Northampton County Council, without question, is the LV's most dysfunctional legislative body. Part of the reason for that has to be attributable to the departure of five members over just four years.Michael Corriere - appointed Public Defender.
Mary Ensslin - appointed Director Court Services.
Tony Branco - defeated in election.
Wayne Grube - passed away.
Patti Grube - resigned for personal reasons.
Diane Neiper has all too often been a fourth wheel on the Team Dertinger tricycle. But to be fair, she has has also been one of council's workhorses. She previously decided against seeking reelection to spend more time with her family. Now that she and her husband have purchased a home in Camp Hill, inside word is that she will soon resign.
If that happens, council will be left with four Democrats and four Republicans. In an election year. Deja vu all over again.
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At least the musical chairs keep them and Stoffa from bankrupting taxpayers with spending impulses like $186,000 parking spaces and huge bond floating at the onset of the worst economic disaster of our time. NC taxpayers have gotten a break here. The good part of dysfunction outweighs the bad when we have an economically irresponsible cast of characters like Stoffa and council.
with all this constant turn over, when are you going to admit that Angle is a HUGE part of the problem. The disfunction goes back a long time. All of the current clowns deserve blame, but some clowns have been around longer than others.
I see. The departure of 6 council members is a good thing. Incidentally, Stoffa pulled the plud on that parking garage and it did not translate to $186,000 per space. It was more like $23k, which is in line w/ the cost throughout the country.
I'll take a council w/ 9 Ron Angles, and say that as someone who actually goes to the meetings. With all his flaws, he provides a much needed oversight that simply does not exist w/ anyone else. Last week, he left the meeting around 7:30 PM and council was barely through its agenda. By 8 PM the council had finished the meeting. Sure, there were no shots, but there was no oversight as council raced its way through the meeting.
When legislative bodies "get along" taxpayers are usually victimized. Gridlock is a safety valve on the system for when knuckleheads are running it. The system works.
She is a nice lady. Too bad she doesn't know anything about Human Services. She really just swallows whatever the Human Services Adminustrators tell her. Employees are ignored. She has bought into the crazy and dangerous Health Department idea hook, line and sinker. Someone should look into the current deficit in Human Services and how spending more County money on a new bureacracy will make matters worse.
All need to resign. PERIOD. Stoffa too. This council and Executive are all out of touch, incompetent and ineffective. Each and everyone of them is to blame. Frankly, all should be replaced with no one, and I mean no one, over the age of 45. Lets see what a younger more progressive in touch group could do.
Yeah just what we need. A group of inexperienced know it all's.
The Valley has become such a wonderful place were ever you have stuck your "progressive" noses, not!
Anon 10:17 wrote...
"All need to resign. PERIOD. Stoffa too. This council and Executive are all out of touch, incompetent and ineffective. Each and everyone of them is to blame. Frankly, all should be replaced with no one, and I mean no one, over the age of 45. Lets see what a younger more progressive in touch group could do."
So replace them - get a group of candidates together and steal the election - That's the way the system is supposed to work - either put up or shut up.
Stoffa stepped up to run against Reibman when nobody else had the guts to do so. - You can do the same thing.
StoffaThug, Stoffa did have the local newspapers working for him. Just as they have for the past four years.
Bernie,
what's the update on this. Is she really resigning?
DantheMann
Dan the Man,
I have nothing new.
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