Raised your town general fund tax by 13.82% this year?
Increased your town general fund tax by 9.39%, your town highway tax by 17.99%, and your lighting district tax by 9.99% one week after the November 2007 election, bringing total tax increases to over 35% during over the last four years?
Overcharged for garbage collection for 8 years in a row and accumulated as much as $41 million of taxpayer money in a slush fund?
To this point, voted in favor of $40 million in new debt in 2010 and 2011 to take property away from rightful landowners (eminent domain) and sewer downtown Wyandanch at your expense?
As reported in Newsday, are in favor of spending $500 million (that is half of $1 billion) on the Wyandanch Rising project?

The current administration wants to keep you in the dark. Standard “Freedom of Information” requests are ignored. Town Board meetings are not broadcasted on television or the internet. It was only after Matt Groh exposed the town’s abuses and demanded a refund that garbage taxes were reduced. Moreover, to now claim that taxes were “cut” this year is deceptive. Same old Babylon! Since when is paying back money wrongfully taken from you a “tax cut.” It is not a “tax cut.” It is a “refund!”

Bellone claims in TV spots and multiple campaign mailings that he gave Babylon residents the “largest tax cut for any town on Long Island.” Newsday failed to report in its September 4, 2011 article that such a claim is completely false! First, merely making adjustments to phony projections in one (1) out of four (4) budgets is not a tax cut. Moreover, in East Hampton Town, taxpayers enjoyed a legitimate 17% tax cut this year, which is 12% higher than Bellone’s “claimed” reduction. How did East Hampton Town do it? Its new Supervisor, William Wilkinson, implemented “zero based budgeting” (budgets based on real numbers, not fantasy projections). That system of budgeting resulted in the legitimate 17% tax cut this year! Please see page 9 of the Town of East Hampton 2011 Approved Budget.

As expected, “Bellone Team”members Jacqueline Gordon and Tom Donnelly have joined in the deception!

In a full page ad on page 14C of the September 1, 2011 Beacon Shopper, Gordon is quoted as saying, “I am proud to have joined with Steve Bellone to give a tax cut to Babylon families in these tough economic times.” Oh really? Has anyone seen the video footage of the July 12, 2011 town board meeting wherein Gordon admits to having increased town taxes by more than 35% during her first five (5) years on the board? If not, please click on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1_FcSClKAM&feature=youtu.be.

The Babylon Town Democrat Committee has pledged to “bury” William “Matt” Groh with all of the contributions they have received as a result of more than two (2) decades of town contracts and patronage jobs. With all that money, why do they insist on clinging to the obviously false claim that they “cut” taxes?

In addition to the video footage, the campaign website, http://www.gowithgroh.com, traces the truth about taxes in Babylon, the genesis of the lie, the present fraud, and the 2007 election year fraud. In particular, please pay close attention to the 2007, 2008, and 2009 audit reports by NYS Comptroller Dinapoli.

Bellone doesn’t respect the taxpayers. He ignores them and does as he damn well pleases.