Well once again Christ Church has managed to infuriate the residents of Rockaway Twp with the help of their high-priced Public Relations firm. Mr. Weinstein’s quote of ..”this is not what we were going for.” Says it all. Once again Christ Church tried to sway public opinion and gain sympathy for their cause, by deliberately and inaccurately intimating that residents of RT had threatened their minister. I am an avid opponent of the Christ Church mega-complex, a supporter of VORT, and I am active on the internet message boards. Never have I seen or heard anything that could even remotely be construed as a threat to anyone’s safety associated with Christ Church. Mr. Ireland and his “church” are not wanted in RT by the majority of its residents. We do not want your mega-corporation congesting our roads, destroying our environment, and depleting our tax base. We do not want you for a neighbor. That has nothing to do with the color of your skin or the brand of your religion. It has all to do with the size of your business, and the total lack of character you embody. You have insulted our elected officials, called for our Mayor to step down for doing what he feels is best, called for our Environmental official to recuse himself for releasing public documents to the public, insulted our Fire Dept., called our residents Racists and anti-religious, sued our town in Federal Court for no reason, and had your friends at the Beckett Fund push the DOJ into launching a Federal Investigation of our town. Now you insult our Police Dept, by bringing in armed guards to a public meeting in the same building as our Police Dept. and making baseless claims of safety concerns as another PR stunt. No Christ Church, We don’t want you for a neighbor and it should be no mystery as to why.
I got an immediate phone call back from Fred Snowflack that he will publish the letter. C.
pretty well sums up what the overwhelming majority of Rockaway residents know - this mega-business cloaked in sheeps clothing is a terrible deal for us.
I expect that they will chop your comments up a bit Chuck, let's hope they do not butcher it too much!
ChuckM2005 wrote: Well once again Christ Church has managed to infuriate the residents of Rockaway Twp with the help of their high-priced Public Relations firm. Mr. Weinstein’s quote of ..”this is not what we were going for.” Says it all. Once again Christ Church tried to sway public opinion and gain sympathy for their cause, by deliberately and inaccurately intimating that residents of RT had threatened their minister. I am an avid opponent of the Christ Church mega-complex, a supporter of VORT, and I am active on the internet message boards. Never have I seen or heard anything that could even remotely be construed as a threat to anyone’s safety associated with Christ Church. Mr. Ireland and his “church” are not wanted in RT by the majority of its residents. We do not want your mega-corporation congesting our roads, destroying our environment, and depleting our tax base. We do not want you for a neighbor. That has nothing to do with the color of your skin or the brand of your religion. It has all to do with the size of your business, and the total lack of character you embody. You have insulted our elected officials, called for our Mayor to step down for doing what he feels is best, called for our Environmental official to recuse himself for releasing public documents to the public, insulted our Fire Dept., called our residents Racists and anti-religious, sued our town in Federal Court for no reason, and had your friends at the Beckett Fund push the DOJ into launching a Federal Investigation of our town. Now you insult our Police Dept, by bringing in armed guards to a public meeting in the same building as our Police Dept. and making baseless claims of safety concerns as another PR stunt. No Christ Church, We don’t want you for a neighbor and it should be no mystery as to why.
I got an immediate phone call back from Fred Snowflack that he will publish the letter. C.
