the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, at the Wednesday Village Council meeting, Councilwoman Reynolds asked attorney Matthew Rogers whether a cap could be put on spending for each candidate for local election campaigns. Looks like that’s not possible. She also asked whether campaign donations could be limited to Ridgewood origin. Also a no go. This came during discussion about how hard it is to get people to run for office.
Weitz, Vagianos, and Winograd all talked about how social media bullying prevents people from wanting to run for office, and stated that attacking people’s jobs and children and families would deter anyone from running. As usual they omitted to mention the Mike Sedon incident, where he was terminated after a cowardly call from who many allege was Mayor Paul Aronsohn and of coarse Melanie Hooban who was asked to leave her job at the Ridgewood Y after similar pressure was applied.
The staff has listened to this twice this morning over coffee. Other than Steve Kim clarifying Frank Mortimer’s job title, we at The Blog don’t recall anyone else’s job ever being mentioned (questioned) during the election. And we don’t remember anyone’s children or family being attacked at all except for Ms. Kwak . We think that’s all load of bull*#% intended to distract from the FACT that the winning triumvirate spent $100,000 or so of money that came from all over the state to buy their wins.
No one runs because Ridgewood has become a very transient one party town favoring special interests with no room for dissension.
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Yes. They conveniently forgot how Mike Sedon was screwed by Paul Aronsohn, and the role Mr. Vagianos’ supporters played in torpedoing the relationship between Ms Hooban and her employer. What a bunch of scumbags.
“No one runs because Ridgewood has become a very transient one party town favoring special interests with no room for dissension.”
Correct. And you’d all do the same. Stop whining.
The WASPs still run the town…
lol
Hey Rumplestiltskin, it’s not the early 1800s anymore.
It’s all lousy. We don’t need to play the “i was offended worse than you were” game. All of these incidents are petty and unproductive, all contribute to the toxicity of our politics and our discourse.
“Is the Village of Ridgewood For Sale: Village Council Say No”
I agree. It was sold long ago. It is now in client maintenance/retention.
Of course, the villages for sale it’s nothing new I’ve been telling you this for 25 years nothing new. I told you follow the money, in the past 25 years the same bullshit occurs each and every day week month and year. There are individuals running things from behind the curtain why I say this well we change, mayors, council members, managers, and some management, and the same things occur so what would you say think about it dirty business, big donations
What was Evan going on and on about? No one ever mentioned his wife and children during his campaign. Or his job.
Guys, you need to look in the mirror. The shit that comes out during elections is sick. The cries of “corruption” from both sides every time they disagree with something is terrible. And yes, The Ridgewood Blog often puts gas on the fire. Melanie Hooban and the like have long been terrible with name calling and guess what, it came back to bite her in the preverbal ass. For those who think there is some sort of cabal in the VC, I think it comes down to the fact that most people see them as less dickish than the Steve Kims and Anne Lovings of this world who act as the attack dogs for the other side.
yes attacking Kwak’s kids all the time and then pretending your not is pretty lame
Nobody attacked anybody’s kids…it was simply pointed out that they didn’t attend Ridgewood schools. You have proven my point- you take a legitimate point and somehow try and turn it into some kind of groomer pizza shop pedophile attack. This is exactly why Kwak didn’t win. She was a very capable candidate who would have most likely done a very good job, but people get repulsed by those around her…
calm down you live in New Jersey, everything is a scam
The state is communist and yes most everything is a scam round here. If your not in the sticks or down south, likely communists are running your county and town.
The state is communist and very corrupt. We need to hold those accountable. And yes most everything is a scam round here. If your not in the sticks or down south, likely communists are running your county and town.