Mayor Kleinberg's claims fall short of reality in Marlboro
Ifind Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg's ad, Kleinberg's Corner, to be aptly named since that is where he finds himself. Backed into the corner trying to hide behind the transparent claims of corruption fighting and stopping development. Neither has he done.

If you listen to him you'll believe he alone was responsible for the pretty sunset last night. Of course in time you'd realize he wasn't, and in time you'll realize he didn't fight corruption or stop development. But you might find out the hard way ... when the bill comes due and you have to describe how a farm looks to your kids.

Somehow the $5.5 million in bonding discussed during budget hearings blossomed into $6 million in actual bonding, new math, go figure. That seems like a pretty steep price to pay for an election year gimmick of a 1-cent increase.

As far as the development, even as the housing market grinds to a halt elsewhere, in Marlboro the approvals go on, and as in the past, a grateful developer and his wife just threw quite a bit of cash in the direction of Kleinberg and company's re-election campaigns just weeks after winning approval for a subdivision.

I wonder how the average resident feels about the mayor's assault on the health care of the municipal workers' children, while at the same time structuring his business administrator's compensation so as to maximize her future pension?

It is time to replace the delusions of the past three-and-three-quarter years with solutions for the future.

Paul Schlaflin

Marlboro