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"August 23. 2007 12:00AM
Online store hopes to survive mayoral race
This concerns an article, "Feud keeps headquarters closed" (Telegram & Gazette, July 25).
Lucy Castro Westlake owns a quiet business called Lucy’s Online Collectibles at 147-167 Main St. in Fitchburg, with no face-to-face customer contact with the public selling collectibles on-line through eBay. We quietly do everything with cameras and computers.
We don’t cause problems for anyone. Our goal is to quietly do what we’re doing and in the future set up a free training clinic named Alternative Income Solutions to help others learn all there is to know by actual hands-on training.
Our peace and quiet has been violated. A man running for mayor, who stated he’s "for small business," has accessed our locked business without our permission, torn down paper in our front warehouse and placed campaign signs in every window, even the front door. He’s trashed and damaged collectibles on the windowsill because they were in the way.
After this, he gave us his personal guarantee that our business operations wouldn’t be compromised or intruded upon. After a clear agreement, the campaign continued to take everything in their area that they didn’t want and indiscriminately piled these items on top of ours, damaging business inventory.
There’s no reasoning with these people. The response we got was, "You picked a fight with the wrong guy, you pushed my buttons."
We’re responding because Councilor Ted E. DeSalvatore called us street trash. We hope to survive his campaign, as it’s very disruptive to our business.
JOHN and LUCY WESTLAKE
Westminster
Reader Comments
EAS, the city of Fitchburg does have a police department, but DeSalvatore was just part of a group that ran the chief (a great man) out of town. They then put their own guy in office. I don't know this guy, but the situation being what it is, I'm not thinking much is going to be done against DeSalvatore. This is just another in the LONG list of reasons NOT to vote for this guy!
-Sarah
DeSalvatore thinks he is above the law. He is only out to make a name for himself and does not care about the rest of us. I have one for him, but can't write it in an open forum. My husband and I call him 'slash & burn DeSalvatore'. He has also been aligning himself with some of Fitchburg's low-lifes. Apparently, one of his 'good buddies' is the owner of Club Karma or what ever that dive bar is calling themselves today. I HOPE the citizens of Fitchburg have more common sense than to elect DeSalvatore. I'd rather have Mylott, and he's almost single-handedly buried this city.
-MH
Doesn't Fitchburg have a police dept. that can take care of that bum? Breaking and entering is still a fairly serious offense as far as I know. If he tried that in Worcester he'd be in serious trouble.
-EAS
To respond to the other comment, DeSalvatore isn't a democrat. He's supposedly an independent, though his campaign manager donates money to republicans and DeSalvatore's own views clearly skew in that direction as well.Regardless, good luck to the Westlakes. Mr. DeSalvatore has been an embarrassment to Fitchburg as long as he's been in office.
-Glen Nonym
go get them. the bums of the democrat party.let all the voters know who they can not trust.
-l
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The Sentinel and Enterprise, a day late and a dollar short as usual, is still focused on yesterday's - no make that day BEFORE yesterday's news.
