file photo by Boyd Loving
February 27,2016
Clearly, both messages were purely political in nature and substance. That is, they were not intended to communicate any official Village of Ridgewood matters to the selected recipients.
Included within the body of both messages was this information:
“Our mailing address is:
Gwenn Hauck – Village of Ridgewood Council
131 North Maple Ave.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450”
131 North Maple Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 is the address of Village Hall, a building paid for by Ridgewood’s taxpayers and staffed only by employees of the Village of Ridgewood (whose salaries are paid for by taxpayers).
I am flabbergasted that Ms. Hauck could believe her status as a sitting member of the current Village Council would entitle her to use taxpayer funded facilities & services in connection with the receipt and handling of mail related to her re-election campaign.
Perhaps this practice MAY be lawful, but it certainly seems completely unethical, disrespectful, arrogant, and downright STUPID.
Let’s hope that Ms. Hauck just didn’t know any better as opposed to it being a deliberate effort to thumb her nose at us all.
The use an official Village of Ridgewood mailing address for Ms. Hauck’s re-election campaign must cease immediately.
Perfect. Between her, and another candidate getting his petitions signed whike at a school function Monday, we can expect 4 more years of total disregard. Looking forward to it.
The Village is very fortunate to have Mr. Loving reveal this travesty for all the world to see. Mail handling costs at VH have been spiraling out of control and it must be stopped!!!!! The Councilwoman’s mailings will certainly generate thousands of pieces of reply mail, unnecessarily killing many innocent trees in the process. Some may even be in oversized envelopes, increasing the risk of injury to our overworked municipal employees!! Hopefully we will see photos of our mail carriers delivering their oversized satchels on Mr. Loving’s facebook page!
Just wondering has she used the Village IT person to help her with her web site and these e-mails ?
They all do 8:43 to do government business not to run a campaign to get re-elected. She is beyond belief. She should publish her HIT LIST as well. When the new council get elected the first thing the should do is change the name of the park to Hillcrest Park. Well duck will be forking over a lot of money to buy this election for his little girl.
We if he did I’ll bet he might say that he did it in his off hours. Get it.
I wonder if she asked Big Al the Developers Friend for legal advice after all he is a Hotel Attorney and knows everthing
When you have been spoiled all your life and come from money I guess she think she can do whatever she wants.
9:21 – Check out her website for a photo posted of the VOR IT person posing with her. Maybe that provides a clue to your question.
9:04 Not the volume but the principle of the matter. This should not be permitted.
Who knows, maybe all her mail comes to village hall.. She doesn’t let the cops come to her house, maybe she doesn’t let the mailmen come either.
Wow, she is really ballsy. What the heck??? How the hell is this legal under NJ election laws? It is one thing for an elected official to receive official mail at village hall. It is quite another for an elected official who,is running for reelection to receive campaign mail there. She is a disgrace, plain and simple.
Well this will be short-lived. She will be out of office in just a few months. Her vllage email will be cut off and her ability to ride herd on our little town will be over. Patience people, the fever is about to break.
Don’t you guys have anything better to do than to complain about Gwenn using a mailbox at Village Hall? She is a lifelong resident who knows the village inside and out and you are lucky to have somebody so devoted and knowledgeable of the history. But your gripe is with her use of Village Hall as her mailing address. Get a life.
Get a life!
Ride Herd? You are all lucky to have Gwenn who is a lifelong resident and cares about and knows the village inside and out — much better than any of you. So she uses a Village Hall mail box. Does that really deserve a headline and such animosity? Get a life. If she got a PO box you’d find something else nasty to say.
As an elected official, Miss Hauck should both be eager to be, and actually be, punctilious in her observance of and compliance with the law. Anything else places the rule of law at risk of public contempt and seriously diminishes her as an elected officeholder.
Get a life? Believe me, there is plenty to complain about regarding Mrs. Hack besides her inappropriate use of the Village Hall as he campaign address. And people complain about all of it. Perhaps, Sarah and 1:10 AM, you have just this second started to pay attention to Ridgewood government issues from the past four years. If you page through the BLOG you will find endless complaints about Mrs. HACK. She is one of the thre worst things ever to happen to Ridgewood. The fact that she is a lifelong resident does not grant her credibility, sorry. She sucks, plain and simple.
Frankly Sarah, I don’t give a flying F that she is a lifelong resident, nor that she knows the Village inside and out. Those excuses don’t hold water.
The use of village hall as her mailing address speaks to her arrogance and incompetence and disregard for appropriate behavior. All of which make her completely unsuitable for elected office.
1:10, 1:11 and 1:13 are all Gwenn’s comments. She is the one who repeats herself and praises herself all the time, and oh – Roberta is also the one who praises herself all the time, but she can’t praise Gwenn, so these three comments are from Gwenn for sure.
I guess Im luck to have Hemorrhoids also Sarah . Having Gwenn as a councilwoman and hemorrhoid Im so blessed.
1:13 am. How can you say that Gwenn knows the village better than any of us? What the hell are you basing that statement on? The fact that she has lived here a long time? Ummmmm. A lot of us have lived here a long time. The fact that she knows the village inside and out? Ummm…not really. She thinks everyone has landscapers and cleaning ladies and stays at home to get their nails done. She completely disregards all the working people, one of which she is most definitely not.
And the animosity is not based on her unethical campaign mailing address. It is based on her four years of missteps, nastiness, sneakiness, viciousness, and crappy leadership. Seems like you just moved to town and are clueless about her tainted history as Miss Blue Eyes on the dais. If you had paid attention at all, you would understand why people are so over her.
Gwenn Hauck
Worst. Councilwoman. Ever.
Sarah, many of us who post here are lifelong residents. The Village is lucky to have all of us, including Gwen. The Village is also lucky to have recent residents. Just as lucky. That said, it is totally inappropriate to use Village resources for your election campaign. Its totally wrong. Period. Instead of posting here to justify and excuse it, , you should let her know its wrong. None of us lifelong or recent residents pay tax dollars to fund someone’s election campaign. It is distasteful and wrong. Frankly, I am assuming this all a mistake and much to do about nothing, and I am sure she will change the address as soon as she realizes the mistake.
7:33. It is not a mistake. It is completely intentional. She was told to stop and she continues to use that address. Her nose is being thumbed at all of us. As you said, distasteful and wrong. As are most of the things she says and does in her official capacity.