The promises were empty, Dr. Mohan

I don’t know what happened to Satish, he started off great doing something that shocked everyone. He individually signed every paycheck for the town employees, wow did he create talk and outrage. Outrage at first from the employees that would get the paychecks a little later than usual but more so from the general public after it was revealed what he had found. Paychecks for people sitting at home, amounts that just made no sense, etc….

We thought he was going to keep going, but then in no time Satish fell off the back of a truck and whacked his head. He switched parties to become Democrat and then nothing happened except he continued to lead what seems to be a dysfunctional town board and meetings that seem to last for ever.

At least he is stepping aside like he said, but he was going to run for re-election. Now we have two candidates that have come to the top. Dr. Barry Weinstein, the former county legislator and Alice Kryzan. I will be supporting Barry, he is a friend, a good political ally and he is level headed. Alice? Fergetaboutit.

- Dear Dr. Mohan: I felt compelled to write you this letter after reading over the weekend that you would not run for another term as Amherst town supervisor.

I have watched you and read about you for more than three years. Like many Amherst residents, I had high hopes you would be the agent for change this region desperately needs.

But in the end, it’s hard to escape the feeling that, as town supervisor, you were little more than a nice man whose heart was in the right place but had no idea how to accomplish anything substantive or lasting.

There was no question you were different from the candidates we usually get around here. You had no political experience. You’re an engineering professor, a 73-year-old man who came to the United States from India three decades earlier to start a new life.

We had never elected anyone like you to any suburban office.

But you made us love you. You promised to reduce spending by 10 percent and cut taxes by 15 percent. You said you would do something about our skyrocketing assessments. You pledged to help the people who live in homes that are sinking because of soil problems.

Three years later, you haven’t accomplished any of those goals—unless you consider this year’s eye-popping reassessments doing something.

Why didn’t you keep your promises? During your news conference Friday, you said of the planned tax cut: “There was no political will on the Town Board.”

via Bruce Andriatch: The promises were empty, Dr. Mohan .