As we’ve repeatedly said in asking for your help, attorneys are expensive. The are also expensive for the county executive as well. And who is footing that bill? You, the taxpayer! Erie County government is embroiled in lawsuits. How much is it costing taxpayers? Filing legal action is not something to be taken lightly, and is a decision that the plaintiffs–including KOLP–took after every other option to get the county executive to follow the law was exhausted. He has either settled, refused to accept the judge’s ruling, and, in our case, delayed to avoid the inevitable. He has asked for two extensions for our discovery requests, and then submitted inadequate discovery. He only included some emails–none of which included the responses Right to Know Requests that our members submitted prior to the lawsuit. He also didn’t include text messages as requested. Apparently, litigation by procrastination is the only strategy he has. He is trying to delay the case in the hopes of draining our legal fund, but at the same time, he’s also draining taxpayer dollars. Remember how we have been saying he has breached his fiduciary duty to the taxpayers in the lease with Gannon? He continues to do so in his response to our lawsuit.
“You can tell a bully from a leader by how they treat people who disagree with them.”
~Miles Davis
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