11/03/2025
❤️ A Message From My Heart Before You Read the Facts Below
My campaign has always been about one thing - a better way forward for South Park. New ideas. Honesty. Cutting out the insider network that has controlled decisions behind closed doors for too long.
And because of that, the insiders are scrambling.
Instead of offering solutions or ideas to move our township forward, they’ve chosen smears, lies, and personal attacks - not only against me, but against my family.
Let me be very clear:
I expected resistance when I spoke out about backdoor money deals and closed-door decisions that left residents in the dark. I knew some would try to protect their positions and influence.
But I never imagined they would sink this low:
• Mysterious dark-money mailers, illegally sent to sway voters.
• Current Elected Supervisor trolling Facebook and contacting people commenting on my posts. Then spinning fabricated lies about me. Said that I called him a coward. I never did. I’m sure many have!
• Mysterious websites popping up with official sounding names filled with slanderous lies
• Placing stickers of their website that purportedly contains viruses all over town including 100’s at the Haunted House in our county park.
• Fake Facebook troll accounts with no friends, no history, and stock photos posting lies and attacks.
• Local newspapers and political committees pushing claims they know are false, hoping voters won’t question them.
They are doing this because they can’t control this movement - a grassroots campaign built on transparency, service, and ordinary people who want their township back. They are driven by money and desperate to install people that can control.
That’s obvious! We can’t let it happen!
I have nothing to hide. I have taken every hit publicly because I believe South Park deserves better - and I won’t back down from the truth.
This election process has revealed something we long suspected - these insiders are in cahoots with the real estate folks and the developers.
We need to all come together to fight this if there is any hope of cleaning it up. Most people have seen these slanderous lies from people desperate to protect their financial self-interests, it’s obvious, and so many of you see it. This has to change now. Six more years of this nonsense will forever change our township.
I’ll fight for you, just give me a chance. Everyone needs to vote. Everyone needs to have their voice heard if this will ever change.
And please understand, my family has been forced to endure a lot. As everyone knows, we do everything as a family. Election Day is tough because we’re all split up handling different polling places. We’ll be in our familiar bright red shirts with my logo on the front. Please stop by and offer Tianna, Axton, and Diane some encouragement. I never said a word about it during the primaries, but one of these insiders’ family members got in Axton’s face and said, “Your dad is a bad man, I hope God forgives you for what you’re doing.” No one deserves that for supporting their father and family. No one. What a learning experience it’s been for our kids!
The one thing I know - I will never put my family through this evil network again.
NOW, BECAUSE TRUTH MATTERS, HERE ARE THE FACTS.
Setting the Record Straight: South Park Deserves the Truth
On Friday, a letter, appearing to be paid for by the South Park Republican Committee and written by Sleepy Hollow property owner Joan Carmen, appeared in the Park News. It was overflowing with misinformation, twisted facts, and slander aimed at me, my family, and my record of service.
Let’s call this what it is: a last-ditch effort by people with financial and political interests to mislead voters and silence the truth. They’re counting on fear, confusion, and last-minute lies to win an election they’re losing on ideas and integrity.
I refuse to let that happen.
My family and I have always stood for transparency, accountability, and honest service. That is how we live, and it is how we campaign.
1. The South Park Buffalo - Truth Over Rumor
The Friends of the South Park Buffalo Preserve was created for one purpose - to support, protect, and celebrate the Buffalo herd, never to harm them.
The PADLS reports being used against us have been misrepresented. Not one official report concluded that public feedings caused stillbirths or harmed the herd.
Every feeding event was approved by county leadership, and when necessary, by licensed veterinarians. My family, as volunteers - washed, sorted, and passed produce to county employees, who were the only ones allowed to feed the herd.
When we began, the pastures were in poor condition. We pushed the county to test soil, treat it, and replant grasses. Now the Buffalo graze naturally throughout the day - healthier and more active than they have been in many years.
We helped bring in a veterinarian with extensive bison experience. In coordination with USDA recommendations, the feed program transitioned to high-quality herbivore pellets, the same type used successfully in zoos, with the renewed grass and of course their hay from Round Hill Park. We agreed to return to the basic to create a baseline to allow the vet to work to improve the birth rates. As of today the vet and testing cannot link anything to the birthrate issue if one exists at all. It will take years to determine if genetics is the true cause.
Birth records were incomplete for years, that’s a fact. No one knows the true birthrate numberd until we started tracking them. That’s why we pushed for ear tags, better tracking, and improved veterinary communication. We fought for accountability because we care about these animals, not because we needed attention.
Clarifying the Tranquilizer Issue
Since it continues to be twisted, here are the facts:
At one point, we were offered a donation to purchase tranquilizer equipment. An on-site employee told us the tranquilizer rifles were needed and approved. Acting in good faith, we moved forward. After the equipment arrived, the story suddenly changed.
That was a lesson. From that point forward, we worked only with county directors and decision-makers, no more back-and-forth with employees who could change their positions overnight.
To do this right, we contacted county police leadership in Greentree, followed their requests, and even located trained local marksmen willing to volunteer in emergencies to safely protect the animals and the public. The only barrier left was the legal storage requirements for narcotic tranquilizer drugs. We respected that, and since then, we’ve been exploring safer, non-narcotic alternatives for safety and animal welfare.
And if safety is the real concern, if protecting the herd and our community truly matters, why wouldn’t someone support non-lethal means of doing so?
It’s certainly interesting that a real estate person or developer pushing for a development just 560 feet from the nearest Buffalo fence chooses not to support safer, non-lethal tools to protect both residents and the herd. This summer during a storm, a massive tree collapsed onto the fence, leaving a gap. We called the herd to the other side of the field and stayed until the county could repair it. That’s who we are, we show up when the Buffalo and this community need us.
2. The Carmen Family & Sleepy Hollow
I have always treated the Carmen family with respect. My efforts were never personal; they were focused solely on preserving Sleepy Hollow and ensuring residents had a voice.
The accusation that I caused a scene at a funeral is a complete lie. First, it was allegedly a public outburst. When confronted with the truth on one of my posts that the funeral home was packed and that couldn’t have happened, the story changed to a “quiet conversation.” Both versions are false. I have witnesses to prove it. And just months later, I had cordial conversations with Joan herself. If I was the monster they describe, why continue friendly communication? (I’ll post this in the comments)
As for the claim that a land trust offer was rejected, completely false. A land trust cannot legally make an offer while a property is under contract. Everyone knew that. The Allegheny Land Trust was willing to preserve the land. Residents were willing to make up the difference. The real estate agent would make her money when the developed lots sold. Apparently she now had their ear and the stories all changed!
3. Development & Road Safety
Everything I have said about the Sleepy Hollow development comes directly from public records and township meetings.
The developer’s representatives refused to put in writing any commitment to widen or improve Sleepy Hollow Road to township or Allegheny County Economic Development Group standards. That’s not speculation. That’s documented.
My family livestreamed meeting after meeting so the public could see for themselves. This was never anti-development, it was pro-responsible development that respects residents, infrastructure, and safety.
4. Taxes, Residency & Personal Attacks
Let me clear this up for good:
My family and I have lived in South Park since we returned to the area.
Our home’s property taxes are paid, publicly recorded, through our family trust.
I currently have no earned income because my wife and I are caring 24/7 for her terminally ill mother. This is family responsibility, not a political flaw.
Any “leaked” income information was either false or illegally accessed. This is exactly the kind of insider behavior I’m running to stop.
This Election Is Bigger Than Me
This election isn’t about one person. It’s about whether South Park continues to be run by insiders, fake accounts, and anonymous smear campaigns, or by the residents who love this place.
I’ve spent more than a decade on a Planning & Zoning Board and a Police Pension Board. The decade is comprised of my time on the P&Z Board and Police Pension Board.
South Park - It’s Time to Choose
Do we surrender to lies, intimidation, and political games?
Or do we stand up, with truth, decency, and courage, and take our township back?
Stop the slime. Start the vote.
Show up. Speak out. Vote for honesty, accountability, and community.
Timothy Foster
Candidate for South Park Township Supervisor
P.S. - Catching Up on the Latest Lies
1. “He lived in someone’s basement.”
False. My wife Diane and her mother owned a successful business. In 1994, they hired Fred and Gary Carmen to build our home. It was placed in Diane’s mother’s name, later into a trust. Our hard work paid for this house. We didn’t inherit it - we built it.
2. “His Illinois home was foreclosed on.”
Wrong. We owned a Victorian home on a lake in Illinois. It was hard to maintain from 500 miles away while caring for Diane’s terminally ill mom. After some time on the market, I negotiated a swap of the house for the mortgage that would allow us to simply walk away, no foreclosure, so we could focus on family.
I’m not sure what other lies or bombs will drop tonight in an attempt to sway the vote, but feel free to call me or talk to my family tomorrow at the polls!
Thank you for reading! Can’t wait for this to be over!
Timothy Foster
724-518-0604