Comments on: John White Conflict Of Interest For Trumansburg Mayor?

By: Fair Haven

Fair Haven — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:20:03 +0000

The Millspaughs are a bunch od a$$holes too. I had a run in with them this weekend, caused by them, they were proved wrong and they never appologized just gave me even more grief.

By: Papa Crow

Papa Crow — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:48:52 +0000

That quaint, southern expression “Bless his heart” should be applied to the angry White guy. Just smile ‘n wave, while doing the right thing in this wonderful, progressive community of ours.

‘Nuff said.

By: Villagefriend

Villagefriend — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:19:02 +0000

Game over! Time to move on and support Marty’s common sense and real world approach to things. The White bogus mythology has been exposed as the fraud that it always has been. Sitting on one’s porch, putting up billboards, not paying one’s debts, and fooling the yahoos with made up bull**** about your “leadership” won’t work in T-burg. I’m proud of us.

P.S. Mr. civic duty “leadership for the future” White didn’t even bother to show up for the latest school board meeting. Tom, did you forget? Wednesday night, remember? Or was this a crisis like the one that made you somehow forget to pay your debts even though you can afford to put up vanity billboards?

By: blue bird

blue bird — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:56:03 +0000

its nice to hear that john lost the campain… he is nothin but a crap talker & has lots of it to spead around. i am glad that people are really seeing him for what he really is.. hes not what he says he is he just wants you all to think hes the next best thing. and him flippin off his componet doest surprise me in the least…,.

By: Papa Crow

Papa Crow — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:36:03 +0000

Chester ponders:

“Look what the socialists have done to downtown Ithaca?”

Kudos I-town…b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!

By: Publius

Publius — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:04:54 +0000

Jon,
Court documents, including judgments, are never private unless they’re specifically sealed by the court. They’re public and available to anyone with the gumption to get them. In White’s case, these judgments against him even resulted in a large lien being placed on his property. The sole purpose of the lien was to notify anyone with an interest in buying his property of the outstanding debt.

If someone decides to become a politician in today’s world, they had better be prepared to have very little privacy. I generally think that’s good as transparency exposes possible issues that may affect a person’s judgment and/or provides clues as to the person’s underlying values and beliefs.

By: tburg

tburg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:27:09 +0000

petrovic won 70% to 30%.

I guess we’ve not all been hoodwinked by angry white men.

By: Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:13:25 +0000

I don’t think you can blame this particular medium for the problem, Carissa. It’s not anonymous blog comments that led someone to throw a yellow piece of paper with a copy of someone else’s private legal document onto my driveway over the weekend. The responsibility for that lies somewhere else.

The things I’ve heard people say about the people running for election this year, by email, in conversation on the street, in person, face to face, have been every bit as crude and vicious as what you see here – if not more so.

There’s a serious problem with the tone of the campaigning by the political parties in this town.

Whatever we may wish to achieve in a political sense, it’s important to remember that we’re all neighbors, and that we are all very fallible human beings. Some compassion and humility would be much more in order.

By: Carissa

Carissa — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Wow, not having to use your real name really creates a dysfunctional breeding ground of dialogue where people have little respect or compassion for others- resulting in very unproductive conversation. I doubt people would be so petty if they had to use their real names- manners might follow.

By: Papa Crow

Papa Crow — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:09:26 +0000

“…and (drove) the liberal socialists back toward Ithaca.”??? (posts Good Morning, above)

Egad!

Hey, you forget me in your shilling for Mr. White – I came to this beautiful, progressive community from Santa Cruz!

By: Chester

Chester — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:54:33 +0000

Slander, backbiting, typical small town. The hardware store and not paying bills, what about over-charging, refusing to deliver if they don’t like you? The powers now are rushing zoning laws, and certain businesses, friends, need no permits? Many issues and money spent to convert Trumansburg into another Commons, and Dryden! A major route 96 or 13 down the middle and as Dryden, it becomes a ghost town and no place for children and people to safely walk and enjoy a small country town. Look what the socialists have done to downtown Ithaca?
What about the gas drilling, in Pennsylvania the water is trucked in by the hundreds. No local water, 500 trucks or more a week used for there water. Yet fears and socialistic agenda’s masked by slander and lies!

By: tburger

tburger — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:41 +0000

oh news flash. rednecks don’t like young families with jobs who move into their towns. who would have known?