Good Monday morning!
Just a few years in the past, the Republican-turned-Democrat sheriff of Bergen County resigned after being caught on tape making racist feedback about Black folks and Sikhs.
Now, there’s one other caught-on-tape controversy with the Democrat (at the very least lately)-turned-Republican candidate for Bergen County Sheriff, Saddle Brook’s suspended police chief, Robert Kugler, who, , already has some issues.
This recording is definitely older than the previous sheriff’s, relationship again to a 2013 Saddle Brook council assembly when Kugler was explaining recruit officers from close by cities.
“You simply must get acclimated to Saddle Brook. You possibly can take them from the jungles of Paterson or Trenton [or] Newark, they usually come to lily-white Saddle Brook and it’s most likely a little bit simpler,” Kugler told the council. “However on the identical time we have to tame them down a little bit bit.”
To be honest, some folks do seek advice from cities as “concrete jungles.” And I didn’t hear anybody on the council react to this assertion. However utilizing the phrase “jungles” in reference to closely Black and Hispanic cities, after which contrasting them to his “lily-white” suburb makes the racial tinge diffcult to disregard.
WHERE’S MURPHY? — In Perth Amboy at 10 a.m. for a brand new highschool groundbreaking ceremony, then Trenton at 1 p.m. for a coronavirus press convention.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We’ve got extra issues right here on the town with reside bands taking part in at a few of our eating places than I believe we might with a marijuana institution.” — Howell Police Chief Andrew Kudrick
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Brick Councilmember Heather DeJong, Jersey Metropolis Workplace of Cultural Affairs’ Christine Goodman, DHS’ Adam Neary, Ok&L Gates’ Dave Catuogno
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SWIFT BOATED — “Assembly candidate Claire Swift demands Democratic PAC retract mailer,” by The Press of Atlantic Metropolis’s Michelle Brunetti Publish: “One Meeting candidate within the 2nd Legislative District believes the Democratic Backyard State Ahead PAC, which has ties to the New Jersey Training Affiliation, has gone too far in its assaults on her document as a deputy lawyer basic in Atlantic Metropolis from 2000 to 2003. Republican Claire Swift’s legislation agency is demanding that Backyard State Ahead retract a marketing campaign mailer blaming her for the deaths of 4 youngsters and the ‘brutal, extended abuse’ of 13 within the state’s foster care system … The mailer blames Swift in her position as deputy lawyer basic for failing to guard youngsters from abuses described in an April 15, 2003, New York Instances article about instances by which the state’s foster care system failed youngsters. The instances described, nevertheless, occurred from 1999 to 2002 in North Jersey and different elements of the state however not Atlantic County, the place Swift was a deputy lawyer basic representing the Division of Kids and Households in instances involving little one abuse and neglect and termination of parental rights.”
NO, THE PEOPLE WILL BE BETTER SERVED WITH A GOLF COURSE FOR MILLIONAIRES — “Pesin and Liberty Park allies plead with Murphy, Legislative leadership, to protect state gem,” by InsiderNJ’s Max Pizarro: “It was a beautiful day this morning, the place the nauseating AtroTurf stink of New Jersey politics lingered within the neighborhood of the the Aristocracy of Girl Liberty, the place Sam Pesin, president of the Mates of Liberty State Park, regarded and sounded greater than able to purifying the legendary park within the face of yet one more unwarranted privatization onslaught. Pesin has been at this his total life, in any case, and recently fairly a bit greater than normal, because the management of the New Jersey state Legislature drags its heels on the LSP Safety Act … The native champion of a significant statewide asset expressed his disappointment within the silence thus far of Governor Phil Murphy … The counter rally in query consisted of the chums of Florida billionaire Paul Fireman, who has tried to cram a golf course onto the grasslands right here amid new mutterings of turf fields as lawmaker management insists on leaving the park unprotected.”
THE REAL CONTROVERSY IS THAT CIATTARELLI GETS HIS COVID POLICY FROM THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ‘HUMORS’ THEORY — “Ciattarelli often touts his ‘Main Street’ business on the campaign, but it was no mom-and-pop operation,” by NJ Advance Media’s Ted Sherman: “Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli calls himself a Essential Road businessman; a ‘hands-on, roll-up-your sleeves CEO’ who constructed two profitable firms. Certainly, one in all them, Galen Publishing, was in actual fact positioned on W. Essential Road. His companies had little to do with downtown Somerville and Galen was no small-time operation. It was a medical publishing firm value thousands and thousands … The candidate, although, has not stated a lot about his personal enterprise, apart from to notice that he all the time met his payroll and employed fellow New Jerseyans, whereas repeatedly describing his endeavors in interviews as ‘Essential Road companies.’ What his firm did was produce persevering with training supplies for main universities — a lot of it funded by thousands and thousands in grants from among the largest names within the pharmaceutical trade, information present … It’s common for persevering with training credit mandated by {many professional} organizations to be underwritten by firms. Nonetheless, critics say relationships can current a battle and could also be little greater than surreptitious advertising instruments utilized by the drug firms.”
WILL ADDIE GO? — “Can Republicans beat the state senator who spurned them?” by New Jersey Globe’s Joey Fox: “To the shock of New Jersey’s political observers, Addiego introduced in January 2019 that she was switching events from Republican to Democrat, giving Democrats their largest Senate majority for the reason that early Eighties … In the meantime, Republicans cried foul, and shortly started strategizing for take down the traitor of their midst. They held each Meeting seats in 2019 regardless of spirited Democratic campaigns to flip them – and regardless of the more and more Democratic nature of Burlington County. The sum of those many shifting elements will lastly come to a head this November, with Republicans fielding Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield (R-Westampton) in what’s broadly considered the “marquee” legislative race of the 12 months. Just one candidate will emerge victorious: the occasion loyalist turned occasion switcher, or her former political ally turned political rival. Has New Jersey legislative politics ever been fairly so cinematic?”
YEAH, WELL WHAT DO THEY KNOW? — “Masks for 2-year-olds? Here’s what experts say about new controversial Murphy move,” by NJ Advance Media’s Matt Arco: “Gov. Phil Murphy final week ordered those that work at little one care facilities be vaccinated or face obligatory common testing, and that every one staff, guests and youngsters two years and older masks up contained in the facilities. He instantly confronted criticism from his Republican gubernatorial rival Jack Ciattarelli, Republican lawmakers and even some who function little one care facilities. Regardless of the backlash, specialists say it’s the precise factor to do to try to cease the unfold of the coronavirus pandemic. ‘I get the frustration. I get the unhappiness. I’m uninterested in sporting the masks,’ stated Dr. Lawrence Kleinman, a pediatrician and a professor and vice-chair of the Division of Pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wooden Johnson Medical College. ‘However there are quite a lot of issues I do this I don’t need to do as a result of the implications are significant.’”
BECAUSE THE PENSION SYSTEM IS NOW FULLY FIXED — Murphy gives prosecutors a pension upgrade, by POLITICO’s Matt Friedman: New Jersey prosecutors employed after 2010 at the moment are eligible for extra beneficiant pensions. Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed into legislation a invoice, NJ S3780 (20R), that enables prosecutors who have been employed after 2010 to enroll within the prosecutors a part of the Public Workers Retirement System. The prosecutors a part of PERS was created in 2002 however closed to new hires as of Could 2010. These employed after that date have been positioned within the common PERS. Underneath the brand new legislation, prosecutors received’t must buy any credit to maneuver into the upgraded pension tier.
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—“Gov. Murphy signs bill allocating $10 million for North Jersey lakes hit by algae blooms”
HE’LL GO HIGH BUT HE WON’T GET HIGH —“After GOP goes low on police reform, Booker goes high. Again,” by The Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran: “Sen. Cory Booker’s most formidable venture but as a U.S. Senator led to failure final week when his Republican negotiating associate and good friend, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, turned down a compromise on police reform and lobbed insults, laced with falsehoods. ‘Democrats actually led by liberal elites have made a foul calculation and it’s costing lives,’ Scott stated … ‘All of it turned to ash,’ Booker says. ‘And we have been proper on the objective line.’ You may suppose Booker can be livid at a second like this — when you don’t know Booker. He’s as a substitute preaching the gospel of affection and forgiveness … ‘Tim and I talked as we speak,’ Booker instructed me. ‘He has been an excellent good friend and associate in getting issues completed. All of us are mountain ranges. We’ve got peaks and valleys. This place is a pressure-cooker. None of us are as nuanced as we needs to be.’ Booker meditates repeatedly, by no means drinks alcohol or smokes, by no means eats meat, and is taking part in the sport of life on a excessive religious plain. I’m not so encumbered, so please permit me to throw a number of flaming spears on his behalf.”
GOP TO SEND MAILERS FEATURING ALL OF THEM AS AOC ALLIES ANYWAY — “The battle between Jersey moderates and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez flavors the SALT debate,” by The Report’s Charles Stile: “New Jersey members, like Rep. Josh Gottheimer of the fifth Congressional District in northern New Jersey, Montclair’s Rep. Mikie Sherrill of the eleventh Congressional District, and Rep. Tom Malinowski of the seventh Congressional District in Central Jersey, have adopted some model of ‘No SALT, No Deal,’ that means that they won’t assist President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion social security program except the cap is lifted. Their menace is to not be taken flippantly. Democrats, who’re planning to push the package deal by way of the reconciliation course of that averts a Republican filibuster, have solely three votes to spare within the Home. The strain between AOC’s progressives and the New Jersey moderates is a microcosm of a rift throughout the Democratic Social gathering that might scuttle the destiny of Biden’s plan. But, there seems to be some softening from either side of the controversy.”
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NEXT COUNCIL MEETING ONLY AVAILABLE ON PAY-PER-VIEW — “Point Pleasant Beach mayor, councilman almost fight at council meeting,” by The Asbury Park Press’ Mike Davis: “Mayor Paul Kanitra and Councilman Bob Santanello nearly got here to blows at a Tuesday council assembly after a disagreement over borough spending turned ugly. The fast challenge was a council decision for emergency appropriations, permitting the borough to spend extra money than was initially budgeted for water and sewer, engineering and design and authorized providers, which Santanello stated was an instance of the borough spending an excessive amount of taxpayer cash … ‘Bob, you’ve got been attempting to craft this insane narrative,’ Kanitra responded, earlier than being interrupted by Santanello. Kanitra then requested Borough Administrator Christine Hanlon how commonplace a decision rising most contract quantities was. She was barely capable of reply earlier than Kanitra, 42, and Santanello, 60, started shouting at one another and pointing fingers, whereas Councilman Andy Cortes — seated between the 2 — merely buried his head in his palms. Cortes would later must rise and separate the 2 till a Level Nice Seashore police officer intervened. In an interview, Kanitra stated Santanello shoved him twice. Santanello stated he solely bumped Kanitra whereas the 2 males have been in one another’s faces.”
“Housing prices were already too high for many Newark residents. Then the investors came,” by NJ Advance Media’s Payton Guion: “The City League is one in all many teams working to keep up a provide of reasonably priced housing in Newark, a metropolis the place house costs and rents simply outstrip most residents’ means to pay. That disparity has lately led to dire warnings if extra reasonably priced housing isn’t made out there. Newark is brief greater than 16,000 reasonably priced models, in keeping with one report this 12 months from Rutgers College. And now a brand new impediment has emerged. A red-hot COVID-19 housing market and heavy investor exercise has pushed up costs to beforehand inconceivable ranges in Brick Metropolis. Fraser stated she’s seen an increasing number of buyers turning to Newark actual property with eye-opening money presents, which she stated complicates her efforts to develop and protect reasonably priced housing. ‘They’re focusing on long-term residents, individuals who have lived in Newark for many years,’ stated Fraser, the City League’s president and CEO, of the buyers. ‘You possibly can hear the sucking sound of the wealth popping out of these neighborhoods … due to these predatory consumers. There’s no regulation round that.’ … Costs have spiked 113% from a low of $175,000 in early 2014. Throughout that very same interval, the everyday value of homes in New Jersey rose about 40%.”
OFFICERS NEEDED TO DEAL WITH A NEW GENERATION OF SMOOTHER CRIMINALS — “Paterson councilman calls for hiring 100 special police officers,” by The Paterson Press’ Joe Malinconico: “Councilman Michael Jackson is proposing that Paterson create about 100 part-time ‘particular police officer’ positions, a plan that might produce the most important enlargement of town’s legislation enforcement drive in additional than a decade. The ‘class 2’ particular officers can be approved to hold weapons and have full legislation enforcement powers, whereas working about 20 hours per week, beneath Jackson’s plan. The particular officers can be paid between $20 and $35 per hour.”
LANCING THE BOYLE — “Bayonne Director of Municipal Services Boyle resigns as police probe potentially illegal cell phone recording,” by Hudson County View’s John Heinis: “Bayonne Director of Municipal Companies Tim Boyle has resigned as police have opened an investigation right into a probably unlawful cellular phone recording from earlier [Friday]. In an e-mail obtained by HCV, Enterprise Administrator Melissa Mathews instructed the Legislation Division this morning that Boyle had been caught ‘illegally recording a dialog he was not part of within the metropolis’s constructing division.’ New Jersey is a single occasion consent state, that means that recording a dialog is authorized so long as the individual recording is part of it. ‘Your complete buildings [sic] division is a witness to this and I’ve images of his telephone recording. As well as as I used to be strolling at hand it over to the legislation division I bumped into Tim and handed him the telephone acknowledging that I used to be conscious he was recording and that it was unlawful,’ Mathews wrote.”
—“Hudson, Union Counties move forward with reentry program to phase out ICE deal at Kearny jail”
—“‘Left in the dark’: Newark schools won’t share COVID data with families and teachers”
—“[Cape May] Council rebukes Bezaire”
—“Judge rejects democrats bid to seat Witherspoon as Interim Atlantic commissioner”
—“Recycling revenues have roared back for New Jersey towns. Here’s why”
—“‘We’re going to be in litigation very shortly’: Howell 100-unit development could quadruple”
‘….AND WE HAVE BETTER PIZZA!’ — New York hears from New Jersey on congestion pricing, by POLITICO’s Ry Rivard: New Jersey residents bought an opportunity to remark Friday on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to cost drivers taking their automobiles into decrease Manhattan. Unsurprisingly, some folks have been sad. The Zoom listening to was the second of many hearings deliberate for the approaching months and the primary geared toward gathering enter from New Jersey residents. It supplied a pattern of public sentiment from the type of one who may spend an hour in entrance of a webcam in the midst of a workday to speak a couple of new tolling system for Manhattan’s central enterprise district, an space that’s mainly most of Manhattan beneath Central Park. Some feedback got here from the standard suspects. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) spoke towards charges that might drive a few of his North Jersey constituents to pay as a lot as $23 a day extra to get to work. Zoe Baldwin, a consultant from the Regional Plan Affiliation, which helps the congestion pricing plan, spoke in favor.
MOORISHTOWN — “She bought her dream home. Then a ‘sovereign citizen’ changed the locks,” by The New York Instances’ Sarah Maslin Nir: “The official-looking letters began arriving quickly after Shanetta Little purchased the lovable Tudor home on Ivy Road in Newark. Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the paperwork claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to say her new home as his personal. She dismissed the letters as a hoax. And so it was with shock that Ms. Little discovered herself in her yard on Ivy Road on a June afternoon as a police SWAT staff negotiated with a person who had damaged in, modified her locks and hung a crimson and inexperienced flag in its window … Often known as the Moorish sovereign citizen motion, and loosely based mostly round a concept that Black individuals are overseas residents sure solely by arcane authorized methods, it encourages followers to violate existent legal guidelines within the title of empowerment. Consultants say it lures marginalized folks to its ranks with the false promise that they’re above the legislation … This previous summer time the Moorish motion exploded into public view, after Ms. Little posted viral TikTok accounts of her ordeal and when the police pulled over members of a militant offshoot of the group on a Massachusetts freeway.”
YOU HAVE TO STOP MAKING YOUR SNOW WITH KEROSENE — “Fire breaks out at the American Dream mall ski slope, but no injuries reported,” by NJ Advance Media’s Ted Sherman and Josh Solomon: “fireplace broke out within the pre-dawn hours on the American Dream Mall on Saturday, lengthy earlier than the sprawling complicated within the Meadowlands opened, however was shortly contained as firefighters for the Meadowlands and from surrounding communities converged on the location. The three-alarm smokey blaze started within the space of the Huge SNOW ski slope. Firefighters from an on-site fireplace brigade serving the Sports activities Advanced and the American Dream have been joined by firms from East Rutherford, Wooden-Ridge and different surrounding communities to struggle a hearth that unfold briefly to the outside of the constructing”
DON’T LISTEN TO JAMEL HOLLEY — “Man whose unvaccinated friend died of COVID says minds of anti-vaxxers can’t be changed,” by The Burlington County Instances’ Phil Gianficaro: “Preston Zeller bought the shot. After which a second shot. And after they wave him in for a booster shot, he’ll get that shot. Know why? Effectively, let Preston inform you. ‘Don’t wanna die like my good friend Perk died, see?’ the Willingboro resident defined. ‘He didn’t get the shot. Wouldn’t belief the science, as they are saying. Perk listened to all of the fallacious folks, and watched an excessive amount of of the fallacious TV. Stated he was terrified of what it would do to him. Scared they rushed the vaccine by way of. Scared there wasn’t sufficient testing.’ … In a world with nonetheless far too many Perks, be a Preston. We’re developing on 680,000 COVID deaths in America in the course of the pandemic, because the delta variant lingers and spreads. Greater than 27,200 deaths in New Jersey. Greater than 51,000 infections and counting in Burlington County, and greater than 900 deaths. Together with Perk.”
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