"Strong" Arm Tactics

It was interesting to read the letter to the editor from Ken Strong in the Leader Herald and the Advocate taking the Camerario sisters to task for defending their father, Jim Camerario, who is one of the members of the Housing Authority that Mayor Hanlon is trying to remove. A real class act was Mr. Strong's posting, referring to the Camerario letter as a "phony tear jerker."

Let's take a look at what's phony. Mr. Strong's diatribe attacking these women for defending their father and trying to minimize their pride in what he means to them in their lives, while at the same time failing to reveal the real purpose of his own letter, is what is phony. Mr. Strong failed to mention in his letter -- and the two newspapers who printed it failed to add the caveat -- that Mr. Strong is looking to take what he considers to be his rightful place on the Housing Authority after Mayor Hanlon appointed him to a Board that had no vacancies to fill. Mr. Hanlon's right to remove certain members of the Housing Authority, and replace them with Mr. Strong and another political supporter, is currently under review as we wait for Mr. Hanlon to make public a Supreme Court ruling that claims he can remove these members without cause, while State law clearly states that he cannot.

Mr. Strong's letter was childish and petty, attacking two women whose only wish was to defend their father and point out that Mr. Hanlon's claim that he "doesn't know" Mr. Camerario is a flat out falsehood. Mr. Strong showed himself, in this letter, to be disingenuous and small-minded. Let's hope he's not representative of others that Mr. Hanlon may be choosing to serve the city.