Tonight’s meeting in Brewster is canceled
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- June
- 26
Here’s an update from Marcela Rojas:
A Town Hall meeting planned for tonight on illegal hiring and housing in Southeast and Brewster has been canceled.
Town Councilman Dwight Yee, who along with Supervisor Michael Rights was hosting the event, said they have succumbed to the insurance issue raised by another Town Board member. Yee said the meeting will be rescheduled to July 16 at the Town Board’s work session at Town Hall.
“Once again these guys are throwing sand in my eye in reaching out to the community,” Yee said.
Councilman Paul Johnson said in order to hold a meeting at another facility, venues generally require certificates of insurance. The event was planned for the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union Hall, 38 Starr Ridge Road.
The Town Board, Johnson said, did not approve of using the town’s insurance to cover the “political rally.”
“They are trying to use town policy for a private event and that is an abuse,” Johnson said.
Some residents and elected officials raised concerns about the meeting and a mailer Rights and Yee sent out earlier this week, saying the men were exploiting a recent crash that claimed the lives of Lori Donohue, 37, and her daughter Kayla, 8, at the hands of a motorist who police say was drunk, unlicensed and in the country illegally.
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Unreal this Michael Rights, complaining about drunken driving and DWI’s when he has had TWO himself, i’m sick of listening to him, I want to go to the meeting and directly ask him about his DWI’s, he should be ashamed of himself..
Is the insurance issue that Councilmen Johnson, Gross and Honeck now bring up the real reason for this meeting being cancelled or will we see the issue of overcrowding being thier next complaint when town hall overflows with their constituents voicing thier concerns over illegal immigration and crimes being committed by illegals?
Government at all levels must make the prosecution and deportation of law-breaking illegal aliens a top priority. Furthermore, local governments must end their criminal-protecting directives that have turned Brewster into a sanctuary village. Such public policy insanity is directly responsible for terrible crimes to innocents as well as making the jobs of police far more difficult. It’s time for every American to exhibit some righteous contempt of our own—, contempt for those who commit violence and for those politicians who support these sanctuary policies and hide behind ‘insurance requirements’.
Ed Kowalski
The time has clearly come when those who make decisions need to be made accountable for their decisions.
The collective failure of We the People to get involved in making our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians. The only ‘ire’ here should be directed to the 3 Southeast Councilmen who didn’t want to attend this meeting.
I implore you to get involved!
The lives you save may be yours or someone important to you!
We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!