November 30,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridewood NJ, Reader posts , “Paul Aronsohn – the same Paul Aronsohn that contacted one of my clients and tried to convince him not to stop using my services. All because I do not support Mr. Aronsohn’s policies. I ask you, what gives Mr. Aronsohn the right to interfere with my business operations? The answer is, he has no right to do so but he thinks because he is the mayor of Ridgewood and I’m a resident of Ridgewood, he can get into my personal business. Time to contact an attorney about Mr. Aronsohn’s big mouth.”
We have heard this story all to often , most are familiar with the attempt to derail Mike Sendon’s campaign with a despicable and cowardly email to his employer . And most are keenly aware that this was a third rate low life attempt to disenfranchise Ridgewood voters .
Advertises on this blog have been attacked and subtly threatened , fake blogs have been set up by local failures to attack this blog the list goes on and on.Playing favorites may not be a crime but it is terrible governance. Bringing Hudson County politics into Ridgewood is lowering the entire standing of this town and its residents . The bad news for the purveyors of this garbage is that this isn’t Hudson County and its never going to be . Elections come and go but Ridgewood will always be Ridgewood .
Sue him in tort. Wrongful interference with business relationships. Of a piece with what happened to Mike Sedon. We need this cancer to be cut out of the Village.
Yes 9:46 but we can’t stop with him. His two running mates must also be cut out. They have further his agenda and are just as guilty. I don’t care ow many cookies you give to the seniors.
Do you feel the walls starting to close in on you Paul?
This is nothing new. Members of the Council majority are convinced that they know better than the rest of us and anyone that disagrees with them is ignorant. If the dissenting party persists in their argument, the Council majority moves into attack mode. Just ask Mike Sedon, Susan Knudson, Lorraine Reynolds, Marla Sherman or any of the other dozen or so public servants, voters, tax payers and neighbors that have been the object of this group’s misguided wrath.
12:44- add to the list Linda macnamara, Ellie Gruber, Boyd Loving, Anne Loving, jackie hone, tom Riche, Bernie Walsh, Jeff Voigt, the list continues. If you speak up, they will try to shut you down and humiliate you. Fortunately these good people seem to have thick skins and keep on speaking the truth, asking th hard questions, writing the accurate letters. Keep up the good work folks, especially Mike and Susan. We need you!
You can add me to the list. And those who have been so treated in public will not soon forget it.
You have to let go of this tortious interference BS….a judge would laugh you out of his courtroom…just grow a pair. The naysayers on this blog are the vocal minority in the village as noted by the garage vote. Your “three amigos” will win reelection if they choose to put up with this nonsense for another term.
keep dreaming, the baby sitting has begun
3:20 – Are you referring to the “vocal minority” that headed off your Apartment vote on Sept 30? That vocal minority? Your trio of friends were backpedaling in overdrive to just to get home from that meeting. Even still they are probably history in May. Your buddy Paul will probably figure out a way to save his own backside but the other two are toast.
@ 3:20, the garage vote was simply a vote “yes” I would like to see more parking in town. Gwenn and Paul told anyone who would listen to vote yes and iron out the details later. This vote was not an endorsement of any plan of theirs, though I voted no bc I thought some simple minded people might take a yes majority too far.
In case you are unclear, with a bond vote taxpayers have the final say so that three better play fair.
This nonsense is called democracy
3:20, there are corrosively antisocial behaviors which totally suck, which we as a society are determined to deter, and which the legal system has defined and provided a forum for the jerks who do these things to “civilly” have their self-centered asses handed to them via monetary awards to the people affected. Judges do not laugh at such behaviors but are paid to look down their noses at it and hand down appropriate judgments. You are out to lunch thinking the behavior in question falls into the “suck it up” category. When someone’s livelihood is negatively affected for no damn good reason but that some officeholder or political hack has gotten a wild hair up his ass, judges are not generally amused. Really, you should be the one getting a clue.
3:20, do you know how much you sound like Councilman Pucciarelli? You’ve got his blustering, dismissive, egotistical, condescending, supercilious attitude down to a T.
3:20- so,you are suggesting that if the mayor tries to interfere with someone’s income, the person should grow a pair? Are you for real? Trying to sideswipe someone’s income is hardly name calling. It was done to Sedon and now to someone else. How the hell can you brush that off? You are despicable. Straighten out your toupee and look at yourself in the mirror.
So a Ridgewood business owner objected to one of those pro-parking signs surreptitiously planted in front of his business, in a planter pot, or in the dirt cutout in the sidewalk next to a tree trunk? Is this what happened? And the Mayor caught wind of this and started proselytizing against this business for failing to toe the party line on the parking garage? Why were these signs littering the downtown area in their hundreds anyway?
2:59, this is not the exact scenario, except that the Mayor did, indeed, ask a client of a local business to stop using that business. Stay tuned, it will be revealed to all.
The Ridgewood Board of Ed was in the habit of rubber stamping everything the Ridgewood District did or wanted to do. And the Board of Ed had a cadre of about 3,000 to about 3,300 registered voters that would come out and blindly vote for the new BOE candidates (like Laurie Goodman) who had the implied blessing of the existing members of the BOE and the superintendent. This was (is) the Ridgewood Pro-District Party. We seem to be in a similar situation now with respect to the Village Council. You’re either a supporter of the “machine” or you are a meddling outsider who needs to keep your wits about you lest you get crushed like a bug. But for the machine to really thrive, all non-machine mere meddlers need to keep harboring that deep, dark feeling inside that they will eventually get crushed like a bug despite their best efforts to avoid that fate.