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Ridgewood Mayor’s column was unbalanced

NOVEMBER 13, 2015    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
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Newspaper column was ‘unbalanced’

To the Editor:

Well, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

In his recap of activities associated with the recent non-binding parking garage referendum (“A big day for Ridgewood,” The Ridgewood News, Friday, Nov. 6, page A6), Mayor Paul Aronsohn did not hesitate to heavily criticize the “anti-parking garage” mailer, but failed to even mention the brouhaha connected with a non-factual letter of endorsement written by the Historic Preservation Commission’s chairperson, Mr. Vincent Parrillo.

I can’t imagine why Mr. Aronsohn didn’t think an inaccurate letter of endorsement, allegedly written at the request of either himself or Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli, wasn’t worth mentioning in his summation of significant referendum related activities/issues. He devoted over 80 words of criticism to the mailer, but devoted not even one word to the bogus endorsement. This strikes me as being both an unbalanced and unjust report to your readers.

And why is the mayor so concerned about the mailer having been sent from Newark? Are there people working or living in Newark that we should be concerned about? Would it have made a difference to him if the mailer was postmarked from Ridgewood?

Boyd A. Loving

Ridgewood

https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/ridgewood-news-letter-mayor-s-column-was-unbalanced-1.1454581

 

3 thoughts on “Ridgewood Mayor’s column was unbalanced

  1. Great title, James. The mayor is unbalanced in many ways. A few other adjectives come to mind, too.

    He never, EVER wants both sides of any story. He calls for transparency and embraces hidden agendas. He whines about bullying and then he bullies people openly and subtly. He preaches civility and is the poster child for incivility.

  2. Well done, Boyd. The column the Mayor writes is a weekly in-kind contribution to his political career that no opponent would ever be offered or provided absent a court order. His dwelling on an anonymous flyer reveals a caveman mentality, a willingness to use vague threats of persecution by law enforcement or prosecutory elements that he alone can call into action if and when he pleases between courses of his royal evening meal. Such swagger has our mayor…perhaps he is positioning himself as the heir apparent to embattled Senator Menendez? And the utter, brazen hypocrisy…given the blatantly anonymous but clearly cash-intensive and voluminous collection of pro-regime “Vote Yes” signs occupying seemingly every square inch of grass and dirt for weeks on end, including sprouting from each and every village-funded and maintained planter, mysteriously and nearly instantaneously distributed and installed, attracting exactly ***NO*** negative attention from the local constabulary, and raising ***NEITHER*** of the two regularly-exercised eyebrows of reliable pro-regime local sign-cop Art Wrubel of Historic Preservation Committee…, though predictable to those in the know, is nevertheless still breathtaking. Does anyone dispute that these behaviors and this pre-determined outcome are substantially solely the hallmark of Northern New Jersey Sopranos-Style Democratic Machine politics? What a sight to behold. And this in a village organized under the Faulkner Act, which is supposed to guarantee Ridgewood residents a non-partisan form of government! Of what use is the law if it only exists to be flouted by the Mayor and his friends and political supporters?

  3. The mayor is unbalanced.

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