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To the editor:
Does anyone really believe that Democrat candidates Kevin Kuchinski and Michael Ruger; their Campaign Manager Peter Sandford; and supporter Courtney Peters-Manning are not aware that, in 2013 and 2014, Democrat Vanessa Sandom was mayor with a Democrat majority on the Hopewell Township Committee, when they complain about prior tax increases?
Or is something more sinister than mere ignorance going on when they falsely claimed that Republicans controlled the township committee during those years, in each of their recent letters to the editor?
Apparently, the Kuchinski-Ruger campaign has so little respect for the voters, or for themselves, that they can make such a blatantly false claim, which is easily subject to being disproven by fact-checking or a good memory.
Similarly, both Kuchinski (10/6 HVN) and Pete Sandford (9/29 HVN) falsely claimed in their letters that “Hopewell Township once again has the lowest equalized tax rate in Mercer County,” which is another easily disproven falsehood. A visit to the Mercer County Board of Taxation website shows that Hopewell Township is not even one of the lowest three equalized tax rates in Mercer County in 2017. We were not the lowest equalized tax rate last year, in 2016, either according to the County Board of Taxation website – proving a double distortion.
Is deceiving the public fun, candidates Kuchinski and Ruger?
Apparently so, when you choose to run a dishonest campaign.
Harvey Lester
Titusville
