Rumblings
This is a long shot, but I'll go out on the limb.
Sometime next year, Monroe County will have a new county executive.
That means if your a stock speculator, Londo is a sell recommendation.
Charles Londo is the county's appointed administrator. Since being fired a few years ago and then reinstated, he has continued to build a political power base. All reports are that he's a nice enough guy but his inconsistency in opening and closing the county's pursestrings seem to be getting a lot of people upset. That includes many in the county's law enforcement community, including some who are elected, i.e. the sheriff. Londo is elected by no one but really has a lot to say about the county's direction and its priorities.
Londo has held his job because he has his political ducks lined up and there are more followers than leaders on the county board.
But the rumblings are increasing. History has shown that public safety is a hot-button issue with citizens and commissioners alike, so if you're going to duel at high noon with the sheriff, you're going to lose -- especially if he has his partners on the rooftops ready to snipe you before you even get a chance to draw.
Look for Londo's body laying in the dusty street of Monroe County politics sometime in 2007 -- unless he mounts up and leaves town before the posse takes him down.
But what do I know?
Sometime next year, Monroe County will have a new county executive.
That means if your a stock speculator, Londo is a sell recommendation.
Charles Londo is the county's appointed administrator. Since being fired a few years ago and then reinstated, he has continued to build a political power base. All reports are that he's a nice enough guy but his inconsistency in opening and closing the county's pursestrings seem to be getting a lot of people upset. That includes many in the county's law enforcement community, including some who are elected, i.e. the sheriff. Londo is elected by no one but really has a lot to say about the county's direction and its priorities.
Londo has held his job because he has his political ducks lined up and there are more followers than leaders on the county board.
But the rumblings are increasing. History has shown that public safety is a hot-button issue with citizens and commissioners alike, so if you're going to duel at high noon with the sheriff, you're going to lose -- especially if he has his partners on the rooftops ready to snipe you before you even get a chance to draw.
Look for Londo's body laying in the dusty street of Monroe County politics sometime in 2007 -- unless he mounts up and leaves town before the posse takes him down.
But what do I know?
posted by The Observer at 10/01/2006 01:15:00 AM
1 Comments:
Sounds like the old Monroe City Manager has found a new job. Seems that Debbie Manns was hired by some small burb down by Dayton, Ohio as, get this, an assistant City Manager. Guess they knew something that our guys who hired her didn't know. Mainly, she is qualified as an "assistant", but not qualified for the "head job", no pun intended. Too bad that John Iacoangeli wasn't Mayor down there, or that city could have experienced what our city had to experience, cronyism. From what I've heard, she took a pretty serious pay cut too, from the 100 grand that she made here as the Mayoral puppet. Hope they don't put her in charge of running any projects, or they may get a splash park like Monroe, which she ran over $100,000 over budget. I wonder how long it will take her to hire John's firm for some project. Maybe someone should pass the word on to the new City that if she pushes Becket & Raeder or Vilican Lehman on them, she is just pushing her good ole buddy Iacoangeli on them. Oh well, I'm glad she's gone for good, and I'm glad her poor starving children will not suffer any longer from what our current council "did" to their mother. That is, replacing her with very well qualified City Manager for the best interests of our taxpaying citizens. Now if they could only fix the skating rink problems.
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