May 1,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the forum last night was devoid of any major fireworks perhaps except other than Willett who opened her introduction by calling the Ridgewood blog “Hate Mongers” , funny given her campaign called the Mayor a “Nazi” for posing with the Easter Bunny and Working with veterans and also sponsored a grotesque anti catholic hate mail piece sent out to Village Residents. .On the upside Willett vowed to stay awake last night , but the jury is still out .
So a couple a quick take a way’s from last nights candidate forum :
As expected Harwin sounded like a light weight ,with no grasp of the issues facing the Village .
Harwin virtually bragged about not attending Village Council Meetings, adding to her cluelessness .
Aronsohn the puppet master used Willett to be the heavy , or play the bad cop trying and failing to attack the Mayor over and over.
Both Willett and Harwin read off the Arosohn script even repeating some of the lines he said when he first ran for council.
Several people questioned Harwin’s speaking style, even questioning if she was wearing an ear piece .
Both the Mayor and Deputy Mayor came out fighting and appeared to be in total grasp of the issues .
Both the mayor and Deputy came off as experienced and as advocates for the Village of Ridgewood .
While the challengers claimed a “new direction” they repeated the same Aronsohn ideas that almost destroyed the Village of Ridgewood .
On a side note:
Funny how everyone claims taxes is the biggest issue ,yet the biggest burden on Village Taxpayers is the Board of Ed ,with a budget of $110,000,000 and most of the BOE members have run unchallenged in recent years. On top of that Phil Murphy who promised to raise taxes was elected Governor so maybe taxes are not the real issue after all.
And one final thing :
It is clear that anyone involved in any way with former Mayor Paul Aronsohn are unfit for political office and or unfit to work for the Village or even volunteer for any boards .