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Rurik Halaby accused Mayor Susan Knudsen of personally orchestrating a web based smear campaign against his candidate Alexandra Harwin

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February 15,2018

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Ridgewood NJ, During last night’s Village Council meeting, Rurik Halaby accused Mayor Susan Knudsen of personally orchestrating a web based smear campaign against his candidate (Alexandra Harwin). Halaby alleged that The Ridgewood Blog was being used “headquarters” for this activity.

Mr. Halaby referred to the Ridgewood blog in the endearing terms that President Trump was alleged to use in referring to certain 3rd world countries, who Glen Rock Mayor Bruce Packer invited to move to Glen Rock . He also referred to his friends and neighbors who read this blog , stating he knows who they are (does that mean all 30,000 plus ) in the most derogatory terms .

As for Alexandra Harwin the new face of the 3 amigos , she moved to Ridgewood in 2014 , her husband is a Rabbi from Washington Township who was very involved in attacking Mayor Knudsen during the “gay flag” controversy and is a very active member of  Community Relations Advisory Board of Ridgewood and Glen Rock.

Alexandra is part of Emerge New Jersey a Democrat group that is involved in promoting liberal women and training them to run for office .

20 thoughts on “Rurik Halaby accused Mayor Susan Knudsen of personally orchestrating a web based smear campaign against his candidate Alexandra Harwin

  1. So let me get this completely straight – Jackass Rurik Halaby repeatedly refers to The Ridgewood Blog as “nothing more than a cesspool,” yet he seems to read it religiously. Am I missing something here?

  2. Just when you think Halaby could not sink lower, guess what, he sinks lower. How in the world could Susan (or anyone) control what people post anonymously? We all know that Jeff Voigt posts on the blog regularly, as do many others like Gwenn Hauck’s husband when he was smearing lies about Mike Sedon. Aronsohn reads the blog before he gets out of bed every morning. Pucciarelli reads it and was known to blast the blog even in the midst of a eulogy. It strikes me as hilarious that Halaby slams the blog when he in fact is a loyal reader.

  3. Rurik needs a good dose of Xanax even though I doubt it works for him. His should fire his doctor and get a new one. As per his protege I hope she doesn’t succeed. She is exactly the type of democrap I despise. It seems like I will vote for the least dangerous candidate again.
    James please keep us posted on the candidates. I am hoping to get as much info on them as possible. Clarifying their political preference would be of tremendous value too. Thanks.

  4. Rurik Halaby – the master of smear campaigns. Well well well, turnabout is fair play

  5. 9:53 I am personally offended at your use of the term democrap. It’s unfair to that poor little pile that did nothing to deserve your vitriol.

  6. Halaby does not understand that the blog is alive. It is an organism. It cannot be controlled. It has a life of its own, a mind of its own. It is fed by people who wish to speak their opinions but fear backlash from friends and neighbors. When someone posts on Facebook, people go after them relentlessly if they disagree. It intimidates well-meaning people from ever speaking their minds. But here on the blog, people can say what they really mean. And it is hugely beneficial to both the posters and the readers. The blog serves an outstanding purpose. Hell, even those who criticize it are reading it all the time. Even in CRAB meetings where so-called “civility” is the order of the day, the members obviously read the blog relentlessly, quote the blog, and take actions based on what they read on the blog. Thank you James Foytlin for providing this forum. LONG LIVE THE BLOG

  7. How can Halaby smear our mayor constantly, and yet he gets all upset when someone questions his anointed carpetbagger. The mayor has shown herself to be above reproach, has been cleared of all of Halaby’s and Delzio’s and Lehmann’s trumped-up stupid charges. And yet he keeps on smearing.

  8. Dem-o-Rat is a pejorative our progressive friends hate, hate, hate. Try tossing that one into an anonymous comment and watch to see whose heads start revolving 360 degrees…great fun. Just don’t go crazy with it since the ‘wood is an idyllic non-partisan hamlet, dontcha know!

  9. It’s amazing how similar Mr. Halaby is to our President. He spews hate, lies and paranoid conspiracy theories and before anyone can call him on this week’s idiocy he opens his mouth again for new drivel to pour out.

  10. emerge [ ih-murj ]
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    Main Entry: emerge
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    Part of Speech: verb
    .
    Definition: come out, arise
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    .
    Antonyms: disappear, fade, go away, leave, vanish, die out, slink away, go back, turn back, re-hibernate, return, evanesce, retreat, pull back, dissolve, dwindle, expire, go extinct, become scarce, beat feet, hit the road, spare others the agony of being exposed to one’s problems that really ought to remain personal, crawl back under one’s rock, re-mount the horse one rode in on and ride back out of town, fly back into one’s bat-cave with one’s fellow nocturnal friends, don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, slouch back toward Gomorrah

  11. 12:05. Halaby is a far leftist, he is on your side. Enjoy his company. Trump is great.

  12. Tru dat, 12:55pm…rabid never Trumpers are Rinos/Cinos that have finally been smoked-out as the cultural liberals they always were.

  13. He’s clearly a little…off. He isn’t wearing a bow tie in that photo.

  14. 12:55 – smh. You miss the point but you’re a trump supporter so I’ll write slowly. Blowhards on the fringe right are not that different than blowhards on the fringe left. That’s the view from the center at least. Get it now?

  15. Little squash halaby was so nasty to our mayor he disgusts me. Knudsen is the best.

  16. Crazy man. Does he really believe she controls anonymous blog posts. Does he know who I am? Maybe I’m his daffodil.

  17. 12:55 – that’s where you consistently fail…
    Some things are not best when you meet in the middle….you can’t have a baby in 4.5 months.

  18. Halaby, did you think you would have your little soiree and annoint your newest golden girl and everyone would fawn all over her and kiss your feet for finding her? How about a candidate who actually knows something about what is going on in town. Word is she goes to no meetings.. Except of course the meeting at the tennis club where the idiot brigade was stroking her ego.

  19. Mr. Halaby seems to have conveniently forgotten that the dirtiest campaign trick of all was put into play by his side during the 2014 Village Council race –

    An unnamed person telephoned Mike Sedon’s employer (the Staten Island Advance), spoke directly to Mr. Sedon’s supervisor, and suggested that the Advance force Mr. Sedon to drop his candidacy for Ridgewood Village Council, or be terminated from his position at the Advance. When told of the telephone call by his supervisor, Mr. Sedon chose to resign from his position rather than to continue working for a company willing to violate a NY State law that prohibits employers from retaliating against an employee’s desire to serve as a public official. The name of the person who called Mr. Sedon’s employer was never publicly revealed, but many of Mr. Halaby’s cohorts know who did it.

  20. 5.20pm. You need to adjust your chair. Also grab a new pair of binoculars to get a better view. I hope you get it.

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