Letters

For eight years, no new senior center has been built. Third site, and promises made again. In two years will you hear the same come election time? Same old song-and-dance.

For six years, no communication tower been turned on in Springs. Firefighters lined up 30 feet apart on the road shouting orders during an active fire. No communication coming in and out of Springs School. Children left vulnerable. This makes you happy?

Truck Beach: Centuries-old rights have been lost due to an inadequate defense of our rights. Government is the protector of your rights, not the grantor. Deeds, files and maps left out of our defense. A win taken away by no quit claim deed filed or eminent domain proceedings happening immediately after aforementioned win. No elected official ever showed to support the civil disobedience protests. I did, both times. Who needs rights?

East Hampton Airport: They want to close it, even if temporarily, which may trigger the rights of the Mulford family to reclaim it for $1. Wouldn’t you buy back 300 acres for $1? Jobs lost, revenue lost, a blow to the community. You need Federal Aviation Administration status, otherwise we have the wide-open skies. This is also a historical landmark. Who needs recreation or tourism? It’s not like we are a tourist destination.

Affordable housing has been a known issue since 1983. What has been done to fix that? Nothing to date, with a kick-the-can down the road mentality. We still have supposedly 10 percent buildable land today, just like 2016. We have an obvious catalog problem, with a love of federal money. That means locals, local families, are not a priority and will be pushed out of this community until we aren’t here at all. As the cost to make it in Suffolk County as an individual is $61,000, and for me, a married man with three children, you need to make $135,000 to be out of poverty. We are all really making the grade, I’m sure.

It’s time for a proactive government. On November 2, vote for the businessman, the educator, the blue-collar worker. Walles, Aman, Karpinski. “We Are the Community,” and, as always, “The tides are changing.”

Joe Karpinski

Amagansett

Karpinski is a candidate for East Hampton Town Board — Ed.