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One was wearing a shirt with the words "Code Enforcement" on it and driving an SUV with the number "501." Was he on his lunch hour? I have no way of knowing. The point I was making is that they drove to the polls in city owned vehicles, not their own cars.

Machine politics win again

http://eyeontherecord.blogspot.com/2013/04/more-on-sad-state-of-hackensacks.html

I continue to refine my platform:

Vote for peace and quiet.
Vote against the machine.
Split your vote for the future of Hackensack.
Take back our city from special interests.   


VICTOR E. SASSON, a former reporter and copy editor at The Record who is running as an independent in the May 14 City Council election, is asking for your vote.

I am running on a quality of life platform that seeks to rein in property tax increases and improve city services.

The election is the most important in decades, and will determine if Hackensack -- widely mocked as “Zisaville” -- will finally be able to end the corrupt rule of the Zisa family.

My name will appear at the bottom of a column of 10 other candidates seeking 5 seats -- symbolizing how I will get to the bottom of things.

Vote for SASSON (Line 11), Canestrino (2), Sims (3), Greenman (4), Battaglia (5).


If elected, I will:

End the patronage mill at City Hall.
Cut the city budget by $2 million and maintain services (over).
Sell up to 15 cars now being driven home by city employees.
Require city employees to live in Hackensack.
Work with Teterboro Airport to reduce aircraft noise.
Encourage the non-profit Hackensack University Medical Center to pay more to the city in lieu of taxes.
Stop a 19-story, long-term, acute-care hospital from going up between Prospect and Summit avenues, near Golf Place.
Get Hackensack to purchase more efficient vehicles, and install more solar panels on city buildings and schools.
Start collection of garbage and recyclables after 6:30 a.m.
Ban commercial landscaping work on Sundays.
Get police to crack down on speeders, stop-sign violators and loud motorcycles, and earmark extra revenue for street repairs.
Encourage the city to undertake a major program to repave streets. Have turn lanes installed on Passaic Street, at Summit Avenue, and at other traffic bottlenecks.
Improve the food at Hackensack High School, and encourage administrators to plant vegetable gardens at all of the schools to fight the obesity epidemic.
Encourage the City Council to deliver a property tax cut to residents by passing along some of the additional tax revenue from major building projects, and gasoline and electricity savings.
Call me with suggestions or if you need a ride to the polls: 201-488-3012.


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Do You Really Know What You’re Eating?

A new restaurant and deli on Main Street are signs of hope the street is coming back, but other blocks are still looking forlorn. I don't agree with the City Council's strategy of offering a 30-year tax break for a 222-unit luxury apartment building on State Street, but hope when the tenants arrive in a couple of years, they will support Main Street merchants, assuming they are still in business.

A welcome sign of renewal in Hackensack


http://doyoureallyknowwhatyoureeating.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-welcome-sign-of-renewal-in-hackensack.html

So that's not your lawn sign? OK. Good to know.

The names and addresses of registered voters are public information. I obtained the list of roughly 20,000 voters to help me gather signatures for petitions that got me on the City Council ballot.

The editor's motives for deleting that information are unclear, but he also doesn't identify himself, which to me is a huge problem.

And, yes, Mrs. Taylor, I would be more than happy to drive you to the polls.

No correction today on North Jersey.com, though story in The Record got it right.

Actually, I wouldn't be taking a full salary -- I plan to give back about 25% of the council member's salary of $10,400 to the city or a charity.

I didn't read the original post from Etaylor, but don't see the relevance of my age-discrimination complaint against The Record to my campaign for City Council.

What you call "nasty," I call honest and frank.

Again, I don't understand Etaylor's reluctance to identify himself or herself. He/she obviously is hiding loyalties readers need to put everything he/she says in context.

I'd be willing to meet with Etaylor for a full and frank discussion.