Edison Township Council discusses possible BoE election switch before January 21st deadline!

Update on Moving the Edison Board of Education election back to April:

(1) The Edison Board of Education has called a Special Meeting for tomorrow at 7:00PM in the Ed Center. This meeting will be a waste of time - a proverbial whine-fest with little, if any, substantive support to keep things the way they are and their bloated budgets away from public scrutiny and challenge.

(2) The Edison Council has called a Special Meeting for Wednesday at 6:00PM in the Council Chambers. This meeting will be where you'll find out if the Council finally starts to make things right in this town. It's all on the Council to correct, as it should be. Pay close attention to what goes on and happens in this meeting - it will tell you everything you need to know about the twisted politics in this town.

Well, just saw the January 9, 2019 Council meeting and looks like the Edison Council is considering a Resolution to move the School Board election back to April.

For all the reasons you can read about in this blog, let's hope they, in the words of my buddy Emil 'Do the Right Thing' Ferlicchi, do the right thing for the People of Edison and pass a resolution to move the election back to April. The over politicization and disconcerting nature of the school board election campaign process and inability to vote on Hugely Bloated pots of money should be enough for anyone to see that it was a mistake to move the elections to November.

As an aside, bet you're curious why I brought up former ETEA President, Emil Ferlicchi? My daughter's 5th grade teacher whom she liked so much as a teacher that she always told me not to pick on him - but I digress, so let's move on.

I brought him up because their are those who believe that the April elections, with a lower turnout, would allow more of the teachers' union candidates to get elected and control the Board and that the People of Edison like to reject school budgets. Well, to some degree, there were times when the teachers' union snuck a few in.

And if the School Board puts together meaningful budgets that respect the rights of all the stakeholders, then their budgets should pass. If they do that, then there's no reason why their budgets shouldn't pass. And if history is any indication, the resident taxpayers have rejected very few school budgets over the years. From 1993 through 2014, there were only 5 school budgets rejected by the People of Edison. Note: it's been pointed out (see comments below) that there were 11 rejected budgets and not five as I indicated here. If I'm wrong on that, I apologize - I posted what I showed. Either way, my comments in this paragraph still apply.

But how's that any different than the Local Dem Party getting their chosen candidates elected? Respectfully, there's always going to be candidates who get elected because they were backed by someone or some group and all those who get elected come with their own agendas.

Yeah, you can wait 3 years and vote out those who you don't think serve the interests of all the stakeholders but every year they're there $pending your money.

So, the ultimate check on the Edison Board of Education has to be the taxpayers, you know, the ones that pay all the bills for what goes on over there on Mythomania Lane. And the only way to do that is to have the right to vote on their annual Bloated, Pots of Money they call school budgets.

Also, good to see there was a resident there who is still wondering why the Stench from last year's election (2017) is still hanging over our town without resolution by the Council.

Good question!

Here's the meeting - worth watching:



Anyhoo, time for this all-Dem Council to remember what their Party's slogan use to be - 'People Not Politics' and act accordingly on these two important issues.