Cronk & Dowd Report filled with questionable information and scare tactics
A report is being circulated touting support for Pucciarelli, Hauck & Aronsohn, originated by Cronk & Dowd, filled with ‘fact, figures & graphs’. It is very questionable & disingenuous…….
If it comes your way, read it through & decide whether it is real or false.
I have severe doubts as to accuracy & representation of Ridgewood.
Pages 4 & 5 …whose Municipal Tax Dollars & Expenses (what town)? No source quoted.
Page 6 “Ridgewood’s Municipal Budget Busters”….no source quoted.
On page 7 the source quoted is the Star Ledger on one column only.
Pages 8 are quotes about NJ (NOT Ridgewood only).
If some or all of this applies to Ridgewood, then it is not the fault of the present council but many councils in the past, expenses been increasing for years.
But I am mostly disturbed by the lack of sources for these “Serious Issues” & also the scare tactic of this group at the last minute.
I’m flattered, but I didn’t “originate” the report. But you’re anonymous so it doesn’t matter, I guess.
This is the fellow that drove around in his friend’s yellow porsche making videos of councilman’s homes and then posted the movies on the internet (addresses, neighbors and kids all included). They are a disgusting group!
God help Ridgewood if they get into office.
Doug,
Did you ever notice how many cowards don’t post their nemes here?
Yes, and Paul Aronsohn has been on this council for 4 years! What has he done to combat this? Why is this campaign the first we are hearing about “zero-based” budgeting? Did he just think of it? And the rise in debt service, is that for the bond taken out when Pfund wanted to buy the land for the garage in town? Or maybe it’s for the Schendler property. I can assure you that PA was NOT the lone dissenter in each of these contract/salary votes. He’s a grandstander, a distorting politician and a social climber, interested in furthering his career, above any good he pretends to support. Maybe if he donated the tens of thousands of dollars he spent on his re-election to the library, they wouldn’t be in such bad shape. Put your money where your mouth is PAul. Stop talking and start doing. It’s been 4 years. What have you done???
Why yes, David, I have. That’s why I don’t come around here often. A good example is #2 here. Not sure who he or she is talking about, but they sure are angry.
Remember, it’s quite possible that it’s just you, me and a person with multiple personality disorder in here.
BAYARD DEMALLIE originated the report. anyway that’s the word on the street. Maybe Cronk didn’t create the report but certainly he and Abdoo have not problem spreading it to everyone. God if I get one more email! anyway, from what I understand a delightful time was had by all the Ridgewood Country Club while bashing the police and fire department. ouch. Paul Aronsohn, ouch.
Is the report available to the general public?
But you passed it along without verifications and sources because it supports your positions. Thus, you own it.
#7- You should ask anonymous to email it to you. Oops! Can’t because they’re anonymous.
#8- A tenuous argument at best, even if you use the word, “thus”. I don’t think our Village Manager should have received a retroactive raise. I think we need to find a way to control the ever increasing cost of benefits. I think we waste an insane amount of time/money on inefficient services (rear yard waste pickup 2x a week?). I think the village council has really dropped the ball on the CBD for a long time. I think our parking regime is an embarrassment. And I’m incredibly thankful that I live in a town with a paid fire department. Am I not allowed to question those things? Do you disagree? I guess none of that matters, though, since you read the CRONK & DOWD REPORT.
Okay Doug so let me ask you a question. If you believe all you write about, why on earth are you willing to slip on the same dirty underwear you’ve been wearing for the past four years? If i’m not mistaken Aronsohn (dirty underwear) has been there the entire time. I would respect your point if you had endorsed Puchi, Hauck and Forenza. I just don’t understand how you come to your conclusion. Only until election looming time, a few months before, did paul become so vocal regarding the raise. Truth is he had email access prior to the raise vote. Why didn’t he email everyone then. The answer is simple, he wanted the raise to happen so he could use it as leverage during this election.
I don’t know Doug, I think your underwear smells.
Oh and your attempt to undo your police and firefighter bashing doesn’t smell so good either.
Nice try coward, I mean anonymus #10. The 4 other council members kept delaying the required council vote on the raise until they finally posted it on the agenda 2 hours before the august meeting (in the hopes no one would notice) and they hoped Paul would just vote no and it would be done. We have Paul to thank for bringing that 12% raise to our attention and yes it was an obscene raise.
You lost me when you said you’d respect my point. (Not when you said my underwear smells, surprisingly.) I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be the case, regardless of my positions. At least, that doesn’t seem the way things operate here in Blogtown. Send me an email or give me a call sometime. I’d be glad to speak with you. Until we do, you might want to check up on your info re: Aronsohn and Gabbert. He’s consistently been the only one speaking out, not only about the raise (which is a disgrace and he was the only one to oppose it), but also about the VM’s performance in general.
FYI: Never bashed police and firefighters, but again, you can say what you want because you’re anonymous. Feel free to ask anyone who ever spoke with me in the real world.
Is that the same Bayard Demaille they kicked off lacrosse?
David Addison from Moonlighting? lol
Maybe you will get back on the Board of Adjustment when your buddy Paul get in.
One more for the road…..I should be so lucky. Nope just a nobody with a familiar name
How about the $559. Per month car allowance…
How about free medical for a par time job