A reader recently wrote a letter highly critical of North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena to this publication, ending with the maxim “…resign now, or be fired next November.”

While I will not go point for counterpoint with this previous submission and seek to refute its contents, what I will do is argue that this disrespectful and sardonically written submission could not have been more off-target if it tried.

Supervisor DeSena has spent the past 10 months fighting a Democrat Town Board majority that has obstructed and stonewalled each and every one of her proposals, no matter how beneficial they would be to the residents of our Town.

Just take a look at some of her biggest proposals over the last year, and the Democrat majority’s response to them.

DeSena proposed to install an independent and autonomous Ethics Board after finding out the members were serving on year’s expired terms and hadn’t met in nearly a year, prior to her arrival?

Apparently, the Democrat majority doesn’t value a functioning Ethics Board and they’ve blocked the Supervisor’s nominees for 8 months in a row.

Clean up the Town’s Building Department and change its operations to get the influence of Councilmembers out of it?

The Democrat majority stood in the way of that as well and fought tooth and nail to block it for several months until pressure from the public mounted once the undue influence of Councilmembers became well documented.

Most recently, Supervisor DeSena proposed to amend her tentative budget with an 11% tax cut, paid for by using some of the Town’s reserves she found had been vastly overfunded as a result of repeated tax hikes by the Town Board in the decade prior.

How did Democrats respond? By misdirecting, deflecting, and ultimately blocking her double-digit proposed tax cut not once, but twice, at recent budget hearings. And then, to add insult to injury, Councilmembers Robert Troiano, Peter Zuckerman, Veronica Lurvey, and Mariann Dalimonte went on to mock the financial impact an 11% tax cut would have on taxpayers’ wallets, flippantly equating the savings to “not even enough to buy two pizzas.”

While it may be true that the savings of a double-digit tax cut would not be earth-shattering, by blocking and mocking Supervisor DeSena’s proposal, the Democrat majority have chosen not to lead and instead look only to obstruct, looking to deny DeSena any perceived ‘win.’

DeSena clearly understands that leadership is about the action we choose to take, and by leading the way with a tax cut instead of hiking taxes as the Democrat-controlled Town Board has done every year for the last decade, DeSena has shown yet again that she will continue to fight for the best interest of the taxpayers, even knowing the Democrat majority will block her every step of the way.

This is the leadership we need in this town, and I urge DeSena to keep fighting; the residents of this town have seen what the Democrats are doing to you, and come next November, we will rally behind you.

Jeffrey Stone

Manhasset