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“I find the Village Council’s response to tonight’s assault at the town council meeting simply atrocious. It is also beyond vile that one of the council members attempted to find reason for why the council took no responsibility to address the assault. To request that we find a better time to call the police? Yes, it was a shame it occurred during a feel good ceremony, but I certainly hope you are not insinuating that the attack was planned for that time. A town council with a sense of responsibility and care for its residents would have addressed the incident after the ceremony, not turn a blind eye. Nor would they try to find reason for turning a blind eye.
Let’s also remember that the alleged victim is someone who has been attacked repeatedly during these meetings for recording public meetings. Lead by example – what you have done is open the gates up to give others the sense of right to attack those who wish to record.
Shame on you. I hope your children and grandchildren weren’t watching – you certainly taught them an interesting lesson tonight.
“I totally agree. The Village Council should have called to have Don Delzio removed and banned from all future meetings. They clearly sent a message that this type of behavior is acceptable.
I had high hopes for Albert and Gwenn when I helped run a grass roots campaign to get them elected. Now they have not only turned their backs on residents by moving forward with this mammoth garage structure, they are allowing people like Don Delzio to intimidate other residents.
Hopefully, our new VC that will be voted in next summer can overturn the debacle that has been caused by poor representation. Look forward to getting a new VC and possible new VM who are more responsive to resident’s needs.
Ed”
Gwenn stated that NO ONE SAW IT HAPPEN, and then suggested that it was an overreaction to call the police and that it was inappropriate to call the police when there was a feel,good event in progress. She is a concerned, caring, compassionate citizen. NOT?
Just to be clear, the council election is not next summer. It’s May 10. Turnover happens on July 1 but it’s a done deal by then.
Three seats will be open. Aronsohn says he won’t run. Hauck and Pucciarelli have said both yes and no. We need three NEW PEOPLE who are not “like minded” in lockstep. Five minds are supposed to be thinking independently up there and not a “majority” always voting together on everything. The three who came to power together and have shouldered out the others as “the council majority” should be embarrassed, not proud, that they can’t or refuse to think independently about anything.
The three stooges just do not care two of them are arrogant and the third is just in over her head.
I love it.
“I had high hopes for Albert and Gwenn when I helped run a grass roots campaign to get them elected. Now they have not only turned their backs on residents ” You drank the Kool Aid Ed and now your not happy and you screwed the rest of use. If you were so easily fooled by the 3 Amigos then maybe you should stay out of any elections lest you get fooled again.
Everyone should go to the next VC meeting and record it… lets have a Million Recorder March on the village.
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#RecordersLivesMatter
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12:03. Great idea! At least we can all hold up our cell phones throughout.
Never in my life have I ever seen a town so full of aggressive and self serving behavior. Shameful. I cannot wait to move as soon as my kids graduate which is sooner rather than late, thank God!
Dear 12.49 as earlier predicted..here come those for sale signs,..good for no one,…good citizens of ridgewood..after
Investing hundred of thousands in taxes each decade,,then have to pull up stakes because of
bad government and poor uncivil behavior..town management has a major hand in all of this..for what …some multi family units and a restaurant mafia..and favors owed the county..Bad showing ridgewood..we are laughing stocks,..
It will be heard to dislodge Pooch and Gwen…they carry the water buckets for the Recreation Committee.
The Rec Comm will be e-mailing the parents of the kids that play sports in town. It’s tough to overcome this form of “ballot stuffing.”
If Mayor Paul does not issue an emphatic statement about this then I think the citizens should uprise. It is ridiculous that he allowed this to happen in a meeting that he chairs, he said nothing, he did nothing, he did not speak to Dana on the way out, he is such an obnoxious self-serving jerk. It is increasingly apparent that this whole event may have been in some way planned in order to make Dana look bad. Well, Sir Paul and Sir Albert, this did not happen. Instead you and your blondie gal friday wound up looking like complete and total insensitive, uncivil idiots. There are simply not enough horrible adjectives to describe the three of you.
TMZ article today:
BILL MURRAY HURLED FANS’ PHONES OFF ROOFTOP
2/12/16 12:26 PM PST
10:00 AM PT — Police spoke to Murray on Friday and he’s offered to pay for the damage to the phones. The phone owners were cool with that, and don’t want to press any charges … so, case closed.
Bill Murray is accused of going all Naomi Campbell on some fans who tried to take his photo in the tranquil seaside town of Carmel, CA … and now cops are investigating.
Bill was hanging out at the Vesuvio rooftop lounge, a popular watering hole for celebs playing in the annual Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tourney. It’s going on now, and Bill is playing.
The owner of the restaurant, Scott Pepe, tells us Bill wasn’t drinking … he just got really pissed when a few patrons got starstruck and took his pic.
The fans were pretty obvious, with flashes going off only 10 feet away from Bill, according to Scott. He says Bill got so angry he got up and chucked their phones off the 2nd story rooftop.
Cops were called, but Bill left before they got there.
Scott says the incident’s making him change his policy — no phones and no pictures, since celebs come in a lot. We spoke to the Carmel PD, and they’re looking into the incident.
And a commenter to the TMZ article says…:
Murray probably just committed more than one felony. Don’t worry though folks, laws don’t apply to the “beautiful people”. Assault, theft by unauthorized taking, willful destruction of private property.
WOW 10:20 I hope Murray doesn’t come to our council meeting
Assault? What assault? How about the psychological assault when a jerk intrudes your personal space by sticking his camera up your face. Remember, your freedom ends where my nose begins.
so Rurik beside killing turtles , you are supporting physical violence against your neighbors ? #turtleslivesmatter
Hey, James, have you considered going to work as a speech writer for Trump? You may take my suggestion as a compliment, but I assure you it is not meant that way.
Rurik how about the psychological assault from council member when the talk to the public.
#turtleslivesmatter
Rurik your psyche must be pretty fragile if you considered that a psychological assault. I guess it doesn’t take muck to push you over the edge.
#change the name to Hillcrest park
Rurik, man, chill on the James-bashing! Why do this to your host? He has been quite gracious to you overall. You should aim your barbs elsewhere, really. Or start your own blog. The latter would be a shame, really, as you have been willing to joust relatively freely, and mostly fairly, on this blog. But…comes a point!
Rurik, you were not there. Remember? You were not there. Delzio was standing with his foot inside the legs of Dana’s tripod. He had his face in Dana’s face. He was twisting his neck and putting his face in front of the camera lens. Dana was silently standing there with his camera, as he is entitled to do by law. He did not rise to the provocation of this aggressor at all. The only thing he did was take out his cell phone AFTER Delizio started cell-phone-taping HIM. Delzio was 100% aggressor and Dana was 100% passive, quiet, and orderly. You did not see what happened, and your wife sure as heck did not because her eyes were glued onto Jim Griffiths’ event. So your commentary is less than meaningless. You constantly criticize the blog, but you are posting based on the skewed report that your friend Gwenn gave you – and remember, GWENN STATED THAT SHE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING and that NO ONE SAW ANYTHING. Consider your source. Have some warm milk and go to bed.
This just in from Big Al – clearly he is running on defense. We know that Albert hates Dana, we heard him threaten Dana a few weeks ago, then we saw him join in a middle-school-boys’ bashing of Dana in cahoots with Aronsohn and Bob Fuhrman. Albert may claim that he does not want to outlaw taping, but he sure as hell does What he hates more than anything is that all of his nasty, inappropriate outbursts have been caught on tape by the Village cameras (and by other peoples cameras) and replayed over and over and over. It makes it impossible for him to escape the truth about himself, that his temper is unmanageable and flares up often and publicly. So read what Albert is saying here:
Albert Pucciarelli
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If the reference in this article to an ordinance “introduced” at the January 27 Village Council meeting is referring to a draft ordinance that I circulated for comment, that ordinance does not purport to prohibit or restrict video or audio recording at Council meetings. It would require that participants at meetings that are not otherwise being recorded, such as a meeting of the Arts Council, be informed that the meeting is being recorded.
Albert Pucciarell
Seriously, someone argues it is ok to knock a camera out of a person’s hands? Yes, no one should shove a camera in someone else’s face. But that is not what happened here. (And if it did, someone should have called the Police earlier.) Condoning and urging violence between Villagers cannot be viewed simply as the ravings of a self-styled curmudgeon. It is what we would expect to hear from a fascist who seeks to undermine democracy. Sadly, the comment personifies the mire into which we have been led by members of our Council.