ATTACKING AUERBACH

I HATE THAT ELLIOTT AUERBACH FOR DOING HIS JOB

Fawn Tantillo launched an all out assault on incumbent Comptroller Elliott Auerbach at Saturday’s LWV forum in an effort to try and goad Auerbach in a down and dirty back and forth.

To Auerbach’s credit, he simply allowed Fawn’s caustic rhetoric to simply roll of his (AUER) back and present a fact filled, in depth review of his accomplishments during his first two years as the County’s first comptroller.

It appeared that members of the audience as well as the members of the League of Women Voters were embarrassed by Fawn’s over the top baseless rant.

She blamed Auerbach, for among other things, not attacking the (0% property tax increase for Ulster Co. residents) Executive Mike Hein and accused Auerbach of embarrassing departments including, her own former legislative buddies, by bringing issues of fraud, waste and abuse public. She after all, would want to give each department an opportunity to “duck and cover”. She reminded us that she was the Chairperson of the Jail Efficiency Committee and took a patronage county job a week after quitting the legislature.

Auerbach simply pointed out the successes of his first term including cleaning up the Ulster County Health Department, the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency and the County’s Central Auto Division.

It was almost as comical as the gubernatorial debates with Fawn playing the fool and Auerbach coming off as the consummate political figure.