Does anybody actually believe the Village’s upcoming senior survey will help seniors? What can the Village possibly do to “help” other than add more lunch sessions to Ms Hauck’s playlist? (She’s only doing her lunches to get votes anyway, although she would be unlikely to win if she ran again…she achieved third place by only a handful of votes in 2012. Did Aronsohn’s P.R. advisers, White Horse Strategies, come up with seniors as her ideal constituency? Please.)
I’d bet dollars to Dunkin’ that the unmentioned goal of the survey, or at least the reason the Amigos support it, is to assemble an email and address list of residents over a certain age so they can assault a targeted audience with materials on those intended new apartments, the assisted-care place, realtor ads, and who-knows-what-all. Somehow something dastardly is being planned. The people who suggested the survey probably don’t know that–I’m not necessarily faulting them.
Well, I have no intention of playing into their hands by responding in any way, and I suggest that others age 60+ do the same, or at least read all the questions before agreeing to supply any answers. And don’t let them have your email address.
Unfortunately, three-fifths of the current Village Council has behaved so selfishly and cynically in ways that will destroy the Village that it has become impossible to attribute motives to them other than egotism, greed, and self-seeking.
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If Hauck runs again she will win by a landslide. I don’t agree with what the three amigos stand for , but all the seniors she sees at the senior center love her and will come out and vote for her. I have spoken to some around town.
Now that’s how to get votes. Go after a particular constituency and you are guaranteed to win, if you make them love you. After all, few residents vote in local town elections. Move from town council on up to say Sarah Palin, the national level. It’s not impossible.
If any one takes my advice please post so I can bill you if you succeed.
This town contains thousands more seniors than the ones who accept the free lunch and hula dancing–trust me–and those are the ones with a brain.
They’re going to try very hard to reach everybody over 60. Then they will give the results to the developers and realtors, and to the mayor just in time for him to manipulate the spring council election.
She’d better hope for good weather on election day because the seniors will not come out if it is raining.
She plans transportation for them, I was told. I was told, not sure if true.
Yes, there are thousands of seniors and thousands of middle age etc. But only a small percentage care enough to vote. Most residents are not even aware of what is going on in Ridgewood.
Trust me.
11:15 has it right… also in terms of voting, our more mature residents vote at a higher rate than the voting population at large… It’s smart to court that constituency.
As an out of work comedy writer, I hope she gets re-elected so that I will have plenty of good material for my pilot TV sitcom – “Nothing Here But a Smile & Blond Hair.”
The village should pledge NOT to sell the names and addrresses to an outside vendor
I am near the age for the survey. What can the village do to reduce my taxes?
If I move it will not be within Ridgewood. I do not need a free lunch. .
They won’t sell them. They’ll use them personally and give hem away, probably as part of the deal they’ve cut with the developers.
What is sad is that the village council and manager talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. They don’t want seniors here with limited fixed income. If they did they wouldn’t find all kinds of unnecessary ways to spend our money and raise our taxes…. like the parking deck, the infrastructure for the village hall, the renovation of the library, the push to have Park Mobile all over town, will building or developing Schedler raise taxes? It could be left as wildscape, much needed in this part of over developed town.
She has no shot at re-election, non of them do. The voters who elected Sedon will be the voters who elect the next council. If she were to side with Knudson and Sedon and vote down the high density plan I might reconsider.
This town does everything ass backward. You launch a survey to asses needs of seniors after you plan on approved housing for them? Kind of like a referendum on a garage that is already approved.
Well, I’m a senior and I am one of many I know who would not vote for Ms. Haick.
10:41 same here
Am I the only person in his 60’s who finds the senior citizen tag a bit comical? I am still working and will be for many years. No time for surveys or lunch with those who would pander for my vote.