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Letter: Hunstad is fiscal conservative

October 15, 2010

Dear Editor,

It amazes me that a current commissioner would schedule a public forum in a location that sells alcohol. There are several citizens in our community who do not feel comfortable around alcohol. I realize that Danville is basking in the revenues the sale of alcohol has brought to our community, but the sale of alcohol was not voted on unanimously by the voters of our community.

Have you been to a convenience store lately? Many of them don’t even fill their shelves, but they have beer trucks in front of them several times a week. Don’t you love the ambiance a beer truck gives to the most beautiful city in Kentucky? The good news is that we are going to double the locations that sell beer and alcohol!?

Don’t you love the traffic problems created by the new city hall that is still not finished? At a cost of $7 million to $8 million, you would have thought these problems would have been resolved. We could have used the two existing buildings for our fine police force and our city officials for $3 million to $4 million and they still could have been efficient and met the standards for eye appeal we expect on Main Street.

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Our four sitting commissioners voted for the new city hall. For that we get a beautiful building, higher taxes, traffic problems and slashed budgets in the other departments that had their budgets cut by our commissioners. Spend what you don’t have, raise taxes, rob Peter to pay Paul, and pass on debt to our children — sound familiar?

Bernie Hunstad grew up in Danville and he is a fiscal conservative. Hunstad for mayor.

Randy Scholtz
Danville

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