Pegi's Way On Wayfinding

Home numbers?! Why not call their town office numbers? I'm absolutely, unequivocally against spending on wayfinding, but dogging people at home seems wrong.

Local politics does not have to be a blood sport like it is on the national level. You'll be just as effective (maybe more) if you channel your energies into things like going to the council meetings, circulating petitions, carrying signs and calling the officials' official numbers.

I have mixed feelings about the home numbers. They are public personas, no? What if they never pick up the phone or it is constantly intercepted by their assistant? Believe me, I know THAT frustration.

If I were in public office, I'd have a dedicated line just for calls like this so they wouldn't bother other members of my family.

Unless it is regular practice to contact them at home I think it will hurt the cause to start hounding them at home. Challenge the decision sure, but no need to antagonize anyone.

Even the Mayor of Montclair, Annette, might respond more kindly to a call at his home if you spelled his surname correctly. It is "Remsen."

Let us be honest here, too. Would you as Mayor or a council member (any councilmember, even the office-seeking Mr. Mattox), really want some of the profane louts and anonymous creeps who post here calling your home?

Cathar -- I think Peggy is the bad speller -- should Annette be accountable for that?

Cathar, have you thought about taking up boxing? You really need a proper outlet for that pent up aggression.

Actually, some of the council have posted thier home numbers here as they don't spend time or maintain offices at the municipal building.

Also, based on the numbers above, are Ted and Joyce shacking up? Gerry & Robin?

Cathar,
I usually make spelling corrections on info sent by readers, and this got by me. Apologies to Mayor Remsen, whose name I do know how to spell.

Peggy Can't Spell -

Making a mistake spelling someone's name isn't a major crime. BTW, her name is spelled Pegi, not Peggy.

classic

Cathar, if louts want to call our elected officials at home -- they don't need Pegi's list posted on Baristanet. A quick online search or looking in the phone book can turn up most of them -- I'm guessing what Pegi Adam is doing here is for the "shock value"....I read here on this very Blog last year a posting about an outraged doctor who lives on North Mountain Ave who was organizing a protest outside the mayor's house to bring attention to the town dragging their feet on "traffic calming" measures. Was Pegi ever in the PR biz?

Didn't The Montclair Times have to run a correction after they misspelled Ed's name in their July 4th coverage.?
The answer is yes!

Anyone know Pegi's home number. She is now a prominent public figure I suppose.

The nastier we make local politics the nastier the people who'll run for office.

Thanks Pegi.

Nastier than the ones currently in office? Oh, the humanity!

Peggy is part of Bluewave (big surprise, right?) I think a lack of civility and "any means necessary" approach is part of the M.O.

David, I know your home number! Maybe people would like to call you?

David?

By all means, call away!

Oh good. Since he's agreeable please post it.

Freier

Joyce Michaelson and Ted Mattox LIVE TOGETHER!?!?! WOW! WHOOOWHEE!!

NO.

They might share the same office at 205.

Mikey, any clownish fool like yourself who's already walked "war criminals" verbally to the gallows on this very site shouldn't be raising the issue of "aggressive behavior" to anyone else.

Perhaps you'd like your own home phone number posted (you did suggest a while back that people run for office, right?). You know, to speak directly with your projected constituents. (Or do you simply address them daily in the halls of the asylum after morning walk time? Through the bars of your own padded cell, mayhap?)

Yes, by the way to someone else who asked, Pegi Adam was very much in PR for several years.

Take a chill Cathar. You are not going to get a fight out of me. Your anger is unwarranted.

I'm happy about one thing - You remembered that a war is going on. You would never know we are at war if you looked around our neighborhood. So few have sacrificed for the war in Iraq. I am reminded of the marines that have recently been called back to the front after doing multiple tours.

Anybody interested in forming a nonprofit association with the name HALT, Homeowners Alliance to Lower Taxes? Or neighborhood associations can organize. Our neighborhood association is called The Fairway Association and may be interested in organizing with other associations. Maybe these associations can have a meeting to galvanize support to get our town back on track? Anybody out there interested?

"You would never know we are at war if you looked around our neighborhood. So few have sacrificed for the war in Iraq."

Hmmm? Is the point "what good is a war without widespread suffering"

Or

"If we can't point out a lot of widespread suffering in America it will make the erosion of public will, and therefore our loss, that much harder to achieve."

?

Why am I certain it is the latter?

Mikey, you are even more filled with crap than usual this fine day. With phrases like "I am reminded...," I just wonder who appointed you a successor to William Jennings Bryan. And then there is your utterly shameless "So few have sacrificed for the war in Iraq." What the devil does that mean, anyhow? Sound and fury, mikey, sound and fury, told as usual by an idiot.

Mikey smells like trees.

ROC,
Neither, the point is the suffering. The suffering of our own and the Iraqi's. My point is that most of America isn't making any sacrifices and they should.

trees smell good!

Cathar, you answer your question for me. What sacrifices can we make for the war? I think we should help each other be aware of what is going in Iraq.

Would your enlistment in the Armed Forces count as a "sacrifice," mikey? I know it'd be a blow to Linux lovers everywhere, but jeepers, just the thought of you standing guard duty somewhere, better sleep is virtually guaranteed to the rest of us for at least 3 years.

"My point is that most of America isn't making any sacrifices and they should."

Self flagellation? Which sacrifices should we sign up for and to what end?

Our moral betterment?

We should be thankful there isn't widespread suffering un the US.

I never figured you for a Calvinist.

I am always struck by the way you use the phrase "we should" - very much in the same vein as Jerry Fallwell or perhaps Pol Pot.

My neighborhood association, the Woodman Field Neighbors Association (WFNA) might be interested in HALT.

Mikey, it took me about 2 minutes (while viewing of an old "The Angry Beavers" episode I taped off Nicktoons) to realize, you are being particularly nonsensical today. (A hokily rueful, penitential tone ill befits you, in any case, as ever thus with the totally loony.)

Do you thus perhaps imagine you're setting a verbal snare for such as ROC and myself? Being witty? Making friends and influencing people. God but I hope not.

Here you go Mikey, a sacrifice you can make.

And to encourage you, I'll do it too. How about $50 each? We can post our "thank you" emails (sans personal info) as proof.

Care to make a sacrifice Mikey?

Here's a good charitable effort: Operation Iraqi Children supports both Iraqi kids and our troops' efforts to do the right thing.

I'll do $50 to them if you'd rather, Mikey.

If you promise to donate $50 to OIC, or the USO, I'll go first.

I guess it was one of those kinds of calls for "sacrifice".

(p.s. I still think it was scenario #2 on Mikey's part)

Cathy,

Why are you so angry?

Chill out lady.

c'mon, folks, just ignore mikey. he's obviously clueless with all this sacrifice talk. doesn't he know that is what god created poor people for?

What is the point of bothering someone at home. Send an E-Mail orowrite a letter. I am oppsed to the wayfinding too, but this tactic smacs of harrasment.

Blackberry said that she will talk with Sweet Pea about this expenditure, however, should we meet Mr. Freier during our afternoon constitutional.

Wayfinding? I got a way of finding open windows - and chekin' out prime booty

So where was mikey's response to ROC's call for sacrifice? Did I miss it? Or is he just getting one of those 6-foot high facsimile checks printed for maximum visual effect for the photo op?

Jimmy220oz,
Do you know how many other neighborhood associations there are in town? Thanks for responding!

It is now Day 2 of the "Will lasermikey make a financial sacrifice?" watch.

And if he did, why would he tell any of you?

Because, "hates bullies," he called publicly for "sacrifice." As he calls loudly for so much else from others. ROC thus made a highly reasonable request, even offered to match mikey's, uh, financial sacrifice.

Now grow up and go find someone really worth defending. If laserfool wants to post here, he should know well enough that he's going to be called to account for his posts. He is, after all, by his own descriptions, both a traine engineer and a former criminal justice major.

Home phone numbers - Our Township Councilpersons serve as volunteers and, historically, tend to communicate with the public from their homes rather than from the small, shared space and phone lines provided by the municipality, or from their places of employment.

Wayfinding - I doubt the Township will want ANYONE finding the way to the tacky, Code violation, debris covered retail properties on lower Bloomfield Avenue and Maple Avenue (owned and operated by absentee landlords), or to Glenfield Park on mornings after the gangsta' basketball tournaments or daily drug parties.

Meantime, some of us who get to enjoy this Quality of Montclair Life pay just found out that we pay as much in property taxes as some guy on North Mountain Avenue!

Do not be fooled by Ted Mattox opportunistic grandstanding. Neither he nor Joyce Michaelson have done a damn thing for moderate-income taxpayers in the 4th Fourth.

Short of the property re-evaluation, what should they have done for you?

"Meantime, some of us who get to enjoy this Quality of Montclair Life pay just found out that we pay as much in property taxes as some guy on North Mountain Avenue!

Do not be fooled by Ted Mattox opportunistic grandstanding. Neither he nor Joyce Michaelson have done a damn thing for moderate-income taxpayers in the 4th Fourth."

Joyce Michaelson is passionate and honest. She should be more of a guiding light for Montclair because we could be heading down the wrong path with Mr. Hartnett.

I'm not sure Michaelson is honest.

Ask the people on Forest Street about that.

They might agree that she's passionate, about helping her friends.

I agree with OX, she is passionate, passionate about doing what SHE thinks is right for the town, not necessarily what the people may want. And she is in lockstep with Hartnett, just go to a council meeting and see.

"Short of the property re-evaluation, what should they have done for you?"

What the Town should do for Fourth Ward taxpayers is to actually enforce the Codes on irresponsible property owners and merchants in our area. Somehow, it has not been happening and it costs responsible taxpayers in quality of life and property values. After years of frustration, one of our neighbors finally just went to TALK to Jim Jefferson about the filth and debris and thugs in front of his cafe and ice-cream/laundrymat (nice combo). Township Quality of Life officials frequent the place and never did a thing!

If one does finally get Code officers to act, the fines, typically at $1,000 or maximum 90 days in jail, are outdated and grossly insufficient. Many of these greedy business owners and landlords simply pay the fine - it is cheaper than repairs, buying lawnmovers, paying for lawn or garbage services, paint, or renting to the type of tenants who do not loiter, throw debris outside, and sell drugs.

Joyce Michaelson: Yes, I also used to think that Joyce Michaelson was cool, but, I am disappointed. Where is the policy beef? A proposal to stop working craftsmen from putting little signs on lawns?