THESTATENJ has in its possession a letter from Gary Fechter of Princeton Energy Systems (also managing executive of Wayne Energy Corporation (WEC) – a post he received after issuing a favorable feasibility study of the WEC project. This letter is addressed to Larry Barth of the New Jersey Clean Energy Program asking for an additional extension on the Solar Electric Project Rebate Commitment.
Of particular interest in this letter is the list of individuals who received carbon copies:
Assemblyman Scott Rumana, Chairman, Wayne Energy Corporation
Martin Ludwig, Wayne Energy Corporation
Robert Simpson, Wayne Energy Corporation Senator Kevin O’Toole, 40th Legislative District
Bruce James, Freeholder Passaic County
William Northgrave, Esq., McManimon & Scotland
Noreen Giblin, Chief of Staff, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
Michael Winka, Director, Office of Clean Energy, NJ Board of Public Utilities
Inquiring minds want to know why Senator O’Toole is receiving copies of correspondence on a project that three separate state agencies have deemed as highly improper? Is he complicit? Could O’Toole, an environmental lawyer, have some substantial role in Rumana’s sleazy solar scheme? Is O’Toole sponsoring legislation to further enable Rumana’s seedy schemes? Could O’Toole – close to Jersey Democrats – be serving as a liaison between Rumana and the Democratic interests who hold the key to WEC’s future?
You’ve got to hand it to Joey Novick, occasional contributer to PolitickerNJ. He comes up with some real gems sometimes. Case in point: Novick, who today issued satire worthy of The Onion entitled “September 3, 2010: Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio proclaims ‘Bret Schundler Day’.” The title says it all. Wrapping up the controversy of …
While “Brooklyn Al” Doblin’s bromance with Rumana continues, REAL news gathering organizations do the work Scott’s buddies just wont touch.
Thank goodness, ladies and gentlemen, for News12 New Jersey’s Walt Kane who Thursday featured a hard hitting segment on Rumana’s sleazy scheme. Quite frankly, I, as a former governor of THESTATENJ, was getting lonely being the only guy covering the most under-reported North Jersey news story of the year. Kudos also to PolitickerNJ’s Darryl R. Isherwood who (though giving Rumana far too little credit) wrote up a solid piece, Rumana’s Headache which was almost as entertaining as the comment flame war beneath his story.
This explosive investigation exposes Rumana’s plot for the crooked, Sharpe-Jamesque scheme that it is.
I especially love the visual that lays it all out there: Rumana on both sides of the table –
Watching the ridiculous pile-on of Governor Chris Christie over a single mistake in a 1,000-page application for President Obama’s “Race to the Top” program, a mistake that would have been negligible if the NJEA had signed on to the application, would be funny if not so sad.
Really Sheila Oliver? Legislative hearings? Really? I’m sure you never make mistakes (Gift Life of NY?).
The apoplectic hysterics of the NJEA and their lackeys – people that have NEVER supported the plan and who had already KILLED a prior “Race to the Top” application (where was the outrage then?) – are almost too much to handle. Believe me, the bad guys in all this are the NJEA. …
We have been so busy firing our Guns of August that we missed one of our favorite internet correspondents, Art Gallagher’s posting earlier this month. Gallagher’s More Monmouth Musings is helping to fill the chasm cleft into the NJ media landscape by Wally Edge’s untimely passing (to a more lucrative post at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).
As a former Governor of THESTATE of NJ, let me be the first (or whatever) to welcome former Representative, the right honorable Frederick R. Lehlbach to the intertubes. And thanks for the shout out.
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As the foremost web based character-illumination service in New Jersey, THESTATE editors have taken it upon ourselves to dissect the Board of Public Utilities (Board/BPU) docket which basically put the kibosh on Scott Rumana’s taxpayer-funded solar-powered patronage mill. The unethical, sleazy and arrogant scheme that Rumana has been promoting for 4 years was pounded by the BPU and the Department of Community Affairs (DCA). Rumana was presented with numerous opportunities to answer very legitimate questions about his conflicts of interest as both chair of Wayne Energy Corporation (WEC) and Wayne Mayor.
Yet, in a stunning display of arrogance and ignorance, Rumana refused to provide any sort of documentation demonstrating that his project was copasetic and even blamed the BPU and DCA for delaying his project! We kid you not; it’s all in the docket. Enjoy…
Explosive rumors have reached our ears from two independent Bergen County sources. “Paymaster” Alan Marcus allies including Freeloader (Freeholder) Rob Hermansen and his aide de camp, the equally inept Diedre Woodbyrne, have allegedly been driving around to the homes of their alleged detractors attempting to break into their wireless networks.
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