THE STATE’s favorite chairman, Scott Rumana is clearly suffering from foot-in-mouth disease as chronicled by the Record’s Charles Stile. Seeking to curry favor with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Rumana has become a vocal opponent of the excessive salaries paid to employees at the Passaic Vally Sewerage Commission. Unfortunately for Rumana, it turns out that his Godfather, a one Robert Roe, works at PVSC as a consultant with a $10,000 a month MINIMUM retainer. …
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Drive through any town with May elections and you’ll see plenty of lawn signs for both sides in these low-turnout municipal elections.
Readers have asked why we haven’t covered the race in Jersey City. Well because when you are the incumbent mayor of Jersey City sitting on a war chest that raised over $3 million and President Obama appears in radio and television spots endorsing you, its game over. Jerramiah Healy, even in a five way field, is going to be re-elected. We are sorry to break this to you.
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It was a bad week for Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco. First it was revealed that
he went bankrupt. Next it came out that in March, the state placed a tax lien against him for failing to pay his income taxes. The lien has yet to be paid. …
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First and foremost back when Rumana was just moving up in the political world, he took $3,000 from convicted felon Jim Treffinger. The same Treffinger that turned Essex County into his own personal sandbox was now expanding his enterprise to Rumana’s 2001 campaign for mayor of Wayne. …
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