BRIAN SCAVO VS CYBER BULLIES

BRIAN SCAVO VS CYBER BULLIES
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

LEGISLATOR LIKES THE LOOK OF THACHER PARK!



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JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST STAFF WRITER    
Section: Capital Region,  Page: D3
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010
Albany County Legislator Brian Scavo has an idea that would warm the heart of the late Democratic boss Dan O'Connell.


With word that the locally beloved John Boyd Thacher Park -- near O'Connell's Helderberg summer retreat -- is on the short list to be shuttered amid state budget cuts, Scavo has a modest proposal for the state:


Hand it over.


That is, if the state refuses to keep it open, transfer authority over the park to Albany County.


"I firmly believe we could take this popular park, without a tax increase, and turn it into a money-making proposition and keep it open for the people," said Scavo, a first-term Democrat who represents the Delaware Avenue area in Albany.


Eileen Larrabee, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, stressed there is no list of parks that are closing but noted, hypothetically, that the concept of a local government running a state park is not without precedent.


The municipality has to be willing and capable of taking on the task, she noted.


County Executive Mike Breslin's office, however, was considerably less enthusiastic about the idea than Scavo.


With the county facing a budget deficit projected at $25 million to $30 million in 2011, Breslin "would not consider" taking on responsibility for Thacher, said county spokeswoman Mary Duryea.


Not to mention, Duryea noted, that the county doesn't actually have a parks department equipped to handle anything on the scale of Thacher's picturesque acreage.


Asked whether his colleagues from the western part of the county, where Thacher is located, supported his idea, Scavo said they have little choice given the damage the park's closure would do to the Hilltowns' economies.


"They couldn't not support it,"

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Friday, February 8, 2013

FOLLOW THE MONEY


FOLLOW THE MONEY!


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  • A view of the Albany County Residential Health Care Facility on Monday, June 25, 2012 in Colonie, NY.  The county's nursing home committee will be meeting to try to figure out whether to spend $600,000 on a new sprinkler system needed for the aging facility.  (Paul Buckowski / Times Union) Photo: Paul Buckowski / 00018228A
    DAN MC COY HAS FAILED TO NOTIFY THE ALBANY COUNTY LEGISLATURE ABOUT ANOTHER BIDDER FOR THE ALBANY COUNTY NURSING HOME, Question did Albany county Chairman Shawn Morse really know 
    nothing.

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    ALBANY, NEW YORK, Today Albany democrat Hon.Brian Scavo called the Albany county legislature to reject this 18 million dollar lease deal saying ' someone is going to get rich off this deal and it's sure not the taxpayers of Albany county, who will suffer , the seniors and disabled veterans . Within 1 to 2 years of implementing  this lease deal the nursing home will close, the kickbacks to corrupt politician's would come in the form of donations from contractors and possibly from all connected with this insane lease deal. 

    Question why did Dan McCoy keep Chairman Shawn Morse in the dark  about a possible beneficial money deal for the Albany county nursing home.
     NYS controller Thomas Dinapoli has been requested to investigate this deal by Hon.Brian Scavo.

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ALBANY — At least one other potential bidder for the Albany County Nursing Home has emerged.
Last month, a director at two local nursing facilities owned by a Rockland County resident, Bent Philipson, emailed County Executive Dan McCoy to notify him of Philipson's interest in buying the county-owned home.
Philipson has ownership interests in two dozen nursing facilities around the state, including three in the Capital Region, and is listed as executive management partner of Woodmere Rehabilitation and Health Care Center on Long Island.
The email, a copy of which was viewed by the Times Union, came as McCoy's administration was several months into negotiations with another Rockland County firm, Upstate Service Group, to lease the facility for at least 10 years.
But the deal with USG, which includes $18 million in loans and grants from the county in an effort to achieve longer-term savings, has run into sharp resistance. Some county lawmakers don't believe the county should get out of the nursing home business at all.
The future of the USG offer remains uncertain. McCoy's administration hoped to have lawmakers approve it this month, but the legislature has held up action, citing unanswered questions. The delays have cast doubt as to whether McCoy's hoped-for July 1 hand-off date can be met.
Meanwhile, Philipson's Jan. 23 overture has received no response from the county, said Shannon McHale, director of human resources and fiscal services at Pathways Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Niskayuna and Diamond Hill Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Troy, both of which are owned by Philipson.
Philipson bought the nursing facilities, along with Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in East Greenbush, in August 2010. They were formerly known as the Northwoods Rehabilitation and Extended Care Centers.
"I would have thought that I would have received some sort of response," McHale said. "He doesn't have the detail at this point that he would need to put an offer together, but he certainly wants to see the information."
McCoy's spokeswoman, Mary Rozak, said it would have been improper for the county to respond.
"Albany County is currently in formal negotiations with Upstate Service Group," Rozak said in a statement. "It would not be appropriate to address any other inquiries at this point."
McCoy, who argued for the continuance of the county-run facility as a legislator, floated the privatization plan in October in hopes of ending millions in losses at the 250-bed nursing home while still ensuring that the county's sickest and most frail residents would receive care.
Legislature Chairman Shawn Morse, a fellow Democrat, said Thursday that McCoy had not shared news of the offer with him.
"All I can say is, he should send his letters to everybody, everybody who has a stake in it, and we'll take a look at it," Morse said.
Last year the county sought offers to buy the four-decade-old nursing home off Albany Shaker Road but received none. While one proposal was submitted to privatize its management, the county took no action on it.
It was after that McCoy opened lease talks with USG, which is in the process of buying Onondaga County's nursing home. It also owns Hudson Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Northern Boulevard in Albany.
The union representing the largest number of county nursing home workers, 1199SEIU, has a presence in all three local facilities owned by Philipson. The union has argued — so far unsuccessfully — that USG be required to honor the union contract if the lease deal is approved. The contract ends Dec. 31.
Union spokeswoman Mindy Berman described the 1199SEIU's dealings with the local Philipson facilities as positive.
"Our hope is that the legislature will look carefully at every offer that is out there and make sure that all the appropriate needs are met," she said.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

George Amadore and Melody Burns Demand FREEDOM

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ALBANY,NEW YORK- George Amadore was demanding freedom and brought the crowd to their feet.
AM talk 1300 host Melody Burns was a girl on fire, delivering a inspired speech on 2nd amendment rights.
Hon Brian Scavo was on hand to see the people demanding their freedom and their constitutional rights and commented on how large and unusual it was to have this many people at a weekend rally in the cold.
This shows the political power of paul vandenburgs AM talk 1300 to draw out this many people.
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ALBANY ,NEW YORK-Thousands of gun-rights advocates descended upon the state Capitol Saturday to make sure their message was clear: Not all New Yorkers support state legislation passed last week that aggressively tightens restrictions on assault-style weapons and ammunition.
Approval of gun limits, they argued, is just plain un-American.
"I'll tell you what," said Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, R-Melrose, to a riled crowd, "They confiscate our guns, they confiscate our freedom."
McLaughlin went so far as to call the law, called the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, or SAFE, the result of "political violence." He spoke with congeniality and force. The crowd fired off cheers that ricocheted blocks away.
McLaughlin continued: "For people without courage and honor Albany is a lonely place. But I don't work for this governor, I work for you."
The rhetoric at the protest, organized by Guns Across America to take place in conjunction with similar rallies across the country, has become familiar in recent weeks. Signs scrawled in paint, Sharpie markers and some even in glitter carried phrases such as "Gun Control is People Control " and "Without the 2nd Amendment There is No First."
a gun owner, had traveled from Binghamton with 10 friends for the rally. Equating New York's new laws with communism and fascism, he wore a cardboard sandwich sign querying, "Is this Nazi Germany in 1938 or is this Cuba?"
"I was just made a criminal," he said, referring to the law's ban of weapons that feature at least one military-style feature such as a bayonet mount, flash suppressors or a pistol grip, in addition to a ban on magazines holding more than seven rounds of ammunition. Sauer said he owns several guns that would be banned under the law, though the law also provides for current owners of the weapons to be grandfathered.
"This is feel-good legislation and everybody knows it," he said, adding, "The Second Amendment is not about hunting."
The protest was only a forceful peak in the pro-gun rallying cries that have erupted since the mass shooting in December at a Connecticut elementary school. The killings catapulted the country's longstanding gun-control debate to a newly urgent place in the spotlight. Those cries have only multiplied in the days since the passage of the SAFE Act late Tuesday evening, as evidenced by the thousands that braved a bone-numbing chill to fill West Capitol Park.    DONATE HERE

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

NYS CONTROLLER TOM DINAPOLI ASKED TO INVESTAGATE

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Albany,New York, Albany Democrat Brian Scavo has requested that

NYS Controller Tom Dinapoli , investigate this badly restructured 12
million dollar nursing home loan deal.*
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*Scavo went on to say " Albany County is not a loan broker and why would

you give a private company 4 million upfront to take over the Albany county
nursing home, this private company has just recently bought 10 nursing
homes, they are overextended and lack the proper capital to move forward.*
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*let's get one thing straight the taxpayers of Albany county are not a

piggy bank for some private corporation and if you loan a private company
money then you must loan the taxpayers of Albany county money to pay their
taxes or refinance their homes or business's .*
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*special meeting tonight for A/C legislature with dan mccoy tonight. DONATE HERE
concerning the illegal loan deal Albany county nursing home.*
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