Witch Hunt or Wrongdoing?

wrong doing, revealed two years later. Brown needs to go. However, I'm no fan of Kearns. Why can't we get someone qualified to run???

wrong doing, revealed two years later. Brown needs to go. However, I'm no fan of Kearns. Why can't we get someone qualified to run???

Wrong doing. Nufzed

Why is City Hall important in an era of declining population? Qualified candidates never run for office and citizens pile on an ever-increasing litany of complaints. Dissolve city government and transfer necessary services and functions to the County. Citizens should demand regional government instead of looking for competence in a circus-like atmosphere.

Unfortunately, Albert Einstein's statement -- insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results -- fits too perfectly here.

Why does everyone refer to Stokes as a star basketball player? I never heard his name once before the whole one sunset disaster. If he was such a star why did he need a loan for a measily 160K? Im confused, shouldn't he have tons of his own money if he was such a star? 160k is like an average mortgage, why all the grants and city loans to begin with? This is definatley a case in poor judgement that ruined the chances for funding a legitimate venture to legitmately needy business people. What a joke. I'm sure this has all been said before but I haven't read anything on why he needed loans to begin with.

witch hunt,

here's why...story hit s press on 3 day weekend...rivera calls a press conference with out giving any details even though he was a cop at the time...franczak is sitting on a letter to the feds...fed investigation takes time to start way past next Tuesday...no one has actually come up with the names and times of the officers afterall they would be able to identify who they delivered stokes to...what if the office wanted to get info from stokes on where he got the parking pass and then made the identification of the woman who was arrested for the theft? Lots of fingers pointing in the air without facts.

Brown is a crook, his podium should be stripped of our city's seal, and be replaced with a list of all his shady dealings.

This scandal is having an effect. Check out this latest poll:

http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/09/07/daily11.html?surround=lfn

Its both. Brown is corrupt. But the News is on his tail like stink on a monkey.

Why hasn't the news blasted Collins about his ridiculous appointment for the head of Environment and Planning, which was nothing more than a political move, while at the same time screwing over County Planning? Their reporting on that has been much more matter of fact, when compared to their reporting on Brown.

Wrong doing - one of the many....if you don't like this one as a wrong doing, how about forcing city employee's to work for your campaign? Or how about covering up your son's joyride damaging other vehicles? The list can go on......

i dunno he sounds pretty defensive to me

Was it a political ploy. Absolutely.
Does it make Brown any less guilty. Absolutely NOT.
Lost in all of this, is that the Mayor obstructed an investigation into the theft off 700 handicap passes,
taken from CITY HALL !!!!!

If it is in fact true that the cops just came forward, then the timing of the outing of the incident is not politically motivated. Which of course does not mean its not true.

If they came forward a while ago, I too would question the timing. But no matter what the motivation, it's just plain part of the gig - you must address allegations as they arise whether you hate the timing or not.

"Witch Hunt or Wrongdoing?" Sounds like both.

Wrong doing? Probably. If allegations are true, it sounds like wrong doing by the mayor and the police officers. If he ordered them to not make an arrest, the cops did wrong by not reporting that to the FBI or media when it happened. The cops did wrong in the first place by calling the mayor's office at the request of Mr. Stokes, taking him to City Hall, and not charging him - if all that's what happened. The mayor did wrong by asking the police to bring Stokes to his office - if that's what happened. The FBI should investigate the actions of the mayor, his staff, and the police.

Witch hunt? Definitely. The motive of the police officers staying silent about it until a week before an election speaks for itself.

Ironically, if the cops made this public when it happened it might have damaged the mayor even more politically because he wouldn't have as good a claim that the accusation is political. The timing wouldn't have been close to an election but it could have had more impact if it encouraged a stronger opponent to run.

I dont think that Kearns has the political machine to go after Brown.

I cant see why the police, fire, teachers or any of the city unions would go after Brown...he has done everything possible to get rid of the control board and direct the city tax funds to new union contracts...evn promising all the revenue from the Buffalo Casino to the unions instead of using it for infrastructure and job creation.

I cant see the democratic party going after Brown...as he kisses so much tush of the albany and democratic party machine...its no wonder his last name is Brown.

African American Community is solidly behind him.

Who exactly is there to target Brown?

In my opinion this is legitimate abuse of power and corruption and nothing else.

this man is such a fool of course he became agitated and yelled at the news crew. he is nothing without steve casey next to him telling him what to say. a perfect example of not being able to handle the tough questions, oh sorry urkel, did the news anchor forget to prep you for this interview??

Brown has been lying since the day his son stole the car keys, if there was no podium, would you ever hear or see him? I would say out of all the loser Mayers in the country, he pretty much tops the list.

i can point my finger. it's quite easy to find something to point it at when you have a circle and x amount of targets to aim for.

the only way to rebuild buffalo is to burn it to the ground again.

It is so obvious that LS is BB lover. When will they come out?