BCDO Chairman Michael Kasparian
Kasparian assumes leadership of BCDO, and pledges independent organizational audit
By Max Pizarro | January 22nd, 2009 - 9:26pmHACKENSACK - Paramus-based developer Michael Kasparian became the new chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization (BCDO) tonight with well over 500 county committee votes cast in his favor at a special convention held in the Hackensack Middle School.
In a process supervised by BCDO attorney Joseph Mariniello, Bergen County Executive Dennis McNerney nominated Kasparian, and Kasparian ran unopposed.
What some here as recently as two weeks ago thought would be an epic struggle for the right to succeed ten-year veteran chair Joe Ferriero, fizzled into a Kasparian-only event when labor leader Richard "Buzzy" Dressel backed out of the race and accused Ferriero, who's facing federal corruption charges, of rigging the process in Kasparian's favor.
When he entered the high school shortly after 4:30 p.m. tonight among committee members coming in from the cold to participate in the convention, Kasparian told PolitickerNJ.com he rejected the suggestion that Ferriero had improperly stacked the deck in a last-gasp maneuver to maintain power.
He also pledged to work with the longtime leader of the county's outright opposition to Ferriero, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) and won't back primary candidates against Weinberg's 37th District mates, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri-Hittle and Assemblyman Gordon Johnson.
"I don't look at Buzzy and Loretta as adversaries," said Kasparian. "We're all friends. Buzzy had indicated he wouldn't participate in the convention, but he will definitely have a seat at the table as we move forward."
Distressed by what she believes was too much power concentrated in too few hands during Ferriero's reign, Weinberg held out against Kasparian to the last, but also said she could overturn her early opinion of Kasparian as a Ferriero drone if the new chairman undertakes a credible independent audit of the BCDO.
"I have sent out a letter to county committee members with an itemized platform, in which I call for an independent audit," explained Kasparian, who promised to follow through on the campaign pledge.
However, he wouldn't commit to changing a system in which county employees occupy committee seats in the party, another reform measure Weinberg publicly demanded of the new chairman.
Although the narrative that he is an agent of Ferriero took hold a few weeks ago when Ferriero made phone calls to committee members from Kasparian's office, Kasparian insists he's no closer to the departed BCDO chairman than most.
"In fact, I think it's intriguing that my organizational relationship to Joe is not as close as that of (U.S. Rep.) Steve Rothman's, Loretta's, or state Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge)," said Kasparian. "My association with Joe Ferriero was on an individual basis and had nothing to do with this organization."
Sarlo originally liked the idea of Kasparian at the helm but briefly contemplated an offer - floated by Congressman Rothman and sustained by Dressel - of assuming the chairmanship for an interim period so that Kasparian and Dressel could run a full bore campaign.
That deal died when Kasparian dug in against delaying his run.
But there were other players involved, too.
Mindful of the voter-rich, 70-municipality strong Bergen County in a gubernatorial election year, State Party Committee members tried to bring the Ferriero forces and Weinberg faction to the bargaining table with some other offers, which likewise fell apart as Kasparian maintained his efforts to contact and win the support of those committee people nursed in the Ferriero years.
Eager at least to get beyond Ferriero at this point, the state party demurred in the face of Kasparian's obvious inheritance of the county party power structure. The reasoning was simple enough. Gov. Jon Corzine needs Bergen County to win reelection and a civil war won't keep the rank and file focused on the common enemy: a Republican Party potentially energized by crime-busting gubernatorial challenger, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie.
The new chair said he gelled with that attitude.
"My approach to this entire endeavor has been unity," said Kasparian, who last year was part of a team-fundraising effort that netted $400,000 for President Barack Obama.
"It's a great party, and we can't allow divisions or differences to sway our enthusiasm for beating Republicans and winning in November," Kasparian added. "I have no doubt we will prevail."
Asked to comment about Ferriero's decade-long tenure, Kasparian said, "I'm looking forward."
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Kasparian=Ferriero=Pay to Play=Legalized Corruption
Shame on Jon Corzine for tacitly supporting Ferriero's hand picked boy.
I watched Jon Corzine's SOS speech and heard him call for an end to pay to play at all levels of government; but he won't even strongly support the first step in such a reform program....and that would be Loretta Weinberg's Party Democracy Act which remains blocked in committee.
Does Jon Corzine think that he can get away with promoting reform on the one hand while throwing reformers like Loretta Weinberg under the bus with the other hand. Sorry Mr Governor, the people of New Jersey aren't that stupid or ignorant.
Governor Corzine; the legally corrupt BCDO will fail and fall of it's own weight in time. The legally corrupt MO they championed under Boss Joe won't substantially change with the clone in place.....but if you wish to begin to rehabilitate yourself with real New Jersey Democrats you need to use every ounce of influence you can muster and use your bully pulpit to get Senator Weinberg's modestly transformative legislation passed and FAST!!! With your ACTIVE support this legislation can be put on the front burner and signed within weeks! Be a leader for a change in the way New Jersey does government. This may be your last opportunity to redeem yourself in the eyes of people who want real/substantial/systemic change.
New Jersey can no longer afford to pay the corruption tax that consumes our private and public sector. They never really could afford it, but now the cumulative effects of legalized corruption are "coming home to roost".
PS To all the folks running for office in NJ: There isn't enough money to pay to enough consultants and PR Con Men and speech writers and commercial makers and radio and tv stations to convince people that your shit don't stink.
Enough is enough. Cut the pay to play crap!!! End the legalized corruption that is our system of governance NOW!!! Do this if for no other reason than you want to keep your own jobs!!!
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What follows is an extended excerpt from an earlier comment on Bjue Jersey........
http://www.bluejersey.com/showComment.do?commentId=40693
.........Joe Ferriero couldn't have pulled off even this pathetically puny pyrrhic victory without the tacit approval/assistance of our pusillanimous governor.
What happened earlier tonight wasn't a coronation...it was a degenerate gang rape of Lady Liberty.
Hypocrite John Corzine's role in this fiasco is unforgivable. One word from him in opposition to Ferriero's boy and Boss Joe's fix would have failed.
Either Mr Corzine is himself a willing/submissive agent of Joe Ferriero (and the pay to play system which made Ferriero/Kaspian) or he is being somehow blackmailed...either way he's become a major disappointment.
We have men and women in uniform who risk, and lose, their lives to protect our Democracy.....and yet Bergen County New Jersey remains in the grips of a crew of legally corrupt goons.
The people of Bergen County and of New Jersey deserve, and will be demanding, better than to be subjected to the death throes of a sick and dying system of legalized corruption.
Pay to play is un-American. It is a dirty-rotten-to-the-core way of running our state and it will not stand.
The people of Bergen County and of New Jersey deserve better than empty slogans and con-jobs masquerading as real reform.
United, we can rise up to restore fairness, common decency, and simple honesty to both our governmental and business sectors!!!
Yes we CAN!!!
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.
another Armenian terrorist
takes over in Hackensack
lento
This lento is some piece of work. you run off at the mouth telling others what to do but i didn,t see you or any of your pinko blue jersey friends running. that,s because you are cowards who don,t have the courage of you convictions. and then you presume to tell the governor what to do. like he might listen to you. but don,t worry, we'll replace corzine with lonegan becausedems like you give us hope.
gopforever
Corzine can't be beat by someone who is worse than he is.
All of Corzine's warts pale in comparison to your boy Lonegan.
Lonegan is just running to make a splash...Christie will be your candidate.
By your standards, Christie is a pinko liberal commie, lol......yet by the standards of most people, Christie will prove out to be a Bush flunkie to did little to fight systemic corruption.
The struggle for real reform isn't even on the Republican party's agenda. You just want to eliminate the need for business bribing government by simply having business BE government. LOL
My agenda is for honesty in the private and public sectors, why is that such a threat to you?
Honesty is non partisan.
Look at the mess we're in. The thieves are laughing at people like you who are "true believers".
It's interesting that this story was on the front page a few hours ago....and now it's buried.....I wonder why?
From Frederick Douglass
our system is broken next
our system is broken next election get rid of all the incumbents and lawyers. Any politician that votes for hiring a firm or personnel without outside intervention and competitive bidding should be put in jail and ordered to pay all monies spent back to the taxpayers.
Please ignore Lento.
I've learned to do so.
He has absolutely no understanding of party politics or what it takes to raise money, build a party, recruit candidates, etc...
I guess Barack Obama is "legally corrupt" too since Kasparian raised over $100K for the President?
You see, Lento would rather have some Real Democrat "nut" run and totally destroy the party's chances for winning.
Everyone is corrupt except Lento.
He doesn't have a clue.
Vote Column "A" - All the way!
Yes, D&D Keep "Ignoring" Me....
Just make sure you spell my name correctly.
So far, you've never "laid a glove" on any of the substance of my message.
All you can do is make ad hominem arguments (see above)....to which I need not respond as they only make you look inept.
Try quoting me in context, and making real opposing arguments; then see what comes next. :-)
From Frederick Douglass
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According to N.J.S.A. 19:26-16.18A:
A candidate seeking to qualify for receipt of public matching funds who participated in an issue advocacy organization…shall be ineligible to receive public matching funds unless the candidate files an Issue Advocacy Organization Report of Contributions and Expenditures (Form P-2).
According to the “Steve Lonegan” Wikipedia.org entry:
Lonegan is the New Jersey state director of Americans for Prosperity…However the main focus of Lonegan's AFP was attacking Jon Corzine's liberal economic and regulatory policies…The organization under Lonegan's leadership has also been active in fighting Paid Family Leave, Low Income Housing mandates, Taxpayer funded legislative elections, new mandates for sprinklers in fireproof high rise buildings and Governor Corzine's proposed budget.
It sure sounds like AFP is an issue advocacy organization to me.
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