Michelle Gennaro – 4/20/07

This page was last updated on April 22, 2007.

Taxpayers won’t forget; Michelle Gennaro; Beaver County Times; April 20, 2007.

This isn’t Ms. Gennaro’s first letter on this topic, though it’s the first I critiqued. Ms. Gennaro also wrote “Privatization could risk safety” on September 13, 2005. Attached to that letter was an editor’s note that asserted, “The author is the wife of a Beaver County correctional officer with 16 years of service.” That letter was as well thought out as this one.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The Beaver County Commissioners never cease to amaze me.

“On Monday, they wasted several thousand dollars for an arbitration hearing.

“Let’s look at what the hearing was for. The county refused to pay the jail officers their sick checks in 2006. Let’s not forget that these checks are in lieu of sick days that every other county employee receives.

“Their defense: We didn’t have a contract.

“They followed every other aspect of the expired contract except for this one. They would like to think that they can pick and choose without consequences.

“Let’s not forget all the money they wasted trying to privatize and what that cost taxpayers. I was told there were plenty of county attorneys present for this hearing. I wonder how much that cost taxpayers.

“There are consequences to all their actions. I guarantee them the taxpayers will remember all they’ve done.”

[RWC] Let me get this straight, Ms. Gennaro. Because the Commissioners tried to keep from raising taxes, taxpayers are going to hold that against the Commissioners? In what world do taxpayers punish politicians for trying to hold down spending and taxes?

In fairness, Ms. Gennaro isn’t the only person whose logic is a tad off. Edward Maritz, Sr., suffers from the same malady.