Row C For Corruption
11-04-2007, 04:25 PM
The Democratic Party has control in Nassau County. They are worried about losing it in the 5th District due to a weak incumbent candidate. With Independent Party voters like me not towing the party line they stand to lose the majority. As we take it upon ourselves to campaign against him. I am not working this hard for the opponent as much as against Scannell. Here is one example why.
What 4 Million Of Your Tax Dollars Buy in the 5th District Nassau County
Our Legislator Joseph Scannell has forgotten some of the things he has done for our lovely town of Baldwin. One is the Parkway Drive Nature Preserve. Scannell refers to it on his printing as 3 acres of open space. He paid 4 million of the tax payers money to purchase the property at the end of Parkway Drive that was slated to be developed and bring Millions of dollars worth of homes to our area. As a parent I have no problem with the need of open spaces and Nature Preserves in Nassau County for the use of all residents. I do have a problem when I contacted Legislator Scannell's office asking what was going to be done to clean all the beer cans, condoms and other various trash which has been dumped for years in our new Nature Preserve. I also asked who would be maintaining and patrolling the area, for which I recved no answers from his assistant. I was told that was not discussed as of yet. Now years later still nothing. When spending our tax dollars I only wish that our Legislator would think thr projects all the way thru. When Joseph Scannell took 2 years of our discretionary fund money totaling $420,000.00 and donated it to the Carrousel after he knew it was to be a county project on museum row was he thinking about the cleanup and who was to maintain Baldwin's newest Nature Preserve? As a resident of Parkway Drive my family would love to take walks and enjoy the Preserve if it was not so full of trash and ticks.
I am writing this for people heading to the polls on election day to think about the fact of electing a Legislator who does not complete his projects. The projects HE doesn't discuss.
M. R.
Baldwin, NY
Registered Independent
What 4 Million Of Your Tax Dollars Buy in the 5th District Nassau County
Our Legislator Joseph Scannell has forgotten some of the things he has done for our lovely town of Baldwin. One is the Parkway Drive Nature Preserve. Scannell refers to it on his printing as 3 acres of open space. He paid 4 million of the tax payers money to purchase the property at the end of Parkway Drive that was slated to be developed and bring Millions of dollars worth of homes to our area. As a parent I have no problem with the need of open spaces and Nature Preserves in Nassau County for the use of all residents. I do have a problem when I contacted Legislator Scannell's office asking what was going to be done to clean all the beer cans, condoms and other various trash which has been dumped for years in our new Nature Preserve. I also asked who would be maintaining and patrolling the area, for which I recved no answers from his assistant. I was told that was not discussed as of yet. Now years later still nothing. When spending our tax dollars I only wish that our Legislator would think thr projects all the way thru. When Joseph Scannell took 2 years of our discretionary fund money totaling $420,000.00 and donated it to the Carrousel after he knew it was to be a county project on museum row was he thinking about the cleanup and who was to maintain Baldwin's newest Nature Preserve? As a resident of Parkway Drive my family would love to take walks and enjoy the Preserve if it was not so full of trash and ticks.
I am writing this for people heading to the polls on election day to think about the fact of electing a Legislator who does not complete his projects. The projects HE doesn't discuss.
M. R.
Baldwin, NY
Registered Independent