Pizzi is a member of the Edison Old Guard

I am astonished at the recent letter praising Councilman Sal Pizzi. For me, a concerned citizen, Pizzi represents what is wrong with Edison. He is cut from the old school mold where only the insiders know what is going on in town and where only the insiders decide what will go on. This concerned citizen is concerned about taxes, traffic and my general quality of life. Pizzi has done nothing to help me in any of these areas. Instead he slashed a budget which cut crucial investments in the township's future. Did he cut taxes? Not really, the final budget was a mere half cent less that what was proposed. I want a Councilperson to represent my needs and have the ability to represent the needs of the entire township.

Edison is clearly headed in a new direction and Pizzi has been vindictive toward anyone representing that direction. While those privileged ones on the inside praise him for slashing a budget, why did he set aside $37,000 for another taxpayer-paid lawyer when we already have a township attorney?

I really do question his ability when it comes to representing Edison. This is a man who, at a public meeting, said he was sorry a woman would not be in attendance to receive a resolution. He should have known Gail Fisher, a former Edison resident and the first African American Actress to win an Emmy award for acting, was dead - for seven years no less! At a public ceremony for Thomas Edison's birthday, he inexplicably stumbled, stammered and ruined a quote by President Kennedy. His brain waves could not get him to articulate "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

So while others, who want to curry favor with the old insiders, paint this heroic picture of Pizzi without giving substantive detail, I want the people to know who this man really is: a vindictive, old guard insider only interested in himself.

Diane King

Edison