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'Cuz When They Own the Information…
Dear Editor:
I feel my rights have been violated by your refusal to publish my letter of last week. In my opinion, a more appropriate caption below your paper's title would be "We are 141 years old and we still have little to no editorial voice or opinion, however, we certainly love the advertisement revenue generated by full page advertisements such as the one showing how Garrison would look with a digitally superimposed Cell tower."
I've read past letters that you have run, in which the authors have made claims for which substantiation was not required. Fellow letter writers I've spoken to, have confided that they've never been required to provide legal proof of their allegations. On April 18, 2007 your paper even went as far as to run a letter to the editor, in which an aggravated constituent referred to our Supervisor as "Ayatollah Mazzuca!" Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the writer's comparison, but am I to understand that such slanderous remarks are legal for publication here?
Your excuse for denying to run my letter in last week's paper is as follows, "Sorry about this, but upon advice from my legal people, I'm going to need proof about your allegations of the contractor issue. You introduce a third party to the story line, accusing them of acting illegally (non-registered contractor). I would need to see proof of this."
I brought my concerns to the Town's attention following the March 07 meeting. I gave Deputy Supervisor Richard Shea 8 copies of a letter with photos of the construction site to share with his fellow Board members. It's been months and construction at the site has continued, business as usual in Philipstown, if you drive by today 7-23-07, there is neither a building nor a wetlands permits posted at 1137 EMRS.
In response to your concerns with certain comments made in my recently rejected letter regarding William Scherer's Constuction at 1137 EMRS, I'd suggest that you as a journalist, do a little research on your own. I'd begin by contacting enforcement officer Phil Prince from the Dept. of Consumer Affairs, in Carmel, after you've spoken with Mr. Prince, try his boss Joseph La Barbera.
Next, contact Tom Monroe and inquire as to why Scherer's construction is legal, due to it's close vicinity to Trout Creek, he'll probably give you some lame excuse such as the foundation was poured before the laws changed, which I allege is false, and even if it were true, Mr. Scherer's Building Permit expired in 2004 and it, as well as BOHA were subsequently renewed.
I raised my concerns with Mr. Monroe's failure to let me know why the Scherer construction was legal at the July Townboard meeting, and that and other information that I'd consider pertinent, failed to appear in what I consider to be Ms. Leiter's very biased report of the evenings events. Fortunately, I've recorded, the broadcast of the July Town Board Meeting if you or any of your readers would ever care to view it.
Russ Cusick
Philipstown
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