Smalbany’s Summary of on why George McHugh and his Comeback Losers would be really bad news for Coeymans will be posted on Sunday, November 3, 2019. Stay tuned!
You wonder where Collins’and Lefevre’s parents are on all of this. If you were their parents, wouldn’t you feel that this alliance would likely destroy their futures? Being associated with a conspiratorial and crooked schemer like McHugh, that is. Wouldn’t you try to talk to them and try to save them? Well, any normal parent would but Zach Collin’s father works for Carver Laraway. There’s a connection there. And maybe there’s a piece of the Carver Companies pie in it for Zach, too. He’s young and probably very impressionable or very greedy. Perhaps dear ol’ dad has his own plans for sonny boy, Zach.Image may be NSFW.
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Lookin’ for a Dog-Daddy?
Lie Down with a Dog and You Wake Up with Fleas, Boys!
Benjamin Franklin’s quote above raises further questions about what is in store for Zach Collins and Brendan Lefevre. How did two young men like them get involved with George McHugh and his goons?
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This one’s for Zach Collins and Brendan Lefevre.
We really have to wonder, because the two young pups really haven’t done anything that would indicate they have any life experience at all, at least none that would justify their being on a ballot with the likes of McHugh. Are they really that starved for a daddy-figure?
Perhaps, perhaps not. But what we have learned on good authority is that Brendan Lefevre is a real schizoid. In fact, the rumor — all rumors have some basis in fact — he’s the author of all or most of the slurs and insults on the FOC Facebook site. So Golden Boy is not so golden; he’s more of a little turd.
Even McHugh’s News Herald couldn’t fabricate some lie to make Lefevre or Collins look more tempting
Lefevre is a nobody, lived in Albany for some time before returning to Coeymans just about the time McHugh decided he was going to run again, that is, in late 2018. Word is that Brendan Lefevre is now living in his father’s basement.
The only information that we have to go on is what appeared in the Ravena News Herald in March 2019, which says next-to-noting, unless a couple vague statements about Collins simply says that it’s time for him to “grow,” and so he joined the McHugh goon-squad. No clue what that means. Pretty bad when even McHugh’s News Herald couldn’t fabricate some lie to make Lefevre look more tempting.
Lefevre says he’s going to work with the Coeymans business community. Like that’s news. Nothing about anything but the business community. That should give us all hope, right?
In a joint letter to the editor in August 2019, they simply parroted the script that we’ve been hearing all along. It’s all been exposed since then, so it’s really unnecessary to beat that dead horse. If that’s how much they care about what they call “openness” and “transparency,” they have a VERY big problem. I hope Coeymans voters don’t make Collins and Lefevre’s problems Coeymans’ problems.
Neither Collins nor Lefevre own any property in Coeymans so there are quite a few questions we could ask them about why they are here. Collins does mention that his wife is a teacher at “the school,” which raises the question: Which one? Zach. Don’t you know we have like four schools in the RCS Central School District? Don’t you even know the name of the school where your wife works?
Our take on this whole McHugh-Collins-Lefevre is that McHugh has some sinister plans for the two young pups. It wouldn’t be a bit surprising if they had their own sinister plans, like currying favor with Carver Laraway, just like daddy-McHugh has. Is it an opportunity for a job with Carver Companies? Are they, too, despite the smiles, greedy devils like their running mate, McHugh. Will Collins and Lefevre be tainted, infected with the character deficits of their mentor, McHugh? Probably, unless something’s done to prevent such a tragedy from happening.
If you’ve read the Crandall Interview (links below), you will have some insights and an idea of who and what Daniel “Dan” Baker is. The first impression is that Baker doesn’t have a loyal bone in his body. He’s a weasel and is out to make a weasel-deal with anyone he thinks he can do. He threw in his long-time employer, LaFarge, by whistleblowing about their cheating on DEC air-quality inspections. He shared damning photos of a LaFarge blow-out that released huge clouds of black smoke and soot into the air across from the middle school and the high school. He bailed on the Clean Air Law vote once he started marching to McHugh’s drumbeat. And he bailed on the vote for the Coeymans Planning Board after he had committed to approving Battaglia to be chairman. Dan Baker is not to be trusted by you, me, the Board, his employee, NO ONE! But he thinks McHugh is going to do something for him, after all, he stated at a meeting with several residents, McHugh, and the FOC thugs, at which he appeared unannounced and refused to be recorded because, he “had too much at stake.” Sure. Baker’s playing all sides. Like George McHugh, he’s a rat doesn’t want to lose no matter who wins.
Surprisingly, George McHugh and his running mates include four phrases on their campaign cards, and we’d like to spend some time talking about the phrases:
“More Open * More Ethical * More Affordable * More Effective” HOGWASH!
More Open? Our discussion of the obvious answers to the questions we had planned for the McHugh interview-that-never-happened should be more than convincing to anyone who thinks that McHugh is open. McHugh is an attorney and is trained to be only as transparent as benefits his case. He is trained on how to manipulate and to spin facts. But open he is definitely NOT.
If George McHugh or anyone on his Backpedal Team were open, he’d be willing, as Mr. Crandall was, to answer questions that would clarify the public’s doubts and concerns about his past, his present, and the future he claims to offer Coeymans. He has either refused to respond or responds with vague and ambiguous statements, or he sends his henchmen, the Friends of Coeymans, Jeff LaQuire, Nate Boomer, and Chris Hagen out to answer for him. And we know all too well how that’s done: Bullyism and Thuggery!
More ethical? If George McHugh’s ethics history is anything to judge by, George McHugh can’t even spell the word. If his use of the antics of the Coeymans Clowns, the Friends of Coeymans, is anything to judge by, his view of “ethics” is about as democratic as the Neo-Nazi Code of Conduct. The fact that McHugh’s campaign even has the nerve to mention ethical in their campaign materials is a slap in the face of all Coeymans voters.
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The real message being sent by Friends of Coeymans, George McHugh’s thugs.
More Affordable? We’re not clear on where the question of “affordability” came in. Are we buying a car? A health insurance plan? What’s all this about affordability? Isn’t affordability related to affordable. If something is affordable, it’s priced reasonably, and you have enough money to buy it. … The adjective affordable can either mean “cheap,” or it can imply that even if it’s expensive, you have enough money to easily buy it. So how does that apply to the McHugh “Comeback Team?” Does it mean that they’re “cheap?” We can see that. When you consider the money they’re spending on a local political campaign, you really have to wonder where it’s coming from and what they expect to get back, these so-called business-friendly candidates. What are the dividends they expect to receive on their campaign investment?
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George McHugh = Ethics Violations = Corruption.
Does affordable mean that the Comeback Team Is priced reasonably, and that you have enough money to buy them? We can see that, too. We know that George McHugh can be had for a price but we wouldn’t agree that he’s affordable, unless you’re Carver Laraway.
But even if they are cheap and you can buy them, we don’t see how that is something voters really want, or how being cheap and buyable is anything I’d like to see in our Town’s leadership. We do know that you can buy George McHugh but he’s certainly not “affordable.” Only the likes of LaFarge or Carver Laraway can afford that kind of corruption.
Maybe Collins, Lefevre, Baker, Langton are cheaper, more affordable. Maybe we can afford to buy them more affordably. What do you think?
More Effective? Effective at what? Lies? Sure, just look at McHugh’s reasons for not running for re-election he gave in 2001, and the reasons he gives in 2019.
Effective at being secretive, obscure, uninformative? Sure, that’s affordable. We can afford to admit that’s a certainty.
But really, what are they effective at? More effective at getting LaFarge and Carver Laraway to pay for their outrageous campaign? Looks like that’s pretty effective.
More effective at recruiting a gaggle of goons to engage in neonazi tactics, and to disseminate propaganda, while the candidates can sit back and watch their henchmen do their dirty work, while keeping their own hands clean? If we’re talking about being more effective at being villains, scoundrels, liars, deceivers, at being scandalous and hypocritical? Then YES, they are more effective than most.
Our question is: How is any of that good for Coeymans? Collins and Lefevre have no record of effectiveness, so what are they talking about? How can they refer to themselves as the “Comeback Team?” They don’t have anywhere to “come back” from.
But being more effective at anything else? They haven’t done anything else. Collins and Lefevre are new on the scene. George Langdon was a dud on the Town Board; completely ineffective; that’s why we’ve had so little to say about George Langdon. Langdon is simply irrelevant; so unimportant, we don’t want to waste words on him.
So where’s this “More Effective” coming from, anyway. Your guess is as good as ours. I think it’s a smoke and mirrors game. Don’t you.
They just say anything. Just say anything, nobody will remember. They might think that but that would be a very big mistake, boys.
The facts speak for themselves. None of the so-called comeback team can claim to be “open.” George McHugh refused to be interviewed and to answer some very important questions. Maybe that’s what he means by open? His running mates are just as obscure as he is. We can understand that from Collins and Lefevre because they simply haven’t done anything in life to be open about.
But then nothing about George McHugh makes sense, it just makes one sick.
The “more ethical” is the real punch line, and if that doesn’t get McHugh lots of laughter, nothing will. With the public record of his ethics violations, we’d like to ask, “More ethical than what?” Again, Collins and Lefevre have done nothing in life to give them any reason to claim that they are “more ethical” than anything.
More Affordable? We don’t get it. Try as we may, we just don’t get that one. It makes no sense. But then nothing about McHugh makes sense, it just makes one sick.
More Effective? Sorry but we’ve discussed what you’re more effective at, Comeback Team, and we really don’t think Coeymans needs any of it. You have done nothing to prove effectiveness, and we’re certain McHugh doesn’t want to revisit his record of effectiveness back in 2000-2001. He’s just lucky his effectiveness didn’t land his ass in jail or at least get him disbarred. That may yet happen, though.
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Read the Excerpts from Segments 1, 2, and 3 of the Crandall Interview:
Crandall Interview: Segment 1
Crandall Interview: Segment 2
Crandall Interview: Segment 3
Plus the Featured Resident Comment:
The Coeymans Clowns, the FoC, Are True to Their Reputation: Thugs
Specifically about George McHugh’s Misinformation Campaign and Lack of Character
George McHugh: Dishonorable Scoundrel! How Dare You!!!
George McHugh: Conspiracy, Misrepresentation, Possible Fraud?
News Herald My View: Comeback Team = Space Cadets!
George McHugh’s Cowardice: Refusal to Interview, Refusal to Debate Mr Crandall
George McHugh: Wallowing Sows and Vomiting Dogs
George McHugh: The Interview That Wasn’t – Part II
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George McHugh: His campaign is up in flames.