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[...] There were a number of letters in last Sunday’s (9/2) Bergen Record in regard to the Ferriero/Oury, “Gotta-check-for-me” lifestyle of politics that they are fighting to maintain for themselves and their flunkys (Willy Ortiz included in that definition). One of the letters is from Carol Skiba and another from [...]
Get out and enjoy the beautiful weather! I am heading out todayto weed out my vegetable garden. Pretty symbolic, huh?
[...]Can you imagine? Suing the state because it is limiting donations by person/company in order to try and close up the “I-give-you-money-you-give-me-job” way of doing business here in NJ.
I especially like this quote:
“Furthermore, Oury says, it will only make it harder for the “little guy” to launch a career in politics — [...]
…that during last nights Work Session of the Mayor and Council Altobelli and the Dems want to propose to put in an Ordinance that would no longer allow police and fire, parents and children to work together in Hasbrouck Heights. They called it an “Anti Nepotism” Ordinance. This would would [...]
The letter below was published in todays’s (8/12) Bergen Record. Caught my eye. It seems that when it comes to Slick Willy and his PACs, his “mentor” Joe Ferriero and the Bergen County Democratic Organization deception is the name of the game. It seems that NOT filing the paperwork to the ELEC, hiding [...]
It’s been a busy summer with the kids. Swim team, softball, packing and unpacking for various camps. Time just flies by it seems. I have been reading and posting of the NJ forum but just haven’t had the time to sit and write on this blog. I have noticed that this blog [...]
A definition of a “tool” from the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary:
”one that is used or manipulated by another”
Back in 2005 when George Shihanian and Dinanno were running for Council Slick Willy Ortiz, Hasbrouck Heights very own ”you-owe-me-a-job” Borough Attorney was the treasurer for their campaign. As is his modus operandi lots of $$ from the various individuals [...]
Wesmont, it’s all about politics and bank accounts.
Our Democratic majority council has stayed mum as the up coming ground breaking of this poisoned project gets closer and closer? Hmm.
Look at what Sarlo and the State Dems were given in contributions and that’s what is ON the record.
The developer and its [...]
There are those pictures that you see that take your breath away and then make you cry. This one was in last Sunday’s Bergen Record on Mother’s Day. A Lodi mother hugging the casket of her son, the day before Mother’s Day, just [...]
Thank God the school budget passed. I was glad to see that the people were able to separate the “Questions” from the Budget. But I am still disappointed on the turnout. It wasn’t raining (although the traffic was terrible due to the Lodi and Route 17 flooding problems). Now we [...]
It’s been a busy last couple of weeks and I haven’t had a chance to post. I have been writing when I had a breather and saving the posts but never had a chance to actually finish a “thought”. So I decided to kind of put them all together instead.
School Board Budget and Election
It’s a [...]
It’s been a busy last couple of weeks and I haven’t had a chance to post. I have been writing when I had a breather and saving the posts but never had a chance to actually finish a “thought”. So I decided to kind of put them all together instead.
School Board Budget and Election
It’s a [...]
What is this teaching our young people? That is is ok to take the money as a lawmaker as long as the money received has designated you as a “consultant”?
More and more ethically challenged politicians. And we wonder why we have lost control of our own town council and their ethics? Look what [...]
My friends ask me all the time where I get my information. I tell them that it’s usually all out there. “Out there?”, they ask.
Yes, “out there”. On the net via newspapers, databases, forums, blogs, etc. Sometimes it takes reading between the lines a bit and following a “lead”. And [...]
Hmm…let’s see…typos, non-specific addressees. But did we expect anything different? This is the professionalism that the Gang of Four have forced on Hasbrouck Heights. Like I said in my previous posting on this subject, like a child you tell to do a chore and they do the bare minimum and even that [...]
These were in today’s (Sunday) Bergen Record:
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, should stand up for true Democratic values (”Weinberg’s snub of Dem bigwigs reignites feud,” Page A-1, March 7).
Taxpaying residents expect integrity from elected representatives. Are puppets and handpicked candidates of the county boss the right choice? I don’t believe [...]
Like a defiant child. “I-don’t”-have-to.”
Like telling your kid to clean their room and they pick up a couple of shoes, and hide their clothes they should have hung up under their bed.
Yeah, that’s the kind of “professional” we want.
But then it’s been a rough week for Willy. It appears that that [...]
(click on picture to view) from the Bergen Record
“He’s a businessman. I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
This would actually be funny if it wasn’t so true. [...]
In Today’s Record:
I have alot of admiration for Ms. Weinberg. Standing up for herself and against the Bergen County Dem machine. I know that her number of supporters are growing and its making Ferriero crazy, especially because Corzine (not that that means much these days with his own ethics issues exposed) supports [...]
Lots of interesting, well researched material about recent NJ political news.
I have it on my blogroll so check it out often.
[...]The discussion on the HH Forum about Regionalization had me reviewing the NJ Dept. of Education numbers for HH and Wood-Ridge again. Lots of improvement for both districts are needed. Both districts need to get their SAT #’s up to at least state averages and HH has to work on getting more [...]
March, 2007.
Now imagine a nice turf field with a drainage system and a track with a new, safe surface that all citizens can use to exercise. Gosh, and seating and bathrooms that will allow EVERYONE to use them…seniors, handicapped, mothers with children.
This project was supposed to be done late summer. [...]
And BTW? The mailing of the letter was paid through the same account that Altobelli, DiNanno and Saccomano used for all their political mailings…Bergen County Democrats. Same account…same source.
[...]I got Maryetta’s letter today, the 23rd (yes, it is dated the 16th) giving us the perspective of the new you-will-do-what-we-say Dem majority.
I saw a few things in this letter that need to be addressed.
I see a Bergen County Democratic Organization trying to recoup their investment in Hasbrouck Heights. They spent alot [...]
I went looking for a Public Notice in The Observer this evening. I couldn’t find it. Someone had told me about the meeting, but I hadn’t seen it in The Observer. It wasn’t there. I checked the last three weeks. It was in The Bergen Record.
And then I looked for [...]
A situation that can easily happen in HH. Not a “polluted” land issue but many other issues that will come up when it comes to the land development projects we have now (Depken/Municipal lot). They will continue to delay these projects to “prove” a point. Hey they get their marching orders [...]
I hope you had a chance to read today’s Observer.
That is what Mr. Altobelli calls all of those citizens that object to the Democrats method of selling our town to the highest bidder.
“And they will scream their opposition to the tiniest little thing they view as wrong and work as hard [...]
Last night (2/13) at the “working session” of the Council Meeting Marietta had a presentation by a Carmine DeMarco of Demarco Communications about the possibility of having a monthly “newspaper” sponsored by the Council but paid by the local merchants by ads. They said they could also offer a web site [...]
I am sure that Slick Willy got a nice phone call from Joe Ferriero this morning…
Don’t forget to come to the “regular” Council Meeting this Tuesday the 13th at 8:00. And bring your questions. Don’t ever forget, Your Town, Your Money….
[...]Below is a letter that was in yesterday’s Asbury Park Press. So refreshing to read this. It’s so incredibly sad that the Dems on our Council are more concerned about being the good little puppet for Joe Ferriero and Slick Willy than serving the people of our town. And then there are those “paid” appointed positions…
Appointments [...]
As has been demonstrated by Lenny, Marietta, Altobelli and Diananno, that silly thing called “ethics” doesn’t mean anything in the “real world” as long as the Hasbrouck Heights objectives that were designed by the Joe Ferriero and his underlings are accomplished.
Ethics can’t be taught to adults. That’s the bottom [...]
This article is 4 years old but it is good background material about the head of the Bergen County Dems and the newest “Boss Tweed” scenario we now have.
[...]This what I have been informed is the “list” of appointees for Monday’s meeting.
Borough Attorney……………………..Wilfredo Ortiz
Flunky of Joe Ferriero, He and his business partner, Gregg Paster run PAC’s that accept thousands and thousands of $$ from many corporations for disbursements to local and county campaigns. Willy’s PAC’s Northern Valley First is run out [...]
If you have ever been in the SE U.S you have seen it. Seas of vines that cover everything. Kudzu. It was introduced in the U.S. from Japan in the late 1800’s and then promoted in landscaping in the 1920’s. It liked the climate so much that it took over.
What [...]
From today’s Jersey Journal
Fulop, Richardson are lonely yes votes; pay-to-play ban fails
Friday, January 26, 2007By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Over the hoots and jeers of the audience in the council chambers, the Jersey City City Council shot down a developer pay-to-play ban proposed by Councilman Steve Fulop.
“Jersey City would still be [...]
I don’t get it. Well, I actually do.
Mr. Altobelli works for MWW, one of the larger PR/Lobbying firms here in NJ. He has been apparently assigned Schoor DePalma as a client.
Schoor DePalma, an engineering firm, gave the HH Dem’s (”Introna Team”) as instructed by the Bergen County Dem machine, a [...]
…and the link I put on the HH forum and then just reposted on the Statewide Forum. See below.
18465. COWARDS:
by PHOENIXRYSNG, 1/5/07 14:43 ET
WHAT’S THE MATTER, CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH?!?!?![hhangel.wordpress.com]
Another Ferriero ‘tentacle’ attaches himself to a BC municipality. It’s none other than WILLIE ORTIZ. This time it’s [...]
…and you lose your RIGHT to govern your own town.
The Dems accepted money from the PACs run by the PAC men Slick Willy Ortiz and his partner, Gregg Paster and have given these “outsiders” the right, care of Lenny and the Dems, to make the decisions as to the best way for them to [...]
And that is what the local Dems have done. They have sold our souls. The Hudson/Bergen Dem party found a “patsy” in Lenny and the Dems and, and they are laughing all the way to the bank as they now have a new town to park their favors to fill their bank [...]
I just finished watching the State Funeral in the Rotunda of President Ford. As I was watching the news commentary about what a decent man, “real” man he was I looked at his family - Betty, his four children and his grandchildren standing there and I thought, that is what is [...]
I went to the meeting just to see how the addendum that addressed “pay-to-play” would be voted.
Mr. “I-don’t-have-a-clue” Introna asked a question about the contribution guidelines stated within the ordinance but it was obvious that he had not read the details of the specific ordinance and the inability to appoint “professional [...]
I will believe the rhetoric that Mr. Altobelli offered on the NJ.com HH forum only IF the council passes the supplememt to Chapter 45 entitled “Officers and Employees” WITH section 45-37 intact and immediately. But we know that this won’t happen. The Dems have too many favors to repay.
The intention [...]
Mr. Introna received $2,500 for his campaign from this company on 10/21/05. Money from this account was subsequently transferred to the new Dems.
Hmm…a payment in advance…
And this is what I wrote back in November ago…
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