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St. Lawrence Victory Speech at Crown Millwork
12 Melnick Drive in Monsey
Ed Friedman accompanied him
Election Night after Midnight--12:14 AM
This video had been posted on the yiddishnayes.com
website, but it was taken down Tuesday, November 20.
There are dozens of
other posts going all the way back to June 30 remaining on the site, but
this one has disappeared.
(Sample from the clip can be seen
here.)

Christopher St. Lawrence addresses his base on Melnick Drive:
A I'm
taking the message of the rabbis.
How much and how important it was for us to protect our community.
[louder and with
a forceful, stabbing hand gesture] This
is OUR COMMUNITY. [sustained cheering]
This community doesn't
belong to someone else.
This community isn't going anywhere, this community is growing somewhere, and it's RIGHT HERE.
[cheering followed by chanting]
I am honored to be the supervisor of this great town.
And when I became the supervisor seven years ago, I said I was born and
raised in this town. But whether you lived in this town your whole life
as I did, or whether you moved into this town today, we
all have the
same rights and the same needs. And I tell you this
historic vote of 15,000 votes is because of this community [cheering]
and because of your hard work we had this victory. But there's going to
be something even more historic than the 15,000 votes
coming up in 2008.
We are going to deliver affordable housing for this community.
[cheering] The mandate has been laid down and
the vote has spoken and we
now know that this community has needs and we are going to address those
needs. And we're going to
start with affordable housing. And we're going
to start not having a Wal-Mart. And we're going to start with more
sidewalks,
better schools, better traffic. . "
[transcription ends here]
[Editor's note: St. Lawrence's empty
promises about affordable housing are most evident in the developers and
projects he and
his board have most vigorously backed. The Grandview
Avenue Adult Student Housing project, the Butterman complex on Route
306, and Bates Horton--all of these
urban apartment and housing complexes offer units that hover around
$500,000 apiece. The
builders are making a fortune as the assault on the
infrastructure continues unchecked. It has even gotten to the point
where new
housing on side streets, such as Decatur Ave. off Maple in
Monsey, is creating the following kinds of "affordable"
housing.
One point five million plus for a three-story complex on a
single lot, on a side street that always had single-family homes on
small lots--not exactly middle and low-income housing. This is the St.
Lawrence record as it exists on the ground.]

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