DEAR READERS:
IN MY ENTRY "POLITICS OVER PEOPLE...." I MENTION THAT THE DIVERSION OF YORKTOWNS SEWERAGE TO PEEKSKILL IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I CREDITED MAYOR JOHN TESTA, THE PEEKSKILL CITY COUNCIL AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS FOR THIS VICTORY FOR THE CITY OF PEEKSKILL. I HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THIS LAST MAY(2005) , AND AS THIS IS NOW OVER, I FIGURED I WOULD MOVE ON. YET WHEN EVER I WANT TO GET OUT, THE DEMOCRATS PULL ME BACK IN (A LITTLE GODFATHER LINGO THERE...LOL) . THERE IS AN ADDAGE THAT SUCCESS HAS MANY FATHERS BUT FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN. WELL, IN THIS WEEKS JOURNAL NEWS AND NORTH COUNTY NEWS THERE WERE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BY THE DEMOCRATS THAT TOOK THIS ADDAGE FURTHER, THAT SUCCESS IS AN IMACULATE CONSEPTION, ACHIEVED BY DEMOCRATS ALONE. NOT TO DIMINISH ANY OF THE WORK THAT "CEEP" (CITIZEN FOR EQUAL ENVIORMENTAL PROTECTION) DID, THE TRUTH IS THAT THE FIGHT STARTED WHEN FRAN GIBBS WAS MAYOR OF PEEKSKILL, AND FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PLAN IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN 1997. SHE THEN SENT OFF A LETTER TO THE COUNTY (A LETTER THAT LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS STILL HAS) STATING SHE WAS AGAINST THE IDEA AND THAT PEEKSKILL AT THAT POINT WAS NEVER IN CLUDED IN THE DISCUSSION. THE DEMOCRATIC LETTERS SHOW THE EVEN WHEN PEEKSKILL WINS, THEY(THE DEMOCRATS) ARE SORE WINNERS, YET WHEN YOU TALK TO LEGILATOR OROS OR MAYOR TESTA THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE COALITION (FROM YONKER TO YORKTOWN) NECESSARY TO MAKE THIS VICTORY FOR PEEKSKILL HAPPEN, GRACEFUL IN VICTORY, WILLING TO SHARE CREDIT. THEIR(THE DEMOCRATS) LETTER ALSO FAILS TO MENTION THAT THEIR DEMOCRATIC
COLLEAGUE ON THE COUNTY, LEGISLATOR MIKE KAPLOWITZ WAS IN FAVOR OF DIVERSION. THE REASON THAT I LEAD THE CONGATULATIONS WITH THE MAYOR AND COUNTY LEGISLATOR WAS THAT THEY WERE IN CHARGE WHEN VICTORY WAS ACCOMPLISHED, IT WAS ON THEIR WATCH, AND THEY DID FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. IF THEY HAD FAILED, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN ANY LETTER BY THE DEMOCRATS TOUTING THEIR WORK. NO, THE LETTERS YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN (BY THE DEMOCRATS) WOULD BE LETTERS OF BLAME, CITING THE FAILURE OF MAYOR TESTA AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS . LIKE ALL ELSE IN POLITICS...TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS, FOR AS I LIVE AND BREATH, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BLAMED FOR ANY FAILURE.
AS FOR THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN, THEY FOUGHT FOR SEVEN YEARS TO PROTECT THE PRACTICE OF N.I.M.B.Y. WITH THE HELP OF COUNTY LEGISLATOR MIKE KAPLOWITZ. ALL THE WHILE THE RESIDENTS OF HALLOCK HILLS PAID SEWER TAXES ALL THE WHILE HAVING NO SEWERS, AND FAILING SEPTICS. NOW YORKTOWN HAS TO START AGAIN, FIGHTING THE FIGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT SEVEN YEARS AGO(WHICH IF THEY HAD, THE PEOPLE OF HALLOCK HILLS WOULD NOT BE SUFFERING TODAY) (MORE GODFATHER LINGO), YET THIS TIME THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN HAS TO FIGHT WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND THERE BACK, HAVING SIGNED OVER LAND RIGHTS TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1997. NOW THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN HAS TO PURSUADE THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO GRANT THEM MORE LAND TO EXPAND THE HALLOCK HILLS SEWER TREATMENT PLANT TO ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL SEWAGE. F.Y.I THE CITY OF PEEKSKILL AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS ARE HELPING YORKTOWN IN THIS FIGHT. HOPEFULLY IN WON'T BE SEVEN MORE YEARS OF SUFFERING AND PAYING TAXES BEFORE THE RESIDENTS OF HALLOCK HILL WILL SUFFER NO LONGER.
BAZZO 02/25/06
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