Why do politicians such as Edison’s Mayor Choi feel the need to use good people and their humanitarian causes to further their political agenda?
The programs run by Hands of Hope, New Beginnings Food Pantry and the Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church are in fact good organizations serving the needs of the community.
Choi, on the other hand, is one of the reasons such organizations have been so busy in recent years. His promises of tax relief have eluded us. His promise of economic stimulus, “The Edison Project,” has never gotten off the ground. He promised seniors free prescription drugs and painted a rosy picture of Edison’s future because of his ties with Fortune 500 companies and Trenton connections, and this has gone nowhere.
His administration is bloated with high-priced bureaucrats who seem to think that taxpayers should foot the bill for their perks, such as new cars, the gas that fuels them, and toll money for them to travel home as far as Atlantic City each day. As a one-time supporter of Choi, I am disappointed to say the least. My grandparents have a hard time making ends meet, and they, too, believe Edison is being led in the wrong direction.
Choi is the kind of elected official who thinks nothing of giving himself a 50 percent salary increase one week, then handing out canned vegetables to hurting seniors the next. To the good citizens of Edison Township doing your part in these tough times, I applaud you and wish you well. To Choi and the politicians causing the ills of these times, I would urge you to look in Webster’s Dictionary, any edition, and look up two words: hypocrisy and change. Hypocrisy for your actions and change for what you promised but didn’t deliver!
Dawn Santana
Edison