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CARLUCCI REMOVES HIS BLOG....

Senator Carlucci published a Blog entitled "Fight the Rate Hike". His position was strongly challenged by several informed PATCH readers whereupon the Senator, rather than answer his critics and try win them over to his side, pressed the Easy Button.

WHY SENATOR CARLUCCI? WHY DID YOU REMOVE YOUR BLOG INSTEAD OF DEFENDING YOUR POSITION? 



I see Senator David Carlucci removed his 5/25/14  error ridden, half truth Blog about United Water in the NEW CITY PATCH after he was challenged in the COMMENT Section by a few well informed PATCH Readers. 

If he is sure of his position he should welcome a challenge. Senator Carlucci, why did you remove your BLOG?  Are you afraid of a challenge?



I made copy of his BLOG assuming Carlucci would remove it. 
Decide for yourself...


CARLUCCI'S BLOG

For Immediate Release: May 25 2014Contact: Michael Grubiak 914-391-8850


Senator Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) said, "Even though the State has announced Rockland county's demand for water has decreased, United Water New York continues to pursue $60 million dollars through a surcharge to build a desalination plant Rockland County does not need."


Senator Carlucci continued, "Instead of working on conservation efforts to help continue to lower the demand for water in our county, United Water New York is willing to spend millions of our hard earned money on a bone-head plan to make Hudson river water drinkable. And why? The profit hungry corporation sees rivers of money for its executives."


COMMENTS:

Charles Clewsow May 26, 2014 at 09:36 AMThe PSC proclaimed both in 2006 an again 5 years later that Rockland needed an additional water source and supply. UW built the pilot plant based on this mandate. Failure to follow the mandate would have been tantamount to closing down UW. The pilot plant was successful filtering 40 Million gallons of clean water, monitored and approved by the DEC. UW followed all directives and now Carlucci and the Crazies and their hired guns surface, talking like a bunch of Marxists wanting to shut down UW because it is a Monopoly? Fact is, if UW failed to build the pilot plant, these same Crazies would surface, calling for their demise because the Crazies do not give a hoot about your water, they WANT TO CLOSE UW AND RUN UW AS A WATER DISTRICT....A GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY. Don't be fooled.

 Charles Clewsow May 26, 2014 at 09:43 AM
This is the same Carlucci and his buddy St Lawrence who are railing against United Water rate increases but in fact really want to take over the water company to use as their personal piggy bank. Take away PSC protection and they will RAISE RATES willy nilly. This is a good possibility if misguided, lying politicians continue their attacks on United Water for what appear reasons other than the need for Desal. Carlucci is either LYING or is disingenuously UNFORMED! Either way, he is the real BONEHEAD! I am ashamed to call him my Senator.

 Remember it was the PSC who DEMANDED that UW obtain a secondary source of water originally at the behest of Rockland Politicians. Now Carlucci wants to attack not only the water company but viciously attack its Management, some of whom were considering to move their entire water operations from NJ to Pearl River. After all these attacks on Management by this group, who are beginning to sound like a group of Marxists, do you think they will now move to Pearl River? Would you want your annual performance review done by a group of greedy disingenuous, lying politicians?

We now pay less than one cent a gallon for water. How much does Carlucci want to pay for water, the only utility that provides a product that sustains life. It is by far our cheapest utility. Rockland is behind the curve on this since 97% of the worlds water is salt or brackish and uninformed Marxist like politicians! who know ZERO about water supply want us to stay with the 3%! Unbelievable, but par for the course for Carlucci.

Watchdog May 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM
What is wrong with this guy Carlucci? He works for NYS doesn't he? So why does he not know about the previous PSC Mandate for United Water to provide a secondary source of water? Does he not know that the NYS DEC monitored the pilot plant and passed on the purity of the water it produced? Perhaps it is just a little simplier than that? Maybe he just wants to deceive you? Lying has become fashionable since Carluccis boy Obama got elected. Now they all want to do it. Carlucci is hanging with some group. Obama and St Lawrence are just two of them. Half truths are really just lies in disguise. 

Paul Williams May 26, 2014 at 12:23 PM

"Profit hungry corporations" ????...Keep it up Carlucci....Are these the same PROFIT HUNGRY CORPORATIONS that we need to attract to move into all that property Orangetown owns when they bought the Rockland Psyche Center? Where are your priorities, Carlucci? You sound like Fidel Castro. Who will move here just to be attacked with these types of outrageous leftist Obama like comments? Will Andy Stewart still water his huge number of soccer fields, baseball fields and golf courses while telling you to take fewer showers and " soap up with your water off"? Does Carlucci support wildflowers in your front yard instead of a green lawn? Will Stewart and Carlucci call for the shut down of these Town Facilities who use too much water for the COMMON GOOD? Will Carlucci still carry a supply of $5.00 a gallon bottled water in his office while telling you that your one penny a gallon water from United Water is too expensive? The other question is ....will these international companies invest here without an adequate water supply and when they do their research who will they believe? The PSC who, before water became a political football, said several years ago in 2006 and 2010 that we need an additional source of water that a DESAL plant would provide OR the Rockland Water Coalition led by Carlucci supported St. Lawrence whose office was raided by the FBI and an attorney who was in jail twice for not filing his taxes? I know who I would believe...how about you? Would you bring your company to Rockland if you had the same questions the PSC had about an adequate water supply and a County Legislature bent on even further RESTRICTING the use of water? Tech companies need a lot of water to cool their equipment. Bloomberg who only has a few employees uses 125,000 gallons of water a day? Do you think other tech companies will come here and wait to be attacked as a PROFIT HUNGRY CORPORATION who refuses to conserve? 

Watchdog May 26, 2014 at 01:04 pm
These outrageous and misleading comments by Carlucci lack any substance, drawing erroneous conclusions, purposely to fool the average taxpayer. Carlucci is a career politician and clearly not the expert I would rely upon for safe water. What I am outraged about is why he would tell half the story and try to deceive you.? Does he think you are stupid? Following a Mandate for a Secondary Supply of Water, United Water could not ignore, United Water built a DSC approved pilot plant that starts with standard treatment and filtering technologies found in water plants all over the world. This facility has used reverse osmosis (same process used for The bottled water Carlucci drinks) to purify 40 million gallons of water. Independent certified labs have analyzed 10,000 water samples reviewed by the Dept. of Health and results were excellent. Is this process what Carlucci calls "Boneheaded"? ,I don't know about Carlucci but I rely on these Agencies, not career politicians to get my details on my water supply http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/58678.html 

Carlucci said"United Water New York continues to pursue $60 million dollars through a surcharge to build a desalination plant Rockland County does not need."
This is just a pure lie. The $60 Million is not to build a Desal Plant...it is to recoup the funds spent on a Pilot Plant built in response to the PSC mandate for a secondary source of water. Carlucci and St Lawrence blocked the plant so now United Water expended the money without having a secondary source of water for our children and grandchildren. Carlucci and St Lawrence flushed your hard earned money right down his toilet.
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