THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 — Page 7
LETTERS Thanks to the GOP reps who stuck to our campaign promise To the editor, On March 14, there was a hearing held on the Belknap County budget. The people of Belknap County showed up in force and asked the Belknap County Delegation to please reduce spending and oppose any increases in the county budget, as they cannot afford any more increase in taxes. After the hearing the voting on the budget began. Nine members of the delegation (of which I was one) offered a bottom line budget decrease of 7-percent. The reason we offered a bottom line budget was because, we were told at previous hearings by one commissioner, he did not care what cuts were made, he would use the money anywhere he wanted. After two tie votes, one of the nine voted with those other members to decrease the budget by less than 2-percent. To me was a slap in the face to the people of Belknap County. On Novem-
ber 2010 the voters made it clear they wanted their representatives to fight for smaller government and lower taxes. It appears at least in Belknap County that message fell on deft ears. What made it so disheartening to me is that the delegation is made up of all Republicans. It appears that at least 10 off those members rejected the voice of the people of Belknap County. We cannot exhibit a taxpayer be dammed, “we know better than the voters” attitude! I would like to express my thanks to those representatives who voted with me and made the hard decision to stick to our campaign promise we made to the people of Belknap County to cut taxes and reduce the budget, they are Rep. Worsman, Rep. Simpson, Rep. Tobin, Rep. Greemore, Rep. Kingsbury, Rep. Comtois, and Rep. Malone. State Rep. Harry Accornero Laconia
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Look over the warrant articles & see if you can afford them To the editor, After attending the Winnisquam Regional School District meeting on Saturday, March 19, I would like to thank the school board and the budget committee for working with the towns of Tilton, Sanbornton, and Northfield to help us with our school portion of the town budgets. I am confident that this cooperation will continue. The Sanbornton town meeting is coming up in May and I would like to advise the taxpayers that the “Y” project bond issue and highway bond issue will substantially affect your tax
rate in this budget. As you look over the warrant articles and budget line items, the residents need to be aware that any new monies voted into the budget will also have an impact on our tax rate. Remember, your vote controls property tax increases. So please become informed, ask your selectmen and budget committee members questions, attend the budget hearing, look over the warrant articles and decide which ones you can and cannot afford. Dave Nickerson, Selectman Town of Sanbornton
from preceding page eventual entitlement benefits and pay a bit more in property taxes to let the land barons like Jack get a fairer deal on taxes. Maybe if “they” paid more taxes on what “they” may eventually pass on to their estates... taxes after all are always more fair when someone else is paying some of what we are currently paying. Selectman Hayes recently wrote
a very compelling letter describing the difficulty and anguish of putting people out of their homes for taxes. God bless him and the other selectmen for taking this burden on their shoulders and doing as best they can for the truly needy of our community. In these times it is just so impossible a task to be fair and still be fair to all. Tim Sullivan Gilford
PILOT from page 2 miles (38 kilometers) east of Benghazi so remarkable. U.S. officials said the F-15E Strike Eagle jet was hitting Gadhafi’s air defenses Monday night when an apparent equipment glitch caused the plane to crash. Local resident Mahdi el-Amruni, 30, said he saw the jet fall from the sky at around midnight. “I saw the plane spinning round and round as it came down,” he said. “I thought it had been hit by pro-Gadhafi people.” He and other villagers rushed to where the jet’s remains burned in a field of winter wheat and thistles. “It was in flames,” he said. “They died away, then it burst in to flames again.” The two crewmen ejected before the jet crashed and drifted down to different locations, Africa Command spokesman Vince Crawley said. They were lightly hurt. One of them landed in a rocky field behind the home of Hamid el-Amruni.
The pilot, presumably not sure if the locals were hostile, hid in sheep’s pen, where about 15 villagers came looking for him after finding his parachute. “We started calling out to the pilot, but we only speak Arabic,” el-Amruni said. “A villager came who spoke English and he called out, ‘We are here! We are with the rebels!’ And then the man came out.” A while later, an officer from the rebel government in Benghazi came to pick him up. “He was very relaxed,” el-Amruni said of the pilot. “We greeted him and brought him a doctor as well as water and juice, which he took with him in the car.” The villagers kept his helmet and orange, white, green and beige parachute. The U.S. military dispatched six aircraft — two MV-22 Ospreys, two AV-8B Harrier jets to provide cover and two CH-53E helicopters carrying a 46-person “quick reaction force” — to retrieve the pilots, said a senior Marine Corps officer at the Pentagon.
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