Casts lone ‘no’ votes on license-plate policy, radio-tower deal
When the Putnam County Legislature met before Christmas to wrap up 2020 business, most of the lawmakers used the session’s final moments to share holiday greetings.
Nancy Montgomery, who represents Philipstown and is the Legislature’s only Democrat, had a different message.
“The county’s government is fundamentally broken,” she said at the Dec. 17 meeting. “This year we have again overspent on non-priorities. We’ve underperformed in our response to the pandemic” and “underfunded public safety for the purpose of political gain. And we’ve locked the public out of our deliberations by hiding behind this format,” an often-shaky audio connection utilized because of an executive order by the governor to limit in-person meetings.