Resident Blasts Mayor, Republicans For Tax Increases

To The Editor:

Now that the election is over we hear and read of the anecdotal accounts of how why the election returns have turned out the way that they have, a clean sweep of right wing Republican council seats, as the council sat silent as one council member railed during a scheduled council meeting against the League of Women Voters calling it a communist front organization, with the mayor repeating his tired old line after the election that ”we must be doing something right.”

This mind you as 1st Ward council candidate Gary Marchese and the other Democrats who ran this time around have repeatedly pointed out in their campaign literature that the taxes here in Wayne under Republican governance have steadily risen for more than a decade with no end in sight, which should make the local realtors nervous and jerky during their potential current and future sales pitches.

The assertion of rising taxes being the reason for the failure of a ballot initiative to bring all-day kindergarten to Wayne is just not borne out by Mr. Marchese’s attention to detail, but it is also stunningly been reported that a poll worker at one polling station allegedly openly, illegally, and unabashedly electioneering by discouraging individuals from voting for all day kindergarten because it would raise people’s taxes. A tax estimated by some to be between $47 dollars to $65 dollars per year.

What a pathetic and sad state of affairs that the voters of Wayne are so downtrodden and destitute that they simply just cannot afford less than $10 a month for kindergarteners?

No mister mayor, you are not doing something right at all.

Stewart Resmer

Wayne, NJ