Bergen Republicans ask feds to probe improvement authority

this should have been done years ago

Is McNerney running this year? R the Bergen Republicanz running against the Bergen County Improvement Authority? I thought they were running against Ganz & McPherson, two of most vulnerable Freeholder candidates ever? Y nothing about the actual targetz of an actual race that the BCRO is running candidates in?

Ruiz, the rest of your posting needs to be translated into English. Capiche ?

ever imagined when he sat down and wrote one of his exceedingly annoying, patently phony, intelligence insulting and canned and recycled: empty and meaningless lines that depicts "The good Dem boss who is always up against and being torn down by total failure Republican's." And his daily living Bill Maer comments about the battle between good dem and bad repub are released to state, regional and town newspapers and pol web sites.  

Bill Maer wrote, "You would think that after all these years of defeat they would know that people are smarter than that, and do not listen to their typical campaign rhetoric.”

It is Bill Maer who routinely and on an almost daily basis reduces Democrats and Republicans to a one dimensional caricature. I understand that he is paid very well to do deliver short but very glib lines that mischaracterize what is going on in Dem driven Bergen County and beyond!  I like to think that mature and public servant driven leaders and law makers on both sides of the aisle in Bergen County have more in common than you think.

But he still spins it like we are engaged in a never ending: no sum game!  It's old and antiquated rhetoric at best and at worst it's the brainwashing of reality to perpetuate the machine. It's always 'The ever good, can do no wrong and is always rightgeous BCDO Dem boss or leader who is once and again taking cheap shots from the failed and totally inept Republican who is really just envious and jealous of Joe Ferriero's success story in Bergen county!'

I don't think deep thinking Democrats people any of that spin. 

Bill Maer reduces people and extremely serious and complex situations into an "us versus them" sound bite mentality. You would think reading him that Republicans and Democrats are living in different universes and that we are not one and share the same communities: We all pay the same taxes and are effected by the cost of living here in Bergen County. We are all paying for deeply imbedded corruption and all the ramifications: subpoenas flying around the county and investigations being conducted throughout the county cost a lot of money!

And Bill should know that just like there are many shades of green: It is also true there are many sahdes of Democrats and I dare say Republicans in Bergen County! We don't all march in lockstep to the same BCDO beat and drum march. Or listen mindlessly to party line orders and speak: and nod when we read the same repetitive one size fits all sound bite and press release.

And all the while corruption in Bergen County is matastisizing by the minute and being fully revealed. Dems and Repub alike are paying dearly for all the stealing and double dealing that has gone on and unchecked because the system is totally affected and infected. Sure all pay financially. But it costs us all on a daily basis: our quality of life and peace of mind about where we live. And that is hard to measure in dollars!

I don't believe people on either side of the aisle and who are not profiting from the corruption -buy one size fits all press release explanations. Chris Christie is on one side of the aisle on a host of issues and Loretta Weinberg is on the other side and begs to differ and she does it very well. But they do in fact share, abide by and uphold more than a few of the same basic and sacred moral values and core beliefs that are shared by the vast majority of people in NJ.

You should not reduce and you have in the past: Real Dergen Democrats like Loretta Weinberg and Republican Chris Christie's non political US attorney work to very glib one liners "Good BCDO Dem versus divisive Real Bergen Dem. Or "The failed Republican who is out to just get corrupt Dems versus the good and put upon Dem." Please think about the substance of your next statement and the argument that you are perpetuating before you press send on your blackberry and it is published in state and local newspapers and pol web sites. 

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Ruiz,
if 99% of the people dont know who Mc Nerney is. How come Mc Nnerney got all those votes in 06 ? uuummm

It's amazing. The County Executive urges a school board to save taxpayers money by using the county's AAA bond rating and Republican "Yahoo" Yudin issues a press release criticizing him and the BCIA. It just goes to show that the republican boss is as out of touch with reality as therest of his party. Let's face it the repubs can't win an election in bergen county so if the people won't vote for them why would they listen to Boss Yudin. But what really amazes me is the long, meandering and totally incomprehensible diatribe from one Kathy Callahan. Is this the same Kathy Callahan woh couldn't even win a county committee seat in the Democratice Primary. Who goes on other sites and accuses the Clinton campaign of stealing money from her. Who claims she was threatened at a polling place by "goons" on election day.(of course she never filed any charges). The best part of the whole thing is that the repubs and the so called "real" dems can't get out of their own way never mind win an election.The real point is why aren't the taxpayers in Glen Rock mad at the school board for borrowing money at higher rates and passing the cost on to them?

These guns for hire are at the center of the "rotting core" of politics.

They contribute little, if anything to the discourse except "fat" fees and the notion that because someone is dumb enough to pay them, that somehow they know what's best!

Notice how they never have a "private" sector account or customer? They couldn't get away with it in the real world of business.

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I have made the following letter public. See Letter Below that I sent to BCBOE (BCDO)

Bergen County Board of Elections , Office of Chairman Peter Incardone, Eileen DiBari, Election Official 3rd floor County Administration Building One Bergen County Plaza Hackensack, NJ, 07601 August 4, 2008

Dear Eileen DiBari,

It is August 4, 2008, and I have not yet received information or forms that I formally requested in early and mid July. I sent two emphatic return receipt letters to you and Chairman Peter Incardone. I am particularly disappointed, as I spoke to you so many times on election-day and you took each and every emergency phone call that I made to you from the poll.

Yes I did get your voice mail message reply to my letter: Asking and imploring me to call you up to talk about it over the phone. I am done talking and only writing to the BC BOE/BCDO, now. I cannot talk to you over the phone anymore about this extremely serious and distressing matter.

What transpired at the poll is a total affront to my life long experience as a very proud American and a natural born campaigner. Not to mention voter, and a Bergen County candidate who simply wanted to give back, and aspired to connect with consituents and respond to their questions about the impact of county committee decisions, procedures and Joe Ferriero's leadership style.

I aimed to arouse their attention and get voters involved in the process! In my previous letter, I expressly asked you to respond in writing and to please mail me basic public information request forms. I am asking you again to please send me the following:

1. BCBOE request to release public information form  2. Now, I am seeking the BC BOE complaint forms. As I am filing formal complaints against: BC BOE Poll Workers and unofficial pol/poll operatives and Michael Gaegle a BC BOE staffer who terrorized me at the poll: And ordered me to leave the poll, and he had the same agressive tone and attitude like poll workers and in particular Joe Huber and Joe Bianco. Mr. Michael Gaegle told me,

"You cannot stay in here because you are not one of our DEM candidates, dear. You are not a candidate on our ballot much less a challenger! You are illegal. And it is way out of line for you to insist that it is okay for you to sit down at the poll worker and voter sign in table. Kathy Callahan, I am telling you for your own good get out of the poll now! And we are only following orders and enforcing the bosses election rules that we will be following here today and not the official rules that you are carying in your right hand and flashing in my face! I don't answer to Eileen DiBari. I answer to the boss and he is the authority!" And last but not least, pol operative Joe Bianco who made flagrantly crude and sexually lewd remarks and physical gestures and straight to my face and he was a regular, on and off and all day long at the poll! And after the election, Joe Bianco called me numerous times on my cell phone! And Loretta Costano, Closter Boro Clerk, in regard to her candidate and election work and overall conduct. I know the BC BOE over sees the election duties and professional performance of Loretta Costano and all the official and unofficial -enforcer and reinforcer poll workers!

On July 29, 2008, I said to myself, the time has come, and you must call the United States Attorney Christopher Christie, and report the entire election and public corruption matter, now. And I did just that. I spoke to the Assistant U.S. Attorney who I was referred to and he was extremely diligent, courteous, surprised and painstakingly thorough in his written and verbal response.

I also sent a detailed timeline, chronology of events and a description of each and every incident and encounter that occured to U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie’s attention. Within a few hours, I got a very good response in writing: And my very specific issues, extreme fears and concerns were acknowledged and addressed.

The Assistant U.S. Attorney made a recommendation, and told me precisely what he did on my behalf. And I appreciate that enormously. I am so glad he didn't scoff me off and tell me to go away now or call and write to so and so...He got the job done.

What happens now is amybody's guess. Will Eileen DiBari and Peter Incardone respond to my letters requesting rudimentary release of information and complaint forms?

I do not know.

I notice she does not name the Assistant U.S. Attorney thatshe spoke to so it could be verified. At this point in time there is no report filed with the Closter police about all these supposed illegal activities that went on in the polls. Why didn't she file criminal charges with the Closter Municipal Court.I know if someone harrassed me like she says she was I would certainly file criminal charges with the Closter Court.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-08032008-1571929.html

For some reason PolitickerNJ stays away from Burl Co GOP scandal stories. Makes you wonder.

...some scandalous shenanigans before the Dems took over in Bergen County.

Simply going from tweedledee to tweedledummer is no solution. The solution is to actually make it a criminal offense to take a bribe. (What a radical concept, eh? ;-)

As it is now, bribery is 100% legal!!! It's the way we finance our campaigns. No effing wonder things are all screwed up.

Most of our elected officials are far more beholden to their "contributors" than they are to ordinary constituents with no money to give them.

What BC and NJ need are 50 thousand Kathy Callahans in BOTH parties all running for county committe slots and taking back NJ governance from the political vampires that are deeply embedded into New Jersey's economic/political bloodstream.

As for Christie, he remains a political hack who's trying to run for governor as if he were some crime busting hero, when the opposite is true.

He will only bust the most blatant corruption.  He will never deal with the underlying systematic/endemic patterns.  Why?   Because he's a corrupt partisan creature of the Bush administration.  If he was truly honest he would have been fired along with the rest of the Federal Prosecutors who lost their jobs for being too fair and decent.   Christie passed Bush's "loyalty" test.

The patterns of corruption in NJ clearly meet the requirements for RICO investigations/prosecutions.  If Christie had been serious about cleaning up this state from the beginning of his tenure we would have had at least a THOUSAND convicted pols, associates and patrons by now!  That's how pervasive is the culture of corruption in NJ!

When you trace the corruption to the top of the dollar food chain; it's totally bipartisan.   The same industries and "interests" that own the establishment Republicans own the establishment Democrats.  They must laugh at all the "little people" who pay taxes and fight with each other over "gays, guns, abortion etc etc".  

Meanwhile, the corporate media keep us all nicely distracted and diverted from the reality that the political vampires are feeding off of our life's blood.

It's the SYSTEM stupid!!!

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

He's a whining liberal fool who's opinions and takes have no basis in reality.

He couldn't find Hackensack if you dropped him on Essex Street!

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