THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE GETS IT: IT’S ABOUT JOBS

FIRST THINGS FIRST: A big tip of the hat to someone that the staff at Ulster Politics never spends enough time thanking. So THANK YOU Jeremy Blaber for showing us there's a new commercial from Len Bernardo. We don’t know how Jeremy finds the time and energy to get this up on his website but look, he's better than the Freeman in terms of putting information out there! For those that haven’t seen the new Bernardo commercial, here it is:

Click HERE to watch Len Bernardo's latest commercial

OK, now to the commercial itself. Ulster Politics is thrilled someone out there gets it: IT’S ABOUT JOBS!!! The reality is Ulster County has become TOO POLITICAL. We need to depoliticize our county government. That is not going to happen with a guy like Hein and the current County Legislature. These politicians are too interested in who gets the credit, who stands near whom at the press conference, who gets the “consultant's” contract to make sure all the permits are put in place.

The sad reality is that while politics holds Ulster County back, the rest of the Hudson Valley is booming. Dutchess County did keep its IBM jobs – and we lost ours. Greene County built corporate parks – and Ulster didn’t. Sullivan County is building a $1.5 billion resort – and in Ulster, the Crossroads project has been waiting for over a decade without a shovel in the ground (and now the State is apparently about ready to gut Belleayre).

What do we have: job losses and closures and empty space at what were high end jobs at places like Plasmaco, Imperial Schrade, Hydro Aluminum, and Tech City.

There is a reason for that: too many self interested politicians and not enough people who cheerlead and fight for real jobs. By real jobs we don’t mean government funded jobs. The Solar Consortium is well meaning – but you and I are paying for those jobs in our tax dollars.

We need to get our edge back when it comes to real jobs here in Ulster County. Manufacturing, computer, research. The other counties are getting the job done – some run by Democrats, some run by Republicans, but all focused on jobs for the taxpayers instead of contracts for the special interests.

We voters care about lower taxes and more jobs. It doesn’t take a poll (like the Dems did the other night) to figure that out, it takes a conversation at the kitchen table of families across our County.

Anyway, thank goodness SOMEONE GETS IT. Fighting to create jobs by someone who has actually created them can only lead to good things – more jobs. More jobs can only lead to good things – lower taxes. Len Bernardo gets it.