" Mr. Klink, it is necessary to point out, in light of your rather over-kill personal attack, that you are not as "bi-partisan" as you are selling yourself to be. YOU are an Owasco Democratic Committee member as is YOUR wife and BROTHER (also a member of Owasco's zoning board) Other Democratic Committee members are as follows per the board of elections: Robert Shaw (town clerk) & WIFE, John Abbott (Member of Owasco's zoning board), Frank Lattimore, Barb Collard, Patrick Doyle (former councilman, deputy supervisor, bookkeeper & water billing clerk) and Mike O'Leary (former supervisor). My comments were direct quotes from both the 1999 audit and the 2005 audit of which you noticeably fail to mention. Who is trying to confuse whom on this subject? My point that you obviously missed was that there were financial problems in Owasco prior to the 2006 audit findings; you stated unequivocally there were NONE. That is not misleading, nor trying to confuse an issue- your statement was a point blank falsehood. Mr. Klink why did you only encourage people to come in and review the 2006 audit? Why not 1999 or 2005 also? What are you afraid the public might see? There was NO attempt on my part to muddle any issue, unlike more partisan writers like yourself, it was to set the record straight that there were indeed findings of problems in 2005 & in 1999. Your claim that never before has Owasco has such an embarrassing audit, I will not dispute other than to say when has Owasco EVER had an audit, other than 1999 when former councilperson Ken Smith and other residents of the Town demanded one? The I don’t dispute 2006 audit was problematic, yet you did concede in the Citizen article of 10/12/2007 that ‘ both audits shared some problems.” So which is it? Were there or were there not problems prior to 2006? You are also putting an awful lot of blame on ONE person’s shoulders, namely Merrill Badman. Where is YOUR culpability in this? YOU are a Town Board member; YOU have a responsibility to the residents and could have insisted that action be taken immediately after the results of the 2005 audit. Did you do that? NO, instead allowed problems to continue and build in order to have a ‘solid’ platform for your current campaign. That is most assuredly looking out for the best interests of Owasco, right? Additionally, I suggest that you reference your minutes of the January 2006 & 2007 organizational meetings where my appointment was by the unanimous vote of the entire Owasco Town Board. While you are looking at those minutes, perhaps you would care to review your votes on the town attorney position (held previously by John Doyle father of above referenced Patrick Doyle), the Town Historian- voting against Mrs. Auchampaugh, the person YOU voted to replace because of a letter she wrote in 2001 to the newspapers in spite of a petition signed by 359 town residents asking the town board not remove her. You should also look at your vote against Sam Emmi's appointment to the Board of Assessment review. Perhaps because he was a member of OwascoNews? How about your NO votes on the bookkeeper, & code enforcement officer? Who was being partisan up until March 2007 when we needed to put on a new costume for the election? I would encourage people to go to the Towns website and review the minutes for themselves, but sadly, they cannot do so because after May 11, 2006, despite my efforts as the BOARD appointed webpage administrator, I have been refused the minutes for placement on the website. A fact you are aware of as it is noted & requested in every one of my monthly reports to the Town Board. I can fully understand your desire to win the election; I’ve been there. The difference is I do not resort to falsehoods and misleading the public to further my own agenda. Everything I wrote is fully documented and supported and ANYONE can check it for himself or herself. "