Willistown Pols Trade Op-Eds Over Pension Fund
Supervisor Norman MacQueen responded to resident Chris Smith's letter in a local newspaper.
A pointed coversation about the health of the Willistown Township pension fund played out in the opinion pages of Main Line Suburban Life newspaper recently. On Friday, Jan. 18, the paper published a column by Willistown resident Chris Smith, titled Willistown’s Pension-Fund Shortfall Must Be Addressed. On Monday, the paper printed a response from township supervisor Norman MacQueen. Smith, who ran unsuccessfully for township supervisor in 2011 against the incumbent MacQueen, likened the township's financial situation to the course of the Titanic—calm seas of low taxes before the iceberg of a projected $2.6 million shortfall in the pension fund. On Monday, the paper printed a response from MacQueen, who started by positing that Smith's …
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Chris Smith
5:43 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
As has been made clear to me, the most talented, skilled and qualified people are not necessarily welcomed to participate in Willistown government. It's who you know and what your idealogy is that's most important. That's a recipe for poor government and corruption. Is MacQueen committed to good government or are his political aspirations driven by more personal or idealogical motives? I don't … more ›