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		Giambra's further speculation in his Tuesday conversation with News reporter McCarthy that the US Constitution wasn't grounds for anything of moment in these discussions was an astonishing unintended admission of ignorance about the foundation for all government in this country.
		Joel Giambra was an elected government official and when something disturbing happened that he believed was causing harm to a great number of children, he chose white flight.
		Giambra is a man who frequently talks about the need to fold Buffalo into the county, to consolidate services and functions, to modernize.
	buffaloreport.com /030314giambra.html (1212 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter Analysis
		Giambra's blueprint for regionalism turned out to be little more than a few crude notes scrawled on a bar napkin, a document that vanished in the flames of taxpayer anger last week.
		Giambra originally wanted his longtime aide as deputy county executive, but GOP leaders realized that would mean giving the county's two top administrative jobs to two men with zero experience running a government.
		Giambra paraded out a couple of his colleagues yet again last week in an effort to deflect attention from his own crisis, but the simple fact remains that no other government has crashed as spectacularly as his.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /giambralesson.html (2040 words)

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		Giambra, noting that three different villages, including Lancaster, rejected police mergers in referenda during the 1990s, claims that the latest Lancaster talks would never have occurred if he hadn't altered the political atmosphere.
		Giambra and practically everyone outside of Amherst thinks the whole region should have one unified IDA. That is not close to happening.
		Giambra's strategy is to grab the "low-hanging fruit," consolidate services with minimal parochial constituencies, such as sewer and water, and demonstrate, at least in small increments, that regionalism can work in western New York.
	www.governing.com /archive/2001/apr/giambra.txt (3130 words)

	RESPONDING TO GIAMBRA'S COMMENTS
		Joel’s comments will be followed by responses questioning their veracity.
		If Joel truly believed it was time to get real and deal with the problem, he’d be the first to cut his salary, benefits, staff, and patronage giveaways.
		Joel Giambra is demanding cuts from everyone, except himself, his department, and his patronage perks.
	www.speakupwny.com /printer_1865.shtml (538 words)

	Buffalo News - Giambra pins earn rebuke by comptroller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spectators at County Executive Joel A. Giambra's State of the County address Feb. 16 were given a lapel pin in the image of a lighthouse, a leadership symbol Giambra has used for his election campaigns.
		A Giambra spokesman said the invoice was mistakenly submitted to the comptroller's office and has since been paid by one of Giambra's campaign accounts, the Friends of Joel A. Giambra.
		Giambra's campaign account later paid the bill in 2005, too, but in prior years the government did pay for the pins Giambra distributed at his annual speeches.
	www.buffalonews.com /editorial/20060226/1014091.asp (529 words)

	GIAMBRA, THE LAW, THE SHERIFFS, AND THE TAXPAYERS
		Giambra says that the county will be forced to lay off 99 deputies if the sixteen communities do not pay more for police services.
		Since Giambra can’t force budget cuts to be used exclusively for layoffs, his threat to lay off 99 officers rings hollow.
		Joel Giambra’s threats to punish municipalities that do not have their own police department are simply bizarre.
	www.speakupwny.com /printer_1562.shtml (655 words)

	Frank Parlato Jr: Swiatek - Naples race may be decided by the educated voter
		Joel Giambra told me he thinks Naples will win by 8 points.
		She has the advantage of incumbency, greater name recognition, the support of the popular Giambra; she has a captivating style, a gracious demeanor, physical attractiveness, (as her ubiquitous signs amply reveal) and more cash than Swiatek to invest.
		Even if Giambra were to win total control of the legislature, Naples, I believe, would act responsibly, both fiscally and politically, and, in my opinion, thus far she has.
	www.frankreport.com /Author/Articles/02Nov01.html (858 words)

	Regionalism plea renewed... - Debt Consolidation Blog News
		Joel A. Giambra said in his annual address Thursday that he has not been "radical enough" in pushing for a new regional government for Erie County, and he asked the public to trust that he is moving ahead with the visionary plans he promised in the past.
		My name is Joel Giambra, and I am asking you to trust me," said the county executive, who looked back at the best parts of the past year and again played off his standing as the region's foremost political whipping boy.
		At that point in his State of the County address, Giambra was speaking mainly of his ongoing objective to unite the county's human services agencies, his "Blueprint for Change" that was delayed by the 2005 budget crisis.
	www.debtconsolidationblews.com /node/33 (586 words)

	Buffalo News - Giambra birthday bash set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joel A. Giambra's friends will throw him a 50th birthday bash that could net the county executive a tidy sum once the expenses are paid.
		Giambra controls a total of $790,000 in his "Friends of Joel A. Giambra" and "Lighthouse Leadership" funds, amassed over eight years with donations from county vendors, his appointees, his friends and other politicians and political interests.
		Giambra, like state legislators and other officeholders, has used campaign money to pay for meals, tickets to sports events, rounds of golf and other entertainment expenses.
	buffalonews.com /editorial/20061218/1012353.asp (448 words)

	BuffaloPundit: Joel's political demise
		He committed political suicide as deadly to Joel's career as that bullet was to Budd Dwyer's body.
		Joel Giambra thought that he could force a crisis that would galvanize the community against Albany.
		Joel has proven himself to not be the guy we thought he was.
	wny4clark.blogspot.com /2005/02/joels-political-demise.html (754 words)

	Signatures Petition to recall Erie County Executive Joel Giambra Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
		King Joel (as he is called in county government) needs to be removed before more damage is done.
		Giambra's tenure has been nothing but corrupt, from the no-bid overpriced contract awarded to his friend Spano, his employment of another friend as an $80,000 chauffeur and the scandel at the garage in East Aurora.
		Joel Giambra is incompetent, not only as a county executive, but as a politician.
	www.ipetitions.com /petition/Joel_Giambra/signatures-3.html (604 words)

	WGR 550 : Giambra Supports Wilson's Comments About The CBA
		WGR Newsroom - Friday, April 7, 2006 - 1:35 PM Erie County Executive Joel Giambra called on football fans throughout Western New York to flood political offices in Albany and Washington with their complaints about the new collective bargaining agreement that is being finalized.
		Giambra voiced serious concerns with the second issue, because it would hurt any local group to who would want to buy the team.
		Giambra mentioned that the NFL Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Roger Goodell is from Jamestown, and is one of the leading candidates to take over from Paul Tagliabue when he retires.
	www.wgr550.com /bills/fullstory.php?id=1511 (254 words)

	News Copy, New York: Erie County Executive Joel Giambra
		Giambra would still be paid a healthy six figure salary (and Pundit rightfully asks why the county executive position would then be needed at all).
		Joel Giambra needs time to figure out how to change a lightbulb and a county manager to actually do the job.
		When informed by Giambra that Niagara had a county manager form of government, the Pundit pointed out that Erie's neighboring county has no use for a county executive.
	www.newscopy.org /erie_county_executive_joel_giambra/index.html (269 words)

	Giambra A Pioneer On Drugs?
		Joel Giambra is not a crusader in a dress.
		Fourteen years ago, Giambra told me that he agreed with Christ, but it would be political suicide to say so.
		Peter Christ preaches it and Giambra believes: Better to spend billions of dollars on drug treatment and education instead of fighting a futile war.
	www.mapinc.org /newsnorml/v06/n608/a05.html (617 words)

	Depew merger talk attracts Giambra
		County Executive Joel A. Giambra announced his full support of district mergers at the September 21 meeting, adding that the County would fully support and finance a feasibility study.
		Giambra fully supported Pelleterie’s position, pointing out that it is the County’s job to seek out the best educational opportunities that in some cases include merging districts to combine services.
		Giambra told concerned residents that both districts need to sit down and carefully examine every option to determine whether combined efforts needed.
	www.cheektowagatimes.com /News/2000/0928/Front_Page/05.html (619 words)

	Giambra Endorsed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Giambra kicked-off the evening by being unanimously endorsed by the Erie County Republican Party Executive Committee.
		Joel Giambra promised to cut taxes 30 percent and reduce the size of government during his first term and he’s kept his promises.
		County Executive Giambra expressed his sincere thanks to the members of all three committees for their generous and gracious endorsements.
	www.ecgop.com /giambraendorsed2003.html (396 words)

	Springville Journal
		Erie County Executive Joel Giambra is again floating his plan to bill individual towns in the county for the use of sheriff patrols, but as far as Concord Supervisor Mark Steffan is concerned the idea sinks like a rock.
		According to a Buffalo News account on Monday, July 25, Giambra is reviving his proposal to bill towns for sheriff road patrols according to the amount of benefit the towns derive from such services.
		Giambra claims towns with their own police departments such as Amherst, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda do not require the sheriff patrol services as frequently as towns such as Clarence, Grand Island and Concord, which do not have their own police agencies.
	www.wnywired.net /sprjrn/journal_ts.php3?issue=2005-07-28 (579 words)

	Meet the Other Joel Giambra
		The child of a single parent, Joel Giambra was raised by his mother and grandmother.
		One of his passions is Erie Community College, not only because he is an alumnus, but because “it is a very important piece of this community.” Speaking of his ideas to consolidate the ECC campuses downtown, he said “It will have to happen.
		It should not come as a surprise that the symbol of Joel Giambra’s administration is a lighthouse.
	www.livingprimetime.com /AllCovers/Feb2003/workfeb2003/meet_the_other_joel_giambra.htm (1004 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter
		Joel Giambra's magnanimous offer to allow the Seneca Nation to build a second casino in Niagara Falls, so long as Buffalo gets a cut of the revenue, is a bit like you telling Mike Tyson it's OK to act like a jerk.
		Giambra's willingness to give Buffalo someone else's money carries more than a touch of irony, given his punitive attitude toward the city.
		Back in Giambra's days as a Democrat working in the Buffalo comptroller's office, his boss bailed out then-floundering Erie County with an enormous handout -- the city's share of a "temporary" 1-percent sales-tax increase.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /thanksjoel.html (993 words)

	Giambra blasts high school taxes -- March 4, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Giambra, a Republican, cited research by The Public Policy Institute showing that school taxes in Erie County increased at more than twice the rate of inflation in the 1990s even though the number of students increased only 8 percent.
		Giambra exhorted the region to embrace "aggressive measures to shrink bureaucracy, to cooperate wherever possible, and to consolidate wherever it makes sense."
		Giambra's "state of the county" address is at www.erie.gov/soc.phtml.
	www.bcnys.org /whatsnew/2002/0228joel.htm (400 words)

	Latest idea from Giambra full of fatal flaws
		But it sure would fit after the county executive took the wraps off his latest four-year financial shell game, designed first as a way to rehabilitate his already irreparably soiled reputation and second to serve as yet another way for the king and his court to snicker in the face of the county's control board.
		For remember that school budgets have to be voted on by the public, and often resemble referendums on taxes in general instead of reflecting the relative educational value and soundness of the proposal before them.
		Giambra believes dissatisfaction over the plan comes from some widespread wish to extract personal revenge on a stellar public servant.
	www.amherstbee.com /news/2006/0830/editorial/015.html (661 words)

	TheAmherstRecord.com, Amherst, NY - Giambra looks back, discusses future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When Joel Giambra announced a self-imposed two-term limit in his bid for county executive in 1999, it seemed to signify his desire and intent to move to a higher level of public office after eight years.
		Giambra said he will likely accept a job in the private sector, but don’t be surprised to find his name on a ballot again someday.
		Giambra says his main goals in the next year are continuing to achieve structural stability in the county and getting the Erie County Community College downtown project under way.
	www.theamherstrecord.com /local/local_story_338163614.html (876 words)

	alt press online - Joel Giambra’s War On Law Enforcement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When you break down Joel Giambra’s peculiar brand of “regionalism”, what you find are all sorts of cost-cutting measures that are presented in the media as responsible belt-tightening measures.
		Giambra in a routine press conference/sound bite opportunity, dutifully covered by local TV crews, once again attacked the Buffalo Police Department last week by asking voters to think about how ridiculous the idea of giving cops back pay that is due to them in their labor contract.
		Giambra’s boilerplate Enron-like message was somewhat blunted, however, by another police news story that was unfortunately lumped together with Joel’s free election campaign ad.
	www.altpressonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 (553 words)

	Giuliani Helps a Campaign Hoping for Help in Return
		Giambra would also be of pivotal importance to Giuliani in his expected campaign for United States Senate next year.
		As county executive, Giambra would lead the largest government in upstate New York and a political apparatus that could help Giuliani as he seeks support in an area where voters traditionally view the mayor of New York City as a politician out of touch with their concerns.
		Giambra, a former Democrat who became a Republican in 1998 to run for county executive, has incurred enormous wrath from his former party.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/102999sen-ny-gop.html (579 words)

	Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus \| Clinical, Research, and Academic Excellence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Giambra’s work on coordinating and consolidating local government delivery systems includes every service from law enforcement to parks maintenance to water systems.
		Joel Giambra’s policy initiatives include creating the region’s first-ever Cultural Tourism marketing campaign; the region’s first-ever multi-institutional health care planning effort; and the bi-national region’s first-ever working group of business leaders and government officials.
		Joel and Michelle Lettieri Giambra live in their North Buffalo home with their four children, Gabriella, Nicholas, Dominic and Joel Jr.
	www.bnmc.org /BNMC/Bios/Bio_Giambra.html (286 words)

	Erie County
		Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, left, Town of Amherst Supervisor Satish Mohan, Town of Grand Island Supervisor Peter McMahon and Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard held a press conference on Thursday to announce they would collectively be starting a commission to examine the feasibility of a county-wide police agency.
		Giambra and Howard have discussed the issue before, and the results from local leaders have been similar.
		Giambra expects to request funding for the commission from the county's fiscal control board.
	www.amherstbee.com /news/2006/0809/Front_Page/003.html (473 words)

	Outcome Buffalo \| outcomebuffalo.com
		It is hard to imagine why Giambra wants to replace a reformer like Coppola unless he desires to expand his suspect patronage network.
		Giambra has already blown through the surplus that he inherited and now is down to the last of the millions of tobacco settlement money.
		That would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that Giambra has acknowledged that his wife has a great deal of influence with him in moral and spiritual matters.
	www.outcomebuffalo.com /no.htm (1004 words)

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