Upstate Blue is a blog for establishment liberal Democrats in upstate New York. I wrote earlier about how they misrepresented one of my blog entries. So it's no surprise they misrepresented another issue too.
In this entry they sniffed about how the GOP is pushing to abolish term limits in Glens Falls. The issue is question was whether the term limits stipulated in the city charter applied to county supervisors from the city.
The Democrat activist site was playing fast and loose with the facts. It was telling the truth, just not the whole truth. It omitted, for example, that former councilman and one-time mayoral candidate Bill Loeb also came out in favor of no term limits. Loeb is a Democrat.
The resolution clarifying that term limits don't apply to county supervisors passed the Glens Falls Common Council by a UNANIMOUS 6-0 vote.
Blue seems to have forgotten a not-insignificant little fact: five of the six members of the Glens Falls Common Council are Democrats.
Upstate Blue claims that the GOP's action shows the need for effective two-party politics in Warren County. In fact, it demonstrates why we need MULTIPARTY politics to make sure that both Democrats and Republicans tell the whole truth and are held to account when they don't.
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