Final Bergen County freeholder debate takes feisty turn
Sunday October 27, 2013, 5:22 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The final debate between the six candidates running for Bergen County freeholder turned feisty Sunday when the three Republican incumbents went on the attack more frequently than they had in three earlier forums.
But one Democratic challenger took his GOP opponents to task for mailing a flier that cited a state tax lien he incurred during a difficult time when his wife was dying.
During the 90-minute debate at Temple Emeth in Teaneck, Republican Freeholder John Mitchell criticized Democrats James Tedesco, Christopher Tully and Lorraine Waldes for tax increases adopted while they served on various borough councils and school boards.
Mitchell said taxes went up all but one year in Paramus when Tedesco was mayor, three out of four years while Tully was on the Bergenfield council and 11 years in a row while Waldes was on the River Vale School board.
The attack was a departure from earlier debates in which Mitchell and fellow Republicans John Felice and Maura DeNicola mostly touted their own record and ignored or deflected most of their charges leveled by the Democrats.
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