What is in the best interest of our community when it comes to local elections?
As I read the local papers (and I do hope that many people read the local papers for the Great Neck – Manhasset area), I see all the written statements from the candidates who are running for election for commissioner of the Great Neck Park District, Manhasset Park District and the Manhasset – Lakeville Fire Water District.
I actually know some of these candidates.
However, I don’t know all of them or their viewpoints and I am not alone.
Usually, an important pre -election event is for the candidates to participate in a “Meet the Candidates Night” moderated by the League of Women Voters. If you couldn’t make it on that one night, PATV was there to videotape and cablecast the “Meet the Candidates Night”.
For years, PATV partners with the League to ensure that these events are videotaped and cablecast.
Recently, the Great Neck Library and the local candidates for the midterm elections “Meet the Candidates Night” were cablecast on PATV Ch. 20 (Cablevision), Ch. 37 (Verizon FIOS) and also on demand on the PATV website.
For the Dec. 9, elections, there will be no “Meet the Candidates Night” moderated by the League of Women Voters.
There will be no cablecast on PATV or on demand on our website. Why, because only a minority of the candidates were willing to take part in a “Meet the Candidates Night.”
What a shame!
Shirley Ann Bruno
Executive Director PATV
