To the editor:
Recently, two of Hopewell Township Mayor Kevin Kuchinski’s political cronies wrote letters to the editor, both of which revealed the thought process of the small group of Democrats that are currently running the township.
In her letter, Democrat District 10 Hopewell County Committee member Helena Bouchez refers to members of the public who ask questions of their township committee as a “predictable parade of detractors;” the system of holding their elected representatives accountable as being “attacked” by the public; and refers to truthful information presented in those questions as “baseless insinuations,” which “I hate.”
In the other letter, Democrat loyalist and Kuchinski planning board appointee, Courtney Peters-Manning defends the seemingly uniquely unqualified and newly-appointed Kuchinski zoning board appointee Andrew Borders as well as her fellow planning board members.
According to Ms. Peters-Manning, when Kuchinski appoints a planning or zoning board member, apparently the appointee becomes imbued with a kind of doctrine of infallibility because, she writes, “they ensure that growth happens in the smartest and most environmentally friendly way possible,” regardless of public opinion or facts to the contrary.
While neither Ms. Bouchez’s nor Ms. Peters-Manning’s views are accurate, they both seem based on the apparent party line that the Kuchinski-Blake administration has all the answers, when they obviously do not, and that the public is an impediment to the process.
That the Kuchinski-Blake administration and their defenders apparently have little use for the truth or representative government with public input has been the subject of numerous letters to the editor and explains:
- signing affordable housing contracts without a single public work-session;
- refusing to answer questions as to affordable housing alternatives that they claim to have explored;
- excluding Diverty Road residents from dramatic changes to their neighborhood proposed last summer;
- straight-jacketing, verbally, public speakers at township committee meetings;
- failing to produce meeting minutes for over one year contrary to state law until I challenged that practice.
The list could go on.
Finally, while Ms. Peters-Manning should be acting on her environmental credentials, instead of just reciting them, perhaps she is more focused on securing her party’s nomination for township committee in 2019 or simply too busy towing the party line to actually protect the environment from the over-development of Kuchinski-Blake administration.
Harvey Lester
Titusville
