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Hbg. City Council Members . . . Out To “Get” Reed
Kill $$$$ Of Funds For City Residents . . .
Vote Against FREE MONEY For City Jobs, Taxes, etc.
THEY SHOULD RESIGN!!
Plain
Talk!
Three
City Council members have literally been making fools of themselves.
Somehow
or other, even in Black History Month, these three people seem to
believe that you 
have
to be Black in order to help
Black people, or in order to work in the best interest of the Black
population. Nothing could be farther
from the truth! Mosten Wright
& Stringer have proven this.
These
three people, all minorities, have personal agendas that, if they have
their way, will do harm to the
Black community in the City of Harrisburg.
Shame
on all three of them... they should resign!
The
people at fault are Councilpeople Sandra
Mosten, John
Wright, and Patricia
Stringer.
Their
motives in voting against the
KOZ funding from the State and Federal Government were shameful, and
their statements are continually embarrassing to the community at large.
Anyone
in their right mind knows that Stephen
R. Reed has pulled the City of
Harrisburg back from the brink of disaster. There was no money for
communities, no money for the minority population, no money for housing,
and fraud was rampant. Steve Reed was elected Mayor, and with his hard
work, and under his brilliant leadership, Things began to change.
Nothing happened overnight, obviously, but the City of Harrisburg is a
place of HOPE now, a place where employment is available, a place where
upgraded
housing is available, and
where the future looks much
better for the children & youth of the
City of Harrisburg.
No
Common Sense... Just GREED For Power
Mosten,
Wright and Stringer want to make it look as if they are the
only people with the interest of the minority community at heart. They
are wrong ... and the best thing that could happen for the City
of Harrisburg would be if ail three would RESIGN
their positions on City Council!
Shame
on them... shame on Sandra Mosten, shame on Pat
Stringer, and shame on John Wright.
Given
the behavior of these three people, citizens are asking, “what’s
in it for them?” It looks as if Mosten, Stringer and
Wright see “visions of POWER dancing in their heads.” We
hate to tell these three people ... that the way the old Christmas poem
goes is, “visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads.”
There are no sugarplums for people like this, nor should there
be.
These
three people are traitors to the ordinary citizens of the City of
Harrisburg.
The
people of the City of Harrisburg know Steve Reed’s motives,
Steve Reed’s concern for them, and Steve Reed’s ability to
“come through” in a crunch.
Their
vote against the KOZ money that the City of Harrisburg could have
had, to provide jobs, tax exemptions, etc. was a disgrace to
people... of all color!
Mosten
. . . Committee Chairman . . .
Knew About KOZ Funding On Jan. 29,2001
Actually,
Ms. Sandra Mosten knew about the Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone (KOZ)
as early as January 25. She was supposed to schedule a Committee Meeting
As of February 21,2001, Mosten had not scheduled a Committee Meeting.
Instead, Mosten tried to pretend that she did not have the facts early
enough. Rubbish!
The
simple fact is, that in order to make herself look good to the people, and
make Steve Reed look bad, Mosten claimed she didn’t have the
information. Not only did Mosten have the information, but so did Wright.
What
would KOZ have done or the City of Harrisburg? The KOZ (Keystone
Opportunity Zone) money would have provided thousands of dollars for the
City of Harrisburg ... money that could have built and rehabilitated
businesses, created employment opportunities, including ‘Magic Johnson
Theatres” on the old U.S. Postal Facility site, and been available for
tax credits.
In
view of the fact that much of Harrisburg’s property is tax-exempt, (in
other words, property owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), every
effort must be made to secure to bring in new business, and to
rehabilitate and build new businesses and housing. Evidently Mosten,
Wright and Stringer believe that this is their opportunity to try to make
a fool of Stephen R Reed. Instead, these three have merely made fools of
themselves!
It
should be noted that the strength of the KOZ (Keystone Opportunity Zone)
application was that the Keystone Opportunity Zone (KOZ) does not increase
the percentage on non-taxable property ... but targets Local and State
Wage Tax Abatement ... DIRECTLY TO THE RESIDENTS.
Harrisburg’s
KOZ residents, those receiving a variety of public
assistance for housing, unemployment, food stamps, would have been
allowed to retain their wage taxes, directly improving their economic
self-sufficiency in household income. Mosten,
Wright and Stringer said NO to these people.
People
In The City Have Been “Disrespected”
So
let’s kill off this ridiculous notion that Blacks always know what best
for Blacks. The truth is that sometimes people “shaft’ other people,
in order to gain power and “upsmanship”! To put it bluntly the
people have been “DISSED” by Mosten, Wright and Stringer! These
three City Council people should resign!
