Letters

Letters to the Editor: East Rockaway, Lynbrook

May 7-13, 2015

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What about veteran exemptions?

To the Editor:
 I read the Herald’s interviews of the candidates running for the Lynbrook school board in last week’s paper (“Five vie for three seats on Lynbrook BOE”).
I would have asked them a few more questions, such as “What is your position on the veteran’s exemption that the state of New York authorized two years ago — the one the Lynbrook school board refused to authorize for our Lynbrook veterans? 

I would also have asked them why Lynbrook is the only school district that has voted against authorizing this exemption, especially with the record additional funding that the school district received from the state over the past two years. And finally I would have asked, “If the veterans come again to a school board meeting, will they again be told to sit down when they want to speak?
 
Steve Grogan
Lynbrook

‘Fox guarding the henhouse’

To the Editor:
  Dr. Melissa Burak has done a terrific job as superintendent, providing excellent services and programs for the children while keeping an eye on taxes that affect every resident and business owner in the Lynbrook school district.
This year we have candidates running for the school board that I’m sure are well qualified — but am I the only one that sees a conflict of interest when some are teachers? If elected, how can these individuals vote on budgets and teacher contracts when they themselves are teachers? Wouldn’t this be compared to the fox guarding the henhouse? Just a thought.

Harry Levitt
Lynbrook

Colored red by commercial

To the Editor:
Just days after reading about Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas’s call for strict rules on political mailings, Kate Murray unashamedly airs a commercial, giving away free coloring books to our children. We’ve gotten used to commercials that thank Kate Murray for this or for that, but this time the town went too far.
Free coloring books? Our county, state and federal representatives all produce books for our children, but only the Town of Hempstead exploits their power by blatantly campaigning for higher office by repeating Kate Murray’s name over and over in a commercial. And I’m furious that the town not only raised my taxes this year, but has the audacity to use my money for self-promotional political campaigns.
I implore that Singas’s request not only apply to the Town of Hempstead, but that it include the prohibition of commercials that mention a representative’s name on television or radio. It’s an insult to the intelligence of the people in the Town of Hempstead and highway robbery of our tax dollars.

Audrey Ciuffo
Merrick