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May 22, 2008 | 01:36 PM
The Brookhaven Town Board continues to fiddle while the town burns with issues of importance: fast-shrinking revenues, a lack of affordable housing, illegal housing in many areas, a lack of resources to preserve farmland and acquire open space that will not be available much longer, a landfill that will be full before you know it, and more.
What are our esteemed elected officials doing about these real problems? Seemingly not much — they're just too busy playing sandbox games of take-away: "It's not your pail and shovel — it's mine," and "Look, mommy, at the nice sand castle I built. Oh, no you didn't, I did."
The latest adventures in partisanship described in this week's edition add fuel to a threatening fire beginning to grow among many of Brookhaven's nearly half million residents. Although both sides denied "stirring the pot" — "He did it, mommy, not me" — in fact both sides did.
Many households in the town received a robocall from Democratic Supervisor Brian Foley informing them of the upcoming Town Board meeting on Tuesday, mentioning some objectionable proposals on the agenda, and urging residents to call their local council member.
Meanwhile the Republican Party machine, or what's left of it nowadays, sent an email listing "Important dates" that included an invitation to an "Open House @ Republican HQ in Medford" to "prep for the Town Board meeting on May 20."
Come on, guys and gals, get with the program. We elected you to serve us, not throw darts at one another while problems grow and remain unaddressed. Several speakers at Tuesday's meeting had it right when they practically begged all of you to get back to the people's business. We add our voice to theirs.
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