Most of these contracts were audited by NYS Comptroller, and, according to a report by his office issued in May of 2015, Delaware County failed to submit $129 million worth of contracts to public bidding in 2013-2014 alone. All of that was under the guidance of the current judicial candidate and Delaware County Attorney Porter Kirkwood.
The county gave me a run-around answer on October 7, 2015 claiming that my requests for copies of contracts are "too vague".
In fact, the County knows exactly which contracts are meant, and stalls release of those contracts to prevent me from using such documents in opposition to Porter Kirkwood's judicial election campaign.
It is obvious that Porter Kirkwood, as legal advisor of Delaware County, is behind the stalling, and thus that he perpetrates fraud upon voters by preventing public information about his misconduct from reaching an active opponent to his election, in order to dupe the voters and get elected.
I filed an administrative appeal of denial of my FOIL request, and will post response of the County to it.
Here are the scans of what I requested in my FOIL:
and of the response by Delaware County:
It is obvious that there is nothing vague in questions Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and the County, guided by judicial candidate Porter Kirkwood as the County's legal advisor, is unlawfully stalling release of public documents to prevent their use in opposition to Porter Kirkwood's judicial campaign.
Yet, even if elected, Porter Kirkwood may still be taken off the bench and prosecuted for corruption if misconduct is verified through such contract after he is elected.
Moreover, please, note answers to questions Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of the FOIL request.
The self-dealing mechanic was not punished.
A policy prohibiting self-dealing of Delaware County employees in properties foreclosed upon by the county (on the footsteps of the recently caught former Commission Moon who did exactly that when he still was a Commissioner) was not introduced.
No new policies were introduced 5 months after the State audit while a promise was made to the State Comptroller to introduce policies preventing self-dealing and improper use of vehicles by County employees.
That is all under the "guidance" of County Attorney Porter Kirkwood who is chest-pounding about his allegedly stellar reputation in his judicial campaign, but is at the same time hiding evidence of his misconduct from public exposure.
Corruption in Delaware County is business as usual, and Porter Kirkwood is trying to happily carry that torch, as his predecessor Carl Becker did, to the judicial bench.
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