Nate McHajliw Tilting at Windmills
McMurray expends a tremendous amount of time viciously attacking Democrats, and has done so quite regularly since his last failed campaign for Congress. This time last year he was absolutely beside himself that Brian Higgins wouldn’t demand that Chris Jacobs resign over his vote against certifying the 2020 election. He was angry that Higgins wouldn’t do some pointless performative thing – as if that would give Jacobs pause and really allow him to reflect on his ways.
In the end, the only thing that got Jacobs to effectively quit is his reaction to the Tops massacre and his sudden support of an assault weapons ban. A step to far for the “pro-life” party.
Anyway, Nate is totally on top of things, like this, which he figures supports his plan to – as County Executive – execute a treaty with Canada that would facilitate the movement of people, things, jobs, and money.
The only problem is that the story in the News is about the Canadian housing crisis and how the federal government has imposed a tax on foreign-owned properties and banned the further sale of Canadian properties to foreigners. Oops! I guess this doesn’t make the point he thought it did.
The New York State Health Act would create a single payer health insurance scheme in New York State. That might be a good idea, but the goal is universal coverage. How you get there doesn’t really matter, and each method has its pros and cons. I don’t know if I would want a future Republican governor or legislature in charge of a single-payer state-run program.
I don’t know what it means that he “bows to billionaires and developers” and frankly it’s pretty rich coming from a guy who is suing his billionaire former employer. I don’t know what it means to say that Mark “rejected bail reform” or “never focused on rail”. The former is just a lie, and the latter is also just a lie. Whether Mark Poloncarz told Nate McMurray to shut up about Trump, I have no idea, but as others have pointed out, it is a bad idea for a candidate ever to insult voters.
Mark is a “tyrant” because he’s so good at his job that people won’t vote him out. That’s sort of like how in Nate’s lawsuit against Delaware North, he points out that he was a well-reviewed employee. By the way, Dennis Gorski served in public office from 1972 – 1999, the last 11 as County Executive before he lost to someone who came in as a former Democrat who was going to be a disruptor and shake things up – Joel Giambra.
It’s nice, however, of Nate to assume that Mark is going to win in order to make his math work.
There’s definitely a joke. Nothing says “trust me, I’m competent” like either lying or being wrong about so many easily researchable facts. A billion dollars? No. $130M of County money for stadium upgrades and $250M of County money towards a new stadium. State money doesn’t count in a criticism of the County Executive. Nate’s only off by only 2/3rds of a billion there. That’s the kind of fiscal know-how we really need!
Nate has no fundamental concept of how a municipal budget is developed. Instead claiming the guy who’s had 12 consecutive balanced budgets with either year-end surpluses or minor easily bridged deficits is fiscally irresponsible and up to funny business.
That’s not how you spell “my ego demands it.”
Here comes Nate – the guy who politicized the Tops shooting – politicizing the blizzard. Hey, dummy, the County Executive asked for – and received – an emergency declaration for the December storm on or about December 26th.
What he asked Biden for yesterday is something completely different – a “major disaster” declaration, which frees up even more FEMA money for storm response and cleanup costs.
But this is what you can expect from Nate McMurray – barely informed accusations and a fountain of grievance. I don’t think Erie County deserves being stuck with a faux-leftist mini-Trump.