Hennessy right choice for county exec

Mike Hennessey has what I always look for in someone to represent me.

First and foremost, the I’s have it: Integrity and intelligence. Character and smarts are the foundation of a public servant. Mike has never been touched by scandal; his views come from deep and thoughtful analysis. His solutions are both pragmatic and fairminded.

But experience and energy are also vital. Mike served three terms as an Oneida County legislator and was the minority leader of the Board of Legislators. He was appointed to the Oneida County Board of Ethics. He has been a Sherrill Commissioner where he was always approachable in a small community of neighbors.

We are fortunate to have such a person willing to serve the larger community of Oneida as County Executive. He brings integrity, intelligence, experience and energy. All the right things to accomplish good things for Oneida’s citizens.

SandyMiley, Sherrill

Conservative media full of baloney

Since I aman easy-to-get along with liberal/progressive Democrat who has never felt intimidated by or susceptible to bullying by any conservative-Republicans, and who sincerely and genuinely respectfully disagrees with Conservatives who sincerely believe in political conservatism and who are honest, truthful, and respectful in return, perhaps I am a good person to step out of my usual empathetic and compassionate nature and character and tell the American people howfull of baloney the majority of the national conservative news media is.

The part that I find to be the most pathetic, amusing, and laughable is how they try to play all of us for fools and have the sheer nerve and gall to pretend that their right-wing “think-tanks” (which outnumber the liberal/progressive ones by three to one) produce “scholarly”, “objective”, “scientific”, and “unbiased” research when the reality is that most of them are nothing more than phony and fake right-wing propaganda factories/mills primarily funded by corporate billionaires and deca-millionaires who want to abolish all of the federal government social safety-net programs including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (as well as college student loans).

Keep in mind that most of these people lie like rugs (because they believe that the “ends” justify the use of any “means”) and still love to tell the untruth and whine that they are in the minority and are outnumbered by the “liberal media” when even many of their wellknown figures have openly-stated that they are now in the majority.

May I be one of the first to inform you that real, objective, scientific, unbiased, scholarly research does exist which shows that phony and fake right-wing think-tank propaganda is constantly being spoon-fed to all of us Americans every night on the national news programs which we watch. Conservative right-wing think-tank “information” is presented in the national evening news as much as 10-times more often than is information from liberal/progressive think-tanks. I would be thrilled to share this research with you.

Stewart B. Epstein, Rochester

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