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| CORRUPT CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE LISA A. COPELAND |
For decades Elected Officials and Appointed Officers of the
City of Mount Vernon have been fleecing the residents and taxpayers of the
city. The latest example comes from, not an elected official or appointed
officer, but a former Mt Vernon City Clerk and current Democratic City Council
Nominee, Ms. Lisa A. Copeland.
A resident of Mt. Vernon, who is a home-owner, tax payer and
lifelong resident, saw the City Council candidate getting out of her car and putting
an official City of Mount Vernon
Restricted Use Parking Permit in her window to avoid having to pay the
parking meter, as she went into a local Mt. Vernon business.
After further investigation, Mount Vernon Exposed has
discovered that Lisa Copeland has been illegally using this parking pass for
quite some time now. How much has she cheated the citizens and taxpayers of Mt
Vernon by blatantly avoiding to pay her fair share of parking fees?
On the parking permit it says they are intended for vehicles
in use for Official Business for the
City of Mount Vernon. Copeland is currently not employed by the City of
Mount Vernon and while she was the highest vote-getter in the 2015 Democratic
Primary, she has yet to win the office of City Council with the General
Election, still some 25 days away.
Elected Officials and Appointed Officers have been taking
advantage of the system for decades, now we have City Council Candidates taking
the same liberties, while hard working business owners, taxpayers and residents
are receiving tickets when the money runs out in their meters.
Copeland, who is part of everything we complain about, as
far as what wrong with City Hall going back to her days as City Clerk and is a
longtime Democratic Party and Davis Administration loyalist. If she feels she
can rob taxpayers while running for office, residents really need to think hard,
come Election Day, and ask is this the kind of continued corruption we want in
City Hall.
Members of the Fleetwood Citizens Society told online news
magazine Black Westchester, they believe she is a puppet for Davis, after the City
Council Candidate Forum, held Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at The Riverside
Memorial Chapel, located at 21 Broad Street. The residents expressed their
dissatisfaction with Davis by voting him out in the primary. All down with his
corrupt administration need to go and in this case need to not be voted in.
With such an important election coming up in just over three
weeks, we need to really be sure of the qualities of the person(s) we help put
in officer with our votes. It’s time for change and Copeland is part of the
corrupt culture we are trying to get out of City Hall.
At the very least at the next City Council Meeting,
Wednesday, October 14, we need to ask the ‘why are Copeland and
several others who are not City Hall employees granted these Parking Permits,
that are to be used for official City Business, so they can get out of paying
for parking while the rest of us, who are not friends or family members of City
Hall have to pay?’ While the rest of us are receiving tickets for everything
from the time on the meter running out to alternate side of the street parking
in the winter when there are mounds of snow, the city is unable or unwilling to
remove and there is no place to park?
We know the city is in desperate need of money but it
shouldn’t come at the hands of the hard working residents who are already
heavily taxed, who no services to show for it and the Copelands continue to get
favors like parking permits to avoid paying parking fees.
Copeland, because of her long history with the Mafia-styled
run Davis Administration and Reggie Lafayette run MVDCC, believes the rules do
not apply to her. It’s time to send a message to City Hall and say stop
fleecing the residents of Mt Vernon, by not voting for Lisa Copeland on
November 3rd.
