Special Districts Try Their Hand at Spinning
Simple Justice: When I received my latest water district “newsletter”, the message was clear. The landed aristocracy had no intention of giving up its little fiefdoms without a fight. The front page was all about how the evil state and county governments were trying to destroy our water, and how our local water district commissioners were fighting for us. This newsletter, of course, was done on the ratepayer’s dime.
As Anne Michaud reports on Viewsday, the special districts have joined together to hire a point man to lead the fight:
Dear Special District Official:
These are challenging times for special districts throughout New York State. Prosecutors, high elected state officials and overly energetic politicians, are jockeying for promotion by singling out the operations of special districts in an attempt to paint them as greedy, mismanaged and out of control.
It was with those concerns in mind that we have created the SPECIAL…