\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDuring Wednesday night\u2019s budget discussion, Hoffman, her fellow supervisors, and the township manager barely blinked at accelerating increases in personnel costs over two years – more than 30% in Police, 70% in planning, and on and on. Yet last year, Kennett had to delay replacing a $30K garage door because of \u201cbudget tightening\u201d! If she is re-elected, Hoffman will continue this pattern of reckless spending, until there is nothing left to spend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI have also learned that you dare not question these budget proposals. At Wednesday night\u2019s meeting, when I expressed my concerns that Kennett was not setting aside funds for those expenses, Kennett\u2019s budget director immediately reprimanded me. She could barely conceal her anger, accusing me<\/span> of being insensitive (in this case, to the efforts of township employees to close the gaps). While a fellow resident stormed out of Wednesday night\u2019s meeting in disgust, Hoffman had nothing to say. If she is reelected, Hoffman will continue to turn a blind eye to employees whose behavior anywhere else would be cause for serious concern, if not immediate dismissal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFinally, I also have to put principle before party, because of Hoffman\u2019s brazen efforts to rewrite the facts about Lisa Moore\u2019s theft. This past weekend, Hoffman launched a remarkable rebranding campaign, targeting Democrats with mailers and posts, less than two weeks after humbly standing before Township residents to announce Lisa Moore\u2019s guilty plea. In this campaign, Hoffman credits herself with \u2018uncovering long-standing fraud dating back to 2011\u2019, even though the fraud was in fact discovered by the Township\u2019s bank, which then notified the supervisors. Hoffman takes still more credit because she \u201cfought to bring the former township manager to trial\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>Hoffman does not apparently feel that she had any duty to rectify a massive fraud made possible by her negligent supervision.\u00a0 <\/span>Many Township residents are, like me, still furious about the theft, and so I felt compelled to publicly challenge Hoffman\u2019s brazen claims at Wednesday night\u2019s meeting.\u00a0 <\/span>Again, Hoffman had nothing to say.<\/p>\nI am very glad to have had the opportunity to meet with Geoffrey Gamble several weeks ago, and we have spoken several times since then. I did not come away from our conversations believing that we will agree on everything. But I did come away convinced of his honesty, his willingness to listen to us, and his commitment to keeping budgets \u2013 and employees – under control. I believe that he will work hard to maintain our critical infrastructure and preserve our beautiful open spaces. I believe that Geoffrey Gamble \u2013 not Whitney Hoffman \u2013can get the job done. That matters to me more than loyalty to any party. And that is why, this election, I am voting for a Republican.<\/p>\n
Peter Doehring<\/b><\/p>\n
Kennett<\/strong><\/p>\nFormer Democratic Primary Candidate for Kennett Township Supervisor<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TowTo The Editor, For generations, every member of my family, on both sides, has voted for Democrats.\u00a0 I have been left with no choice but to break with that tradition in this year\u2019s election and vote for the Republican running for Kennett Township Supervisor, Geoffrey Gamble. My entire immediate family, and an increasing number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3063,12979,369,4257,575],"class_list":["post-35470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-budget","tag-election-2021","tag-kennett-township","tag-letters-2","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35471,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35470\/revisions\/35471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>For generations, every member of my family, on both sides, has voted for Democrats.\u00a0 <\/span>I have been left with no choice but to break with that tradition in this year\u2019s election and vote for the Republican running for Kennett Township Supervisor, Geoffrey Gamble. My entire immediate family, and an increasing number of other loyal Kennett Democrats, are doing the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n