BCDO Mutiny Well Underway

by: carolh

Sat May 31, 2008 at 01:38:47 PM EDT

http://www.northjersey.com/opi...

While the Record did not endorse any of the Freeholder candidates for Tuesday's Primary, the editorial brings up the positive implications of giving voters an actual choice and a possibility for change at the County level. We couldn't agree more - of course we'd like our friends in Bergen County to choose US, but we are encouraged by the effort the Record is making to educate the voters about the race.  

Other news about the Oury/Ferriero subpeonas and what is now being touted in the Record as "The Oury Story":

http://www.northjersey.com/new...

Apparently, Oury only filed ONE financial disclosure form in the past 6 years - in 2002 - and it did NOT include his involvement with Governmental Grants Consulting who was hired that same year to get grants for the Borough of Bergenfield.  I love the inset that explains the kind of clients Oury typically works for.  It gives you an idea of his sense of priorities.

Below is the paragraph that really struck me:

The phone number in a Governmental Grants Consulting letterhead is the same number Spatz uses for a more recent enterprise, Community Housing and Planning Associates. That number also appears on a Hudson County Economic Development Corp. document that lists Spatz under Zoning Administration in Union City.

Wow, these boys do get around.  Coincidence that that phone number got used so darn much?  I think not.

It's a good thing BCDO Spokesman Bill Maer says that the expensive attorneys Dennis and Joe are using won't be billing the BCDO.  Will they be billing Bergenfield?  Or Edgewater?  or Demarest?  or Garfield?  Are we to actually believe that FINALLY Joe and Oury will know how painful it is to have pay exhorbitant amounts of money for an attorney?  What sweet sweet justice.