As most of us know, North Greenbush is a great place to live, but comes with it’s own set of challenges. One of those challenges is that of finding qualified, dedicated and honorable people to run for public office. In a perfect world, each political party would have a waiting list of qualified candidates ready to step up to the plate. Apparently, the editorial staff of the TU don’t live or vote in North Greenbush. If they did, they would not consider Charlie Smith a choice for any rational humanbeing who knows him and his reputation. We do agree that ideally there would be candidates on the two major parties but for a Conservative or someone on the Independence line or WFP, cross-endorsements are the only way to have even a remote chance of winning.
Do the folks at the TU know that Charlie is running not because he’s so noble and idealistic but because he and Dan don’t have a load of people who want to be micro-managed by those two especially considering their sterling reputations. We heard even the County Chairman Tom Wade, was none too happy with Charlie endorsing himself to run for Supervisor. So if all this makes the TU feel all warm and fuzzy about North Greenbush having a choice in this election, someone should maybe clue them in to the fact that we may have a choice on paper, but realistically, there’s no choice at all. It’s Al Spain for Supervisor or North Greenbush will be flushed down the crapper.
