December 15,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Jeff Voigt’s announcement last week about the library turns out to have been premature. Mayor Knudsen had to announce that the library is only in very preliminary discussion and was in no way prepared to publicly announce a 5 million dollar renovation that would involve the library being closed for a year. Good job Councilman Voigt, jumping the gun unprofessionally and getting everyone riled up for no reason. Boyd Loving later suggested that the library should include the Village Council in the process of their plans and pipe dreams, rather than presenting The Nancy Green Palace as a fait accompli.
Mayor Knudsen also announced that subsequent to last week’s meeting, at which Councilman Voigt verbally accosted Mayor Knudsen, she and her council colleagues received numerous emails from residents complaining about the behavior of Mr. Voigt. As she began to explain that the council will aspire toward civility moving forward, Mr. Voigt unbelievably attempted to rudely interrupt her as she spoke. When she politely asked him to wait, he did so. Upon completing her report, she ceded the floor to Councilman Voigt. He then lit into her, referred to her only as Susan, not as the Mayor, and called her comments and actions deceitful, disrespectful, and stated that she disregarded other people who actually care about this town (meaning that Mayor Knudsen does not actually care about this town). Yes, he said those and things, and he went on to say that he cannot and will not and does not intend to apologize for anything he said. This guy is Albert Pucciarelli without the toupee.
I find the silence of the other council members deafening. What is really going on?
Wait, wait, wait….Albert Pucciarelli wears a toupee???
The others remained silent, in my opinion, because Mayor Knudsen said it all. No need for each one to chime in and berate Jeffrey. Their silence is approval of her message.
Jeffrey has really proven to be a total jerk, nasty, vindictive, a blowhard. Let’s start the recall proceedings now. He is doing harm, not helping our village one bit with his ridiculous outbursts.
So he actually interrupted her when she was saying that the council does not plan to have rudeness moving forward. What a classless individual he is.
@1:13 I think you are making a lot of assumptions. I for one would like to hear from them one way or the other.
Jeff is a very smart guy, just ask him.
Voigt, “stupid is as stupid does” you should wear this as a crown.
I like the Nancy Green Palace. Don’t think those were Boyd’s words exactly, but the description fits.
I for one am very disappointed. Three and a half years to go with this?
Watch out for anyone who wears a college cap after age 25.
8:07, you are right. Jeff is the most brilliant man in the room. Just ask him.
The people who need to apologize are all the ones who had Voigt signs on their lawns. I am one of them. Man was I wrong about him. Loose cannon.
A little birdie told me this week that Jeff attempted a coup against Susan before she was elected mayor! Jeff tried to convince Mike Sedon to vote for himself, saying that Jeff and one other council member would also vote for for Mike. This conspiracy attempt failed of course, and Susan is now mayor.
Start the recall process IMMEDIATELY. There is absolutely no reason for this to continue. We as a citizens need to take back VH from idiots like Jeff. START THE RECALL!!!!!