Letters to the Editor: Lynbrook, East Rockaway

Not a personality contest

To the Editor:

I would suggest, with the election right around the corner, that all of us redirect ourselves to the facts at hand. This is not a personality contest.

We are considering the state of the economy and the need to protect our relatively small community from becoming a cautionary tale. We are in need of change, and if this change is to be positive, then we cannot continue in the direction we have been heading. In good conscience, I have to vote for the party that is at the very least aware that change is the only way to improvement.

Fran Lenahan understands this need for change, and I am sure he knows that change begets opposition and all the negativity that goes with it. He is enduring it all with the grace of a person that understands that this is the price for bucking the status quo. This village needs to succeed, and the person who has the insight as to what needs to be done should have that position. Our negativity and personal feelings must be put aside once this election is over so we can move on and support the people who will keep this village on it’s feet.

We need to get it right this time. Everyone should remember that we’ll still be neighbors after all is said and done.

Raymond A. Taliercio

East Rockaway

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Meagher has integrity

To the Editor:

I could write volumes about Richard Meagher’s integrity, intelligence and determination to help make East Rockaway the village our friends and neighbors love to call home. Meagher’s leadership, decision-making skills and ability to work with colleagues make him the ideal candidate for mayor of East Rockaway.

Having served on the East Rockaway Board of Education with him in the mid-1980s, I can personally speak to the above attributes and his fervent desire to elicit the opinions of not just of his fellow board members, but also of the East Rockaway community.

Never, ever, in my memory, has Meagher cut off discussion of any matter before the board at a public meeting when the community still had views they wished to express and questions that needed to be answered.