Is Mary Foster our friend?

I recently received a 'Friends of Mary Foster' letter. I'm sending it back no donations, no explanations. I'm just done with Mary Foster.

highlights from her letter:

"I stood up against overdeveloping the riverfront and the downtown."
This she did. To our detriment she studied it to the ground and asked for density limits and set asides for low income housing that make no financial sense for a developer. While I don't lose sleep over whether Martin Ginsberg makes money or not, I understand that money has to be made and that makes the wheels turn. Ginsberg will lower the density but he won't sit by while Mary Foster bloviates about developing the riverfront responsibly. She's simply asking for too much.

"I have sought to bring business to town."
Target vs. DHL? Perhaps Mary Foster doesn't realize that alot of our tax dollars leave Peekskill and go straight to the Courtlandt Town Center (that's the mall where Walmart is). I would have loved to have Target here and I would've gladly spent my money there. They may still come but they won't sit around listening to Mary Foster as she tries to convince us that light industrial is better for Peekskill than Target. We know better Mary and you're asking too much.

"Let's bring the downtown to the next level" or the Sandra Dolman Plan.
While not in the "Friends of Mary Foster" letter it has to be discussed because Mary won't bring it up herself. While in the guise of studying the artist district Mary will try to change the artist district opening it up to market rate prices. Sandra Dolman suggested this in a meeting years ago (except that she overtly said the artist distric should be opened it up to section 8). It didn't sound like a good idea then or now that Mary stole it.

Redistricting the downtown without bringing up the waterfront and Central Avenue is irresponsible. We need something that will attract middle and upper income wage earners to Peekskill and a revitalized riverfront would do that. It would attract these people to the riverfront and the downtown.

Redistricting the downtown before that would be an open invitation to slumlords and predatory landlords that have turned our beautiful housing stock into boarding houses and placed people into inhumane living conditions for profits.

Mary tries and tries to convince us that Peekskill needs diversity in housing but we have plenty. We have housing for everyone in Peekskill. Housing for poor people, rich people, middle income people, for people who want to pave over their backyards and make volleyball stadiums and betting parlors, for people that want to sell liquor from their basements, for people who want to live in extended families that have a very casual relationship to each other, ie. families composed of eight brothers of approximately the same age.

We don't need to study the downtown to see that allowing non-artists to live there is a bad idea. Its the only place where code enforcement problems don't seem to exist to magnitude that it exist in our residential nieghborhoods in Peekskill. We should study how it brings diversity to Peekskill and how we could attract more artist to Peekskill. The Artist District is one of the few things that is still good in Peekskill - Let's keep it that way Mary don't ask for too much.

Once I would've never voted Republican but now I will. Thanks to my friend Mary Foster.

You are respectfully asking for my vote...?

Mary you're asking for too much.