Padmaja "Paddy" Chinta - Edison Board of Education Candidate - November 2020

 In response to the 3 simple questions I asked of the Edison Board of Ed Candidates (who wish to respond) - here's Padmaja "Paddy" Chinta:

Anthony "Tony" DePasquale - Edison Board of Education Candidate - November 2020

 In response to the 3 simple questions I asked of the Edison Board of Ed Candidates (who wish to respond) - here's Anthony "Tony" DePasquale:

Edison, NJ Board of Education - Return to School Plan

 Well, pay attention folks. Let's hope we do this right for everyone concerned.

Anyhoo, wouldn't be truthful if I didn't worry a little bit with this crew in charge.

Pay attention to the Edison Board of Mythomania - it's the Most Egregious and Biggest Unnecessary drain on Your Pocketbooks!

Well, while I wait for an OPRA Response from the Edison Board of Mythomania for copies of the recently adopted ETEA & EFMMA contracts and the Costs/Heads for the 3-year and 5-year deals, respectively - can't help but wonder how much more they're going to add to the already Outrageous Pandemic Tax increases already dumped on us.

Here's where we are so far:

Don't worry about paying your rent and putting food on the table - seems they're not worried enough to do something about their Outrageous tax increases during this Pandemic. Geez, 9.7% County tax increase - when is somebody gonna step-up and ask what the heck do we need this additional level of government for.

And Lankey at 7.3% (with the Library tax) is just shameful - even for him. And don't expect much help from his 7 Processing Clerks. They'll blindly adopt another Lankey tax increase without change - the Council has for every other Muni budget since Lankey became Mayor.

But don't blinded as to where most of Your tax dollars are going here in the 'DemBadLands' of Downtown Edison- some 55% goes to the Edison Board of Mythomania, of which You locally fund some 85%. Bloated & Out-of-Control $pending School budgets, now up to $277 million, that dwarf the Muni budgets of $150 million. 

A School Tax Rate of $3.166 (Per 100) (that's more than 2.5 times the Muni Tax Rate) that only goes Up, Up & Up despite the bogus claims that they're $aving the taxpayers money.

School budgets that are not ever properly explained or even told that they're done on a Fiscal year basis and then converted to a Calendar Year basis for purposes of coming up with the Calendar year tax rate.

Here, look at the School Budget Summary - on a Fiscal year basis for 2020-21:

This Fiscal year School Budget for 2020-21 increased the school tax increase by some 4.5 times over their 2019-20 School budget. Of course, you'll only see half of this in the 2020-21 school budget - the other half shows up in next years school budget.

So, point of all this - you'd better choose carefully come November on who you want on the School Board. The Lack of Oversight and continued absence at the decision-making table of someone looking out for the taxpayers over there on Pierson Ave., at the cross-roads of Delusional & Dysfunction Junction, needs some serious change.

Maria Wise - Edison Board of Education Candidate - November 2020

In response to the 3 simple questions I asked of the Edison Board of Ed Candidates (who wish to respond) - here's Maria Wise:

13 Candidates vie for 3 seats on the Edison Board of Ed this November!

Well, saw this piece in the Sentinel here about the the November 2020 Edison Board of Ed election.

The only incumbent seeking re-election is Jerry 'Referen-DUMB-er' Shi. 

Apparently, Falguni Patel and Beth Moroney aren't seeking re-election. Too bad it wasn't unanimous.

Be that as it may, here are the 13 people mentioned in the article, in no particular order:

Virginia White

Jing Wei 'Jerry' Shi (Incumbent)

Mohin Patel

Brett Baker

Padmaja Chinta

Anthony DePasquale

Ernest Kregeloh

Christo Makropoulos

Yash Pandya

Sparshil Patel

Clifton Prescod

Brian Rivera

Maria Wise

The first 3 names on the list are running together on an 'Edison First' ticket.

Good to see there's a lot of interest in seeking those 3 seats.

So, to all candidates, I offer you an opportunity to get your message out here in this forum by answering 3 simple questions:

1. Who are You?

2. Why are You Running for the Edison Board of Ed?

3. What do You Hope to accomplish?

I will publish Your answers unedited and without comment (please keep it civil and on point). You can email me your answers by hitting the 'Email Me' button at the top of the blog. Please provide a contact number so I can confirm the submission is from you.

Anyhoo, please recognize that I'm not a fan of the Edison Board of Education or the EDO and spend a lot of time describing why in this blog. So, if any of You don't wish to get your message out in this forum, it's perfectly understandable to me and you should ignore this opportunity.