After reading today’s blog, I want
to thank all, as Chairman of the Union County party and the people of the City
of Plainfield
who have been very supportive me over the years. Being an elected official for
over thirty years and never been accused or convicted of doing anything wrong,
to me, that makes me proud. That I have been able to accomplish this. I showed
the people of Union
County, that not only as
the Chairman for the party, I can be a person they can be proud of.
Yesterday, we had a packed house at
our annual breakfast, from U.S. Senator Cory Booker to Congressional candidate
and those running county-wide. They all came together under my leadership to
move Union County in the right direction. The
hardest thing that I have to work through is periodically a handful of people
will try to drown me in negative
comments. Recently, because of my success in Union
County in representing the County of Union, I have chosen to ignore these
outlandish and childish remarks that are not true. The most common remark being
that I have done nothing for the City of Plainfield.
Because of my efforts for the City of Plainfield
within the last years, I was able to bring in 1.5 billions dollars to help our
children of Plainfield.
When it came to our train station, I was able to seek funds to bring both
stations up to date and make them what I consider stations that we can be proud
of. As a Freeholder, I was able to bring Union
County College
into Plainfield.
Currently, I am working on securing 6 million to expand the colleges. So when
people question what I have done, my question is what have they done? As Democratic
Chairman, the biggest laugh I get, to me it’s a joke, that I do not support all
the candidates on column A, when that is my job to do so. Even when some of
them have chosen to be negative to the party and myself personally.
As of today, it has been brought to
my attention that I was ranked as one of the 50 most powerful elected officials
of 2014. I take great honor of being part of that group. All these individuals
that have taken part in trying to embarrass me & I did not even see their
names on the lists. So again, I wanted to thank everyone in Plainfield who have been highly supportive of me. I
want to go on record in saying that I am proud of the fact that I will continue
to do what will be for the good for the County
of Union and especially for the City
of Plainfield.
Unfortunately, I have 20 other owns who support me totally. So it is embarrassing
to me and to the people of Union
County, when a few people
in this town will try everything in their power with their same negative
remarks to destroy my reputation, when my reputation speaks for itself. [http://politickernj.com/2014/10/politickernjs-50-most-powerful-elected-officials-2014/
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