“Signing and approving of checks that cover their own disbursements from the Fire Dept. and other accounts are clearly direct financial interest. How is this allowed to continue and where are the two local newspapers on this issue?”
Mr. DeAngelis is so far off base on this one it is absolutely absurd. This is an example of Rule 2 and the newly added Rule 8 of the Formula Of Hate.
Rule # 2 Create an artificial controversy.
Rule # 8 Infer that Tom Gormley and Bob Desmarais are filling their pockets with money off the backs of the taxpayers, in a sneaky underhanded way that violates the charter.
Mr. DeAngelis ignores the checks and balances within the system. I.E. The BOS does not write these checks, they simply sign them. Their salaries are set. They are paid with checks written by employees of the Finance Office. They do not fill in these amounts, but simply sign the checks. This includes their own pay checks.
This also holds true for MVFD incentive Pay and Fire Pay. The MVFD gets one big check from the Town, and then the MVFD Treasurer writes checks based on what each firefighter has earned. Tom Gormley and Bob Desmarais do not dictate how much money they receive from these funds. To say this is somehow a conflict of interest is absurd.
The whole argument is just so silly, its hardly worth talking about. No wonder no newspaper has picked up on the story. The reason? ... There is no story. It is a tempest in a teapot.
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The public should be aware of the costs to the town of the FOIs from Deangelis.
Patty provided copies of Steve Savarese billing.
Surprise! . Actually, no surprise...
Savarese billed quite a few sessions with Tom Gormley and other town hall employees discussing Pattie's FOIs. So, on top of all the other costs, we have attorney costs too.
Thanks Pattie. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Here's another Whopper!
(I wonder who ghost-wrote this?)
"Ed St. John's administration NEVER hid documents, never. Believe me, I know FOI laws and I know which Middlebury administrations and administrators
complied with the law and I also know which slimy officials try to hide materials."
I don't think even the most brain dead White Avenue kool-aid drinker will believe that lie.
As of April of 2008, Pat DeAngelis has cost the Middlebury Taxpayer over $20,000. Since April I am sure you can add thousands of dollars more to that total.
Pattie and Eddie read this blog closely and have lifted a few of the jibes that we make to the media. Pattie invites the newspaper reporters to get off their arses and report on what is going on.
I just wish that one of the papers would actually do it!
Marecca Fiore actually did some investigative reporting for the Waterbury Republican-American. So did Emily Beaver. But they're both long gone, replaced with Pape's lap-dog Matt O'Rourke. Matt has put in many plugs for Pattie this year, but has not even thought about scratching the surface of Pattie's harassment. Where is chief editor Kellogg? He's definitely not interested in getting a pulitzer. No wonder nobody gets the paper any more.
My hope rests with with Marj Needham of the Bee-Intelligencer. Marj developed that girl scout newspaper into a good viable publication. Please Marj - please take some of our suggestions and investigate this whole Deangelis St. John harassment. Please go after the MRTC and expose their hypocrisy.
A few investigative reports like that will make the Bee a "must read" for Middleburians. We can use Voices for the bottom of the litter box and cancel our subscription to the Republican American.
Deangelis Harassment Wastes Endless Town Hall Time and Money
Pattie publishes page after page of legal fees paid by Middlebury taxpayers like me. What for? To amuse himself at my expense. Countless hours of Tom Gormley's time is wasted. Barbara Whitaker's time is wasted. Steve Savarese's time ($$$) is wasted.
This time and money could have been spent on something useful. Pattie proves with those legal fees that he harassed Gormley from day one. Distracting the new First Selectman from learning his job.
Pattie has the nerve to say in his writings that he was helping Tom. Remember this whopper: ""We all tried to help him because his new, young administration needed help."
That wasn't help. That was sabotage. That was intentionally distracting Tom from his job, day after day. The bills prove it and Pattie is proud of it.
Wake up Middlebury! Wake Up!
This guy is screwing you! He's screwing me! He's screwing the entire town!!!
And he is proud of it. The Bastard.
Mr. Taxpayer was not clear enough in his post above, so let me clarify:
The legal bills presented by Savarese involved matters pertaining to Deangelis!
You read it right, folks. Deangelis is burning up the town's money and patience by being the subject of frequent legal meetings and discussions. In addition, if you read those bills closely, you'll see that he is also wasting the time of Claudia Tata (Selectman's Office Administrator) and Edith Salisbury (Town Clerk). We are talking of many hours per month of harassment. Look at those bills!
Exactly how much "truth" has he exposed with all those FOI's and private meetings?
Nothing! Nada!
All he knows is juvenile taunting and lies. "Brainless" "Dumb Ass" "Half Chief" "Boneheads"
The answer is obvious, the Internet, sites like Ourmoneypit are the
future of newscasting. We are not a corporation, we don't need or
want any persons good will and we are not running for any office
nor do we ever intend to run. So we tell it like it is, and if
somebody is offended, well that's America, free speech and all
that....
However, the you contradicted yourself Mr. DeAngelis (surprise, surprise). You can not be a news source and then "tell it" how you think that "it is". The entire point of news is for it to be truthful and unbiased. The point of a news story is to share events with the public and then let them form their own opinion. That is why reporters do not write in the first person. Any opinions are presented as quotes from third parties, and every journalism student is taught during the first week of Journalism 101 that if you're going to use a quote to present an opinion on a story, you should ALWAYS include quotes to represent all sides of the story. It is the journalist's job to present the news to the public so that they can make up their own mind about it, not for you to form an opinion for the people themselves. We're not mindless sheep, Mr. DeAngelis.
Thus, and yes, I am a firefighter that uses "sophisticated words" like "thus", your "website" will never be considered a source of news. It is purely the rantings of a sad, lonely, degenerate old man in his online diary while sitting alone in the dark of his basement because the majority of his family want nothing to do with him, his so-called "friends" just use him as a political tool, and he desperately needs and craves any minute sliver of the spotlight of public/town/any interest that he can weasel himself into. It's not angering - it's pathetic.
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