Well, the public has spoken, or not spoken, as the case may be. The few of you who did speak seem to be far more interested in Swiller’s finances than in my own and the Uncle takes no small umbrage at that. (By the way, if any of you hear tell of a missing small umbrage, remember I said that I didn’t take one.)
But, on the whole what you seem to be saying (and not saying) is that most of you don’t really give a rat’s nether region if the Uncle puts up ads or not.
I’ll take that as an overwhelming "YES!"
Hell, if Bo can decide retroactively that the village vote was actually a referendum on how the Town Board was doing its job, I feel at liberty to interpret this poll in any way I damn well please.
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Sorry Unc- didn't realize you were taking a poll. By all means, make some money, for that's the American way! You have provided a delightful forum for us to kick the crap out of Ralph, as he so rightly deserves, even if it is only with words. So, please, do make some money at it. Just be mindful that those of us who use computers all day long get tired of the mundane ads, so I'm hoping you'll at least have some creative ones.
Hey Swiller- you should check into who's running your credit report without your permission. As far as I know, you have to allow someone to do that, and the reporting agencies are supposed to keep a record of who has requested that info. So, perhaps you'll be able to find out which Ralphling (or maybe the big cheese himself) did some illegal digging!! Hey Ralphie...can you say LIBEL???
Once again Ralphie's posse is trying their best to turn the focus away from Ralph himself....but it ain't gonna work. Why does Ralph think he will have the last word over the Village Mayor and Board of Trustees? Make that one of your ads.
Hey Ralphie Boy!
Have you noticed you aren't the Big Man anymore.
Now that we have a place to say wheat we feel about you without having you threaten to get us fired or get even with us.
How does it feel now Ralphie?
Cat got your tongue Ralphie. We all know that you read this. Looking at everything we say to try and figure out who we are so you can screw with us. That's why we don't sign our names. What's your excuse Ralph? We know you and your posse write all the hate mail here, so why not say something to us using your own name? You don't have you to be afraid of?
Ralph should call off his mutts before his and their skeletons in their closets start rattling! Think hard - I'm sure you know which one may start shaking the loudest.
Maybe we should take a moment to pay some respect to Jack taylor who died monday. He was a part of this town for as long as anyone knows.. May he rest in peace...
Speaking of the public mumbling,
How long will the public take the bumbling?
The falsehoods put out there and all the lies,
Why doesn't the neighborhood ring with cries?
With cries and screeches of woe!
The public should tell ralphlings where to go!
Apathy- we've been lied to for so long that I think people are actually starting to just "go with the flow" and let Ralph do his thing! Once he announces his slate of candidates to uphold the Preservation Kit, hopefully the public will wake up and stop this madness!
Let's get off our collective asses and start yelling loudly- not only about Ralph Caruso and his self-absorbed agenda, but also on Monday , 8/28/06 @ 1pm about this damn ABATEMENT nonsense. If the hotel is SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED from the incentive program, then let's make sure it doesn't get it via some loophole...come on people!!! READ THE ARTICLE BELOW and show up....be heard!!!
Woodbury hotel up for $1.5M tax break
By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
August 25, 2006
The developer planning a Hampton Inn hotel near Woodbury Common would save at least $1.5 million in property taxes over 10 years under a generous new tax abatement Orange County is dangling to attract high-paying employers.
With days to go before a public hearing on the proposed tax break, no one has released an official estimate of how much the Monroe-Woodbury School District, Woodbury and the county would lose in taxes, because no one knows how much the assessor will decide the proposed 136-room hotel is worth.
But you can calculate the bare minimum by taking the assessment of the 127-room Hampton Inn in Wallkill, translating it into Woodbury property values and plugging in current Woodbury tax rates.
By that yardstick, the discount totals $1.5 million — if tax rates remain where they are now until the abatement runs out.
The estimate is highly conservative because the Woodbury Hampton Inn will be larger than Wallkill's and because taxes will undoubtedly rise, even before the hotel opens.
Developer Martin Milano's Hampton Inn is one of the first projects in line for a juiced-up tax break for new businesses that the county adopted in May. The county's Industrial Development Agency — its economic development arm — created the incentive to compete with neighboring counties and states for big employers with high-paying jobs.
According to the agency, four or five businesses have already applied for the abatement, which waives property taxes for one year and then phases them in at 10 percent increments. The total savings over 10 years is 55 percent.
Hotels are explicitly excluded under the tax break, but Milano — the owner of a Hampton Inn in Newburgh and a Hilton Garden Inn that will soon open in the same town — is seeking to qualify as "tourism-related," one of many industries the policy targets.
Local officials are on the warpath because both the town and the school district eliminated a smaller, state-imposed tax break years ago but have no say over this new one.
Whether Milano gets it will be up to the Industrial Development Agency. Its seven-member board will hold a hearing on the proposal at 1 p.m. Monday at Woodbury Town Hall. The board is expected to make a final decision in September.
Will the jerk that write those stupid poems please stop. You sound like an idiot.
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