August 12, 2010 Thoughts

Reading Dan and Bernice’s blogs today shows you how far behind she is in her reporting, she tries to rehash an issue that happened between John Campbell and I over two years ago. Given the fact that both Dan and Bernice have lost contact with reality, to respond back to anything they print would be an embarrassment to me.


I just find it very insulting that Cory Storch, who heads up a multi-million dollar operation that offers health services, would use people like Dan Damon and Bernice Paglia to speak on his behalf.

For starters, the individual who sent me the letter authorized me to print the letter because he read a recent blog where Cory Storch was bragging about what a great job he has been doing with and in Bridgeway. Just recently, Cory Storch and his group of bloggers have accused me of mudslinging, being unethical and racist.

Nevertheless, the support I received with this last election, winning in Plainfield by over 4,000 votes, I do not want to respond to their negative blogging. Anytime an individual writes me a letter talking about an agency that deals with people who are handicapped, and this individual is expressing how they are being mistreated, the operation is a multi-million dollar one which does not have any blacks in any decision-making positions, then it is time for the federal government, the State of New Jersey, and the County of Union to investigate ‘this old boy network’ operation.

Now, if I am going to be sued because an employee sent me a letter saying he has been mistreated, I am not going to worry about a lawsuit because there are many people in Plainfield in whom Cory mistreats. As a Councilperson, he acts as if he could care less about what goes on in the 1st and 4th wards. That sort of behavior should tell you where his priorities are.

In yesterday’s raid however, the newspaper mentioned that individuals were arrested in EVERY ward of Plainfield for conducting illegal activities. Cory seems to quickly forget that he was part of the past administration that said ‘Plainfield does not have gangs’, and yet, now gangs are in his backyard.

It is now time that Cory and the New Democrats stops being negative, and deal with the issue of crime in the City so that all of us can feel safe. I am still waiting for the answers from Cory and his family pertaining to his involvement in past real estate deals that I have mentioned in some of my blows in the past. Or maybe, he has personal reasons as to why he does not want to give the public.

It is embarrassing to have to ask a Councilman who has been on the Council for 8 years, what have you done for Plainfield. He does not mention crime, and acts as if it does not exist in the 2nd ward. Cory has been absent from Economic Development initiatives, and the 2nd ward complains that they only see him during campaign time.

Therefore, it is time Cory, that you begin to discuss your record of accomplishments as an elected official and what plans you have for moving Plainfield forward.

Ps

In case you missed the editorial in the Star Ledger, highlighting my efforts in fighting for the people of New Jersey when it comes to affordable housing issues, I will print it out. How about you print something Cory, that someone has said positive about you for the past eight years.

NJ Star Ledger: Assembly Committee Shows How It’s Done

Anyone curious about what good government looks like should have dropped in on the Assembly committee hearing on the new housing bill last week.

Advocates, clergy, builders and mayors all had a chance to sit before the committee chaired by Assemblyman Jerry Green, air their concerns and take questions.

It was a striking contrast to the Senate committee chaired by Ray Lesniak — which not only declined to hear testimony on the bill, but failed to make new amendments public in a timely fashion. And voted to move the bill out of committee, anyway.

The bill would abolish the Council on Affordable Housing and put in its place a different system for making low-cost housing available throughout the state. But the bill is too important to rush through, especially when so many details are still being corrected and clarified.Green gets it. He and his committee — vice chair Mila Jasey, Linda Greenstein, Fred Scalera, Celeste Riley, Charlotte Vandervalk and Michael Patrick Carroll — took the time to listen to testimony and asked for copies of statements.

The committee was no pushover: Green did everyone a favor by running a tight ship and keeping testimony focused on the details of the bill and possible solutions. No grandstanding allowed.