Hi! I was just wondering: is anybody in the city of Westfield, city hall or anywhere, monitoring the Westfield Gas & Electric Department? I just received my electric bill. I don’t have gas, all I have is electricity. Right? My bill was for $200. It says I used $126 worth of electricity. And then you tack on the transportation fee, the line fee, and this, it’s almost $70-80 a month just for that. Can you imagine that? $120 worth of electricity I used but my bill is $200. And you wonder why I hate the Westfield Gas & Electric. We suggest you contact WG&E Customer Service at 572-0100 to further discuss your bill and get a clearer understanding of the charges.
This is for Mr. Alie. A while ago you had a piece in your paper. He wrote an article. He signed it, started off saying, Barak Suddein Obama. You don’t need to put those little bleeps in there. Why not put President Obama? And you go on to say what he’s doing wrong, leaving us holding the bag for housing and so forth. Why don’t you guys really admit you just don’t like the guy? No matter what he does you won’t vote for it. You had over 300 filibuster against bills he wanted to get brought to the floor. Don’t even bring them to the floor. You got a guy named Boehner that doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. He’s afraid of the tea part as I think you people are also because you’re talking like you’re really tough cookies. President Obama wanted to have our infrastructure fixed. He wanted to have a government program to put people to work. Remember you guys had a president called Eisenhower that none of you guys mention. None of you guys mention him at all. He’s one of the best Republican presidents we had. He had a huge, huge, deficit budget because of the war. But what did he do? He put people to work for our government building our roads and highway systems. And, by golly, we did alright during his tenure. And he always said, and this is your president, this is a Republican president, watch out for the industrial military complex. Right on, Mr. Eisenhower. You were great, but you guys – it’s an embarrassment that you are in the same party that he was in. Thank you.
In Friday’s edition of the paper and again on Monday we were again subjected to articles pertaining to the ongoing “gun debate”. While Friday’s paper had a very good rebuttal by Mr. Humason, Mondays article by Mr. Gross was a one-sided affair with the typical gun grabbers spin on things… I strongly feel that if you print an article covering a subject as serious as this, that the opposing side deserves equal time to also voice their opinion. Since Mr. Gross is the president of “the Brady bunch”, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre should have also had equal time. Since that did not happen, I would like to state the undeniable truth that in the case of Adam Lanza. Background checks would have done nothing to prevent what happened as he murdered his mother and stole her legally owned guns…even had the guns been locked away, someone as committed to violence as he was that day would have found a way to extract them from any security device. In light of what did happen that fateful day, I would have to disagree with the article stating Lanza’s Aspergers syndrome had nothing to do with this most heinous crime. It seems again, a whitewash to blame the inanimate object for the actions of a mentally ill individual who had no business freely roaming the streets. Perhaps he had an even worse mental disorder and was misdiagnosed? The fact of the matter is that the firearms did not commit any crime by themselves, Adam Lanza did. We need to lock up those who commit crimes and those too mentally ill to function peaceably within society rather than blame inanimate objects. A firearm is nothing more than an expensive pipe until it is intentionally taken somewhere, loaded, a round chambered, the bolt cocked, the sights aimed, and the trigger pulled….none of these actions took place by themselves or by the fault of the firearm itself. These actions were planned and intentional by the shooter and the shooter alone. That is where we should be looking for an answer.
I would like to comment to the person who feels the plowing was bad because the plow went by a foot and a half out from the curb. We live on Parker Ave where the plows did not come within five to six feet of the curb on one side, and two to three on the other. Only one vehicle at a time clearance. Montgomery Road above the rotary is less than wonderful also, particularly when a school bus must go up the hill. A bus barely fits around the rotary. To the gentleman who would not shovel out what is probably a mountain left on the sidewalk by a plow, take pictures with measurements, so you will have visual evidence in case you have to appeal a citation. Sidewalks should not be covered if plowing is done correctly. I would also like to comment on another issue – the ward 2 council seat. Concerning the council seat, the council and the mayor are clearly ignoring the law, willfully and unprofessionally. The law department made it clear Brian Winters should be the councilman. State law allows for a write-in CANDIDATE! No clarification is needed. The council members are getting even for a citizen exercising his legal right. Of course, some of our council members cannot be concerned with a little thing like legality (so much for an oath of office). Our mayor said if people do not like what is done, then they can address it with their vote. Clearly he lied when he wrote that as the vote has been ignored.
