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Diederich Says He Did Not Spread Hate & Misinformation During His Run For Stony Point Town Supervisor
I ran for Stony Point Town Supervisor in 2021 on a platform that included: a) maintaining townspeople’s ownership of the Patriot Hills Golf Course, b) safeguarding the Boy Scouts’ Camp Bulowa, c) protecting the town against excessive residential development, d) protecting the town and county from religious extremism and e) ensuring open and competitive governmental procedures by the Town Board.
As a result of my campaign for Supervisor, both the Golf Course and boy scout camp were preserved for the town. We were told by the Town Board that the town’s golf course needed to be rescued by the private developer who was offering pennies on the dollar to buy it. Well, my supporters and I saved the golf course for the town. Today, it is doing great financially. The public, not a private developer, is the beneficiary.
Contrary to the quote from the Supervisor in the RCBJ article “Panelists Lay Out Brownfield…”, we did not spread “hate and misinformation.”
Rather, it was the Town Board that employed financial scare tactics. It was the Town Board that was negligent in not protecting the town against the possibility that the purchase might be “flipped.” Had the Town Board demanded safeguards (e.g., a signed “right of first refusal”), the developer would today be the owner of the Patriot Hills Golf Course. Fortunately, the Town Board’s neglect resulted in the voters saying “no” to the sale, with the townspeople, not a private developer, today owning a very profitable golf course.
Mike Diederich, Jr., Stony Point
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