Anti-wind folks hide beyond anonymity

One of our local newspapers gives people the opportunity to respond online to letters people have mailed in. Whenever someone writes a logical, rational, pro-wind letter, you can expect anti-wind folks will attack the writer online with name-calling and personal threats. This is funny because people who mail in letters have the courage to include their names, but the online anti-wind writers choose to be anonymous and give themselves cute names like Outlaw and Windless.

People should look closely at the anti-wind responses, not because they're rational because they're not, but because it's interesting to see what the anti-wind don't try to deny. My son Cory wrote a letter, and he pointed out that the voter list from the November 2009 election proves that the Cape's anti-wind registered family members to their residences so that these family members who've never lived in the Cape could vote in our election. What's interesting is that in the 20 or so responses to Cory's letter, not a single anti-wind denied this. So if no one's denying this was done, is Urban Hirschey the legitimate supervisor?

It's like how the anti-wind brag they have a petition with signatures from 800 Cape residents asking for a wind moratorium. I'd like them to prove all 800 signatures are from Cape residents.

Urban wants the town to hire an accountant because he "doesn't have the time" to do the town's accounting. He doesn't have the time? Isn't Urban retired? Not only did the anti-wind run a negative campaign, they said Urban would be a good town supervisor because he ran a company and has an MBA from Dartmouth. Well, why is he wasting our tax dollars hiring an accountant? All our previous supervisors easily managed the town's accounting, and they were farmers and mechanics who worked more than 40 hours a week while they were supervisors.

Then Urban sent a letter on town letterhead to the attorney general without consulting our town's attorney and the rest of the town board. Instead of finding out the right way to do things, like most anti-wind he lives in his own little world and doesn't care what's going on outside that world.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Has Urban been in the town offices at least 20 hours every week like previous supervisors? No. The minority who voted for Urban should come to the town board meetings and watch him in action.

Harvey White

Cape Vincent