[This post is a reprint of a Letter to the Editor of The Harrison Patch from Harrison resident Michael LaDore. The Harrison Patch removed the letter this morning after posting it yesterday. It is posted here in its entirety with the permission of the author]
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So this is the best that the Harrison Republican Party can do for the November elections?

Let’s get this straight! Steve Malfitano is making a comeback for councilman. Isn’t he the mayor who bonded over $60 million dollars on frivolous feel-good projects during his tenure and wasted away millions of dollars of our surplus money needed for a rainy day (no pun intended!)? Isn’t he the one who spent over $9 million dollars to build ball fields on Project Home Run and flooded out hundreds of homes along the Beaver Swamp Brook and Brentwood Brook, costing homeowners, insurance companies and the town millions of dollars in damages?

Isn’t Malfitano the one who pushed through Project Home Run so that he could either sell or build townhouses on his family-owned property next to this once low-lying wetland that stored all the storm water runoff, (Check the Master Plan Steve tried to push through)?

Isn’t Malfitano the one who spent $14 million dollars on a pool complex in Silver Lake, which ended up being named for his running mate for mayor, Ron Belmont? Isn’t Ron Belmont, (the person - (nice guy) not the pool), the one who ran our recreation department forever and actually loses over $3 million dollars a year due to poor management?

And don’t forget the third wheel, their running mate Fred Sciliano, who while on the town board voted to give variances to Fordham University for their Harrison campus. Did you know that after the variances were approved, the company that Fred works for ended up getting the job and Fred was the project manager responsible for completing this work in a timely manner. Did you know that Fred’s company did $8 million dollars of work at Fordham’s Harrison campus. That must have been some Christmas bonus for Fred that year!

So this is the best that the Harrison Republican Party can do! Put up self-serving, profit hungry selfish men, (Malfitano & Siciliano), who really don’t care about Harrison, but only care about their ego’s and their pockets! Oh, and by the way, should Malfitano get elected to the Council position, and Siciliano get re-elected, they get free taxpayer paid medical insurance for the rest of their lives!

Think about it!!

Mike La Dore