Edited sentence: " Political entity on the Hudson River, in Dutchess County, New York., to assist it in sending an insulting letter to 13,000 property taxpayers.An alternate definition of the Town of Poughkeepsie, found at LiveJournal.As there is absolutely no source for thie above claims, it is to be taken as an interesting story.In the 1990's Poughkeepsie's corruption became evident to the world as a result of the William Paroli / Basil Raucci scandals.In the 21st century, Poughkeepsie undertook a town wide re-assessment at the climax and grand finale of a fifteen year real estate market upturn.It is believed that in 1932 a Poughkeepsie Police Officer accidentally told the truth on a witness stand.Its form of government is oligarchy.Its overlords worship Mammon, particularly in the form of construction contractors who own the Town, despite their residing as far away as possible from it.Its taxpayers are dupes.Now that Republican rule has returned to the town, the ownership pretends that Poughkeepsie's practices and motivations are as pure as the driven snow.Other interesting projects include a Rehabilitation Center located on top of Macintosh Drive (a glorified precipice), staffed by people who do not make a living wage - a standard Dutchess County practice.The Town Board hired MJW Inc.The Town also undertook to put "roundabouts" in the middle of Raymond Avenue, a source of road rage that will be discovered by the Town Board after about ten people have been killed.The Town gives multi-million dollar tax breaks to IBM and Vassar College.The result was a Democratic administration that spent four years arguing with a reform supervisor who was thus unable to clean up the historically corrupt assessor's office.The word "referendum" is not in the Town's vocabulary.This was to facillitate the upscale notions of the $32 per hour head groundskeeper of Vassar College.Town of Poughkeepsie, noun: From Native American phrase meaning "what's that corruption by the river.com, is as follows: