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HERMANSEN: SCHOOL’S OUT…FOREVER
By Democratic Comm...When the Freeholder Board approved a resolution which included the money necessary to open a second, modern campus in East Rutherford designed predominantly to serve students in southern Bergen County, Hermansen and his running mate John Driscoll simply called it ‘excessive’, (Northjersey.com 8/13/09).
“Education is not only a vital element of providing our children the best future possible, it’s also essential to helping displaced workers get their lives back on track,” said Freeholder Julie O’Brien. “The geographic size of Bergen makes travel back and forth from the main campus unfeasible for some. This new campus will open doors for many of our residents.”
“Any dollar that directly helps a resident of this county learn is a dollar well spent,” said Freeholder Vernon Walton. “It’s a shame Rob Hermansen is less concerned with opening up new possibilities for our constituents than he is with scoring political points.”
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Didn't the Freeholders
Buy the land in Rutherford for BCCC stating primary purpose for that campus was to "train the service workers who would staff Xanadu"? I mean, wasn't that the justification for over-paying for that particular piece of property? (And wasn't the County going to just rent the property - until they discovered they could spend far, far more to buy it?!?!)
The Xanadu shopping center is as mythic (i.e., not real) as its name suggests, and buying that land to build a 'satellite campus' of BCCC for the "Xanadu workers' is clearly a HUGE waste of taxpayer money. Unfortunately, it took this long for someone to point that out. But the freeholders respond by attacking the person who question them?
To understand how this all works, you must realize the following: conceptualize Julie O'Brien and the Freeholders as Old Testament characters. They're vain, angry, didactic, and resistant to even the friendliest secular exegesis.
That's why the Bergen Freeholders can't stand even the slightest bit of inquiry.
Sticks and Stone will Break My Bones...
.... but Democrat Freeholders Julie O'Brien & Vernon Walton don't bother to read spending bills before they vote for them.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT2KRO6RcqY
Wake up Bergen County - these people don't care about your education. They care about themselves and their tax and spend political careers.
Funny someone calls it excessive
and now they are against education. Funny Julie and the freeholders," Just didn't cheap out" on this one either it looks like very similiar to a 4.7 million dollar equestrian center. Remember if you can do it for the right price bad, but if you Just can't cheap out, then it's good. Democratic beliefs at it's best.