with the electorate, much less prompt a member of the public to chime in with praise for them at theridgewoodblog.com. This is utter nonsense, of course, because we have two real gems in Knudsen and Sedon, each for their own unique set of fine characteristics and true qualifications. They are striving for and achieving real non-partisan transparency in local government, a sisyphian task if there ever was one. Or perhaps herculean? given the large amounts of manure being generated every week in our version of the Augean Stables.

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Council Apologist Says Stay out of Politics if you Don’t Want Retribution

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Council Apologist Says Stay out of Politics if you Don’t Want Retribution

Either the town is a civil service town (as we are, and as such we comply with civil service rules) or its not. The ‘nepotism’ policy, despite being well intended, does not have any place in a town that is governed by civil service rules. By applying this on top of civil service, someone could probably spend a few dollars on an attorney and invalidate it.
It would be an appropriate policy if we had a ‘chief’s test’ whereby ‘favorites’ or insiders (such as dispatchers) were hired, like many non-civil service towns.
Anyone who wants to rent a room or an apartment *and file federal income taxes and vote* can become a Village resident, eligible for hiring for any civil service position that requires residency. It does not require you to ‘grow up in town’.
Despite all of the above written by other posters, politics and ‘paybacks’ are the way it is in the real world.
If someone had a bitch with the former Mayor and chose to bring a legitimate question up before the council, so be it. The council must act in accordance with their ‘nepotism’ policy, or rescind it.
If one chooses to ‘throw their hat’ into the political arena, one must be ready to ‘suffer the consequences’. If the former mayor was more concerned about his son’s future employment, maybe he should have not entered politics and sat on the sidelines and enjoyed his retirement check.
That’s the way it is in the real world. And that’s why many successful businessman from the private sector wouldn’t get into politics…EVER.

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