Issues & Questions?
EVANS NEEDS A NEW APPROACH TO MAKE IT COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER TOWNS
Issues And Questions For The Candidates
Below are some issues and questions you might want to discuss with the candidates when they ask you for your vote.
- Evans Town Taxes
- How does Evans lower some of the highest taxes in Erie County?
- Water Bills
- How does Evans get water bills, the highest in Erie County, under control?
- Why is there no senior discount on the water bills?
- Water Project Spending
- How does Evans get water project spending and the debt to pay for it under control?
- Recreation & Tourism
- Evans has 12.5 miles of waterfront. Why not make developing recreation & tourism a top priority?
- Helping existing businesses vs. attracting new businesses
- Why is the town’s low-interest small business loan program top secret?
- Thruway Exit Development
- Why does Evans have the only undeveloped Thruway exit in Erie County?
- Why aren’t the town & school boundaries the same?
- Open Government
- Why do only a tiny handful of residents attend town board meetings?
That is seven alternative topics. It easily could have been 77!
- BONUS ISSUE!: The Sturgeon Point Marina
- Why must residents battle to keep the marina open, fight to get sewers, and focus on developing the town’s #1 asset?
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QUOTES
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
THE TRUTH
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
HONESTY vs HYPOCRISY
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
GOOD INTENTIONS
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
POLITICAL POWER
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
GOVERNMENT’S VOICE
Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people’s voice.
THE GOAL OF MARXISM
Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance.
DANGEROUS DECISIONS
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Leadership
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
