… seat so they have the benefit of running as an incumbent and the benefit of all the taxpayer funded mail that historically has gone out from the town of Hempstead. The budget for mail when I walked in the door, which of course was a budget set in anticipation of somebody else being the supervisor, was $2.9 million of taxpayer money just to send out mail. saying, hey, turn down your leaf blower at this hour. You know, just a lot of nonsense mail that the taxpayers were paying for. (11:41–11:52)
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Asserts that the mail budget was $2.9 million of taxpayer money.
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