9/29/10 Thoughts

Reading Cory Storch’s blog today, I was hoping for the next 5 weeks we could stay away from finger-pointing or even New Democrats versus Regular Democrats. But like I said in the past, I refuse to stand by and allow him to mislead the public.

Number one, the majority of the members of the Council are New Democrats.

For the record, I am not supporting the current ShotSpotter program until we have more information about it. I am already in contact with two other companies involved with this service, and they are already giving me different views on the short-range and long-range figures.

I find it very odd that when Cory gets a chance to mention the Regular Democrats, he would like to make it sound like the Regular Democrats are involved with the day-to-day operations of the City, but that is not true. Maybe under the past administration those lines were crossed, but that is not the case today.

Another example, this issue with Al Sharpton with the New Democrats making such a big issue out of it. They failed to inform the public that they spent thousands and thousands of dollars to sponsor a train ride to Washington D.C., where liquor and wine were so free that by the time they arrived in D.C., just about everyone on board was drunk.

So rather than sitting down and trying to work out the differences between the Administration and Council, they would prefer to make it sound like someone has done something illegal.

With the $20,000 spent on the broadcast, the New Democrats try to make it sound like the Mayor has bankrupted the City, but what about the $800 million that the children of NJ lost in this year’s budget? The wasteful spending of some of the BOE’s colleagues, trips and other goodies?

When the Council decided to rent a train to D.C., I wonder how Cory voted on that issue; did he go out and check to see whether that was the right thing to do?

Just this week a vendor came in to complain about the past administration, which Cory was a part of, having the City still owing them $50,000 for services rendered. So the Mayor should stop sitting back trying to clean up their mess, and inform the public of the mess she took over due to the past administration.

We are STILL paying bills of the past administration, and now it is obvious that the current administration is going to have to cut back on spending on current issues in order to clean up the past mess.

If I read the charter correctly, in the last 8 years, the New Democrats have been in charge of the budget. Once the Mayor submits the budget to the Council, it is then the Council’s budget. So it is time that the public realized that they have mismanaged the City for over 8 years.