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 "HOW SWEET IT IS!"
TEN REASONS WHY THE REPUBLICANS LOST AND TEN REASONS WHY THE DEMOCRATS WON!
Herrmann & Bocchino loose with the facts and thin on message as two challengers try to take credit for zero tax increase budget. Local Republicans refuse to release resumes or even mention EnCap by name! NORTH ARLINGTON - How do you take credit for a budget you never constructed and when you don't currently serve? That was the question North Arlington Democrats were asking after reviewing a brochure being distributed by Republican challengers James Bocchino and James Herrmann in their quest to create a record where none exists. Read More
Democrats run on "zero" tax increase, stopping EnCap!
Stand for something? Or stand for nothing? The silence is deafening.
On the tough questions of EnCap, eminent domain seizure and low income housing, Bocchino & Herrmann have really nothing to say! Campaigns have a tendency to become about "pomp and circumstance" versus the real issues that people really want to discuss. Read More
TANELLI & YAMPAGLIA HIT THE BRICKS!
Democrats encouraged by positive reaction to "zero" tax hike and opposition to EnCap project! NORTH ARLINGTON - Council President Steve Tanelli and former Councilman Mark Yampaglia are hitting the bricks in an intensive door-to-door campaign. The Democrats were encouraged by the strong show of support for the "zero" tax hike as well as the fight to keep EnCap out of North Arlington. Read More
NA DEMOCRATS TAP MARK YAMPAGLIA TO SUCCEED RETIRING FERRIERO ON COUNCIL TICKET WITH STEVE TANELLI!
Ferriero endorses Yampaglia as Democrats rally around zero tax increase and take a hard-line against EnCap for the fall campaign! NORTH ARLINGTON - The North Arlington Democratic Committee has endorsed the candidacy of former North Arlington Councilman Mark Yampaglia to run with incumbent Council President Steve Tanelli come the fall campaign. Read More
Say it ain't so, Joe! Despite his campaign rhetoric, Councilman Bianchi has no plan to cut taxes and he owes voters an apology! Campaigning and governing are two very different things. Ask Councilman Joe Bianchi. Read More
Tanelli: Our fiscal house is finally in order! NORTH ARLINGTON - Sources tell NA TODAY that the Massa Administration will introduce a "zero tax increase" municipal budget for the 2008-09 fiscal, a dramatic financial turnaround from last year's 33% tax hike. Read More
KAISER, NJMC PUSHES FOR 5,000 LOW INCOME UNITS FOR MEADOWLANDS!
When will Bianchi or Hughes take a position on low income housing for North Arlington? Spanola & Yampaglia condemn any plan to bring high density housing to North Arlington, no Arlington Valley's please! LYNDHURST - A proposal by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) to construct as many as 5,000 low income housing units on 14 Meadowlands communities has become a defining issue in the race for two council seats here in North Arlington. Challengers Bianchi & Hughes support it while Democrats Spanola and Yampaglia oppose any kind of housing as proposed by EnCap Holdings. Read More
2007 Primary Election Democrat Totals NORTH ARLINGTON - In a light turnout, local Democrats out polled local Republicans nearly 3-1 in nominating incumbents Phil Spanola & Mark Yampaglia while the GOP nominated former candidate Joe Bianchi & Richard Hughes.
Who can name the police officer escorting then Senator John F Kennedy on a campaign stop to Jersey City in the Fall of 1960?
To Kennedy's right is former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner as well as former Hudson County Supervisor Jackie Deegan, and former Congressman Dominick Daniels (D-14). To the right of Kennedy behind the police officer is former Congressman Cornelius Gallagher of Bayonne of the old 15th congressional district. Gallagher was seriously considered to be Lyndon Johnson's running-mate in 1964. Johnson ultimately chose Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota). The Democratic Convention that year was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
North Arlington Democrats coast to easy victory!
Tanelli
leads ticket again with a 12-district win, Ferriero
elected to a second three-year term, defeats
McDermott by nearly 600 votes!
Yampaglia
defeats Porcile for unexpired term by over 800
votes
NORTH ARLINGTON - Democratic incumbents Steve Tanelli, James Ferriero and Mark Yampaglia easily outdistanced a trio of Independents to retain complete Democratic control of North Arlington's governing body.. Click Here
For Borough Council: Ferriero, Tanelli & Yampaglia. Borough
needs experienced and qualified members to serve
on the council to tackle the issues of development,
property taxes and an overall vision for North
Arlington.
The
election for three seats on the North Arlington
Borough Council has been relatively quiet given
what's at stake for homeowners & taxpayers. Read More
1. What do you see as the short terms goals for the community. The issues most important to you? Short term goals and long term goals for North Arlington in my opinion are one and the same. Read More
Candidate Corzine goes door to door with local Democrats.
McDermott & Porcile crash Democratic house party! Mayor
Pitman, Council President Ferriero get warm
welcome from homeowners.
NORTH
ARLINGTON - United States Senator Jon Corzine
(D-NJ), the Democratic nominee for governor hustled
door-to-door Tuesday evening in North Arlington
while wrapping up a night of campaigning
at a house party on Hedden Terrace.
Read
More
Rutherford, Wood-Ridge, Wallington see increases in state support while Garfield & Carlstadt receive less in Extraordinary aid.
NORTH
ARLINGTON - Pleas for additional state funding
in wake of a $445,000 charge back fell upon
deaf ears as North Arlington will receive the
same amount of funding as appropriated in 2004.
The
borough, which had requested increases in their
application to nearly $800,000 will receive
less than half or $330,000. Read
More
Borough's share of aid has decreased from $500K to $330K in two years!
NORTH
ARLINGTON - Will local homeowners face a
hike in municipal property taxes because state
aid is decreasing from Trenton? That's the
question many are pondering with the adoption
of the 2005 state budget that calls for nearly
$29 billion dollars in spending. Read
More
Sheedy files under slogan, Responsible, Accountable, Positive. GOP
Write-in's fail to make November ballot, Democrats
poised to run on a record of putting homeowner's
first!
NORTH
ARLINGTON - Independent candidates George McDermott
& Joseph Porcile will be running as a team
under the slogan, "Community before Politics"
while Eileen Sheedy has opted for the slogan,
"Responsible - Accountable - Positive." Read
More
 Unofficial
Primary Results - North Arlington, NJ
LOCAL
GOP FAILS TO FILE TICKET!
Barring
write-in campaign, Democrats may have no
opposition come the fall campaign
Independents
can still file for council till June!
NORTH
ARLINGTON - For the first time in the history
of the local Republican Party, there will
be no candidates for the Republican nomination
on the June Primary ballot. Read
More
Seek
signatures at Post Office to gain ballot access
NORTH
ARLINGTON - George McDermott and Joseph A. Porcile
apparently took a page out of the Democratic playbook
and sought signatures from borough residents this
weekend to gain access to the November ballot
and prevent local Democrats from running unopposed.
McDermott,
who finished last in a field of five candidates
in 2004 is apparently set to run again with
Porcile, an unsuccessful candidate for council
in 1998 and 1999. Read
More
McDermott,
Porcile & Sheedy file as Independents to challenge
NA Democrats
NORTH
ARLINGTON - As expected, two perennial candidates
and the mother of a Republican Committeewoman
have filed as Independents to challenge Democrats
Steve Tanelli, James Ferriero and Mark Yampaglia
in this year's fall contest for three seats on
the North Arlington Borough Council. Read
More
North
Arlington now has 9 candidates for 3 Council Seats!
Schundler
defeats Forrester 153-92, DiGaetano finishes third
in NA!
Lonegan
Slate for freeholder defeats GOP endorsed ticket
NA
Residents Kearney & Maltese run strongly throughout
South Bergen on anti-Encap campaign against Sandoval
& Aloia for assembly in district 36!
Ferriero
top vote-getter in Democratic Primary
NORTH
ARLINGTON - Republican primary voters yesterday
expanded the potential field of council candidates
to nine with write-in votes for former Councilman
Lou Gallo, Planning Board Member Jay Corrigan
and borough resident Roland Stiner, a vocal critic
of the EnCap project. Read
More
Tanelli
talks and walks for a cause
2005
North Arlington Council Race: Fanning, Hughes & McDermott to challenge Tanelli,
Ferriero and Yampaglia?
Candidates
for county and municipal office
Secures Funding Mayor Pitman Requested To Fix Collapsed Shafts on Morton Place Washington, DC - Following through on his pledge to secure federal funds to fix a collapsed 18th Century copper mine shaft in North Arlington that threatens to destroy area homes and property, Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ9) last night secured $380,000 from the House Appropriations Committee, the level of funding the Borough was seeking from the federal government. Read More Tanelli
takes a seat in NAThe
following letter was sent to North Arlington homeowners
from Mayor Russ Pitman regarding the sale of the borough's
water utility:
TANELLI LEADS TICKET WITH 3,348 VOTES, DEFEATS PIMPINELLI BY 755 VOTES! MASSA GARNERS 3,282, SPANOLA 3,065, FITZHENRY 2,527 AND GILLIS 2,346! McDERMOTT TRAILS WITH 854 VOTES!
NORTH ARLINGTON - Political realignment took place tonight as Democrats will occupy all seven seats of local government for the first time since the 1950's in an overwhelming victory that was clearly a referendum on Russ Pitman's tenure as mayor. Democrats carried each of the borough's twelve districts with huge margins of victory in the seventh and second districts. Candidates Massa and Spanola both reside in the seventh and the second is the home of Mayor Russ Pitman. Running as the "Homeowner's Choice," Democrats ran just as large in the ninth and tenth districts which are heavily populated with tenants. In a race that was nasty and bitter, Democrats overcame a negative campaign engineered by ex-Mayor Leonard Kaiser who directed the GOP election day effort from his Canterbury Avenue home. Read More
For
President:
George
W. Bush* (R) - 3,240
John
Kerry (D) - 3,227
Ralph
Nader (I) -
33
For
US House of Representatives:
Steven
R. Rothman* (D) - 3,526
Edward
Trawinski (R) - 2,259
For
Sheriff:
Joel
Trella* (R)
- 2,442
Leo
McGuire (D)
- 3,360
For
Freeholder:
Richard
Mola* (R) -
2,409
Judy
Sobkowicz (R) - 2,421
Robert
Yudin (R)
- 2,248
James
Carroll* (D) -
3,261
Thomas
Padilla (D) -
3,271
Elizabeth Calabrese (D) - 3,358
*
denotes incumbent
PITMAN-HATING
GOP NEEDS A NEW BATTLE CRY!
NA
REPUBLICANS IN A SHAMBLES AFTER 12-DISTRICT SWEEP!
Shell-shocked
Republicans yesterday woke up to find their once
proud political machine in shambles and in desperate
need of 12-step program for recovering Pitman-haters.
It
isn't that Republicans lost another election that
they'd figured to win. But they were swept in
every election district for the second consecutive
cycle! In the last three cycles, local Republicans
have lost six of the seven contested council seats
along with the office of mayor. In two years, Republicans
have gone from 7-0 dominance to 0-7 irrelevance! Read More
$10,968 A YEAR TO COVER BOROUGH EMPLOYEE AND FAMILY COURTESY OF TAXPAYERS! NORTH ARLINGTON - In documentation secured by NA TODAY, the borough's workforce enjoy some of the most generous health benefit plans on the market with no co-payment. Read More
A big raise
for a friend of the bossSix workers at the Bergen County Utilities Authority got some early Christmas cheer last week.Read More
N.
Arlington mayor: 'No new taxes' NORTH
ARLINGTON - Mayor Russell Pitman stepped behind
an old, brown podium in front of a packed house
at the North Arlington High School auditorium
and said the words residents have been waiting
years to hear. Read
More
BOROUGH EMPLOYEES, OUT-OF-TOWN DEMONSTRATORS SHOUT OBSCENITIES AT MAYOR, BOROUGH ATTORNEY! RUMORS PREVAIL OVER BOROUGH'S MISMANAGED FINANCES! "APPOINTED" HERRMANN STIRS PARTISAN POT, RALLIES CROWD TO SUPPORT MORE SPENDING, HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES! MAYOR'S WIFE ESCORTED AWAY FROM ANGRY MOB! NORTH ARLINGTON - In what has to be described as a bizarre turn of events that became increasingly uglier by the minute, angry out-of-town demonstrators joined out-of-control partisans in protesting Mayor Russ Pitman's plans to review borough expenditures and hopefully, control increasing property taxes. It was Pitman's plan to have a sober and frank discussion of the borough's finances which would have included a prepared presentation from the Borough CFO and Auditor. According to sources, Bergen County undercover police officers made the assessment that going through with the meeting could compromise the peace. Read More
Anger over taxes sparked the American Revolution. Since then, their popularity hasn't exactly improved. A
recent poll by The Record shows that more than one in three
North Jerseyans cite taxes as the worst problem they face.Read
More
Let's keep it that way! Click Here
GOP Partisans stack meeting in effort stop Pitman from governing! NORTH ARLINGTON - The Borough Council voted Monday night 3-1 to sell the borough's aging water utility that would require millions in repair and upgrades. The
vote was along party lines with Democrats Roche, Shaftan
and Ferriero voting
yes and outgoing Republican Joseph Whittles voting no.
By
selling the utility, North Arlington will receive $4.3
million dollars of which $1 million will be used to
offset property taxes. Pitman's plan to stabilize municipal
taxes marks the first time in seven years that municipal
taxes will not increase. Read
More
NORTH ARLINGTON - Four-term Republican Councilman Joseph Whittles, who has the worst attendance record of any member of the governing body is now the treasurer for the Republican ticket he abandoned some two months ago. Read More
The Few. The Angry. The Bitter. "THE PITMAN HATERS" They
congregate online at NJ.com's North Arlington Forum and post
anti-Pitman rhetoric on the hour. They not only attack
Pitman, but his wife, his children and just about anyone associated
with the Democratic Party. Nasty, personal attacks on
Councilwoman Carey Shaftan were so crude decorum prevents
us from repeating them here.
They
have denigrated the democratic process to a point that
many citizens simply stay away from council meetings. They
swarm the council chamber early to occupy literally every
seat.
They
have decided that public meetings will be nothing more than
a replication of The Jerry Springer Show.
To
many Democrats and citizens, they're known as "The
Pitman Haters."
Since
Democrats assumed a working majority of the North Arlington
Borough Council for the first time in two decades, a band
of fifty or so partisans have decided to take democracy
hostage.
Read More
Candidates and Issues for the Borough of North Arlington Read More
Praise from across the political aisle: Subject:
New Tax Bill
Russ:
You
did it with the municipal tax rate.
Congratulations
and thanks.
Jim
Herrmann (the old one)
Editor's
Note: This above email was sent to Mayor Russ Pitman from the
father of former GOP Republican Councilman James Herrmann.
EX-MAYOR
TRIES TO REDEFINE FISCAL FAILURES ON HIS WATCH, CLAIMS TO BE
"PRIVATE CITIZEN" WHILE HEAD OF BCUA, MEMBER OF NJMC AND REPUBLICAN
PARTY CHAIRMAN!
A letter from one of North Arlington's finest and most respected citizens concerning the future of North Arlington and all that is at stake on election day. Read More
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"ZERO
Point ZERO"
Massa Administration to introduce "no tax" increase
municipal budget for 2008-09, homeowners get the break they deserve! 
POLITICAL
SHOCKER: 
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)
)
)
"TAKE
OUT THE BROOMS!"
OUTGOING
WHITTLES, EX-CANDIDATE HEINZMANN NOW RUNNING CAMPAIGN
FOR FITZHENRY, GILLIS AND PIMPINELLI
Tonight
this Mayor and Council are introducing the Ordinance
which will allow us to sell the Water Department to
Passaic Valley Water Commission. 
NORTH
ARLINGTON - He's the Executive Director of the Bergen
County Utilities Authority, the county's most coveted
patronage appointment. He earns in excess of $110,000
a year and was appointed by Governor Jim McGreevey
to the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC), a prized
political appointment. His wife is a highly
paid county employee and
political insider. He's the Republican Municipal
Chairman who chose this year's candidates for borough
council. He continues to be the most influential Republican
in North Arlington, yet ex-mayor Len Kaiser now says
he "wants to get on with life as a private citizen."
SALE
OF WATER UTILITY ENSURES A STABILIZED
TAX RATE IN 2005, MUNICIPAL SPENDING
WILL DECREASE $65,202, EXPENDITURES
DECREASE $441,678, $1 MILLION
OF UTILITY SALE WILL BE USED TO
CLOSE BUDGET DEFICIT!
NORTH
ARLINGTON - Amendments to the
2005 North Arlington municipal
budget will result in a no
tax increase for homeowners should
the governing body adopt the revised
spending plan next week according
to sources within the Pitman Administration.
NORTH
ARLINGTON - GOP party boss and ex-mayor
Leonard Kaiser continued his collision course
with homeowners by claiming the GOP Municipal
Committee has appointed political unknown
Kurt Gillis to the unexpired term of former
Councilwoman Susan King. 
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