I am writing as yet another tired Vernon taxpayer to endorse and encourage selecting candidate Anthony Rossi for mayor of Vernon Township on Nov. 7.
The other candidates cloak themselves in virtuous accomplishments from their previous terms in this capacity. They claim their prior experience is justification for being re-elected.
Unfortunately for them, the tired Vernon taxpayers have their records of service as proof why the town needs to head in a different direction. We need a fresh start.
We don’t need or want any more of the same old same old, advocating for unnecessary and unwanted personal pet projects.
We have a candidate in Anthony Rossi who has taken a stand against the dreaded and wildly unpopular annual tax revaluations.
Not only are the other two candidates both responsible for the albatross of the Municipal Utilities Authority, but candidate Harry Shortway initiated this latest version of taxpayer persecution.
Candidate Sally Rinker has stated she would take a hard look at the program. Sure she will, right up until she is sworn in. That response is not one to inspire confidence that the candidate will stand in opposition of a program so unfair to Vernon’s taxpayers.
Does Rinker’s proposal of a four-day work week for municipal employees work for Vernon taxpayers?
It did not in 2012, the last time Ms. Rinker implemented that schedule. It was canceled soon after introduction. Why would one even consider revisiting a process that failed so miserably 10 years ago?
Candidate Shortway is still on a 2023-24 campaign to enrich select few property owners with further purchases to facilitate fruitless, expensive and pointless trails to nowhere.
He advocates more of the same squandering of our hard-earned tax dollars. We still haven’t recovered from the boondoggle and ridiculous trail uphill to nowhere, which requires constant maintenance for safety issues and which purportedly now requires blacktop paving!
Blacktop? Funny - they pave the roads our taxpayers use with tar and stone but plan real blacktop on a walking trail to nowhere, which will now be accessed by handicapped with a community wheelchair? Talk about misplaced priorities.
If you too are a tired Vernon taxpayer - or a tired MUA EDU victim, then clearly the best choice for Vernon mayor is Anthony Rossi.
Ann Larsen
Glenwood