As ALL of you know, Jim Ireton is all about grandstanding and making every possible attempt to discredit most of the City Council but I truly believe this Post will spell out Ireton's 3.5 years as Mayor of Salisbury.I know many of you have seen the above picture over and over aging but this time I really want you to take a good hard look at it. Do show me ONE place where Mayor Ireton shows the Salisbury Police and Fire Department as a PRIORITY. He does NOT.
Now all of a sudden Mayor Ireton knows there's more than $2,000,000.00+ being returned to the general fund and guess what, LET'S SPEND IT!
Even though emergency personnel are usually EXEMPT from furloughs, did the Mayor treat them as a priority, absolutely not! He went ahead and furloughed them and never looked back, until now.
Ladies & Gentlemen, this is NOT leadership. This is not someone who should be running your City. This is a man who wanted to only give HIS Office Staff raises and NO ONE ELSE in the City. In fact, this is a man who wanted to RAISE taxes in order to accomplish those raises, yet there's $2,000,000.00+ floating around.
I'm just going to make this statement and hopefully all of you hear me loud and clear. This will not happen under my leadership. I WANT Blogs and Main Stream Media to criticize what I do in Office. I WANT each and every one of them to be invited to each and every Press Conference. I WANT them to receive ALL Press Releases. You see, it's not hard to run this City with an open and honest dialogue.
You don't have to point fingers and place blame everywhere else and again the above image PROVES just how hateful Jim Ireton is towards the Council, yet they did what is right in the end. Jim wants to blame everyone else and make it look like a "Council Of No's" yet when you really look at what Ireton proposes as PRIORITIES, hello, wake up people!
When it came to the Mayor wanting to propose 12 new Firefighters through a FEMA Grant, the Council asked a fair question, how much money do we have left over in surplus. It was what we businessmen call compromise and a damn fair question at that. His reply was, NO. He refused to tell the Council what kind of funding was available and Salisbury News learned the Mayor knew the $2,000,000.00+ was floating around August 23rd. The question was asked by Councilwoman Campbell on the 27th, yet the Mayor refused to answer her question.
Ladies & Gentlemen, this is NOT Jim Ireton's money, it's YOUR money! YOU and the City Council have every right to know where we stand financially, especially when making such serious decisions and commitments. Your Mayor refused to answer a simple question and your Mayor knew the answer the entire time.
"This is not Joe Albero's election to lose, it is the Citizens' election to lose."
Joe, it's hard to read the things on that poster. Can you list some of them?
ReplyDeleteOne of his rants and the Daily Times was Onley-Bateman, that I remember. That's getting done and I hear it's costing less, too, so I guess it was awful that the nasty council majority made them do their jobs better.
Thanks if you can list what things on the poster are.
Jim Ireton's first priority as mayor should be to solve problems. Part of the problems are with the fire department and the police department. The first thing Mr. Ireton should do is get rid of department heads that are costing the city through wasted tax dollars. This has been all to obvious with the fire department. Get rid of Richard Hoppes and John Tull. Then get rid of Barbara Duncan and Theresa Gardener. Then at the government office building get rid of Jeanie Lloyd, Lore Chambers and John Pick. Problem solved!
ReplyDeleteLove the slogan Joe!
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ReplyDeleteIf Ireton doesn't answer the questions of our elected council, he is denying transparency to the people that vote to elect our representtives.
ReplyDeleteLike it or not Ireton, the voters are YOUR boss, answer our representitve's questions or just get out of the way! We've had enough obstruction from you Boy Blunder!
Well said Mayor Albero!
ReplyDeleteIf only the mayor could get it through his skull that working together is better than whatever the heck it is that he's doing.
ReplyDeleteIf they reelect that loser then they deserve what they get, and will be losers themselves.
ReplyDeleteThey should give the furloughed money back to the employee. There was never a need to furlough anyway.
ReplyDelete1:07 makes an excellent point. The voters are being denied transparency when the mayor refused to answer the council's questions.
ReplyDeleteTheresa Gardner is a problem and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Couple that with the fact that she has human resources in her pocket and you have a situation where the taxpayers are going to have to one day pay dearly for Ireton's terrible decision to hire people that are oblivious to the rule of law.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the counsel changing the charter & giving thier people raises
ReplyDeleteJoe, did you see that the city has driven a cigar place out before they even opened? Why would they kill a new business?
ReplyDeleteWhat cigar place?
ReplyDeletestick to finding lost dogs, because everything else you do is crap
ReplyDeleteThis is way overdue. Why didn't he do this earlier. Why would he let good, experienced officers continue to leave after we've paid to train them? No..something prompted this. Ireton sacrificed our safety in order to push this to a point where he could use this to boost his chances on election day and now it will work. Now it will look like he saw a surplus and used it to fund the shortcomings of the police department. Barbara Duncan has been saying we needed to make adjustments to the payscale for a long time. Ireton is taking a page from the Obama book.......Kill Bin Laden and take the credit as we close in on an election. Fix the police department as we close in on an election. This could have been done a long time ago. Nice work Jim. You jerk.
ReplyDeleteWhen can we get a qualified fire chief?
ReplyDeleteanonymous 8:20, yet, (once again) you come here each and every day. Do you people realize just how stupid you really look when you attempt to attack me.
ReplyDelete"What about the counsel changing the charter & giving thier people raises"
ReplyDeleteWhat people would those be?
I do not understand why Jim started right away attacking the friends who got him where he is today. Why? He sicced the media on them. Why? What did he hope to gain?
ReplyDeleteMaybe somebody has the answer to these questions. He just seems to be bowing to the same people he used to criticize while turning on the people who supported him.
Barrie Tilghman accidently became Mayor in 1998 and Jim Ireton 2009. This city has been pure chaotic and disfunctional for 14 years and I don't see it changing anytime soon. The best thing that can happen for the city is to change to a Council/Manager form of government. This form of government will eliminate the power struggle between the mayor and the city council. The Salsibury City Council should consider changing the charter and allow the voters to vote on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteHOPPES MUST GO!!!
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ReplyDeleteWhen can we get a qualified fire chief?
September 9, 2012 8:43 PM
I agree with this commentor. Rick Hoppes is not qualified, never has been and never will be. Rick Hoppes has been slopping at the city troughs for 25 years and has been to lazy and fail to meet the requirements of the position. Jim Ireton get rid of Rick Hoppes before we get rid of you!
Who says we must spend any surplus. Why can't we hang onto it or even return it to the taxpayers?
ReplyDeleteThey should reduce Lore Chamber's pay to what she's worth. That would provide a lot of money for more important things.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Obama will give Jim-Beau a job in his campaign -- in another state -- so we will be rid of him before the next City of Salisbury election.
ReplyDeleteThe cigar place was to go beside the Chapotle and be opened by the folks at John's Premium Cigars in Berlin. But the city has given them so many hurdles it looks like they have changed their mind.
ReplyDeleteI have been a resident of Wicomico,Co. for 50 yrs and i Have wittnessed Salisbury to lose it Morals,values,and dont care about it citizens every since WWTP TILGHMAN became Mayor followed by Ireton.Its gonna take a long hard road to reclaim its diginity. Joe Albero will be a step in the right direction.
ReplyDelete8:00 a.m., amen. I stopped Terry Cohen in the grocery store not long ago to tell her Hang in There, Girl! I am amazed that she is able to keep her composure with all the jumping up and yelling Ireton does and with Mitchell jumping in any time she wants or muttering rude comments under her breath. If she thinks that is "civility," I question whose knee she learned it at!
ReplyDelete7:41: if that's true, it would be the administration and not the council. Departments and department heads like public works and permitting are the Mayor's responsibility.
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ReplyDeleteDear Joe,
It is plain YOU are a candidate for the Mayors' job in Salisbury. It is further more clear you and others are well informed as to the dysfunction in the City.
Please acknowledge the fact EVERYONE also knows due to the stagnation and decay in Salisbury of the degree of ineptness that Ireton displays EVERY TIME he opens his yap. It IS POSSIBLE for you to wind up the NEW mayor, yet your strategy is a victim of your own devices. The voters probably appreciate someone who has the stones to expose the same BUT not EVERY DAY of life. Please channel your efforts toward the outing of the way Salisbury has been heading for the last 14 years and not so much the personal vendetta between you and Ireton. Your preaching to the choir because EVERYONE in town allready knows Ireton is a HORSES ASS if they have had to TRY to conduct businees with the town no matter how trivial.
As the Barrie Tilghman years were the most miserable in decades (maybe ever), all the players of her reign should be outed and in the public eye so that people don't forget and make the same mistakes again.
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ReplyDelete1:07 makes an excellent point. The voters are being denied transparency when the mayor refused to answer the council's questions.
September 9, 2012 5:25 PM
Ireton's Wiki Bio talks about his transparency platform. Typical Democrat lies.
James (Jim) P. Ireton, Jr. is an American politician, who was elected the mayor of Salisbury, Maryland in a municipal election on April 7, 2009. Ireton assumed office on April 20, 2009. He is the city's first openly gay mayor.[1]
Ireton was elected with 58% of the vote, while his opponent Gary Comegys earned 41% of the vote. There were 2,647 votes cast in the election, 21% of the registered voters in Salisbury, MD. Ireton ran on a platform of transparency in government, reducing crime, cleaning up the Wicomico River, and revitalizing Salisbury neighborhoods.[2]
Ireton's office has three goals which guide their work: improving neighborhood integrity, crime reduction, and improving the health of the Wicomico River.[3]
The best thing that could happen for the Salisbury City government is to have a council manager form of government. Then you wouldn't have the power stuggle between the good guys and the low lifes like Tilghman and Ireton.
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