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Channel 10 had a good piece on Gantt’s press conference.  He said he was sorry, indicated he was going to work with the new public defender, but continue to speak out on important issues. Evidently, he’s done such a good job in Albany that he can devote more of his attention to Monroe County government — who knows, maybe the big guy could run for County Executive in 2011.

Honestly though, I’m suffering from Gantt Fatigue — I’ve had enough of all the non-sense. 

This issue was useful, however, in pointing out how out of touch Monroe County Democrats, left wing bloggers, and the liberal media are with “mainstream Monroe County.” 

The traffic generated on our site during the Gantt controversy, speaks to the need for a forum like Monroerising.com.  Thanks to everyone who participated in our comment section during this controversy.  Once again, we would like to offer people the opportunity to post on our site — you just need to be opinionated and interesting.

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Gentle Reader:

Hats off to the folks at Mustardstreet.  They were the first to have the item below. Now the entire world can see how crazy this “distinguished citizen” is.

Tags: David Gantt, Monroe County Public Defender, Prudence Izguhde by Prudence Izguhde
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Everyone knew what to expect when Assemblyman David Gantt decided, as many believe, that he wanted to takeover control of picking the new Public Defender.  It is not a stretch to assume this since the Democrats in the County Legislature and the Bar Association had already agreed to the screening process set forth, although not required by law, by the Legislature President, Wayne Zyra.  The only legal provision is that the County Legislature make the appointment.  As reported, and paraphrased below, by our friends at Mustard Street:

The President of the Leg, Wayne Zyra, organized a panel to screen applicants for the position and recommend them to the County Legislature. It would consist of: 3 judges, Stephen Lindley, Nancy Smith and one other; one member appointed by the Democratic leader of the County Leg, one appointed by the Republican Leader, and two appointed by the County Bar Association. The Bar Association, which earlier had approved the panel, and also the legislature’s minority leader Harry Bronson, who earlier did the same, even participating in a joint press release with Zyra, both decided to back out of the screening committee.

However, despite the very poor reporting from the D&C on this topic (I think there were actually more editorials shilling for the all powerful David Gantt compared to the number of news stories written by the rank and file reporters) the blogger reports uncovered that both Harry Bronson, the Legislature Minority Leader and Lovely Warren, Bar Association spokesperson on this issue, work for the state Assembly local delegation (ie: David Gantt).

Sorry, I’m trying to find a good smart alecky remark to make now, but there are too many coming to mind.  Basically, BOSS GANTT BACKED THEM ALL DOWN BECAUSE HE WANTED TO CONTROL THE PROCESS TO PUT HIS OWN PERSON IN!!!

There, I let the cat out of the bag… since no media sources have the brass ones to call it what it is.

We at Monroerising.com understand this because we know David has been losing just about all of his attempts lately to stack the city school board and city council with his own cronies.

Well the County Leg. Majority did their job and appointed the most qualified person.  However, during ‘his process’ even David may have gone too far in his staged protest.

6:00 P.M. T.V. news reported that Gantt was going to hold a press conference sometime soon , we believe, regarding the following comment he made while walking out of the meeting that finally saw the selection of the new Public Defender:

Assemblyman David Gantt: “You wonder why a guy goes in Missouri and shoots some damn body.”  Watch it for yourself here.

Rachel Barnhart of 13WHAM News reported tonight on questions regarding the issue of a threat of violence.

Gantt was referring to the recent murder of 4 public officials and 2 police officers at another government meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Over the last few days, blogger comments have been pouring in on all media outlets (how can you blatantly NOT report on this) both denouncing and supporting Gantt’s comments.  Although, I’d wager that more people find this offensive, as I’m sure the families of those who were killed probably would.

I haven’t been able to confer with all of our reporters at Monroerising.com yet, but I for one am sad (no, not angry, just sad) that Gantt would appear to use what happened in Missouri to make his political point.  He wasn’t even being dragged out or arrested, so it wasn’t like he was all angry and spazzing out and stuff.  Everyone is saying he was escorted out peacefully, so what gives?

I’m sorry.  I’m ranting now.  I guess I am mad.  I guess I just wish David had read one of the many news stories regarding these deaths before making his comment.  Maybe this one.

David… I guess I do wonder — I wonder what the spouses, children, family members and friends of those who were killed are gonna feel like, knowing that one of our elected officials here in Rochester, New York used the news of their loss unnecessarily and inappropriately to make a point.

Now I’m not quite sure if Paul Haney was referring to the process or David Gantt’s comments in his portion of this video.

Anyway, Gantt’s having a press conference.  We hope it’s to apologize for his comments.  We agree with Paul Haney’s statement, “It’s disgusting.”

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by these senseless murders.

Tags: Articles, David Gantt, Monroe County Public Defender, Mr. Peabody by Mr. Peabody
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I think I’m the only one who saw this. Brighton Supervisor Sandy Frankel announced she was running against Senator Joe Robach.  Last week she scheduled her first announcement to run against Robach (only to cancel it for “personal” reasons) between the Superbowl I mean “the big game” and SuperTuesday.  This week she announced it on the day of the public defender meeting at the County Legislature and Governor Steamroller is in town today– that’s why only wxxi pick up the story.

Check out this channel 8 story by Kevin Jolly.  Sources in the legislature told me Sandy made reference to Bull Connor during her speech and so does Jolly in the beginning of the story — unbelievable.  Sandy tries to do a walk-on at the end of Jolly’s story.

Rating the 56th senate candidates in terms of performance (that’s really what it was) my source said Dollinger first, Sandy Frankel second and Willa Powell a distant third (my source said she had an overall crazy aura about her).

The big question is who Assemblyman David Gantt will reward with the support of his Democrat rich base of voters. 

Tags: Articles, Cincinnatus, Joe Robach, Richard Dollinger, Sandy Frankel, Willa Powell by Cincinnatus
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Thanks to Ryan34 for sending us this comment.

Gantt should be investigated for his comments last night that Channel 10 captured on tape, and I quote “you wonder why a guy go into Missouri and shoot some damn body”. What a great example for our children! “Hey kids, Mr. Gantt says that when things go wrong, it’s ok to shoot ‘em up.”

Imagine if those words had come out of a Republican!

Link to the video below:
http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S344970.shtml?cat=566

Feb 13, 10:26 AM

Too bad that numskull Tom Tobin at the D&C isn’t interested in the whole story.  Checkout this unbelievable post he had on the D&C opinion blog:

Gantt smoked ‘em

Dave Gantt made the county legislative Republicans look like feckless, arrogant amateurs the other day by creating a situation in which he and some supporters were arrested and handcuffed while the lawmakers met in private to cut a deal on the appointment of a new public defender. Gantt became a man of the people fighting for First Amendment rights, even to the point of wearing handcuffs, while the legislators looked like let-them-eat-cake Antoinettes.

posted by Tom Tobin at 1:06 PM 2 comments

What would Tom and his liberal buddies have to say if a Republican said this?

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Democratic County Legislator Carrie Andrews described the scene at the County Legislature as horrifying. 

She’s the one who wrote that many of her male co-workers regularly try to steal a glance down her blouse in a D&C essay last year– I mention this to point out how healthy her self-esteem is and to also point out I’m glad I don’t work where ever it is she works — apparently they are hard up for attractive women there. I lifted the following quote off of Mustardstreet who included it in a post they did awhile back. 

Andrews offered a further revelation of deplorable working conditions for NYSUT’s own employees:

I have experienced sitting in a business meeting knowing full well that the person I’m working with is more interested in sneaking glances down my blouse than listening to what I was saying.

She was absolutely right (about last night’s meeting — I doubt her work story — personally, it takes at least a B cup to get my attention) but for the wrong reason.

“This is embarrassing and appalling and it makes me tremble to be a part of this,” said Democratic legislator Carrie Andrews. “There are one…two…three…twelve deputies staring at us right now.”

The whole public defender fiasco was horrifying, but as you might guess, Legislator Andrews had the wrong reasons. It is embarrassing that a state elected official did not fulfill his legal obligation to be in Albany so he could disrupt the proceedings of the Monroe County Legislature. 

Carrie Andrews asked why cheerleaders weren’t made to go through metal detectors.  If she really doesn’t know the answer to this question, she doesn’t belong in public office. 

How many cheerleaders promised to disrupt a Legislature meeting to get what they wanted? 

How many cheerleaders were arrested at a committee meeting three days before a legislature meeting? 

How many cheerleaders have been taken from a legislature meeting shouting something along the lines of “this is the type of stuff that lead to people being shot at at that city council meeting last week (the one in suburban St. Louis)”? Update: see it for yourself.

How many cheerleaders were on WDKX radio inciting racial tension and telling people to come to the meeting and cause a ruckus because they were not given what they claimed was theirs because of a process that was used over 30 years ago?  

Maybe Carrie Andrews didn’t see the channel 13 raw video of Gantt and his friends storming the floor of that public safety committee meeting a couple of weeks ago where Gantt used his considerable bulk to bully the female officer.  Maybe Carrie wasn’t at the meeting on Saturday — the one where it took almost 2 hours to clear the legislative chambers. 

If security was not as it was last night, police would have had to arrest dozens, if not hundreds of people.  The meeting might very well have not happened.  We are a nation of laws.  Our system is set up so that everyone is treated fairly.  Just because someone is passionate about something doesn’t mean they have a say in what goes on.  Personally, I’d love to see the United States out of the war in Iraq.  What meeting can I go and disrupt and take control of to stop this injustice?

Paul Haney complained about a nun not being allowed in the chambers and appeared to blame Republicans.  Dan Quatro, the new Republican Leader pointed out correctly that the outrage should be directed at the people who promised to disrupt the meeting.

What would Carrie Andrews, Paul Haney and the Democrats say if a group that wasn’t a part of Democratic Party’s base acted the way Gantt and company did. What if the evangelical community brought hundreds of people, incited their followers on religious radio, and had disrupted two previous meetings, to protest the gradual legal erosion of the concept that marriage is between one man and one woman?

Would they be horrified? Would they be trembling?  I don’t think so. Treating Assemblyman Gantt and his followers differently than you would treat others is racism — plain and simple. For the Democrats to claim otherwise is hypocritical.    

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Details are still a bit sketchy but it seems someone may have jumped the gun.  I thought I’d already learned that catchy phrase about not being one to ass-u-me, but we all need to be reminded time and again. 

Everyone would have guessed that it was David Gantt who was arrested at the legislature meeting tonight.  We thought it’d be his final act of protest against the legislature majority for not bowing to his demand to be the one to anoint the next public defender the way the Democrat legislators and bar association had already done.

But alas, it was yet another usual protesting suspect we have come to know and lo–, um, loathe.  The venerable ’sister’ Grace Miller.  You’ll remember, I spoke about her  in one of Cincinnatus’ previous posts about Gantt’s “arrest me please” antics.

You may know Grace.  She’s a regular protester at the county legislature meetings.  She protested voter registration drives back in the 70’s/80’s for being racist (??).  She’s protested every County Executive since Tom Frey lost to Bob King in the early 90’s.  She had a field day with Jack Doyle and was the first to start slamming our present County Executive, Maggie Brooks.  She paved the way for the Democrats to feel comfortable beating up our first woman county exec.  We’re so proud of our first woman ‘fill in the blank’ — unless she happens to be an evil woman republican.

On a side note, I wish republicans were more like democrats (no, not really.  I’m just making a point here).  See, if the republicans went after a democrat female county executive, regardless of the reason, the dems would be screaming bloody murder on how terrible that is to do, NOW would join in to say that republicans hate women, and the newspaper would run story after story on how republicans need to learn how to work with a woman county exec.  Would republicans treat their mothers that way?  No such luck for the poor repubs though.  Oh well, they’ll just have to keep fighting the giant with their slingshot.

So Grace and some other guy got arrested and poor David Gantt was only led out of the chambers.  Big whoop.

I guess even Assemblyman David Gantt doesn’t have the stones to shove a female cop in order to get arrested. 

Maybe he should have been a republican.  Ack!

Tags: Articles, David Gantt, Democrat and Chronicle, Monroe County Public Defender, Mr. Peabody by Mr. Peabody
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You know the deal.  I’ll sum it up in ten easy to follow steps.

1. County Legislature needs to pick new Public Defender.

2. Democrats in Leg. and Bar Association agree to process.

3. David Gantt wants to appoint his own person.

4. Ass. Gantt bullies leg. democrats and bar assoc. to his will.  Forces them to back out of participation.

5. Leg. majority moves forward to do their job.

6. Gantt’s first attempt to get arrested fails.  Activist shoves female police officer.

7. Gantt’s second attempt to get aressted succeeds.  After a quick potty break.

8. Gantt’s third attempt to get arrested succeeds.  No details on this one yet.  Jill T. at the D&C is doing a good job keeping the public updated.

9. Legislature majority moves forward to select new Public Defender.

10. Local newspaper/democrats/special interest groups claim republicans hate poor, minorities.

This is getting so old and sooooooooo boring.

And I missed the beginning of Wife Swap for this!

Tags: Articles, David Gantt, Democrat and Chronicle, Monroe County Public Defender, Mr. Peabody by Mr. Peabody
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I wanted to post this Monday but work has been very busy.  I’m torn between being happy about being busy, which leads me to feel more secure economically and feeling like I am neglecting you, our faithful readers.

I’m back from a busy weekend of family duties and ready to start a new week of citizen journalism. One of the things I pride myself on and the main reason so many people have been coming to our site is my ability predict the future.  I’m not bragging or trying to take anything away from my good friends Occam, Mr. Peabody, Prudence or new poster Lemon Lyman, but even I am impressed by Saturday mornings post on David Gantt’s future arrest (I am a little embarrassed however, that I didn’t predict the singing of “We Shall Overcome”). This was almost as impressive as my call the week before to take the Giants and the points (there is no post to back me up on this so you will have to trust me on that one).  

The scene at the County Office Building tonight will look like something straight out of the 1960’s.  Unlike Saturday morning, dozens of people will be arrested tonight.  Assemblyman Gantt and his friends will make their political points, disrupt the meeting and the Republican majority will appoint the candidate the Public Safety Committee recommended.

Many liberals are shocked that the Republican Majority didn’t buckle to Gantt.  Liberals fail to understand some of the basic points of politics and human nature. Accordingly, they don’t understand why those mean spirited Republicans are not giving “the community” what they want. 

Part of our mission here at Monroerising.com is to help liberals understand politics and life in general.  For their benefit, I have a few guesses why the Republicans are digging their heels in on this issue. 

1) The biggest mistake County Republicans made was involving Democratic “Leader” Harry Bronson in the process.  Harry showed his lack of political knowledge by agreeing to a process that he thought was capable of picking a qualified candidate without checking with one of his political bosses (David Gantt).

Legislature Minority Leader Harry Bronson, D-Rochester, said the committee is capable of producing a list of qualified candidates without concern for political affiliation.

He showed his lack of integrity by backing out of the process he agreed to and he showed his lack of shame by questioning the morality of those who didn’t buckle to Gantt’s will. I’d never deal with Bronson again for fear of him moving the goal posts or asking for a do over because he doesn’t know the first thing about politics.

2) Assemblyman David Gantt blocked Maggie Brooks’ attempt to raise the sales tax for political gain. He effectively forced county Republicans to enact the FAIR Plan, setting up his buddy Joe Morelle to bring in union special interests to try to unseat county Republicans in last fall’s election.

Gantt can’t have it both ways — if you choose to put politics ahead of what’s good for the community — you can’t complain because those same people you stuck it to aren’t listening to your demands on something you think is important.

3) Gantt double crossed Maggie Brooks on the Assembly’s share of money originally designated for Renaissance Square to the tune of $18 million.  Great politics but bad for Monroe County.

4) Gantt did this community a tremendous disservice on the Paetec Park issue by insisting it be built in the ghetto. Build a $19 million stadium in the ghetto with no parking and no investment in the surrounding neighborhood and wonder why suburbanites are afraid to go there.

Gantt’s my way or the highway tactics have been terrible for our community.  By enabling Assemblyman David Gantt, the Democratic Party and the liberals at the D&C Editorial board are doing Monroe County a real disservice.

I could go on but you get the idea.  If there are any liberals out there that don’t understand, please contact me at cincinnatus@monroerising.com and I’ll set up a counseling session for you.

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Lemon Lyman — one of the first people to find us on the internet — made his first post last night and we would like to welcome him to Monroerising.com.  I came across this on youtube and thought it would be appropriate to post it in his honor.

Next time I order a drink, I’m not going to ask for lemon.  Here’s why

Tags: Articles, Lemon Lyman, Prudence Izguhde by Prudence Izguhde
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