Those feuding politicians in Southeast are at it again, this time over a contract to videotape town meetings. The Town Board split 3-2 in the vote, with Paul Johnson, Roger Gross and Richard Honeck opting to go with one company, at a higher cost, than the one preferred by Supervisor Michael Rights and Dwight Yee. The vote has touched off another heated debate in this already simmering Putnam town pitting the SOS candidates of Rights and Yee against the other board members with all sorts of accusations flying about paybacks and backroom deals.

The Town Board members aren’t the only ones with something to say about the contract. Residents are also giving their elected officials, and each other, an earful—not much of which is complimentary. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say:

Get some kids from the high school AV club to come in and do it for school credit, and chuck it up on YouTube like so many other towns do. Or better yet, buy a cheap video camera and do it yourself. … I bet if you asked for some volunteers you’d get some hits. Personally I’d be happy to work on the Web site for free as a civic duty to my community. Lord knows the Village of Brewster site needs some major work, and the town site isn’t much better. Are residents just going to have to put up with a bickering, ineffective local government forever?

Does the Town of Southeast do anything without a fight?

What a joke! We need to clean house immediately. Southeast/Brewster has been the laughing-stock of this area in the world of politics. What makes it worse is that The Journal News reports on every little issue.