With mail-in voting going on in Edison - this town is long overdue for a change - make it happen for your own sake

 With one-party oligarchy rule by the Dem-party for way too long here in Downtown Edison, the perils of one-party government are no longer perils, they're a long-time reality. 

With outrageous and unnecessary taxes on all levels of government including that totally unnecessary County level of government with their constant hits to this town with their County and Open Space taxes every year - the Good People of Edison are still living with that Stench Hanging over us from that 2017 Racist  Flyer.

Yeah, the 'Committee of the Hole' still in search for themselves needs another 4 years to keep searching.

To make matters worse, the Dem-party's pick for Mayor is Sam 'the Weathervane Millennial' Joshi, aka Big-boy pants. Seriously now, this guy couldn't even win support of his own Dem-party committee people and dropped out of the screening. He then was hand-picked by the Powers to Be from outside of town to get the nod. 

Why such a poor selection by the Powers that Be? It's not like he has any record of substance on the Council, has any viable plans that make any sense or in anyway exudes anything that indicates that he's ready for Prime Time to manage a town the size of Edison.

It seems obvious why he was picked. He just a Dem-party ladder climber and a malleable marionette that will clearly continue the bidding of the Powers that Be.

And clearly driven home by this bit of irony:

 

Is that what you want? 

A Mayor that will be told what to do by his those holding and pulling the strings from outside of town?

I'm sorry but Joshi's qualifications for Mayor and his undemocratically hand-picked candidacy are a joke to anyone who's been around this town for any length of time and has seen this guy in action or more appropriately, inaction. As he says, growing up for the last seventeen years in a politically corrupt Dem-party structure here in Edison may be a Good thing for him and the Dem-party but Not for the People of Edison.

You should recognize he'd be serving the Dem-party's continued destruction of this town before he gets around to serving you. All you'll get with this guy is more of the same of what you've been getting, except on steroids.

The worst thing that can happen to you for another 4 years:

Seriously, if you want to start making a change, and you should, in this politically corrupt town, than you need to wake up and see that the only chance you have for change is to elect Keith Hahn Mayor of Edison.

Whether you like Keith or not, he really is our only hope for change. He's not going to be owned by the Dem-party Powers that Be or other political interests that have long controlled this town. 

Will he have to work with the Dem-party once elected, of course. But there's a big difference between working with and working for the Dem-party. Hahn will work with the Dem-party and Joshi will work for and be told what to do by the Dem-party. 

Keith will represent the People of Edison and Not any political party as Mayor.

Be Smart and Vote for Keith Hahn for Mayor this November.

Switching sides to the other side of town - you know, over there on Mythomania Lane, at the crossroads of Dysfunctional and Dem-party infested streets - the Edison Board of Education.

It's long overdue for Jerry Shi-shed to be removed from his leadership role. If you read this blog, you can see all the reasons why he should. He rules over a dysfunctional school board of his own making and his inept leadership continues to be a major detriment to the school district as you can clearly see if you watch any School Board meeting.

The reason for a Dysfunctional School Board:

This now Dem-party infested School Board is a disgrace and we need to make sure that we elect candidates to the School Board this November that will put an end to Shi's inept leadership and avoid getting involved in the internal Dem-party struggle for power over the School Board.

Be smart and vote for candidates that will give us the best chance to take this guy out of any leadership control of the School Board. It's the only way to Stop Shi from running a Dysfunctional School Board and remaining a detriment to the success of the School District.

To me, the best chances to unseat this inept leader is with any 3 of these candidates - Errico, Conway, Chinta and Haller.

Be Smart - take back your Town and take back your School Board by doing what's in Your best interests and those of Your school children.

'My friends at the County will be running the place, but I wish you well.'

 Well, there you go. If you had any doubt that Sam 'the Weathervane Millennial' Joshi, aka Big-boy pants is nothing more than a Malleable Marionette undemocratically hand-picked tool of the Dem-party Powers that be to carry out their wishes and Not Yours - you should open your eyes.

Seems everybody knows why Joshi was picked.

Good to know the County will be running the place. So much for any campaign promises or anything Big-boy pants says about what he's going to do from now on. 

Anyhoo, don't settle for more of the same with this choice of the Democratic-party Powers that Be. He will be doing their bidding and Not Yours.

Vote for Hahn and take back your town. It's long overdue.

Reprint - 8/1/21 Post - November's Edison Board of Ed elections - vote for those who would remove Mr. Shi-shed from leadership

Just a Reminder while mail-in voting is going on...

Saw this piece here in Patch about the Candidates running for the Edison BoE this November. Seems there are 9 candidates vying for 3 open spots.

Only two of the incumbents, Elizabeth Conway and Biral Patel are seeking reelection. Yuna Chen is Not seeking reelection.

The candidates are:

• Ralph Errico
• Vimal A. Parikh
• Padmaja 'Paddy' Chinta
• David Tingle
• Biral Patel (Incumbent)
• Gabriel Haller
• Douglas Schneider
• Brian Rivera
• Elizabeth M. Conway (Incumbent)

With Yuna Chen Not seeking reelection, there's an opportunity to correct for the inept leadership and dictatorial tactics now being forced upon us by Board President Jerry 'Referen-Dumb' Shi with his 5-vote majority. 

This guy really needs to be removed from his inept leadership role before things get worse than they are today. He is and remains the biggest detriment to the school district's success with his inability to lead and communicate.

A leader who claims to of saved the taxpayers millions but has saved Nothing and is so open to the public and other Board Members about what he's doing that he can't be bothered to discuss things with people who don't agree with him. 

And let's not forget that disastrous $300M plus bond referendum that he wasted two years putting together and that would of tripled the then current years school tax increase for the next 30 years. Too Much of a Financial Burden for too Little a Solution and correctly recognized and rejected by the voters twice. 

Overcrowding remains a problem today thanks to Mr. Shi-shed.

Now that the Board of Mythomania has been infested by the Democratic party under his watch, you really want to remove this guy from any leadership role and finally admit that moving the School Board Elections to November was a serious mistake when candidates like Mr. Shi can be elected with the help of his Dem-party friends.

Cheers!

So, do your research of the 9 candidates and choose those who will recognize the damage being done to the school district by this Board of Ed-Dems and it's ineffective leadership.

This school board election is more important than the Mayoral election come November. It's where the majority of your money goes to be wasted by an ineffective board thrust upon us by the ineffective and dictatorial leadership of Mr. Shi-shed.

Anyhoo, do your homework before you vote and get this Board of Mythomania back under control before it's too late.

Edison Mayoral Debate - disappointing, too many missed opportunties to call it a debate

 Well, looks like we saw the one and only Mayoral debate there's going to be last night before the November 2nd election. You can blame that on Sam 'the Weathervane Millennial' Joshi. Seems he prefers to hide behind all his Dem-party endorsements and money to risk mixing it up and exposing his weak candidacy - more than once.

If you want to call last nights event a 'debate' then you're sorely mistaken. All you got was Joshi touting the Dem-party line and Hahn missing every other opportunity to point that out. We did learn though that Joshi doesn't know how to debate and clearly lacks the charisma needed to bring people together.

Be that as it may, last night's event was sponsored by the League of Woman's Voters and Together Edison and consisted of some opening remarks, a series of questions with an opportunity for rebuttal and some closing remarks.

The questions were surface level in nature and covered such areas as plans for the first 6 months in office, wards, the master plan, smart growth water & sewer traffic and air quality, seniors, overcrowding, climate crisis, the budget, sustainable high paying jobs and the marijuana situation.

Joshi's 'plans' for Edison were so ridiculous and out of touch with reality that Hahn should of been all over his political rhetoric and lack of connection to what he has done over his time on the Council. Joshi should of paid more attention to what Hahn was saying instead of concentrating on his next prepared set of comments.

Hahn should of spent more time showing Joshi has a nothing record and he can't bridge the gap between that and his grandiose plans for the future, which by way, will be nothing more than what the Powers that Be in the Dem-party says they will be.

Joshi should of tried to be more appealing to the Public rather than his robotic memorization of his talking points. He should of been all over Hahn when he flipped to supporting that 1-Cent Forever Open Space tax, aka Fool's tax but he didn't because it's a Dem-party grab for more of your tax money by getting you to tax yourself to fund their excesses.

Overall, Hahn missed some great opportunities to show Joshi for what he is and Joshi was able to skate by as the undemocratically selected, hand-picked tool of the Democratic-party for more of the same here in Edison with only a few hits on his climb-up the Dem-party political ladder and the expense of the People of Edison.

It should of been really, really easy, even with the questions asked to point out how ill-prepared and qualified Joshi is to make the jump to being Mayor of a town the size of Edison.

The only good thing was to see how Joshi handled himself and what you can expect to get from him and the Dem-party if you seriously go against your best interests and vote for him - Nothing but what you've been getting for years now, except on steroids. 

Here's the event:

Anyhoo, regardless of who you support or what you get from this event - recognize the choice is a simple one. It's not Hahn vs. Joshi. It's Do you want More of the Dem-party control over your life in this town or is it time for a change?

Edison Board of Mythomania, aka Board of EdDems taking the EDO civil war into Novembers School Board Election

 Well, that was an interesting 'Special Meeting' last night over there on Mythomania Lane, at the crossroads of Dysfunctional and Local Dem-party Infested Streets.

Perhaps that's not the best description - more like is there no limit to the inept leadership of Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi? 

Aside from his usual lack of courtesy and dictatorial demeanor when it comes to the Public and, at times, other Board Members in search of transparency, his insistence on hiding behind that 'No Give and Take' which just further heightens the tensions of those seeking information and apparently he's never learned Not to Raise the Volume of Your Voice but rather Raise the Level of Your Arguments if you want to be successful - but there's something more troubling going on here.

Of course, none of this should surprise you about this guy. He's the same guy who wasted two years putting together a Failed Bond Refendum to fix the Overcrowding with his band of architects that was so bad and so over-priced for what we would be getting that the People of Edison shot it down twice, the same guy who claims to of saved the taxpayers millions but never saved anything and ignores people around him who don't agree with what he wants.

But I digress so let's move on. Seems Mr. Shi-shed wants the Board to approve an ethics complaint he wants to file against Board Member Biral Patel. In addition, he says he also went to the State AG route to boot. On what, who knows what Mr. Patel is being accused of in these complaints. Mr. Shi-shed can't comment because the AG told him not to and you can't see the complaint until he files it and it becomes subject to OPRA.

Of course, if Mr. Patel is being accused of violating any laws or breaking any school board ethics, then he should rightly be asked to come forth and defend himself against those accusations.

But - you have to ask yourself why Mr. Shi-shed needs the rest of the Board to approve of his decision to file an ethics complaint and why now at a hastily put together 'Special Meeting' where even some Board Members didn't receive the agenda until a few hours before the meeting? Kind of think there are a few more pressing things going on that need the Board's attention.

Be that as it may, he can certainly file a complaint by himself without the need to call a 'Special Meeting' and try and get everyone on the record. Seems the only votes of approval were from his usual 5 Votes - Shi, Mohin Patel, Cheng, White and Chen. The others were No's and Abstentions.

Now maybe you'll finally see what a mistake it was to move the School Board Elections to November. You've turned the supposed non-political School Board into a civil war among the differing factions within the Local Dem-party for control and power over all Your money. Once you did that, it was never about what's Best of the Kids but what's Best for the Political Powers that Be.

You'd have to be blind not to see that last night's meeting was just a continuation of the Bhagia/Joshi race to the bottom.

Nice, isn't it?

Jerry Shi-shed Needs to Go and you should only elect People to the School Board this November who will finally take away his leadership position. He's the biggest detriment there is to the proper functioning of the School Board and the School District's ability to work with all the stakeholders.

Here's the meeting:

Anyhoo, don't let your Kids come second to Local Dem-party politics in this town - recognize the problem right in front of you and fix it.

Edison Super Dr. Bernie Bragen - Steps up to the plate - Big Time!

 Well, take it everyone has seen what went on over there at Lincoln School. Got to take the time to recognize Super Bragen for his efforts.

For sure, I've had a lot to say about Dr. Bragen, but if you're honest with yourself - you have to recognize and give credit where credit is due.

So, Dr. Bragen - Outstanding job in looking out for the Little ones!

A BIG KUDOS TO YOU!

Anyhoo, for a moment there, I could of sworn he was Italian!

The Edison 1-Cent Open Space 'FOREVER' Tax is Back!?!

 Well, as usual, kind of sleezy how the 7 Processing Clerks again tried to sneak this 'Forever tax' in again. The same nonsense they sneakily passed in 2018, which the People of Edison wisely rejected at the polls in November 2018. 

Seems they had an add on to the Resolutions at the July 26th Council meeting (RESOLUTION R.387-072021), which means it didn't show up in the agenda for that meeting and unless you were at the meeting or watched it later - you'd never know it.

Slipped that right in without any fanfare, $neaky bunch, aren't they? And recognize this one also has No Expiration date - for Local Dem-BadLand-Perpetuity. - and will be on the Ballot in November.

DON'T BE FOOLED INTO SELF-TAXING YOURSELVES HERE IN DOWNTOWN EDISON - AGAIN!

Remember that 15-year 1-Cent piece of work tax mercifully ended in 2013 - you can ask Charlie 'I abstain' Tomaro about that 1-Cent Open Space tax.

Geez, every time I see these things come up, I'm reminded how badly the Local Dems are at $pending your tax dollars - from $5.6 million for some dirt and a mud puddle, aka Oak Tree Pond to the 1-Cent Open Space Tax that ended in 2013.

And then there's the possibility of condemning property again using eminent domain. Kind of ironic don't you think? You're voluntarily taxing yourself so they can possibly use the money to condemn your property!?!

Anyone seriously thinking about self-taxing themselves with another Open Space Tax to support the Local Dems frivolous spending, well - deserves what they get. Just look at what they did with all that money they got by leveraging that first 15-year Open Space Tax. Don't know, ask Anthony Russomanno, he'll tell you what a great job they did with Your Tax money back then.

Seriously now, haven't we had enough of tax increases here in the 'DemBadLands' of Downtown Edison - year, after year, after year?!?

And seriously, we already pay for an Open Space Tax with the County - you know, that branch of government that should be eliminated. They've been sticking it to Edison for years with their County & Open Space taxes.

And guess who was pushing it at the July 26th meeting? None other than Sam 'The Weathervane Millennial' Joshi, aka Big-boy pants that undemocratically selected, hand-picked "Tool" of the Powers that Be  for Mayor who sold out the People of Edison for a chance to climb up the politically corrupt Dem-party ladder.

Yeah - he'll be a Mayor for the People of Edison, right after he does the Dem-party bidding with nonsense like this:

Here's the Resolution:

Anyhoo, don't be foolish taxing yourselves for perpetuity when there are better ways to deal with open space - it's one thing to be continuously taxed to the hilt here by the Dem-party but it's quite another to let them trick you into taxing Yourselves, and Don't forget who's pushing this 'Forever tax' - that Malleable Marionette of the Dem-party, EdisPam I am!

Edison Public Schools Get $15.7M in Federal Covid Aid - let's hope they use it wisely.

 Saw this piece today here in Patch.com.

Let's hope the Board uses it wisely and monitors any plans by Board President Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi to $pend it.

Anyhoo, remember there's a School Board election this November. It's important if you ever want to fix the Overcrowding - Still a Problem after wasting the last two years under the inept leadership of Mr. Shi-shed.