• Legislator Toback Takes Hypocrisy to New Heights •
There was a recent Newsday article about Legislator Jeff Toback leading the charge in a protest about the stink of grass clippings from the Town of Hempstead waste transfer station in Oceanside.
Toback was there with a handful of residents to complain about the foul odors that prevents them from enjoying time in their backyards and forces them to have to keep the windows closed on warm days.
Isn’t this the same guy who’s been arguing with Bay Park residents for over 18 months that the odors from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant are not that bad?
Isn’t this the same guy who said the Bay Park plant only received 6 calls for odor complaints in an entire year and adamantly defended the plant’s odor control until he realized he was looking at the complaint records from a different sewer plant?
Isn’t this the same guy who said to residents at a legislative meeting, “Gee, if the odors coming from the plant are as bad as all you people in the community say they are then we should really do something about it.”
Isn't this the same guy who mailed out magnets to some Bay Park residents and said if the plant stinks call them to complain?
Isn’t this the same guy who recently voted “YES” to consolidate the sewage Cedarhurst and Lawrence into Bay Park, which will inevitably increase the plant’s fetid stench in our community?
How can this hypocrite have the stones to stand there with constituents of one community and lead the charge in saying it’s unfair to residents to have their quality of life affected by the nasty smells from grass clippings at the Town of Hempstead facility, while completely ignoring the heartfelt pleas of other constituents who wallow day after day in the disgusting, fetid stench emanating from the COUNTY sewer plant located in our backyard?
