No to Pitcairn write-ins

The citizens of the town of Pitcairn have two elections coming up, one for highway superintendent and one for supervisor.

Morris Hart is running for highway superintendent. He was town supervisor for a number of years. If you ever went to board meetings like I did, it didn't take long to discover that his agenda was not for the town as a whole, but for his own agenda.

He was very involved with the all-terrain-vehicle club in the town and voted on every issue that came across the table concerning the club. He cost every taxpayer when he hired a very expensive law firm out of Syracuse to get every road in Pitcairn opened after Judge David Demarest in Canton ruled half the roads were opened illegally and the town had to shut them down. Now the roads are no more legal today than they were back then. You have to ask yourself, do you want someone running the highway the same way he ran the town?

Mr. Hart also resigned his position as town supervisor not long after getting voted back in. Will he do the same in the highway?

Donnie Mallette has held the position and has done a good job. He keeps his own books and is there during normal business hours if anyone has a concern for him, and he keeps no secrets from taxpayers.

Leland Ryan is running for town supervisor. If you've never been to a board meeting while he was on the board, you missed a lot. He would yell at taxpayers. We pay his salary and voted for him thinking he had our interest, but that wasn't the way it was. As you walked in the door, if he had an issue with you, he would call you names. A few taxpayers (myself included) had to have the code enforcement division (which oversees all towns) in Albany step in to remove the code enforcement officer in the town because no one, including Mr. Hart, who was supervisor at the time, would listen to the Canton office and remove him. As a councilman he only had his own interest, not what was good for the town as a whole.

You have to ask yourself, do I want people like this representing me? I encourage you to go look at the records, ask people who do go to meetings on a regular basis. These two candidates will be write-in votes. They did not get their party endorsements. That's a big question in itself.

Gail A. Ober

Harrisville