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Four of five Cairo ethics board members resign, citing harassment

Mar 18, 2022 12:55 pm

Andrea Macko reports in Porcupine Soup that four of the five members of the Town of Cairo’s Board of Ethics Review resigned March 16 because of harassment and other reasons. Edward Brandt, John VanDenburgh, Leonard Asaro and Monica Kenny-Keff sent the town a letter outlining their problems. "We have had town employees and community members spread falsehoods about us personally, and we have been harassed in ways, and we have received nothing but trouble for volunteering our time to attempt to help this town,” the letter says. “We now understand why Greene County does not make it public who the members of the Greene County Board of Ethics are.” The letter also cited "some recent decisions some of the town board has made on different topics" without being specific. The resigning members said the town board would ignore the ethics board. “We do not feel that any recommendations made, or investigations concluded, will be given any respect by the majority of this board or those who were perpetrating the harassing behavior toward the members,” the letter said. Mark Gorelick now is the only member of the Cairo Board of Ethics Review. Read more about this story in Porcupine Soup.