Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 A.M. EDT, September 1, 2006
Anthony (Tony) BLAK Joins the race for councillor in Ward 3
Windsor, ON, September 1, 2006: Tony Blak returns to the municipal election scene. Coming in 3rd in 2003 with respectable 4,018 votes, he takes on decade serving councillors Fulvio Valentinis and Alan Halberstadt.
With much debate in 2003 not one international truck has been removed from city streets, Windsor is also plagued with the continuing debate of an arena. He was the only candidate to make an issue of an underpass at Walker Road, work is on going …but at a snails pace.
The issues he would like to bring to the table in addition to the ones in 2003 is the property tax grab by city hall, up double in the last ten years and almost 25% in the last 3. User fees collected by the city up 76% in 10 years and almost 10% in the last 3, far out pacing inflation. Unemployment at over 9% leads the nation, and council must be pro active in attracting large employers and supporting small business. Council as the owner of Enwin, must insure that energy costs do not spiral out of control.
Blak will also advocate for better air quality, a fair share of the budget for road and sewers upgrades in the ward, and improving our neighbourhoods, clean up the garbage, get rid of the graffiti, and have exotic massage parlours take their business some where else.
Blak says "I love this city my family has been a continuous part of the ward since my grandfather open his bakery shop in 1918 on Langlois were it still is. Lets put away the miscalculations, and wayward thinking of the last 10 years, like MFP, city paid vacant space in the Candrel building, and the expropriations of the tax paying small businesses on the site of the phantom western super anchor. Windsor deserves better, choose change we can not afford the past."
Contact: Anthony (Tony) Blak
Phone: (519) 971-8295
Evenings 519-254-8202
Cell 519-259-9669
