[don't forget-- I'm debating my G.O.P./Conservative opponent this Weds. 7:30 pm @ Rhinebeck High School-- and all questions will be taken from audience so get there early to submit questions on cards!]
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Hi all...
All of the below is true-- but 99% has been ignored-- by not only local right wing but also local media...
I'll gladly go back to school, finish my master's degree, get good-paying teaching job again if need be...
[I gave up a $53,000 NYC teaching job to devote myself fully to bein' best darn Co. Leg. I could be]
But if you folks out there want me to continue getting results for folks in Rhinebeck, Clinton, Dutchess...
You need to read the facts below and start zippin' rebuttal letters out NOW...before it's too late...
-- 250 words to letterstoeditor@poughkeepsiejournal.com [I can't get any more letters in until after 11/3]
-- 400 words to letters@freemanonline.com [other county legislators' letters to editor printed-- not mine]
-- 300 words to editorial@thehudsonvalleynews.com [more and more folks are reading this newspaper]
Ball's in your court, folks-- I can't do this alone!...
[cede battleground of op-ed pages to the likes of Mannix, Muggenburg, Schmidt?...up to you all now]
Funds needed for mailing, folks!...to "Keep Joel" at 324 Browns Pond Road Staatsburg, NY 12580...
Pass it on...
Joel
242-3571/876-2488
joeltyner@earthlink.net
p.s. To those of you out there who have obviously bet on my opponent for this Nov. and could care two whits about one-party rule in our county government as the possibility looms of the first Dem majority in our County Legislature in thirty years disappearing-- you might want to talk with others who bet against me back in '03, '05, and '07 when I was underdog those three times too-- and view this classic from O'Jays on Soul Train way back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTeLePbB08 ("Backstabbers")...
Fact: Green roofs pro-actively save tax dollars and money re: electricity bills and stormwater runoff.
[Marist College wouldn't have contracted with Kirchoff Construction for green roof there if they didn't!]
[report < Rhinebeck's Deborah Barrow http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/definitions/green-roof
http://www.greenandsave.com/cooling/c/green_roofs.html ; http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/52448
http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/09/17/2009-09-17_south_bronx_building_gets_green_treatment.html ; http://www.ecosherpa.com/news/2009-world-green-roof-congress-in-toronto/
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/energy-efficiency/green-roof-save-money.htm
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[G.O.P. attempt to shift blame for RRA cost overruns to Dems would be funny if folks didn't believe lies]
Here below: censored truth re: what I've been able to accomplish for Rhinebeck, Clinton, and Dutchess:
[not tryin' to brag-- but facts do really need to get out-- I really have been a rather effective co. legislator]
-- Exposed ten years ago in a column I wrote for the Taconic Papers about $53 million being flushed down the drain by our county's Resource Recovery Agency by refinancing our county incinerator through First Albany Bank without going through proper Request for Proposal bidding-out process
[PoJo finally reported on this Sept. 2nd-- "No-Bid Deals Might Add to Agency's Financial Trouble":
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090712/NEWS01/109020009 ]
-- Voted in 2007 with Democratic Caucus against wasting millions of tax dollars by extending life of Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency bonds to 2027 [recall May 10th Poughkeepsie Journal:
"Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency: Inefficient, Expensive, & In Debt" by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20090510&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=905100344&Ref=AR ]
-- Led investigation of our county's Resource Recovery Agency this year-- and move to put $4.7 million of their budget into a special line in the 2009 budget-- to only have as little as possible allocated to them
[and why did Dealy lie @ 9/23 debate saying my Green Ribbon report calls for shutting down DCRRA?
and why did Dealy lie @ 9/23 debate saying my Green Ribbon report calls for 2 new landfills in county?
see: http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/09/dealy-lies-3x-in-debate-fact-is-green.html ]
-- Led effort to point out how cost-saving zero-waste approach (recycling/composting) saves tax dollars
[ http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/09/dealy-lies-3x-in-debate-fact-is-green.html ]
-- Leading effort to save county money: Project Labor Agreements electrician licensing/bail loan fund
[see: http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/09/facts-re-plas-electrician-licensing.html ;
http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/09/dealys-pathetic-attacks-rebutted-below.html ]
-- Led effort last December to make sure our county's Office for the Aging Senior Friendship Center at the Good Shepherd Church in Rhinebeck (and nine other Senior Friendship Centers across the county) stayed open five days a week; the County Executive had proposed that they go to a four-day week
[ http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/Countygov/departments/aging/agindex.htm ]
-- Led effort last December to stop local property tax hike for Rhinebeck and Clinton residents from County Exec's plan to force towns to pay for sheriff patrols and elections ($6 million cost countywide)-- and continuing to fight County Exec's current proposal for this to happen again in 2010 county budget
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/stopcuts ]
-- Led effort last December to stop County Executive's proposal to force Rhinebeck, Clinton, Dutchess residents to again pay sales tax on clothing/shoes under $110 (would be $6 million extra countywide)
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/stopcuts ]
-- Led effort last December to restore $1.5 million in cuts proposed by the County Executive to the Astor Home for Children for zero-to-five early childhood programming, Grace Smith House, Family Services, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Dutchess County Community Action Agency, Dutchess County Arts Council-- and stopped County Exec's proposal to eliminate our county's Human Rights Commission-- while cutting the County Executive's proposed 2009 budget by $5 million and holding RRA accountable
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/stopcuts ]
-- Turned the 2003 election for this Co. Leg. seat into a referendum on whether Rhinebeck should finally join our county's Greenway Compact (Ed Haas was a very strong opponent of this ever happening); I won-- and soon afterwards Rhinebeck joined the Greenway Compact-- and finally long-delayed $300,000 in county funding has gone to Rhineson property-- Thompson-Mazzarella Park
[ http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/05/12/news/doc4a08d436c8844623617728.txt ]
-- Initiated petition drive in 2004 to get our county's Department of Public Works to make the Hollow/Centre/Clinton Hollow Road (14/18) intersection in Clinton safer
[70+ signed on to my http://www.petitiononline.com/4WayStop ; many more signed on to hard copy]
-- Convinced Dutchess County Fairgrounds over last few years to ensure recycling is real at County Fair
-- Convinced our county's Department of Health in 2004 to stop forcing our frail elderly addicted to smoking for decades to smoke outside in inclement weather at Ferncliff Nursing Home
-- Convinced Northern Dutchess Hospital, The Baptist Home at Brookmeade, and the Dutchess County Fairgrounds this year to commit to moving towards zero-waste with food-waste composting
-- Worked with Rhinebeck High School Environmental Club last year to mobilize 200 from all over for first 350.org Rally for Green New Deal; working again this year with Club on Oct. 24 Pete Seeger event
[ http://www.350.org/about/blogs/350-rally-green-new-deal ; http://www.350.org/pt/node/5369 ; http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2008/11/18/news/doc492213e7e3676701
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/November08/17/GreenND-17Nov08.html
sign on to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128911379741&ref=mf ]
-- Convinced our county's Planning Commissioner Roger Akeley to support concept of Independent Dutchess Energy Alliance-- to create green jobs with energy-efficiency retrofits and literally save a billion dollars on electric bills for county residents over next 10 years; two bipartisan resolutions passed
[example of Cambridge, MA-- see http://www.CambridgeEnergyAlliance.org ; also Town of Babylon's http://www.LIGreenHomes.com ; thx: Tom Mansfield, Pete Wassell, Bill McCabe, Marge Horton on this]
-- Led effort in December 2004 to end waiting list for senior home care in the county
[ http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Aging/Srservdirectory.pdf ]
-- Got resolution passed unanimously last month in our County Legislature standing up for
homeowners of Vanderburgh Cove in Rhinebeck/Hyde Park to get help from NY/D.C.
http://www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Legislature/ResolutionsPDF/209302.pdf
-- Led effort a few years ago to stop G.O.P. proposal to end county-run senior home care in the county.
[ http://www.hca-nys.org/documents/NursingHomeWithoutWalls.pdf ]
-- Led effort in 2004 to make sure homeless veterans no longer turned away from shelter in our county
[ http://www.HudsonRiverHousing.org ]
-- Exposed with former County Executive Lucille Pattison how for well over a decade how millions of our county tax dollars are involved annually in legalized kickbacks re: county contracts and large donations; got Poughkeepsie Journal to strongly editorialize twice for Rockland law: $100 donation limit < vendors
[over fifty local folks so far signed on to http://www.petitiononline.com/cleangov -- sign on and join us!...
also-- http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/08/re-pay-to-play-in-dutchess-county-brand.html ]
-- Exposed serious groundwater contamination at Rhinebeck 9/9G Getty station in June 2004-- 55 parts per billion six months after MTBE had been banned from being put into gasoline (note-- typically the DEC provides water filters to homeowners whose water tests at anything over five parts per billion)
-- Exposed serious Clinton groundwater contamination-- Ruskey Lane, Fiddlers Bridge Rd., Centre Rd.
223 spills in Rhinebeck alone < MTBE, petroleum, oxygenates, and hazardous materials; 20 in Clinton
http://www.timesunion.com/TUNews/SpecialReports/HiddenPoison/index.aspx (Times-Union database)
Fact: Six out of 36 private wells tested a few years ago here in Clinton were found to be contaminated(!).
Fact: Groundwater contamination from MTBE here in Clinton on Ruskey Lane, Fiddlers Bridge Road, Centre Road has been an ongoing issue off and on for several years at Clinton Town Board meetings.
Fact: There are 400+ spills that have not yet been cleaned up to the DEC's own standards in Dutchess.
[statement from Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting.com this year-- confirmed and verified by local DEC; see my FOIA'd info: http://www.RealMajorityProject.blogspot.com ; http://www.ToxicsTargeting.com ]
[Dealy actually stated at 9/23 Clinton debate-- water contamination "just a couple hotspots south of us"!]
[pass this email along to all you know; local media has already shown they continue to ignore all this]
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Thirty-six more resolutions spearheaded by yours truly through our County Legislature since Jan. 2004:
Last month-- for Dutchess to be DEC Climate Smart Community (like 3 other counties and 38 towns are)
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/50845.html
Last month-- for NYS Public Service Commission to reject Central Hudson request for another rate hike
[join 98 others in region signed on to my http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FairRate petition on this;
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/08/04/news/doc4a7785a9e228f538376731.txt ]
For Dutchess to keep using lever voting machines and state/federal gov.'t to make sure we can too.
[ http://nylevers.wordpress.com/ ]
For a zero-waste approach to resource recovery in our county: save money, create clean green jobs.
[join over 25 other Dutchess residents on board this-- at http://www.petitiononline.com/zeroyes ]
For cost-saving green roofs, rain gardens, wind turbines, composting toilets to be on county property.
[ http://www.GreenRoofs.com ; http://www.RainGardens.org ; http://bianys.com/node/418 ; http://www.petitiononline.com/goldpoop ; http://www.CompostingToilets.org ]
For solar panels on County Office Building/22 Market St./Poughkeepsie (then all county buildings).
[ http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/mar08/030608.htm ; http://www.HVCE.com ]
For free energy audits of all county bldg.'s done by company like Johnson Controls, Honeywell, etc.
[ http://www.JohnsonControls.com ; http://www.Trane.com ; http://www.Honeywell.com ]
For chronic Lyme disease sufferers to no longer be jerked around by HMO's and insurance industry.
[ http://www.ILADS.org ; http://www.UnderOurSkin.com ; http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A02100 ]
For Dutchess to save on power costs w/Municipal Electricity Gas Alliance (like Putnam, Ulster, Sullivan, and over a dozen other counties).
[ http://www.MEGAEnergy.org ]
For saving 30% on lighting bills in county bldg.'s switching fixtures from T-12's to T-8's/metal halides.
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Replace-T8-Or-T12-Lights-With-New-Energy-Efficient-T5-Lighting&id=2117699
For new SuperLOOPer discount card at local stores and restaurants for frequent users of LOOP bus.
[ http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/Tom+Malone/01Ur0if9hQ8Ic/1 ]
For Dutchess to hold Home Heating Summit re: home heating oil crisis (as in Ulster, Orange co.'s).
[ http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/September08/10/DC_hm_heat-10Sep08.html ]
For Dutchess ESAN "Recommendations for Stream/Flood Management in Dutchess" to be followed.
[ http://www.dutchessemc.org/ESANRecomendations.pdf ]
For Green Map added to county website: list farmer's markets/green resources (as in Westchester).
[ http://greenmap.westchestergov.com/ ; http://www.GreenMap.org ]
For bike rental program in Dutchess at no cost to taxpayers (as is already in Washington, D.C.).
[ http://www.SmartBikeDC.com ]
For bulk-rate discount sale to county residents of rain barrels/compost bins (similar to Lake Co./Ill.).
[ http://www.rainbarrelsandmore.com/lakecountypromotion.htm ; http://www.RainBarrels.org ]
For Dutchess County to be part of Hudson Valley Community Preservation Act to save open space.
[ http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=101&sh=story&story=23825 ]
For county's Health Department to publicly report on chloramines in public water supplies in county.
[ http://www.Chloramine.org ; http://www.VCE.org ]
For listing of restaurants using oils without trans fats to be on county's Health Department website.
[ http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/October08/13/DCL_transfats-13Oct08.html ]
Led Dem Caucus in County Legislature in questioning of county's Empire Zone and call for audit.
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/statewar ]
Initiated Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency taking back compact fluorescent light bulbs.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/24recycling.html ]
Initiated increased purchase of cost-saving hybrid vehicles for county fleet
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/hybrids ]
Initiated 30% discount on defibrillators for local residents from GE Pickering (see website for more).
[ http://www.GEPickering.com ]
Initiated move for Family Justice Center for victims of domestic violence (similar to Orange County).
[ http://SafeHomesOrangeCounty.org/FJC.aspx ]
For a link to CarbonRally.com carbon cutting competition to be added to official Dutchess website.
[ http://www.CarbonRally.com ]
For an at-store plastic bag recycling law (like Suffolk, Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester counties).
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/recybag ]
For recycling plastics #3, #5, #7/recycling bins being placed next to all trash containers in county.
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/zeroyes ]
For particulate matter air pollution to be measured in Dutchess County as it was until 2002.
[ http://www.ALANY.org ]
For Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies recommend.'s air pollution/quality standards to be followed.
[ http://www.ecostudies.org/threats_from_above.html ]
For wetlands (even small ones) in county to be saved from being paved over by developers.
[ http://www.eany.org/capitolwatch/memos%202009/21_WetlandsProtection.pdf ]
For cost-saving "Green House Project" nursing home in county-- proven to make seniors happier.
[ http://www.TheGreenHouseProject.org ]
For NYSDEC & EPA Enviromapper websites to be added prominently to Dutchess County website.
[see http://www.ToxicsTargeting.com for info/link that should have been added to county website tho!]
For NYS Legislature to pass Cahill's A.2759/S.385: HMO's/insurance co.'s finally fully cover autism.
[ http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A2759 ]
For real relief for Dutchess Co. property taxpayers-- Omnibus Property Tax Relief and Reform Act.
[ http://www.OmnibusTaxSolution.org ]
For greatly expanding current circuitbreaker for school property taxes (bipartisan Little/Galef bill).
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/taxcut ]
For ending secret market manipulations on Wall Street causing higher gas/home heating oil prices.
[see http://www.StopOilSpeculators.com Enron loophole closed; "dark markets" speculation continues!]
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[here below-- thirty-nine reasons to send me back into office-- much more work needs to be done!!!]
Send Me Back to Co. Leg.-- Ten Ways to Revitalize Our Local Economy and Turn Dutchess Around:
1. Dutchess County Green Homes Program to make energy-efficiency retrofits, solar more available
[see http://www.LIGreenHomes.com ; http://www.CambridgeEnergyAlliance.org -- as in Babylon, L.I.]
2. Sustainable Energy Financing Districts for solar panels on homes (assessment on tax bills: Berkeley)
[ http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/mayor/GHG/SEFD-summary.htm ; http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SOLAR ]
3. Solar farms in communities across Dutchess; solar hot water, solar photovoltaic available for homes
[ http://www.NewYorkStateSolarFarm.com get towns, cities, villages off the grid completely-- on solar]
4. Zero-waste approach to resource recovery to save tax dollars, create green jobs, cut carbon levels
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/zeroyes (as in Tompkins, Rockland, Onondaga, San Francisco, Seattle); recycling is 10x more jobs than burning-- http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/recyclingmeansbusiness.html ]
5. Living wage law (exempting at least some small businesses, nonprofits, students like San Francisco)
[see http://www.LivingWageCampaign.org ; http://www.petitiononline.com/livwage ]
6. Clean Technology Trade Alliance to help market local products in Europe and Asia (as in Seattle)
[see http://www.CleanTechTradeAlliance.org ]
7. Funding for microenterprise-- not chain stores-- real $ for Gateways to Entrepreneurial Tomorrows
[ http://www.GetHudsonValley.org (nowhere nearly enough real funding for microloans right now)]
8. TimeBank for area-- bartering network for community so unemployed folks with skills can find work
[see http://www.TimeBanks.org ; http://www.WoodstockTimeBank.org ]
9. Follow recent Northern Dutchess Alliance recommendation for "Community Reinvestment Report"
[see: http://www.northerndutchess.org/images/NDABlueprintWeb.pdf (see p. 82); banks accountable]
10. Reform county investment policy: make banks doing business w/county to report home loan policies
[see: http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/Legislature/LNews/09/021709.pdf (Rockland passed unanimously)]
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Fifteen Ways to Save Tax Dollars and Cut the Dutchess County Budget:
1. Robust system of home care for seniors-- not institutionalization (avoid nursing homes if possible)
[ http://www.NYSenior.org; http://www.ADAPT.org (this came up at recent Taconic Resources forum)]
2. Save a million dollars a year by allowing county employees/retirees Canadian Rx option-- as Lewis, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Albany, St. Lawrence counties-- http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SaveOnRx .
3. Preventive health care for all before emergency room (as in Miami-Dade Co./San Francisco)
http://www.naco.org/CountyNewsTemplate.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=31087 http://www.HealthySanFrancisco.org http://www.petitiononline.com/duhealth
4. Health benefits consortium for towns, cities, and villages with county to save on employee costs
[see: http://www.tompkins-co.org/news/detail.aspx?ContentID=1111 -- as in Tompkins County; see:
http://www.tompco.net/legislature/highlights/20090217.html ]
5. Installment option for county taxes (as Sullivan voted to do: http://www.petitiononline.com/easypay )
[ http://dutchessdemocracy.blogspot.com/2009/06/sullivan-county-voted-unanimously-last.html ]
6. Truly effective tax breaks for volunteer fire and rescue squad volunteers (as in Suffolk/Nassau)
[avoid costly switch to paid fire services if at all possible; see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/nyregion/emergency-workers-will-get-tax-breaks.html ]
7. Stop Central Hudson from raising electric rates yet again ( http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FairRate )
[see: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090731/NEWS01/90731019/1001/new ]
8. Home Heating Oil Cooperative to help homeowners save on heating oil (as in Town of Cortlandt)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/westchester/28oilwe.ready.html
9. Save tax dollars spent on services for homeless by keeping families in homes (and not foreclosed)-- with a pre-foreclosure mediation program similar to the extremely successful Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion program in Philadelphia (over 80% effective in keeping homeowners in houses).
[see: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/us/28philadelphia.html ; http://www.ACORN.org ]
10. Save tax dollars by holding Empire Zone companies responsible for tax breaks received
[see: http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/EZ_notices-31Jul07.html ; http://www.FiscalPolicy.org ]
11. Save tax dollars by investing in quality pre-kindergarten-- literally $17 for every $1 invested
[see: http://www.fightcrime.org/ny/nyissue_earlyed.php , http://www.winningbeginningny.org ]
12. Save a million dollars annually with bail loan fund for some accused of nonviolent misdemeanors
[see http://www.OARTompkins.com -- United Way agency in Tompkins has safely done this for years]
13. Save tax dollars: community-based intervention for low-risk youth-- as in Orange, Rensselaer Co.'s
[see: http://www.fightcrime.org/ny/jjevent.php , http://www.dys.ohio.gov/dysweb/ReclaimOhio.aspx ]
14. Save tax dollars housing homeless to keep out of jail, hospitals, mental hospital-- as in Westchester
[see: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/House1st , http://www.PathwaystoHousing.org ]
15. Save tax dollars to cut recidivism: job training, counseling, drug treatment Brooklyn, Lancaster, PA
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/comalert http://www.petitiononline.com/jobcourt http://www.PYHIT.com ]
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Ten Ways to Save Tax Dollars Protecting Public Health and Respecting the Precautionary Principle:
1. Save tax dollars with farmland/open space protection: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SaveLand
2. Well-testing when properties change hands (as in Rockland and Westchester counties, New Jersey)
[see: http://www.petitiononline.com/cleanh20 ]
3. Annual testing of older underground bulk petroleum storage tanks (as in Rockland and Westchester)
[see: http://www.co.westchester.ny.us/health/PBS.htm ]
4. Save money spent on public health with neighbor notification for pesticide application (as in Ulster, Albany, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, Tompkins, Westchester counties and NYC)
[see: http://www.petitiononline.com/neighbor -- supportive comments there from over 110 county folks]
5. Ban BPA in Baby Bottles/Sippy Sups (as in Suffolk, Albany, Schenectady counties; CT, MN, Chicago)
[see: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=830114&category=SCHENECTADY ]
6. Save $ spent responding to floods/save 100-year floodplain: http://www.petitiononline.com/streams .
[see: http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/Highway/HwyPermits/RCDA%20Permit%20Application.pdf ]
7. Phase out fertilizers with phosphates to protect drinking water; restrict otherwise (as in Westchester);
require nontoxic landscape maintenance on county-owned land (w/some waivers, as in Rockland)
[see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/nyregion/westchester/03lawnwe.html ;
http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/Legislature/Local/08/LawNo3_2008.pdf ]
8. Clean car discount/feebate (as proposed in California by Rocky Mountain Institute et. al.)
[see: http://www.petitionline.com/cleancar ; also-- save $ hybrids http://www.petitiononline.com/hybrids ]
9. Limit diesel engine idling (as enacted by G.O.P. Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef)
[see http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/Executive/ENews/06/10-12-06.htm ]
10. Phase out sale of new outdoor wood-burning furnaces (as in Hyde Park, Red Hook, V/Rhinebeck)
[see: http://www.BurningIssues.org -- East Fishkill, Beekman, V/Fishkill, Amenia, Suffolk, Rockland too]
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Three Ways to Bring Our County Government Back to the People of Dutchess:
1. Campaign finance reform (as the Poughkeepsie Journal has twice editorialized for)
[ http://www.petitiononline.com/cleangov $100 limit on campaign donations from county vendors-- now]
2. Project Sunlight for our county government (as has already been put in place statewide)
[see http://www.petitiononline.com/sunlight info on co. leg. voting records, county contracts, donations]
3. Keep lever voting machines (19 counties passed resolution since mine passed last Dec.)
[see: http://nylevers.wordpress.com/ http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/save_ny_levers help Andi]
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Stand Up for Human Rights Here-- as Dutchess County's Own Eleanor Roosevelt Did:
1. Ban Discrimination in Jobs/Housing Against Victims of Domestic Violence/Sexual Abuse/Stalking
[as Westchester has since 2005; nine years ago Westchester unanimously passed legislation banning discriminatory acts in employment, housing, public accommodation and credit against individuals because of their group identity based on their race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, familial status, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or disability]
[see: http://humanrights.westchestergov.com ]
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