Ceretto Charade Continues

John Ceretto is in his third year as NYS Assemblyman and his record has been one big charade.  He boasts about voting for the 2% property tax cap yet that same year he voted to shift additional costs to the County.  He bragged all summer long about how he brought Nik Wallenda to Niagara Falls, yet the truth be told is that George Maziarz had to get a Democratic Assemblyman from Buffalo to sponsor the bill that allowed Wallenda to perform in Niagara Falls.  Last year Ceretto and his buddies, Sam Fruscione and Glenn Choolokian, touted on cable TV how they went to Albany and spoke to the Governor about getting Niagara Falls the casino money that the City is rightfully owed.  Well, the City is still waiting and come to find out the Terrible Trio never met the Governor but dealt with one of his aides.  And in October, Ceretto said that the State was going to give the City an advance on the casino money to avert a financial crisis.  Instead, the State gave the cock and bull offer of advancing NYPA money that was owed to the City which the City Council wisely turned down.

The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks applies to Ceretto's claim to be the sponsor of a bill to bring MMA to Western New York.  Having done some research, Ceretto is not the sponsor of the bill but he is a co-sponsor.  The sponsor of the bill is Assemblyman Clifford Crouch.  Crouch is a Republican representing Chenango, Broome, Delaware, and Ulster County.  The co-sponsors of the bill are Ceretto and Assemblyman Joseph Borelli from Staten Island.  Borelli is a first year Republican from Staten Island.  So let me see if I got this right, the sponsor of the bill is a Republican and both co-sponsors of the bill are Republicans and the Assembly is controlled by the Democrats.  Hmmm.  What do you think the chances are of this bill seeing the light of day??

It gets better.  Ceretto, in his ridiculous YouTube video, announced that this bill would bring MMA to Western New York and be a $5 million boost to the local economy.  What Ceretto doesn't know is that there have been five MMA events in Western New York going back to 2009.  Four of them were held at the Seneca Niagara Casino and one was held at the Seneca Allegany Casino.  The truth of the matter is that if this bill was passed in the Assembly (it already has passed the Senate) it would have no impact on Western New York but would provide the opportunity to have MMA in Madison Square Garden.  MSG is the prize that MMA promoters are looking at not the Niagara Falls Conference Center or First Niagara Arena.  From there perspective they are already in Western New York.

Shouldn't our Assemblyman know that??  But then again he doesn't know what the Safety Net program is and he thinks that only people on welfare can be on Medicaid.  This from a guy who also was a county legislator for five years.  With an elected representative like Ceretto, do you honestly think we have a chance to pull this County out of the doldrums??  Fahgettaboutit!!!!!