McIntee Against Hwy. Equipment Before He Was For It

Since Mark McIntee has made it to the top of my "list", I thought I'd mention the fact that most of his self-proclaimed concern about spending in the Gates budget is really just posturing.

First of all, for all of the things he has questioned, he actually has not voted against even one spending item. He repeatedly points to the fact that he voted against bonding to buy highway equipment. Okay, but the following month, he seconded the motion to buy the equipment. Voting to purchase the equipment, using the money you voted against borrowing, seems inconsistent, to say the least.

I assume Mr. McIntee would try to say that we needed the equipment but he did not want to borrow to buy it. But borrowing was the only way to get it. Obviously, he was trying to have it both ways. He made similar inconsistent remarks regarding the Highway Union contract, wondering out loud if the Town could afford the contract, but then voting for it.

Now he's trying to take credit for being the fiscal watchdog of the Town Board. As Ralph Esposito likes to point out, given McIntee's record of voting with the GOP majority over 99% of the time, he is either the worst watchdog in the history of watchdogs or perhaps there really wasn't much to watch out for.