The following opinion was written and submitted by Paul Plante. Mr. Plante, a long-time contributor to the Mirror, is currently engaged in a fight for the soul of his town. We should pay attention, the Eastern Shore may not be far behind.
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
“It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptible!”
“The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!”
“Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!”
“The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty.”
May 30th 2026 Edition
“WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE – THE WAVE OF MICHELLE’S CORRUPT WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 SCAM HAS CRASHED AND PARTED ON THE ROCK OF THE DEFIANCE OF THOSE FEW ON LIBERTY LANE IN POESTENKILL WHO PREFER THE LIBERTY THEY ENJOYED AS AMERICAN CITIZENS IN POESTENKILL BEFORE MICHELLE CAME HERE FROM FLORIDA WITH HER SCHEME TO BILK THE ELDERLY ON LIBERTY LANE TO ECONOMIC SLAVERY TO MICHELLE AND HER ENGINEER RONALD JOSEPH LABERGE NYSPE 065464 AND ARE WILLING TO STAND UP TO MICHELLE AND FIGHT FOR IT – IN POESTENKILL, MICHELLE, WHICH ISN’T FLORIDA, WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN COME HERE WITH YOUR SCAM TO BILK THE ELDERLY IN THIS TOWN ‘LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY,’ YOU WILL FIND THIS BABY FIGHTS BACK, AND HARD!”
It is an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that there is no possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM, which began back on 16 December 2021, when Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and Poestenkill councilman Dave Hass hatched an almost bullet-proof scheme to use the professional engineer’s license of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 in a Confidence Scam to reap a financial windfall from the town taxpayers, the Rensselaer County taxpayers, the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, the taxpayers of New York state and the taxpayers of the United States of America, and lucrative the scheme has been to date, to be able to do a thing about it because of the almost impenetrable sovereign immunity of the municipal corporation, which is considered a “person” and the “state actor” in a challenge pursuant to 42 USC 1983.
And in fact, because of that sovereign immunity, which protects Poestenkill itself from being brought before a court of law where the 14th Amendment rights Poestenkill denies its own citizens in Poestenkill exists big-time for PERPS like Poestenkill accused of being a criminal town, it is also an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that the only possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM to prevail against the sovereign immunity of Poestenkill is for the PERP, Poestenkill in this case, to have for its elected members of its governing town board a collection of arrogant idiots, dolts, imbeciles, morons and others of that ilk being advised by an arrogant, stupid lawyer, because absent that necessary combination of arrogance and ignorance which serves to hand the plaintiff a freebie SLAM-DUNK, it can’t be done.
Has that combination here in Poestenkill been reached with Michelle’s slick scam public hearing on 23 April 2026 to have Dominic Jacangelo, Greg Pattenaude and Susan Gibbons from Algonquin Estates each put their seal of approval on an increase the tax levy or lien on all of the encumbered parcels of land now included in Water District No. 2 for Ron Laberge to feed off of as he pleases by simply handing Michelle another Resolution for her to rubber-stamp?
Stay tuned.
About the Author
I worked in Cape Charles over a dozen years ago and noticed that some things were played fast and loose by the town leaders and officials
The saga continues..