file photo by Boyd Loving
August 11th 2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Siobhan Winograd, self-appointed Mistress of Niceness, went to the podium and started whining about why can’t everyone be nice and how people’s comments are not pleasant and then she suggested that people’s comments should be cut to three minutes from five. Said she had done a bunch of research about other towns and we have more time allowed than many towns.   And then she went on past the buzzer for more than five minutes.
Mayor Knudsen stated that she was trying to think of how to accommodate MORE speakers, not fewer. She was considering one possibility of shortening each speaker’s time but lengthening the time slot to 40 minutes. Clearly the Mayor is an advocate for the people and wants to hear from all of us.
The meeting went really smoothly and was very business like. Even residents who had frustrations to air were treated respectfully. All the former moaning and groaning about CIVILITY was completely unnecessary because really all we had to do was get rid of Aronsohn-Pucciarelli-Hauck and the air in the room cleared instantly.
And then the FORMER councilwoman Gwenn Hauck goes flitting up to the microphone and asks a question that made no sense. She asked whether 3066 had been repealed. And it had not. And our Mayor had already explained why it was not being voted on last night. Ummmmm Gwenn…..please pay attention. It’s a shame to see you making a fool of yourself. Oh, that’s right, you always make a fool of yourself, nothing new there. Laughing my ass off from my easy chair with my ipad on my lap.
Siobhan Winograd is on the anti-Knudsen team, believe me. Just ignore her. She will go away.
But mommy, the child asks, if the lady says it is best to speak only three minutes, why does she speak almost ten minutes?”
Mommy answers, People do not always do what they advise others to do, they don’t always practice what they preach.
Our IT “department” is no more capable of accepting electronic questions than of…overseeing a basic website. What a can of worms that would open. We’re still recovering from (or never really will) the safari vote for mayor and deputy mayor on July 1, 2014.
The presence of former councilwoman Hauck at council meetings is an embarrassment. Go home.
Ex Mayor not Mayors.
Gwenn and Ahronson are pretending that they are somehow relevent to the goings on in town. Losers
Gwenns little jaunt did nothing but solidify that her removing herself from the election was the only smart thing she did in 4 years.
Wow.
They must be relevant given the attention provided by this blog. Why would you continue to report on their every move? Lets focus on the next steps and how we move forward.
7:47 She could have stayed in the election. Then she would have been decimated along with Brooks, Weitz, and Willet. Same outcome. Good won over evil.