It has been reported that 70% of the residential property in Salisbury is now rental property. Terry Cohen and the residents at SINA (Salisbury Independent Neighborhood Alliance) want to protect single family neighborhoods. Admirable, right?
I guess not. Mrs. Cohen stood up at Wednesday's Salisbury Council meeting and repeated what she has been saying for years. SINA wants a civil discussion about preserving the character of their neighborhoods. They aren't against SU students nor are they against landlords ("we need good landlords"). Unfortunately, SAPOA (Salisbury Area Property Owners Association) brought a taste of Washington politics to the proceedings.
4-2 was continually portrayed as anti-student and racist. There were protesters in front of the City / County Office Building hawking SAPOA's perverted view of the truth, some of whom didn't even know what their signs said. Anti 4-2 speakers wrapped themselves inthe Flag.
SINA needs to keep up the fight. It's hard to keep going when you know you're going to get beat, but this Council (or their replacements) will eventually get the message. Hopefully they'll see the light before Salisbury is 99.9% rental property with 2 drug dens per neighborhood and a hooker on every block.
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The political advisor must have missed the court document that will likely surface now after the P.O.W.N. comment attributed to TJ Maloney and Donnie WIlliams in the DT today. Seems Williams, outraged by having the home next to him rented to an African-American family launched a nasty racially-motivated verbal assault that would leave any reasonable person's ears ringing. That's the flag that SAPOA is wrapping itself in. ANyone who knows Salisbury's neighborhoods knows that they are diverse and that diversity is embraced, except when it is next door to savior of the downtrodden and minority population - DOnnie Williams.
what happen to the transparency of government or the right of citzens to express views other than the puppets of power/wealth in Salis/Wic. governments etc.??? this is still AMERICA is't it ?
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