Posted on 03/17/2002 4:57:05 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
AUBURN (NY)- The town of Throop is taking nearly $700,000 out of HSBC bank and moving it elsewhere in response to the bank's decision to oust the Boy Scouts from space they rent in the bank's downtown offices.
The town board voted unanimously to withdraw the money after HSBC told the Cayuga County Boy Scouts that they would have to vacate their basement offices by June 30 because the Boy Scouts do not allow gay men as leaders.
Throop Town Supervisor Leo Herrling said there was little discussion, and no dissension, during the board's vote on Wednesday.
"The board decided not to deal with HSBC because of the Boy Scout situation," Herrling said. "We also felt that HSBC, being an off-shore bank which is out of Hong Kong and Singapore, we felt it was out of place that a bank, a commercial establishment, is drawing lines in the sand and taking sides."
Herrling said that the town has negotiated with several banks.
"It's just a matter of getting the checks printed and moving the money. It will be done as soon as we can."
Town Councilor Mike Tarby, who was elected in November, has a 7-year-old son, Ben, who is in the Cub Scouts, and Tarby himself is a Scout leader.
"We don't think the bank is being fair with the Boy Scouts," said Tarby. "I think the Supreme Court made a great ruling in saying that the Boy Scouts can make that call of not having homosexuals. And who is a foreign bank to come in and say otherwise?"
The city of Auburn may vote on a resolution Thursday that would withdraw its cash reserves - estimated at between $5 and $10 million, according to City Comptroller Bea O'Hora - from the local branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., Ltd.
Bill Jacobs, the lone Republican on the five-person city council, proposed the resolution at Thursday's council session. Jacobs called HSBC's action "a blatant case of discrimination."
Mayor Melina Carnicelli was unavailable for comment because she is out of town on vacation. Councilor Robert Hunter did not return a phone call seeking comment, while fellow Democrat David Dempsey said that HSBC had a right not to renew the scouts' lease.
"It's their opinion and I have no other comment about it," Dempsey said.
Democrat Tom McNabb said Friday that he was somewhat taken aback by Jacobs' proposal.
"I sympathize greatly with the Boy Scouts, no question about that, I don't agree that they should be tossed out," said McNabb, who stressed that complexities of any possible movement of money must be thoroughly examined for the well-being of the city's finances.
But officials in Throop wasted little time in switching banks after it was announced Tuesday that the Boy Scouts would have to find new offices.
"I was very angry, I was upset. The fact that this came out of a bank out of New York City, and being that it's affecting our community, which it is," Herrling said. "I feel strongly about the Boy Scouts. I was a Boy Scout at one time.
"The Boy Scouts are a private organization and they shouldn't be punished because of political correctness. Political correctness has gone overboard at this point."
Tarby worries what would happen if the Boy Scouts were forced to include gay scout leaders.
"I'm not discriminating against homosexuals, but if my son was in a troop and he had to go the house of one, I would have concerns about his safety," Tarby said.
Must be a liberal. The only hard part about opeing a new account is waiting for Her Royal Highness the New Accounts "Executive" to hold court and fill in the x's on her computer screen in accordance with your instructions. That and sending the new checks back about 5 time until they get your name and address and account number correct.
. . .kudos to the community. . .
. . .'HSBC'. . .Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp; who knew?
Given the China Banking scandal; hope all their money is there. . .
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May God strengthen us all, G. “Dubya” Bush and America.
TOWN OF THROOP, CAYUGA CO. NEW YORK
For information contact
Kathleen Chuttey, Town Clerk
Melina Carnicelli, Mayor
Leo Herrling, Town Supervisor
Mike Tarby, Town Councilor
Office Hours:
Monday: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm;
Tuesday: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm, 7 - 9 pm
Friday: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
Saturday: 9 am - Noon
Phone: (315) 252-7373
Fax: (315) 252-1311
Town Hall located at 7471 Robinson Road, Auburn, New York 13021
That organization is so corrupt it probably wouldn't take very much to have the managers executed should they ever set foot in Big China or Hong Kong on a business trip.
No doubt they fear that a homosexual interest group has already made appropriate payments.
They could always use the tried-and true libbolefty charge: Ronald Reagan's to blame! (That helped explain D.C.'s rampant AIDS infection and crack addiction rates a little while back, didn't it? So why not have another go at it - it's the sort of thing that would make PERFECT sense to those wackos anyway. Lest anyone think this proposal is too outlandish even for libs, remember that they're the ones who convinced themselves that vile, disgusting faggotry is a "perfectly normal and acceptable alternative lifestyle choice"; hey, once they're over that hurdle, these numbskulls will believe anything!)
Sounds like it is time for the good citizens of Auburn to make their wishes known to their politicians. And, the good citizens can make their own statement by removing their own funds from the HSBC.
Let the town of Throop know we appreciate what they did Here
And let HSBC bank know that we don't appreciate what they're doing:
Kathleen Rizzo Young
First Vice President, Group Public Affairs
Media RelationsOffice: 716-841-5003
E-mail: Kathleen Rizzo Young
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