Writer: Donation will have strings attached

Hey, Marlboro! Wake up and smell the foul odor permeating Marlboro … again. It was like going backward 10 or more years when I read two specific articles in the Feb. 13, 2008, News Transcript; both articles regarding Marlboro developer Edward (Eddie) Kay, a recently convicted felon (cur rently out on bail).

Can it be possible? Good ol' Eddie is back in the saddle, wheeling and dealing already? I guess so folks and not wasting any precious time about it.

According to the press, Mr. Kay donated an entire building (surely, tax deductible) to Marlboro's newly established Teen Advisory Committee.

How sweet is that? Or is it more of the same razzle-dazzle that brought blatant corruption to Marlboro in the first place?

I, for one, am not as pleased as our Township Council seems to be. Quite frankly, I am appalled. Remember, nothing comes without a price tag. Nothing.

Here we have a convicted felon touting olive branches, and nobody is looking for thorns. Well, I am. Here's one: Kay's "solution" (to his pending lawsuit

with Marlboro) "is revising a Marlboro ordinance," thus, automa tically dropping the case against him.

Of course, he (Kay) will drop his counterclaim as well. How nice.

And all this generosity is upfront on stage. Can you imagine the branches (that would be) growing behind the curtains?

Do you think, Mr. Kay, all of Marlboro is dim-witted; that residents still smarting from (your) previous corruption will not question such generosity, now and in the future. You are a convicted felon, for heaven's sake. Back off and be ashamed.

Madeline Hattan

Marlboro