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Robert I. Rhodes, Ph.D. Chairman, Preserve Ramapo 26 Sky Meadow Road Suffern, N.Y. 10901 845 354-8466 845 270-4093
November 3, 2011 Letters to the Editor
The two party system has failed the people of both Rockland County and Ramapo. At the county level our parties entered into an implicit conspiracy to hide a fiscal disaster. In Ramapo our Democratic supervisor borrowed more than $85 million in less than two years (mostly for his stadium) and our taxpayers are going to have dig into their pockets to pay for this vanity project. Our moribund Republican party has had nothing to say about this debt.
Our East Ramapo schools are now controlled by St. Lawrence supporters who disrespect our public school students, the parents and the teachers of the district. One of these gentlemen is now running for our county legislature with St. Lawrence’s blessing. Then we have a candidate for the town board who is currently both St. Lawrence’s closest ally on the board and the spokesman for a publication that has attacked our public schools for many years.
Uncontrolled growth in Monsey is now opposed by a broad cross-section of local residents. At a recent meeting of the Ramapo Zone of Appeals an outraged Hassid threw his hat at the sitting members of the board. He was expressing his community’s outrage over the actions of a board that ignores all sound principles of planning—a board that will approve anything sponsored by the small handful of wealthy developers who sponsor St. Lawrence in that community.
Yes, Preserve Ramapo is controversial. We tell the truth and our opponents do the best job they can to marginalize our movement. It is too bad that the Journal News has joined with them in support of a failed political system.
We urge your readers to support me for Ramapo town supervisor, Emilia White and Patsy Wooters for our Ramapo town board.
Robert I. Rhodes, Chairman, Preserve Ramapo, Candidate for Supervisor of Ramapo
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