Election Day. Make sure you exercise your democratic right and take an active part. If you haven’t returned your ballot make sure you do. If you haven’t voted make sure you do. Why? Because people died for you to be able to have a say. Because this is the American dream. Because democracy is at…
Category: Politics
Election 2020 – Voting Safely And Being Counted
November 3, 2020 Two weeks from today is voting day in one of the most contentious elections in recent memory. There are rumors, threats, information, disinformation, confusion and throughout the country people are voting, trying to vote, mailing ballots, losing ballots, standing in line, waiting, and not waiting. So much confusion. In some parts of…
Upper Saddle River Election 2020 – The Burning Issues That Haven’t Changed
With literally a matter of days before the Upper Saddle River election the question residents should be asking is – who to vote for. Two parties, four candidates, a long run of control of the borough by 1 party – Republican. And a legacy. But what is it? Before you vote you might want to…
Election 2020: The NJ Election Ballots Are Here
Hopefully by now you should have received your 2020 Election ballot. If you haven’t received it by October 8th, contact the County Election office at 201-336-7020 for a duplicate. If your head is spinning with adding voting to your list of other head scratching things to deal with you can find some very useful information from…
The October To Do List
What adjectives would you use to describe life now? In a week that has gone from bad to worse, in a year when calamitous seems to be the theme it is easy to get distracted, confused and forgetful, all symptoms of an overloaded life. There is so much going on. Easy to miss things. But…
Medina & Beylerian Democratic Candidates For Council Upper Saddle River
Election season is here, and with a short number of days before voting it is time start focusing on the candidates in Upper Saddle River. Medina and Beylerian are Democratic candidates running for council and are running against the established council members. Given the enormous changes occurring in Upper Saddle River, and the considerable ineptitude…
For God’s Sake, Just Vote
Election Day 2019. In case you are sitting on the fence trying to figure out where to cast your vote because you are disgruntled and you just aren’t quite sure, and where is that perfect candidate and you just can’t quite figure it out…..remember this: This isn’t the Lannister’s and the Targaryen’s. It’s Upper Saddle…
Upper Saddle River – Time For A Little Truth Talking
With the upcoming election the incumbent Republican candidates Minichetti, Ditkoff & Rotella are clearly worried. The have been resorting to smear tactics, have gotten personal and are running a dirty campaign. They refused to do a town hall forum with their opponents, Grupp, Garbar and Galasso. They started decrying the lack of experience of the Democratic…
Upper Saddle River Election – The Target Misses Its Mark
The ugliness of the local election in Upper Saddle River showed the teeth of the Republican candidates with their vicious personal attack on Marshall Grupp. Maybe some of their fawning followers fell for it, but for many residents it was a jarring show of the length this party will go to keep the power in…
Dirty Politics In Upper Saddle River
The dirty games of Washington have arrived in Upper Saddle River. Not content with the repeated habit of stealing opponents campaign signs, or driving over them, or just removing them and dumping (which has gone on for years, through various election cycles) or the plastering of signs in multiples throughout town when the borough code…