Somewhat of a modern-day miracle took place in Great Neck last week when tens, then hundreds, then thousands of residents broke their long-time habit of voting for extortionate school and library budgets to repudiate the outrageous $20-million price tag the Great Neck Library Board (with notably few exceptions) tried to inflict on the community in the name of closing down and radically overhauling the Main Library, which, by any measure, requires half the money to fix.
The vote, by a three-to-one margin, was a thunderous rejection of liberals’ addiction to the tax-and-spend policies that have bankrupted both our nation and our county.
In just a few days, voters will have the opportunity to demonstrate that they, too, have the good sense to abandon the disastrous economic policies of (Town of) North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman and his echo-chamber henchmen, all of whom have increased our debt to over $300 million and now want to borrow millions more to buy the Roslyn Country Club so they take it off the town tax rolls and put it guess where? Into yours and my own property taxes!
The no vote in the Great Neck Library referendum was so overwhelming that the opposition was unable to lodge one of their typical protests, crying “unfair” and magically producing a couple of bags of “uncounted votes.”
The vote for North Hempstead Supervisor – in fact for the entire Lee Tu ticket – must be just as overwhelming. It’s long overdue that grown-ups started running the system.
Joan Swirsky
Great Neck
