Tim Heyman – 12/23/09

This page was last updated on December 23, 2009.

Voters bring office down to their level; Tim Heyman; Beaver County Times; December 23, 2009.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I just moved from the Beaver Falls area this past June, and it saddens me to read that the Granada theatre is going and Carnegie Free Library is in such financial state that its time may be limited also.”

[RWC] Mr. Heyman failed to note the Granada Theater hadn’t been used as a theater since 1960. According to a Times article (“Beaver Falls demolition a precursor to development”; December 23, 2009), “The Granada Theater sat idle for years before it was converted to a minimall in the early 1970s. It subsequently was used as a professional building and last served as the location for Krooner’s Lounge, which closed in May.”

“I ask where those in charge are. You have a state representative with his office right across from the Granada, and the mayor a few blocks down. Are they both too stupid to know how to fix matters or just too lazy and don’t care?”

[RWC] Ah, name-calling. A sure sign a person has a strong argument. <g>

“The state representative who booted out Mike Veon saved the state money on the fact that he drives to Harrisburg, instead of flying, but the county has lost, what, millions of dollars in funding that he can’t bring back home.”

[RWC] Jim Marshall didn’t “boot out Mike Veon.” Mr. Veon and voters did that.

“So how is Beaver Falls ahead? I guess voters got what represents them, boatloads of laziness and stupidity and representation that they brought down to their level.”

[RWC] More name-calling. It’s too bad that in between the name-calling Mr. Heyman didn’t tell us why commonwealth taxpayers should pay for a local responsibility (the library) or to do something with a piece of private property (the theater that hadn’t been a theater for nearly 50 years).