Vote For Steve Kaplan
I am writing today to urge you to elect Steve Kaplan for Port Washington Police Commissioner.
As a commissioner, Steve will bring to the position the keen and much-needed perspective he has developed during his extensive career as a successful business manager and engineer. Along with this, his decades of widely varied volunteer service have given him a deep understanding of the needs and concerns of the Port Washington community.
Steve has consistently attended the Board of Police Commissioners’ meetings and budget workshops for more than 20 years. He has chaired the Port Washington Police District Charter Revision Committee and has been directly involved in the development of a great number of the department’s successful educational programs and community safety initiatives.
In the four years that I have been attending our police meetings and as a member of the Charter Revision Committee, I have witnessed Steve frequently offer valuable and perceptive contributions and have clearly heard his genuine concern for all of us here in Port.
Now is the time to elect Steve Kaplan Police Commissioner to bring to the board the fresh insight, knowledge and drive it will need as it faces the increasing fiscal and operational challenges of the future. Steve is the results-oriented leader that we need today.
Help ensure that we continue to enjoy the Police District’s extraordinary level of service by electing Steve Kaplan as Port Washington Police Commissioner.
—Stephen R. Maun
The Naked Truth—Revisited
(The following is a response to “The Naked Truth” editorial in the Nov. 4 edition of The Port Washington News.)
Caravaggio, Goya, Rubens, Titan, Delacoix, Wyeth and Rembrandt painted anatomically correct naked men and women.
Is that evil? Was it obscene?
Has a 16-year-old boy not seen a pair of breasts? Has a 15-year-old girl not seen a penis?
Do you think a 17-year-old in today’s tech savvy world does not know that a picture of their naked body will be around forever?
If he or she is mature enough and smart enough to use the technology that could get them into “trouble,” then they deserve the right to be proud of their body and display it as they wish.
When you permit a 17-year-old to dress in that cute bikini or that halter top or that sheer blouse are you not doing the same thing?
The “Naked Truth” is that the prudish mores that said there is something “wrong” and “forbidden” about your body should have been dispelled years ago. They are not “Barbies” and “Kens;” that was a long time ago in a generation far, far away.
If they want to feel free to shoot and exhibit their bodies—that is a choice we need to allow them to make.
Are you saying we should not see Michelangelo’s David?
—Alan Levine
