Monday, March 31, 2025

Do You Ever Wonder Why The Hudson Common Council Is So Useless and Full Of Dysfunction?

There is more malfeasance than Tom Depietro's two signatures on third ward councilmember Lola Roberts' 2023 ballot petition.  No one should be surprised at this.  She is a sham!

Lola witnessed two people sign her petition who both actually included the same address in the 400 block of State Street, even though all of the 400 block of State Street is located in the fourth ward.  According to "Sheet No. 2" of Lola's 8 sheets of signatures, she witnessed two signatures of people residing outside of her ward.  OUTSIDE OF THE FUCKING THIRD WARD!!!!!! 

The only digits of the two State Street address you need to see 
are the 4's, which I have left unobscured.

On April 6th, 2023, while gathering petition signatures, did Lola Roberts walk out of the third ward -- west of 5th Street on State Street -- and knock on the door of those two fourth ward residents, then hand them her petition and a pen to sign it with?  Did Lola thank the fourth ward residents for their signatures?  Or did Lola's two supporters walk from their house in the fourth ward to Lola's house on Columbia Street in the third ward and ask her if they could sign her petition?  Or did all three of them meet in a dark alley somewhere in the 2nd ward to complete their illegitimate activity?  Is Lola friends with those two people from the 400 block of State Street?  Did those two residents also sign Jen Belton's fourth ward petition?  How about Rich Volo's petition, are they both on his as well?

Can Lola Roberts read the English language and understand numbers?  Does she even know where the boundaries of the ward she has been supposedly representing for the past year and a half are located?  Does she have any right to be on the Common Council, let alone possess any qualifications to be representing the residents of the sprawling third ward or have any involvement in the important functions of City Hall?

The names and addresses of valid signatures have been obscured by HUDseen.

Then there is this.  On "Sheet No. 1" of Lola's 2023 petition, there is a signature of a person that is not anywhere to be found on the 2023 walking list of registered third ward residents that I still have in my possession and that Lola should have been using two years ago to gather her signatures (though I doubt she even bothered with the list).  Look at the written address -- it makes no sense.  If "John" intended to indicate that he lived at 22 South 7th Street, the signature was invalid.  Of the five names of residents on the walking list for South 7th Street, the first name of John does not appear, nor does the address of 22 South 7th -- only 10,14 and 20 are included.  This was yet another invalid signature on Lola Robert's 2023 petition as she made her way to a seat on the Common Council where she has contributed absolutely nothing positive or helpful for the third ward nor for the entire city.  She is a fake representative of the third ward, one that Tom Depietro and Kamal Johnson (and likely others) desperately needed in lieu of Bill Huston.

Does the Columbia County Board of Elections know (or care to know) where the boundaries of the third ward -- or any ward, for that matter -- are located?   What, if anything, do their reviews of petitions involve? 

Welcome to perhaps the most corrupt and broken municipality and county in all of the wonderful State of New York, where this nonsense seems to be politics as usual at 520 Warren Street.  What an absolute disgrace!

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