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Ridgewood NJ, Are you confused about whether to vote NO or yes on the ballot question put up by the “One Village One Vote” gang of five?
As recently explained very eloquently (more eloquently than this): when we were not able to vote on the BOE budget proposals, the Board put massive increases through, circumventing the cap bank, and basically doing whatever the hell they wanted. Public input was summarily dismissed and ignored.
Contrarily, when the public is allowed to vote, the Board listens to our concerns and suggestions and reduces their grandiose plans for fancy bathrooms and extravagant windows, and puts more of an emphasis on curriculum needs. Public input really matters when we are allowed to vote on their annual budget.
So PLEASE VOTE NO. The question is on page 3 (the detached page) of the ballot that you received by mail. Voting NO will enable you to continue voting in the future.
If the case to vote “no” is so compelling, why the need to completely fabricate a post like this?
Here is the actual recent Ridgewood history. In fact, from 2013-2019, the BOE passed school budgets while we voted in November. School tax increases ranged from 0.97% to 2.04% every one of those years except one; in 2018-2019 the school tax increased 3.62%. Of that 3.62% increase, 1.2% was attributable to full day kindergarten (which we did vote on), and 0.60% due to anticipated health care increases (later returned to taxpayers). Spending remained controlled throughout the entire period.
Don’t listen to a word Lindenberg or any of his counterparts have to say. They suppress all comments opposing their views on Facebook pages they manage and on their own website. And why do they do that? Because they’re a bunch of liars who don’t want to get caught lying. VOTE NO!
Lindenberg is a liar. They never increased the taxes less than 2%, and two years ago, they found exemptions to increase more than 2%.
Vote No. Keep Our Vote is fabricating NOTHING. If the Vote Yes question passes, you will lose your right to vote on BOE budgets. Plain and simple. End of story. Vote NO
Lindenberg : if the Vote Yes campaign is so honest, then why the hell are people not allowed to comment on your ads and FB page? Why the hell are so many voters blocked from their site? Why are voters who try to comment on their posts not allowed to? You are all the most secretive, lying, disingenuous batch of people I’ve ever heard of. Dirty filthy politics.
Nope lindenberg. Not listening to your lies. I am voting NO
It just seems to me that if you’re going to ask our neighbors to vote a certain way, they probably deserve better than “Those mean people won’t let me comment on Facebook.” Our community is better than name-calling.
That’s why I’ve shared the relevant facts and data here. Fortunately no one needs to take my word for it, or even like me; it’s all a matter of public record in the thorough school budget presentations made each year.
This is going to be a mess again. Let me tell My fellow village residence do not trust anyone at the top they are playing chess with us.
Linden berg: it’s not those “mean” people who won’t allow comments from the opposing side or even questions. Nope, it is those scared lying people who don’t want their lies exposed. You five are unfuckingbelievable.
VOTE NO. Save your ability to vote
Lindenberg is using all made up data. Trust me there was no year with less than 2% increase. He is manipulating the data by subtracting kindergarten tax hike from both 2018 and 2019. You can’t have it both ways Matt.
Vote No in a landslide
Please God beat this idiotic plan. Vote NO
LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!
They want control of the Board of Ed. but even more, they want control of the COUNCIL. Those elections would also be pushed to November and be ignored by voters more concerned about county, state, and/or national elections.
Yeah, like I would vote for anything that Siobhan Winograd and Stacey Loscalzo support. Seriously. They who, along with Jeanne Thiesen, want to filter our public voices at BOE meetings. I am voting NO.
I’ve been here 29 years, who is Lundberg…?
He is irrelevant
Drop off – mail in those no votes. Don’t let the OVOV scam continue.
I have voted HELL NO and urge others to do the same! Why would anyone in his/her right mind relinquish his/her right to vote on the school budget?!? That’s just madness!
If we are all going to be voting by mail going forward, most of the issues of the OneVote groups are null and void. And, TBH, I just dont want to give up my opportunity to express my opinion on a BoE budgets. It’s 66% of my taxes for Gods sake.
Just look at your tax bills.
They always go up.
Tax tax tax= chase away the empty nesters who subsidize those of you with kids in school.
Well it seems Voigt is supporting OVOV. So another loser is added to that stupid initiative
Vote NO
Voigt voted yes? That’s all I need to NO
There was no full day k that year Matt Lindenberg. We had two board members who proposed an amendment to the school budget in 2018 that would have allowed for the funding needed for full day K the following years when we would actually have full day k without charging the taxpayers for it that year when it did not yet exist. All you people do is lie. You won’t put yourselves in the position of having a one on one conversation about the issues in real time on a public forum because you fear being exposed. You and your ovNOv pals take down comments and mute people because the truth is simply not on your side. All of your arguments are either wrong, false, or moot. This is about your small group of wannabes trying to control who gets elected , hoping that voters who are distracted by state and national issues wont pay attention to local ones. That’s why you threw poor Heather Mailander under the bus and sent us taxpayers your legal bills, so you could get around those 2000 signatures you actually needed to put a question about moving the date of the school elections on the ballot. You needed to have this vote now, when people are clearly interested in one thing only, who will be president. You are liars and scammers and if you succeed in getting enough votes on your insufficient ballot question, I hope every resident who wants their school budget vote pools their money and sues the crap out of the five of you.
Lindenberg is one of the lying five petitioners. They will literally say anything at all to get their vote.