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Ridgewood NJ, In an ironic twist, Councilman Jeffrey Voigt reported at the April 3 Village Council meeting on the proposed “Ridgewood Community Center Rules of Conduct.”  As Council liaison to The Community Center Advisory Board, he was apparently part of the discussion in which the new Code of Conduct for the Community Center was developed.  So here you have an elected official who on several occasions (not once, but multiple times) has called a man FATSO, even following him through a bank parking lot shouting this body-shaming insult.  And he called a citizen a “douchebag” on the microphone at a Village Council meeting.  He lost his temper with The Village Manager at a public meeting,  telling her “I’m f’ing pissed,” when the Manager fulfilled a legal request by the Mayor for documents.  And there are several, in fact many, other instances in which his conduct has been anything but exemplary.  We can’t wait to see the rules that he comes up with for appropriate behavior in the Community Center, considering that his benchmark is so low.