Mayor Ryan’s Misplaced Priorities
Victor Furman
New York Landowner
Binghamton mayor Matthew Ryan is looking into ways the City of Binghamton can help get water to people in Dimock, Pennsylvania. This is the same Mayor who recently announced there was no money to fix the heating system at the Greenman Senior Center in Binghamton and had the center closed. Mayor Ryan now wants to help people in another state while turning his back on senior citizens in the city where he is Mayor! What kind of man is this?
The Mayor’s personal agenda of opposing natural gas development should never be advanced at the expense of taxpayers and residents. Binghamton deserves a mayor whose priority is the citizens he was elected to represent. Mayor Ryan, however, apparently has quite different ideas as to what a mayor’s job is. Here is what he told the Binghamton Press:
Our neighbors to the south have contacted us about their very distressing situation,” Ryan said, “and we’re looking into ways we can provide mutual aid.
Are you kidding? The mayor of a city so down and out it can’t keep its senior services going, fix its sewage treatment plant or collect its water bills is going to use Binghamton City taxpayer funds to serve the ideological desires of a distinct minority (mostly from far outside the City) who would bankrupt this entire State before allowing natural gas development! What is going on here?
Greenman Senior Center – Less Important Than Dimock to Mayor Ryan (WBNG)
And, by the way, does the Mayor know he needs a permit to haul water into Pennsylvania? Has he received a request for Mutual Aid by Dimock Township? Does he know the EPA just found Dimock’s water to be safe? Your guess is good as mine but knowing Mayor Matt Ryan …
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It’s nice to know that even though Callicoon has Mark Ruffalo…Binghamton’s got the only and only Vic Furman and declious spiedies!
Way to go Vic!
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Nice Vic …..
Mayor Matt Ryan of Binghamton is going to bring water to Dimock! …………………..
Here is where I slam on the Brakes………………………..
The Mayor has a problem with the sewer treatment plant in Binghamton . It is dumping partially treated sewer water still into the Susquehanna. The River the Antis call the most endangered river in the US compliments of the mayor one of there own!
Binghamtons water is Treated not Filtered Susquehanna river water! BLEACHED SEWAGE!
Sautners considers this a gift?
The EPA might want to test Binghamtons bleached out drinking water that will Whiten Kim Michaels hair faster then any peroxide she uses!
The water he will be bringing “IF” he follows through will be treated water from the Susquehanna! He might as well bring Clorox
This proving you can filter ANYTHING!.
UN- FRACKING (correct use of the word) BELIEVABLE! …………..This is the kind of stuff that locks up the brain!
HOW IS IT people like this get into office?
Mayor Ryan is a lost cause and the biggest embaressment to Binghamton EVER !!! todate. The only way they can out do an embaressment this big is if the built a liitle town on a big lake naming it Ithaca and let them make the political policy for the whole state