Mayor Reed is campaigning like he is the savior of Harrisburg. Let me remind you that the Mayor;
1. Gave Barlow Construction Company a check for $125 Million to rebuild the incinerator with no controls on the money. To this day, no one knows what happened to the money and the incinerator repairs are still not done. It will be you who will have to pay this money back.
2. The Mayor took out a loan for $15 Million in secret and against the law. He gave the money to Barlow with no controls on the money. The money disappeared along with the $125 Million. After Barlow received this money, he filed for bankruptcy. Now you have to pay for all this money.
3. The incinerator is losing money and your trash rates had to be increased. You are now paying the highest trash rates in Pennsylvania. Instead of fixing the incinerator, he was busy taking care of his friends.
4. Mayor Reed gave one of his friends a job doing nothing for the City with an annual salary of $90,000. You are paying that salary. Instead of looking out for your money, he was looking out for his friend.
5. In a time of layoffs, home foreclosures, and salary decreases, Mayor Reed gave his friends working for the City a 12% to 18% raise. I bet you did not get a raise, let alone a big raise. Mayor Reed takes care of his friends. But not you!
6. Spent $30 Million on Artifacts, which was your money and tried to sell city assets to a friend.
7. This is why we have over one Billion Dollar City and School Debt. That is debt that you have to pay back along with paying for City services.
8. The Mayor took over the school system, spending a lot of your money. The school system is worse now than when he took it over. It is still 501th out of 501 school systems in the state.
9. Over the past 25 year, the Mayor took police and fire officers off the payroll but he had money to buy artifacts and give his friends raises.
10. We pay the highest property taxes in the tri-county area.
11. The Mayor has not upgraded the sewer system and it is starting to decay. That is why water backs up in the streets when it rains. But he can spend money on museums instead of on you.
12. But all these years, he kept these things from you so that you would think that he is the greatest Mayor in the world. He wants you to think of yesteryear instead of the future. That way, he can continue to use your money to take care of his friends.
If you feel like we do, please pass this around to your friends, neighbors and relatives. Help us retire Mayor Reed. This will help us all. If not, then live in the past and allow the residents of Harrisburg to pay high taxes and fees for public charity to the suburbanites and Reed's friends.
Sincerely,
The Committee to Retire Mayor Reed
