Woodbury Gazette; Local Paper or Caruso Mouthpiece?

We've heard from Swiller the Pieman that he asked Ben Meyers, editor, publisher and reporter for the Woodbury Gazette, why he printed an article by Caruso's Ankle Biter attacking Tim Arone in the final issue before the primary without giving Arone the opportunity to respond.

 Ben had two interesting, if utter bullshit, things to say.

One, he said it's not an article, it's a letter 

Two, he said it didn't attack Arone.

This is what Meyers normally calls a letter.

It's on a page labeled "Opinion" and, like all letters, it's signed at the bottom.

This is what he calls an article.

It's on the "Community" page and the writer has a byline at the top.

So what's this?

As to whether this so called "letter" did or didn't attack Arone.

It totally misrepresents Arone's vote to move the Highway Department to the village, ignoring that this was made necessary by the creation of the Village, which Caruso and Siebold scared us into doing with false claims that it would prevent annexation.

It also claims that Arone voted against putting "a policy and procedures in place that would have restricted town department heads from spending unlimited amounts of your taxpayer money."

Actually what he voted against was Caruso's attempt to take power from the full Town Board to oversee expenditures and to give that power to himself alone.

It was one of many votes by the majority of the board to prevent Caruso from giving himself total power over the town.

This is the real reason Caruso wants to replace Arone with a puppet who will do whatever Boss Ralph says (as Prestia does already).

Bear in mind, Ben Meyers was Caruso's running mate when they tried to take over the first Village Board.

The Gazette may be many things: useful, free, occasionally informative.  

Honest it ain't.

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