Same unsubstantiated claims. Same BS reasoning. More likely than not, the same people who refuse to see New Brunswick as the exceptional urban success story it is. A handful of malcontents rallying the misinformed and misguided. I heard one of the organizers is the head of "Democrats for Christie." oh well, they will lose just like all the rest. I say the line is at 10 percent for them.

If it's such an "exceptional urban success story," why were they able to muster the votes to field such a large amount of candidates? Why, obviously a lot of people aren't happy with how the city's being run. Come back when you have a little more substance, like never.

New Brunswick certainly is a wonderful success story. Crime dropped over 50% in 10 years. Rutgers students may safely walk from formerly-Cook Campus to College Ave. classes. Medical practices unaffiliated with nearby hospitals are choosing to start business there. A brand new $180,000,000 high school, luxury apartments and excellent restaurants have emerged. Rt. 18 is 3x bigger than 5 years ago.  The list goes on.

The current leadership--Cahill and Co.--may not be the original, generative nidus for change but they have enabled other groups like New Brunswick Tomorrow, Johnson & Johnson, and the State to engender this progressive transformation.

Let's take a second to actually define success. Sure, Cahill & company have gotten some really fancy buildings built in New Brunswick. But what is the point? The current model of development in New Brunswick is to build fancy things for wealthy people from OUTSIDE New Brunswick to use. Meanwhile, those within New Brunswick are neglected. New Brunswick is an Abbott School District, with an abysmal rate of students going to college, in the same town as The State University of New Jersey. It's pathetic.

Meanwhile, Cahill's model of development doesn't seem to be working. These luxury apartments you speak of, MCJ, are concentrated in two buildings, both of which are currently half-vacant. And the City wants to build another one! The strip mall they cleared buildings for on Jersey Ave is half-filled, and they are breaking ground for another project near the train station.

My point is that building buildings does not constitute a success story. We need community development, and in order to do that, we need people that are in touch with the community. That means Cahill's got to go.

And as for that Christie business, that's flat-out wrong. As a close supporter of the Democrats for Change campaign, I can tell you for a fact that Christie isn't the politician they're all about. Although I personally appreciate his job rooting out corruption in New Brunswick, I wouldn't touch his politics with a ten-foot pole.

Look at the facts. The Biannual poll of residents conducted by Eagleton for NBT shows residents are happy about the direction the city is headed. The city runs a neighborhood rehab program that has invested millions and helped thousands of residents fix up their homes and stay in NB. And with annual challenges from this same crew of misguided and misinformed the Mayor and council will re-election with larger margins each year.

As for your idea that they found 50 candidates... in a city of 60,000+, 50 ain't that much.

No this is the same rhetoric that the lunatic fringe has been yammering about for oh thirty years, ever since the residents decided to rebuild their city and not slide into the morass that Camden and Newark did.
So we will be forced to listen to a coda of the tired and hallow sounds of undergrads who think this is their great adventure in democracy. (Yawn) At least you guys are recycling.

Stop spewing the party line here Bill...

Let's be real. The Neighborhood Preservation Program was run by crooked thugs for most of the 1990's and 2000's. It was the reason that the feds came to town and took four city employees to jail for bribe-taking and corruption. Another one, head of the city Water Utility and a Planning Board member, shot himself in the head immediately when he found out the investigation had begun just three years ago. Last year, it came out that one of the jailed housing inspectors was trying to have his wife offed from the slammer. His wife: the Director of Social Services for the city.

Because of this, the city went without a housing rehab program for almost two years, before restarting it under the supervision of a private company.

Looks like the city can't even handle running a basic assistance program for residents without getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Seems like Democrats for Change has more pull (and trust) around New Brunswick than this aging corrupt patronage machine. They deserve a chance to lay out their vision for the city. We've already seen what Cahill brings to the table and it's not much.

The reality of the situation is that Cahill & company are thoroughly out of touch with residents. The revitalization of New Brunswick is no more than a facade. The new buildings are far from vibrant and many are half-empty. Schools and housing crumble while nothing is done for the middle and lower class, which struggle now more than ever before. It's all smoke and mirrors and the public is finally beginning to wake up.

WAR Dem, I just don't know how you can use these figures. First off, that Eagleton Poll is extraordinarily flawed in its methodology. We even learned about it in our classes at Rutgers. They used only landlines to conduct the poll, excluding a vast portion of the population (students using cell phones, and those who are too poor to afford phones service at all). To draw any conclusion from that kind of study is a little, well, misinformed and misguided, to use your words.

Secondly, that community rehabilitation program is nice, if it weren't so chock full of corruption. The US Attorney has investigated this program, as a result 4 were convicted of various charges relating to corruption (bribery, etc.). Another guy killed himself as soon as he found out he was being investigated. Our goal (at the very basic level) is a government where people would not rather KILL themselves than have their activities on behalf of the city exposed. I don't think that is so far-flung.

Speaking of tired rhetoric, let's take a look at yours. You say its all about the students, but in reality, there are but ten, maybe fifteen students on that list of 50 candidates. Yet you defame the campaign as an Undergrad's adventure in Democracy. Well, what about the other forty folks? They've been New Brunswick residents for years...and yet they still think the Lynch-Cahill Machine has to go. Have they been duped? Or maybe, just maybe, there IS something wrong with how the city is run.

WHy only fifty candidates?

First off, there are only 56 seats. Secondly, you need a man and a woman in each of the 28 districts, so although we had many willing candidates, some weren't allowed because of their gender (two women in some districts, two men in others). Thirdly, there are several ALREADY VACANT seats. Why couldn't the Machine fill those seats?!? You don't seem to be asking that. Plus, Democrats for Change is a grassroots effort...meaning they actually don't have all the backing and money of the City machine.

All things considered, 50 candidates for these seats is nothing to sneer at.

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The Feds were brought in by the Cahill Administration when they found irregularities, so routing our corruption goes into the credit column for Cahill.

You cannot deny that thousands of residents receive the benefits of the program, plus let's add on the HOPE 6 housing projects just for good measure.

This is still is the lunatic fringe with the undergrads who will look back fondly on that time they stood up to the man back in college as they sip their Stella at their office Christmas party wondering when the bailout check will clear. Get a grip you are the latest version of the same old tired story. Same dried out rhetoric, same youthful righteous indignation, same flatulent pronouncements that this time we're not going to fall on our faces, like we have every other time.

embrace your loserness... you are the latest in a long line of losers.

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