Honor Our Votes Statement
I am Larry Shaw from the Old Northport Road /Lawrence Road Task Force and I am reading this statement on behalf of the following Town of Smithtown civics groups:
Commack Community Association
Concerned Residents of Charter Oaks
Feal Good Foundation
Friends of St. James & North Smithtown|
Fort Salonga Association
Kings Park Civic Association
Kings Park Neighbors Association
Lakebridge Association
Old Northport Road /Lawrence Road Task Force
Nesconset Sachem Civic Association, Inc.
Nesconset Taxpayers Association
San Remo Civic Association
Townline Association, Inc.
911 Responders Remembered, Inc.
NSCCA —- North Smithtown Coalition of Civic Associations
Hillside Terrace Civic Association
Damin Park Civic Association
Edgewood Avenue Civic Association
Your constituents come here today to ask YOU, our elected officials, to hear our voices, and honor our votes.
For over two hundred years, the citizens of these United States have exercised the most cherished of rights, the right to vote for their elected leaders. We have fought wars, and many have died, in part to protect and preserve that right; at other times, hundreds of thousands have marched on Washington simply because they sought the ability to cast a ballot for a chosen candidate.
The citizens of Smithtown exercised their rights this past November. Votes were cast, and our Town Board was chosen by the people of Smithtown. Now, however, barely three months later, it seems that our collective voice risks being silenced; quieted by nothing more than the simple failure to timely file a document.
This is our Town Board. We pay thousands of dollars in taxes each year to insure that our quality of life is protected, that our schools are solid and well-respected, and all that which caused us to move here is preserved.
It is our right to have our votes count, and the outcome of an election honored. The voting process must be guaranteed, and the voices and choices of the residents of the Town of Smithtown must be respected and upheld. In fact, the elected officials of the Town Board were chosen by the people for that specific purpose.
We respectfully call upon those now sitting on the Town Board to carry out the will of the electorate. Appoint Pat Vecchio and Lynne Nowick to the Town Board now, and honor those votes recently cast.