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Peekskill GOP Call Democrat Renovation Plan A "Sham"

PEEKSKILL – City Republicans have issued a response statement to the revitalization plan announced by city Democrats last week. “Their press release is a pathetic attempt by them to shift the public’s attention away from their shameful record on nearly everything they’ve touched, from the city’s finances, to tax increases, to out of control council meetings, to paying millions of taxpayer dollars for contaminated land, to a projected 2012 budget deficit of over $3.3 million!” said the GOP statement issued Monday.

City Republicans also accused Democrats of causing the decline in living standards in the area they said they would be renovating. “The Democrats, with an election right around the corner, want people to believe they can “revitalize” the Monument Park Neighborhood, an area where their abject neglect since they have been in office has lead to a steady deterioration in the quality of life for people who have lived there for many, many years.Their claimed “intent” to revitalize the city “block by block” is a painfully absurd sham when you look at the results they’ve produced since they assumed ultimate and unchallenged rule over Peekskill.”

“Ask people in the Orchard St. neighborhood what they think about the Democrats' record since Mary Foster became Mayor and they’ll tell you about noise late into the night, prostitution, people loitering in the streets, the nuisance of heavy truck traffic and a crumbling infrastructure that had raw sewage bubbling into the basements of homes all along the street in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene,” said city council candidate Barbara Kerasiotes. “All of these issues have been brought to the attention of the City over and over, yet all that has happened is that things have gotten progressively worse.”

Kerasiotes said it became clear while walking the neighborhood that homes have been turned into illegal rooming houses where poor immigrants are exploited by warehousing them into structures never intended to hold so many people.

 

The complete press release is posted on the Peekskill GOP website www.peekskillgop.com.

 

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