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Michael Crowe

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Would I be right in thinking he is the only candidate in galway west who has any business/entrepreneurial credentials? Seems like a good guy to me anyways. We need people with a bit of 'get up and go' bout them in the next dáil and not some of the loony pro huge social welfare payments candidates that seem to be floating about.

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EJLL

Irish Independent:
"FF candidate failed to declare rental income"

This infuriates me :mad:

He can't even regulate his own finances and expects to be a representative for the people.

11 properties!! :mad: - Fianna Fáil greed through and through

It will be a grim day for Galway if he is elected.

snubbleste

galah wrote: »

Now HIS mug is blocking the traffic light in Eyre Square. It was Derek Nolan before, that poster got removed, and now Crowe hangs there instead.Seriously, people, how bloody difficult is it????

Very difficult.

galah

Now HIS mug is blocking the traffic light in Eyre Square.
It was Derek Nolan before, that poster got removed, and now Crowe hangs there instead.

Seriously, people, how bloody difficult is it????

galwayfellaBETA

Fianna Fail just can't stoop low enough
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/20561-irish-govt-pushing-through
http://www.politics.ie/justice/153660-govt-rushing-changes-copyright-law-through-before-friday.html

dolphin city

I bet he didn't forget to collect his rent on the houses tho - typical fianna fail Greed Party politics

McTigs

celty wrote: »

Lucky man to have 11 properties.

Depends on when he bought, where he bought and how highly leveraged the financing was.

All in all he's probably not that lucky cos i definitely don't think he's that smart.

In fairness, anyone who joins a political party just as the tide is turning on their popularity towards total collapse and starts an auctioneering firm just as the tide is turning towards total property market collapse is not exactly blessed with the midas touch.

The man is a bimbo

celty

What a pity his darling 'Canvasser' has been banned .... Would have been great to see him try to justify this one. Probably would have told us he's the most 'competent' and 'business-savy' of all the corrupt FF politicians in Ireland.

It's the sheer NECK that gets to me, sitting in on a meeting where issues in which he had a financial stake of the outcome were being discussed.

'A vote for Crowe is a vote for jobs', he says in his newspaper ads.

Presumably, it's also a vote for him to keep lining his own pocket from City Council funds.

Lucky man to have 11 properties. It's a wonder he's not now known as 'Frankeen Jnr', as the similarities are uncanny.

McTigs

New Suits for the door to door canvass - €1000
Printing of election leaflets and newspaper ads - €5000
Election posters covering the entire city - €20,000

Being shown up for the living embodiment of the decieving, corrupt, public office abusing, property obsessed Fianna Fail cliche in a national newspaper two days before the general election - PRICELESS.

snubbleste

Watch for a sudden mushrooming of Crowe posters around the place on thursday night.

barryd09

Im delighted for Mr.Crowe.
I hope the boards poll is a true picture of how the actual results will be.

galwayfellaBETA

Unrealistic wrote: »

I see the content of SiempreRagione's post got modded out of existence. Rules are rules, I guess.

But the good news is that the Indo picked up on his story today.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/latest-news/ff-candidate-failed-to-declare-rental-income-2551881.html
It's just a pity they only focussed on the fact that Michael Crowe failed to declare the income. To my mind his failure to recuse himself from council discussion of a programme from which he was profiting is even more damning.

More of the same from this corrupt little party, they are in politics to line their own pockets. Crowe shows himself to be no better than the rest of them, the sooner FF are sent to the Annals of history the better.

We need a root & branch reform of the Irish political system to weed this type out.

Rant over..... I have to get back to killing myself just to pay the bills.

"This was a genuine mistake, there was no attempt to intentionally deceive," Mr Crowe said.

Yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before....

celty

Agree with Unrealistic.

Not to excuse yourself from a meeting, when you have a clear conflict of interest, is inexcusable.

Is this really the kind of person we need to represent us in the next Dail?

Unrealistic

SiempreRagione wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=475

I see the content of SiempreRagione's post got modded out of existence. Rules are rules, I guess.

But the good news is that the Indo picked up on his story today.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/latest-news/ff-candidate-failed-to-declare-rental-income-2551881.html
It's just a pity they only focussed on the fact that Michael Crowe failed to declare the income. To my mind his failure to recuse himself from council discussion of a programme from which he was profiting is even more damning.

For anyone who wants to see the original letters they are still available here.
https://mayorcrowe.wordpress.com/201...ethics-breach/

snubbleste

celty wrote: »

If Crowe gets in, or if Fahey gets back in, I am definitely emigrating. It would prove that the people of Galway West deserve all the misery that has been inflicted upon us by incompetent FF 'sleevens' and 'gombeens'.

I'll hold you to that

GBFM currently have a debate with some of the main candidates on now. It is woeful. I expect Fahey and Grealish to break into a fight.

celty

Good man, Mike Kelly.

That has to be a wind-up surely.

Why would anyone in their right mind vote for someone who has 11 properties and doesn't even think it's appropriate to excuse himself from a City Council meeting when he clearly has a conflict of interest?

Why would anyone in their right mind vote for somebody who tries to take the credit for the creation of IDA jobs which have absolutely nothing to do with him?

Why would anyone in their right mind vote for someone who stood as an Independent initially, but in a lust for power then switched to the party which has bankrupt our country and made us the laughing stock or pariahs of Europe?

Why would anyone vote for somebody who has such a big ego that he describes HIMSELF as 'bright', 'competent', and 'experienced'? If he's so bright why didn't he remember to register his interests with the Council? Surely that's a pretty simple thing, just a matter of reading up his own property portfolio. A bit like Bertie 'forgetting' a little donation of about 30k a few years ago .. as we all all do, like. Yeah, a guy handed me an envelope in a bar in town there six months ago but I can't for the life of me remember who he was, etc., etc.

If Crowe gets in, or if Fahey gets back in, I am definitely emigrating. It would prove that the people of Galway West deserve all the misery that has been inflicted upon us by incompetent FF 'sleevens' and 'gombeens'.

R28

mike kelly wrote: »

Mike Crowe is a city man and will represent Galway city. What city person in their right mind would vote for fahey or o'Dev?

What city person in their right mind would vote for Crowe, a man who's clearly interested in power for power's sake?

snubbleste

mike kelly wrote: »

Mike Crowe is a city man and will represent Galway city. What city person in their right mind would vote for fahey or o'Dev?

None, there are 14 other candidates.

mike kelly

Mike Crowe is a city man and will represent Galway city. What city person in their right mind would vote for fahey or o'Dev?

johngalway

What's the deal with Frankeen and Dev Óg's names being taped out on Crowes posters? Have to admit I find it hilarious and in keeping with all I've heard on here about the Crowes.

Unrealistic

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

For all the research the letter person didn't read PopeBuckfasts' notice at the top of the forum..he will not be pleased

Yes, but if it gets deleted on that basis, it's still completely open to anyone with a higher post count to post the links to where the letters are hosted on Wordpress.

https://mayorcrowe.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/galway-city-council-investigating-mayor-over-alleged-ethics-breach/

I would hope SiempreRagione is shown some leniency in this case as he has clearly put his money where his mouth is by making the complaint on the record to the council. That would strike me as being more legitimate than signing up just to post negative comment on here without doing anything else to back it up.

CrowdedHouse

For all the research the letter person didn't read PopeBuckfasts' notice at the top of the forum..he will not be pleased

snubbleste

Very big letter and well-researched, it can't get 'lost' in City Hall now

Seriously though, the outcome will be that Crowe 'forgot' to include them in his declaration much like Fahey forgot to include something in his declaration of interests a few years back.

cranky bollix

good work on the letter :cool:

Dan_Solo

Canvasser wrote: »

voting independent is a waste of time. i'd nearly vote for the terrorist shinners instead :pac:

You could always vote for terrorist Fianna Fail instead.

SiempreRagione

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=475

galwayfellaBETA

How true!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yieS7jWWdB8

GALWAYINDOOR

I find the both ollie and michael interesting they act like you dont exist when they meet you even tho they know you but as soon as elections are coming around I become noticable havnt any intention of voting for him!!

R28

996tt wrote: »

In fairness to Grealish he withdrew support for the govenment in September 2010 over HSE cuts, unlike many of the other independents like Lowry/healy rae

I wouldn't Grealish any credit for that at all. The world and his mother knew the government wasn't long for this world by that stage. It was sheer opportunism on Grealish's part so he could say that he opposed one of the most unpopular governments on record, despite having propped them up for 99% of his Dail career.

Hopefully he'll be kicked out on his arse like Fahey on election day. I wish I could say the same for O'Cuiv but it looks like the bog dwelling troglodytes will be voting him in anyway.

If anyone from connamara dissaproves of me calling them a bog dwelling troglodyte, well they can prove me wrong by NOT electing Dev Óg

celty

gordongekko wrote: »

Did anyone see his ad in the sentinal yesterday. All the items that he is trying to get done can are local issues that he probably could get done in his current role so thats another candidate i dont need to vote for.

But surely he is BRIGHT, COMPETENT, AND EXPERIENCED .... or so he says himself. Self-praise, just the kind of 'new' TD we need from the party that's been in power for 14 years.

dolphin city

skelliser wrote: »

Crowe making money of the taxpayer with this rental scheme is imo a resigning offence.
He shouldnt even be running after that.

Just another brass neck FF'er ignoring common decency to line their own pockets.

i think the scheme goes like this - he can provide his "extra" houses to the council who will pay his mortgage or most of it for him for a certain number of years - could be ten, fifteen, twenty. They in turn will put a poor family who cannot afford a house into one of his houses - they will then turf them out when crowe wants his house back after the allotted time.

result is this - crowe gets his mortgage paid on his extra properties and he doesn't have to worry about them at all until he wants them back. The person put into his property will be turfed out without any chance of security.

correct me if I am wrong, but I think that this is how it works.

thats what you call working for the common good - NOT