Village Council Election: Which Candidates are Pro-Valley Expansion

Village Council Election: Which Candidates are Pro-Valley Expansion

Ridgewood voters need to decide which issues are most important to them and choose which candidates will address those issues the best. Here are your choices:

Hauck = Pro Valley Expansion
Pucciarelli = Pro Valley Expansion
Shinzouka = Anti Valley Expansion
Killion = Status Quo is Fine
Forenza = Pro Valley Expansion
Aronsohn = What ever is best for Aronsohn

Unfortunately if the issue that is most important to you is not addressed above, you are out of luck. Not one of these candidates has demonstrated any understanding of the fiscal challenges facing the Village. Not one has shown any ability to unify a very divided Village without selling out their own special interest group.

If Valley is your issue then your mind was made up a long time ago. Valley supporters need to realize that until Valley backs down or offers real compromise, the rest of the critical issues that confront the Village will go unattended to. Those opposed to the Valley expansion need to realize that the candidates that they endorse on this one issue may not have the skills to address the other issues that we face.

In the end, the real issue may be Valley itself. Valley is a business that gains nothing from enhancing the quality of life for Ridgewood residents. An overwhelmingly small percentage of Valley’s patients live in Ridgewood and an even smaller percentage work there. While your taxes are going up again this year by 7% Valley continues to pay no taxes to the Village. Shouldn’t the Village benefit more than it does from having Valley here? Might this be the biggest issue of them all?

This entry was posted by James on May 7, 2012 at 5:00 pm, and is filed under . Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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#1 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

Just got a Aronsohn robo call.

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#2 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

A lot of Valley employees spend money in town and the hospital does contribute in many ways to the village so why not just get over the bs about Valley.

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#3 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

So what!

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#4 written by Paul 2 years ago

I spend money in town too! I’m a tax payer.

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#5 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

What is the source of the candidates funding? Valley? A multimillionaire philanthropist and Valley supporter?

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#6 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

Let’s talk about issues causally related to our taxes. Ridgewood residents provide among the highest municipal salaries in NJ and a high level of life benefits and pensions unavailable in the private sector, with municipal employees paying only 3 to 8% of their health benefit costs.

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#7 written by anonymous 2 years ago

There is a simple way to end the BS about Valley. The leadership at the hospital, who went into hiding after the November VC vote against Renewal, can tell the PB that they will remove their “application”. If they withdraw that request, we can start the process the correct way and see what’s acceptable to Ridgewood before trying to get Village resources to devote time to it. This would end this once and for all without the risk that any PB action against Valley would be met with a lawsuit.

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#8 written by anonymous 2 years ago

No one would be happier than the hardworking CRR diehards, who understand the grave significance of this “single issue,” for the Valley mess to be resolved and elections return to whatever once passed as normal.

the Bolgers must not be allowed to buy this town. They own far too much of it already.

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#9 written by Anonymous 2 years ago

#2 Can you please explain the advantages of having a hospital the size that Valley is proposing in the middle of a town of 25,000 plus people? And, while you’re at it, where are you getting the “a lot of employees spend money in town?” How do you know that?

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