Middletown GOP misleading residents The Courier,July 17 Posted:07/22/08 To the Editor:
As a registered Eisenhower Republican for the last 50 years, I would have never thought I would see the day that my own party would stoop to deception and lies to scare the public instead of informing the public.
Over the past few months I have been reading about the issues from Middletown. It concerns me to see that Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger and Deputy Mayor Pamela Brightbill have consistently misled the public on many issues.
On the issue of affordable housing, Mayor Scharfenberger and Deputy Mayor Brightbill are saying that 8,000 units will have to be built to satisfy the COAH housing requirements. If you want to reach this number you would have to take the total of our round one, two and three requirements and times that by four.
A good portion of round one and two housing requirements have already been satisfied. The question is how much was left unfunded and not built from the first two rounds of COAH rules. Unless the town is saying it hasn’t done a thing in 28 years.
On the issue of the budget, the statement “leave it to the professionals” from the Republican committee just doesn’t cut it. I have paid taxes to Middletown for over 40 years; this is our money that they are wasting on failed legal challenges and mismanagement. For the GOP to tell me to shut up and pay, shows a total disregard for the people who put them in the majority in the first place.
What’s going on at town hall sounds like camp run amuck, this along with the fact that they published that the budget had passed before it was even voted on in “Middletown Matters.” Politics this maybe, but this isn’t responsible government and it is disrespectful to the residents of Middletown.
As a retired resident at 73 years old, it sends shivers down my spine to see that my party could sink so low. It is my hope that the Middletown GOP gets their act together soon or I will not vote for them this November.
