| What a news cycle! The Record alone was full of bad news for Joe Ferriero:
First Headline smack on Page 1:
http://www.northjersey.com/new...
A great story about how Michael Wildes - Joe Ferriero's pick for LD37 State Senator last year, stacked Englewood's Planning Board with political donors. One of the guys put on the Board by Wildes is Joe Ferriero's handpicked BCDO Freeholder Vernon Walton.
It is such a good article, with charts and everything, I'm thinking about sending links to everyone on the Tenafly Council. It appears that the only folks our Mayor wants on our Boards have enough money to wipe out the national debt. Knowledge of planning is NOT required, being a YES man IS - and an EXTREMELY wealthy one at that. I wonder who donated to his expensive re-election campaign..........
Then on page 1 of the Local section is an article about how Joe Ferriero may just lose his re-election at the BCDO if we elect enough Real Bergen Dems on Tuesday.:
http://www.northjersey.com/pol... The print edition has a subtitle:
County Committee vote holds key.
Boy do they have that right. This is going to be a bare knuckled fight right down to the wire. Tyrants never give up the throne easily and those County Committee seats are key to this Party Boss holding onto his power. The key thing is that an official Primary is less likely to be tampered with than Joe's re-election vote (that happens with flimsy cardboard boxes and glowering goons in the room and NO PRESS) only a week after the Primary. So getting out the vote and having Democrats vote our column instead of Joe's is crucial for ending Pay to Play and Joe Ferriero's reign of terror. As we know from bitter experience, an election carried out by Ferriero's people is NOT a democratic affair.
Thank you Karen for explaining why this Tuesday is so vital to our Party cleaning up corruption!
As if Joe could stand to turn a few more pages, Page 1 of the Opinion section (It was a true blue Triple Front Page Tri-Fecta!):
http://www.northjersey.com/opi...
This Mike Kelly column ( I love that man) reminds everyone that the FEDS had to serve those subpoenas, because, just like in the Sopranos episode where all the boys go to Italy together, Bergen County Prosecutor Molinelli, (whose appointment had been held up by Senator Loretta Weinberg - for damn good reasons) travels to Italy every year with best buds Dennis Oury (remember him?) and Joe Coniglio (disgraced former State Senator). Molinelli is also best buds with Joe Ferriero himself. The really sad part is that this guy - a prosecutor - couldn't even tell it MIGHT BE a conflict of interest to go on vacation with the guys he should be INVESTIGATING.
(Being from Tenafly, I need to acknowledge that the Prosecutor's STAFF worked well and quickly with our Tenafly detectives to bring Mr. Choi to justice within 36 hours of the 9-11 call for the Tenafly Rd homicides. However, our Tenafly Police Chief had to call Mr. Molinelli with the news the bad guy had been caught while Mr. Molinelli was already in Florida. Probably on vacation with Mr. Oury at his asset-protected dwelling. Molinelli wanted the spotlight that Friday night - which was fine - it kept him busy while the REAL cops were busy catching the bad guy.
For comic relief in the whole extremely sad story I need to tell you that the only elected official in our town who felt the need to duck under the Police tape was our Mayor - of course. He went under the tape and was collared by an officer who asked what he was doing there. He started with "I'm the Mayor..." and was abruptly told to be the Mayor on the OTHER side of the tape. (I love our Police dept.))
Molinelli DID drop the ball. I doubt if he ever had it in his hands in the first place. Too bad we could not get more information about him while folks were skewering Loretta Weinberg for using senatorial courtesy to prevent the travesty of justice in the appointment of this fox to guard the henhouse. I think we all owe Senator Weinberg an apology. She was right all along. Molinelli is not going to clean up corruption in Bergen County. How can he? He doesn't even know it when he sees it.
so discuss....... |
