On Sunday, former Buffalo Bill Adam Lingner was on Hardwick’s show promoting a new political social networking site he’s started called Voters Direct. Its mission:

This website has been launched to reduce the impact of money in politics and to return the power to you, the American Citizen.

I absolutely detest MySpace, and Facebook is marginally better than that. At least this site has a purpose, despite having only 29 users signed up as of this writing. It’s homegrown and it’s somewhat different. Check it out.

County Executive elect Chris Collins held his first press conference on the 16th floor of the Rath building after a meeting with current County Executive Joel Giambra, to answer any questions about the transition from the Giambra administration.

As per the county charter, a few positions like Personnel Director will remain on collins staff until there terms expire. He also mentioned that tomorrow he will name the chair people of his transition committee that will soon occupy a 2nd floor office in the rath building.

As for the six sigma black belt nonsense, a few ninja’s have apparently already been in contact with him, but whether it was as consultants or full time hires was unclear. While Collins mentioned some black belts from HSBC and Moog have already contacted him, he said a nationwide search will continue as he finds the bestest, brightest, “colorful” candidates he can find…

Watch the video of today’s Press Conference