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 .
Janice Willett – she was terrible. Oh my god, just awful. Attacking all forms of social media, especially the blog, but also saying there are too many facebook pages. Here we are in the 21st century and she wants us to get off social media. And did you notice that toward the end she was fading fast, had to have questions repeated for her, could barely answer. Nap time.
James, you are the king of alternative facts. A Harwin flyer said that Knudsen contributed to a blog (this one) that compared gun control advocates to Hitler Youth (which you did). In no way does this amount to Willett calling Knudsen a Nazi! That leap is crazy. You literally made that up. By the way, Knudsen’s support of this awful blog is neither a secret nor a lie. She’s even praised the blog at council meetings- beyond horrifying. The sad thing is that people seem not to see how manipulative and toxic this blog is.
nice try you are just mad you cant get away with the BS
330 – – if you have problems with the blog, you should blame Arohnson. It was as a result of his vapid and insipid approach to governance that this blog arose.
Don’t always agree with every post here, but then again, I don’t always agree with everything written in the WSJ and the Washington Post, but I appreciate them both.
The fact is that Harwin circulated a flyer that associated Knudsen with Nazism; Harwin and Willet’s key supporter, Herr lehman, spread trash about one of the churches in town and a town charity. And, neither Harwin or Willet have stepped up to correct the record or set things straight.
She praised the Blog and all social media for getting out an emergency alert notice!
Nice try 4pm, this opinion site was spewing garbage long before Arohnson emerged.
3:30 – yet here you are posting for your favorite candidate. Ms Harwin is the toxic one in this discussion. Without her hate filled fliers full of lies we wouldn’t even be having this discussion. And someone please wake Mrs Willett up and tell he she’s running for Council again. Even after she was trounced by a 2-1 margin just 2 years ago.
Harwin wearing an ear piece makes sense. We were all wondering what was wrong with her. So slow in her speech and very non reactive. Almost unprepared. She had to have the mayor repeat a simple question then didn’t bother to answer another.
Too timid and uneducated in local government for me
Bring in experience!!
If she was taking calls from Aronsohn she should be censured by the League of Women Voters. It was clearly announced at the beginning that no electronic gizmos were allowed.