After a troubling anti-semitic video was posted to Facebook by the Rockland County GOP, many spoke out against it, including NYS Attorney general Letitia James.
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Now one day later, Rockland County Executive Ed Day settled on his course of action. Speak out against the tone of the video, while still defending the message.
Read his statement below:
“The video posted by the Rockland County Republican Party to their Facebook page has set a troubling tone for a necessary conversation about overdevelopment in our county. While the content of the video is factual, the tone and undercurrent is unacceptable. Having listened closely to the concerns raised by residents and community leaders, I have contacted GOP Chairman Lawrence Garvey to request its removal and he assured me that he will.
As I have demonstrated, I have a great deal of respect for our Jewish neighbors and want them to know that as their County Executive I will always stand up against hatred. That said, the concerns raised about overdevelopment are accurate, well-grounded and desperately need to be addressed, but this must be done in a way free of rhetoric and rancor.”
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Mr. Hate inciter doubles down on the video the he most probably knew before hand the contents of it but decided to let it run and stir the pot then do a little back track and still get his message of hate thru the county
Over development is definitely a problem. Have you seen Spring Valley and those ugly houses on Main Street. Have you seen the houses that were built in Monsey with very little parking in ratio to the ten apartments in those houses? I lived in Monsey 50 years ago and the town was beautiful; no parking on the roads or ugly huge monstrosities. My husband learned in BME and the town was clean and beautiful. Now look at it.
every single town is changing and it can be of any reason sometimes people move out and the town gets empty and some time it has a very growing community I think the old monsey people sold there houses to the developers and now they are angry.I think the chasidik people are very happy with there development they come to monsey from all over (the same is in Lakewood ) and the same is in alot of non jewish places
we can vote against it but not with such a hatred