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Ridgewood NJ, confirmed candidates for November’s local elections (Ridgewood) elections are:
Board of Education – 3 seats open (uncontested)
Sheila Brogan – 1 year term (incumbent)
Mary Lou Handy – 3 year term
Muhammad Mahmoud – 3 year term (incumbent)
Village Council – 3 seats open; all 4 year terms
Hyunju Kwak
Frank Mortimer
Pamela Perron (incumbent)
Paul Vagianos (incumbent)
Biographies and position platforms will be posted on The Ridgewood Blog at a later date.
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Not Voting for Vagianos, Perron or Mortimer. Vagianos has got to go and the other 2 are just puppets.
Vagianos is running to benefit himself and his friends, their business interests and sports. Period.
VOTE Hyunju Kwak!
Is that one of the new $50k dog waste receptacles they promised us?
3 spots/ 4 running
Who is the one left out
Gotta be “The Vag”
They will do anything to keep kwak off
She is smarter than the entire council combined and will torment winograd
I know many of us would love to see a whole new regime, across-the-board mayor council manager so on do you really think things will change. I’m not sure about that. Because if you look back in the past 15 years, the same shit occurs administration. That’s because there’s someone running the show behind the curtain, oh yes, big money, political power, just remember the people that win got into Office, well how did they get there influences, somethings don’t change groups that have big investment backing have power nothing new. What do you think because you’re a nice woman or man that you’re OK dream on. And you knucklehead put your thumbs down on this. You have no idea, the system is so dirty. Just look at the Biden administration come on Biden’s Obama’s Clintons. They’re all in the same bed please stop. It’s sickening.
Haha, Biden wasn’t perfect and luckily stepped down But think really clearly if you are planning to vote Trump and just remeber that he is exactly like Vagianos putting his own interests into action and only talks about himself, me, me, me, I, I , I.
Also, let us remember what his now seemingly VP candidate JD Vance had to say about the very man he wants to run with:
In April of 2016, he wrote in the New York Times that Trump was “unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
He went even further in a July 2016 opinion piece for The Atlantic, titled “An Opioid for the Masses,” Vance wrote of Trump’s big campaign promises, “He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein … Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.”
“I’m a Never Trump guy,” Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2016, according to Politico. “I never liked him.”
As Trump continued to campaign, Vance amped up the messaging, warning on NPR that Trump was “leading the white working class to a very dark place,” with campaign promises that ranged from “immoral to absurd” (as he wrote in USA Today).
He wrote on Twitter (and has since deleted) posts that called Trump “reprehensible” and condemned him for fomenting fear and division. In another since-deleted Twitter post used against him by his senate race opponents, he wrote of Trump, “My god what an idiot.”
Yeah politics suck, but at least people like Hyunju aren’t going to succumb to special interests-she doesn’t have to, whereas Vagianos, that is all he is about and whatever he can gain personally, popular favor which helps him as a business owner and real estate owner/landlord. Not objective at all.
Think about it.
I am bullet voting Kwak. She is smart, detail-oriented, and has no agenda (unlike Vagianos who is not smart, comes to meetings unprepared, and his only agenda is is properties in the downtown). We absolutely have to unseat him. The only way is to just vote for Hyun Ju Kwak, so as not to add votes to others that could take away from her. Yes, there are three seats, but you only have to vote for one. The goal is to get rid of that smirking condescending Vagianos and the way is to vote solely for Kwak.
You think Vagianos isn’t smart? HA. That’s why you will lose.
Not so sure he is actually smart. Shrewed, cunning, a schemer with a salty smile, a manipulator, a salesman, yes. Smart not entirely.
What we need is someone who will put the best interests of Ridgewood residents in the forefront and not special interests for their friends
Vagianos never had Ridgewood’s best interests as a priority. He thinks this is one big popularity contest.
For that reason, Vagianos needs to be voted out and Perron and Mortimer are just puppets in Paul Vagianos’ master manipulation scheme.
There’s only one choice if we are smart and that is Kwak!!
We have 3 votes. Can you explain how bullet voting would help a single candate? I don’t understand how wasting 2 votes will help one of the candidates.
Good to know. I just want the Vag out. Would love all 3 out but 🤷♀️
We can break it down very easily:
Vagianos only cares about special interests that in the short and long term benefit him.
What has he actually done for Ridgewood except to screw up the Schedler Park plan, the only thing that he spent almost 100% of his time on-FAILED 100%. He also said PFAS is everywhere when talking about the installation of artificial turf but yet he is charging all of us an extra fee that Ridgewood Water collects to get PFAS out of our water in addition to sueing 3M, Dupont and other companies for putting PFAS in the water to begin with. #VOTE NO
Frank Mortimer is on the Green Ridgewood Committee and Parks & Rec, straddling the fence between the two. He loves bees and probably believes that he is an environmentally conscious individual. However, no person who loves bees would get behind the Schedler Park plan as it has been laid out where hundreds of trees will be destroyed and artificial turf is planned to be installed. Ask anyone who actually cares about the environment and sustainability. #VOTE NO
Pam Perron is a bit wishy washy on certain topics. Many people believe that she is under the spell of Vagianos and without him playing the puppetmaster, she can actually make some decisions that will benefit residents and not go along with Vagianos and his bad choices for our village.
HyunJu Kwak has shown us that she is a true leader on the right side of doing the right thing. She has the experience and working knowledge of the Board of Education which should be working with the Village and this will only help Ridgewood become more cohesive. She doesn’t have an agenda unlike Vagianos and she is very smart. This is what we need on the council. VOTE YES!!
What’s the difference between voting only for HJK and voting for HJK, PP and FM?
3 people are going to get elected no matter what so how does throwing away two of my votes help HJK win?
I don’t get the math behind block voting
Mortimer is a greenwasher, why should he get a vote and a lot of people don’t like Pam.
But how does that help HJK? I don’t get it.
When they post who wins and the number of votes they received it will show Kwak with many many votes and Perron and the bee idiot with the few numbers they received If you vote for them ( even tho they will win because no one else is running) it will show low numbers if you do NOtT click their name. hopefully 0 for Vag
Pam is very smart and I think she would actually be an asset without the Vag and Wino on the Council.
Just vote for Kwak and no one else.
If you vote for them there numbers will go up and it will look like you chose them even tho there is no other choice. So just vote for the one you want and leave their numbers low