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Ridgewood NJ, recent investigations have revealed that candidates Vagianos, Parron, and Mortimar have failed to report significant online advertising expenses and mailers in their New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJELEC) reports.
According to documents obtained by our team, none of the three candidates reported expenditures related to online advertisements or the mailers distributed to Ridgewood residents via USPS, which reportedly included at least two mailers for each candidate.
Further scrutiny of Vagianos’s campaign contributions raises questions about the sources of his funding. A substantial portion of his contributions appears to come from political action committees and developers or contractors not residing in Ridgewood. This prompts concerns about what these organizations might expect in return for their financial support.
As the election season progresses, the transparency of campaign financing and advertising practices remains a critical topic for voters in Ridgewood.
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There is a reason why the Village Manager Keith Kazmark and the council members are called Vagianos’s “puppets”: he’s funding them all. Look at the campaign filings—Vagianos has raised $54,000 so far from special interest groups, while Mortimar has raised only $2,000. Each mailer costs 5000$ and Mortimar has sent two and has been running facebook ads (with 2k in pocket??)
Vagianos is effectively funding Mortimar’s campaign, so who is Mortimar going to listen to once elected?
Additionally, consider who is funding Vagianos’s campaign. It’s a non-partisan election, yet the majority of the funding comes from partisan politics and questionable unions and Democratic donors. (Not all Democrats are questionable, but the donors listed in Vagianos’s campaign filings certainly are!)
Roar Ick Halabody is probably behind some of this, along with DD and BF/JF and other people with vested interests. It is all public information and it is always interesting. Just like Vagianos pals who don’t pay their taxes after getting a large loan. I have 47 thousand questions I would like answered at the league of women voting debate.
Again, who’s responsible for this? Isn’t it amazing every day is something else that they screw up on
What do you expect from this bunch of completely incompetent morons. Vagianos, Perron and now , all known liars, and now enter Mortimer the clever chubby marketing bee boy are very good at manipulating information and exploiting details to craft their special stories to fool the public. They are masters at it. We are only a short time away of staring squarely down the gullet of malfeasance around every corner if these 3 get elected. Vagianos is the worst mayor and a total failure Paul got his pal Kazmark in to become village manager for $300k and he is busy taking photo ops instead of doing his job and it is a complete and total shitshow.
Voting is important and Kwak is the only one who can effectively turn this ship around.
This post is wrong and mean but I have to admit “Mortimer the clever chubby marketing bee boy” made me laugh.
It will take more than one person. Lorraine tried often.
It is really time for the Attorney General of New Jersey to step in a clean up this mess. Between the lies, private loans from the mayor to a chairperson on a Ridgewood committee, deceptive practices, gross negligence with schedler soil dumping and lord knows what else, it might be a good idea for this oversight to take a look into what is happening. Especillay if Keith Kazmark plans to file an insurance claim to clean up the dirty dirt. What other lies are out there that we don’t even know about?
Vaginao’s is deep into the democratic circles – looks at his donors.. NJ AG will not dare to touch him and he knows that!
So was Kaz-shark’s poppa but he got a tap on the wrist for wrongdoing. no joke.
Paulie has turned the VOR into a Sopranos joke. Sad!
We really need this. How do we get the attorney general involved. Let’s not forget the give away and business in Habernickel making bank off tax payers and the 4 million feed the front lines deal. Show us the money
Follow the (RBSA) money…
Kwak is 100% self funded
This is a lie…. follow the money
anyone know who is moderating the LWV candidate forum?
how about the person who receives the questions sent in via email by residents/voters?
Not a fan of KWAK
why are you not a fan? you don’t like people with color? List specific issues where you disagree with her – and tell us how has her white counterparts voted on those issues?
Excuse me, what color is she?
Could we not jump to that conclusion? Maybe they actually disagree with her about something. This racial garbage absolutely has to stop.
Let’s not kid each other, there’s some Dragon Lady stuff going on with her.
What about SWhino. Incredibly self unaware and never stops talking about utter nonsense that just doesn’t make sense most of the time. Thats the dragon lady or gent, I can’t quite tell.
“Dragon Lady”???? Racists much??? Ridgewood showing its true colors once again.
can you explain why you are not a fan of Kwak? And why you are a fan of (fill in the blank)?
well that is sad beccause you are missing out on realizing that she is very and I mean very smart and has the financial aptitude to handle what is going on in Ridgewood. There is a lot going on that most people are not even aware of. She has the IT factor and not the ICK factor. When the going gets rough you don’t go for the smiling idiot who has a vested interest in lining his pockets and pleasing his pals (aka, the sports crowd). You do the right thing when you are part of municipal government. Obviously Vagianos, Perron, Winograd and sleepy Weitz missed the memo.
It’s crazy how no body really wants to hear the truth. We need to clean house and get someone smart and without a personal interest involved. No more pocket lining with our money
Kwak will owe nothing to special interest groups. Not sports, businesses, environmentalists, no one. She will be an independent voice. Vagianos has taken money from everyone and we have seen that this causes him to, for example, let Delzio assault someone and then Vagianos blamed the victim. Why? Because Delzio gives him money. Do note vote for that slimy viper. NO VAGIANOS.
Exactly!
If you meet him, he will try to charm you. That is what people see on the outside, but this guy is a devious schemer making lots of big promises to his developer pals and the big bad daddy’s of the sports machine that thinks they run this town. It is time to take back our village.
Vote No to Vagianos’ puppet show
Vote No to Perron
Vote No to Mortimer
Fake, Fake, Fake
Listen this so much damage done in the village. It’s going to take many years to get out and millions.
Bullet voting for Kwak.
What is Vagianos going to do with all that money?? It’s actually shocking that he would collect all that for a local council race
The Anonymous Facebook post was pathetic. Afraid of reprisals or afraid of just looking like the idiot that you are? There is a solid group of a dozen relentlessly negative people who post against Mortimer and Vagianos. They haven’t noticed that the rest of Ridgewood is politely ignoring them.
This “scandal “ is a big bore. Kwak should have stayed with the BOE. she is not everything that she (and Steve) think she is.
Really, and on the flip side, there is a small group of people who will support these bozos no matter whether they are right or wrong, true soldiers in the Vagianos camp. Really impressive! These people care about getting a field no matter what it takes that they will stand by a bunch of dopes on a rope who don’t care about anything else in the village except being popular. The RWM&D facebook page is a joke with SF and SW controlling who can say what and when and a council person using it to promote politics, that is just plain pathetic. People know who the public and private donors are and what the vested interests are, so no secret there and not so sure how “politely” people are ignoring them. Your dream bubble sounds lovely but it may burst one day in the not to distant future then you will see the mess these morons have created. How many other places do you know, that can boast about being one of the best places to live in NJ that almost furloughed village staff last year? I’ll wait.
Ya gotta be pretty desperate for a field to be fooled by either Vagianos or his loyal little puppet Mortimer. Vagianos lies to suite whatever agenda he wants and Mortimer doesn’t know whether he is coming or going with green projects vs. parks and wreck.
So let’s say Kwak wins. So what? She is one out of five. They have enough votes to bond for anything. She will be totally marginalized on the council, useless. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true. The problem is too many people know being an elected official is making yourself the public punching bag. They will attack you personally and make your life a living hell for four years. I would never waste my time with it, and that’s why you only have one good candidate running against three assholes. It’s not worth sacrificing four years of your life to serve anybody.
Maybe Kwak sees the greater good is working hard to have a balanced budget and prioritizing needs over wants. The time to really hammer home and let the public know what is really going on is now. Mortimer says he is going to be a new voice, but how? New means change and yet he will never challenge Vagianos, nor will Perron. Vagianos might have funded Weitz and Winograd for all we know and they are in lockstep too.
They are all a horrible group of people, individually and together disastrous for Ridgewood residents.
Well who voted for the current mayor and council? I mean he did win after all
Not me that’s for sure!! Won’t vote for him this time either. Maybe all of the people who bullet vote for Kwak will send a message to them that people are unhappy and chose 1 person. Even if they all do get in the village manager needs do his job and stop playing politics.
Like last time, those signs are now appearing in Glen Rock.
More people need to run
Paul is promoting the “unity” thing to gain all Perron’s votes so he can claim to be the Mayor. He’s not running against Kwak – he has enough votes to win A SEAT on the council.. he’s running against Pam Perron to get more votes than her, to retain his Mayorship!
Paul is now using trump slogans of unity and creating videos wearing red. He thinks he can fool the republicans in this town that he’s not a corrupt New Jersey Democrat.