I find it to be pathetic that since Swibinski cried in this post,the Hudson Reporter has not written another piece on the intimidation that is ramping up as the election gets closer.

If people want to see corruption caught on video they can go North Bergen Citizens for Change on Facebook or Youtube and watch video clips of several incidents. City officials harrassing a store owner who put up Column A banners, DPW workers caught red handed going around in a town vehicle picking up Column A flyers while on the clock to do town work, doing sacco's bidding, a Sacco thug attacking a photographer as a housing authority official watched, and my favorite, the footage of the thug Swibinski has his arm around attacking a protester at the rally.

The Reporter got spanked by Sacco and now they won't report the news that the people need to hear. Column A workers were harrassed this week by Frank Piazza, a Sacco bodyguard/thug who told the workers he would have them arrested if they didn't stop handing out literature. The reporter didn't go to the polling places where Sacco goons freely broke laws by handing out propaganda inside the polls and walked the voters right to the booths and told them the levers to pull.

Journalists should report the news good or bad for any situation without influence from intimidation or payoffs but sadly, they are nowhere to be found when the people need them the most. Hopefully on May 10th they will make their presence known so Sacco's goon squad will think twice about pulling the crap they did during the BOE election. Hopefully the Attorney General is not another puppet for Sacco and sends out the resources needed to keep this election fair and lawful.

WAKE UP NORTH BERGEN AND TAKE A STAND, CALL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND ASK HIM TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS ON MAY 10TH. COLUMN A ON MAY 10TH WILL SET YOU FREE FROM TYRANNY

great write-up, alb2011 !

but I wouldn't go so far as to say Swibinski is running the town while Nick is away -- Swibinski doesn't have the know-how for that, he's just a foot soldier.

I laughed out loud when I read his letter to the editor.

If anything, the Hudson Reporter is far too generous with the way they report on this administration.

It's understandable though, because if the Hudson Reporter were too harsh (read: honest), they'd be shut out of town hall...

Swibinski's letter did far more harm than good, for it simply revealed him as emotionally unbalanced.

The "A" team probably won't get elected, but it is almost comical to see how fast & furious this administration goes about road improvements JUST BEFORE election time !!

Sacco's puppet speaks and tries to defend his master. If Sacco had the sack to go head to head on the issues without his puppet he would look rediculous, Sacco will not openly answer questions himself since he is clueless about anything going on in North Bergen that Swibinski doesn't feed him. I challege the town's people to ask him questions about all the truths that have been brought into the light, i guarantee one of his lackeys will be whispering in his ear.

Swibinski runs the town while Sacco is of somewhere in the senate, not at any of the positions that North Bergen is paying him for. As anyone can see this is an attempt by Swibinski to try and muffle the media by insinuating that they are backing "the long shot candidates". They are long shots because Sacco's machine does every intimidation tactic against anyone who remotely challenges him.

Read below about how he is after the public library's money to futher line his pockets. An open and honest government, yeah right.

This is facts from the August 8th 2010, Cliffview Pilot.com by Jerry DeMarco. Now read the article in this publication which is telling you that only 8 months after raising taxes, he is raising them again. The puppet master will get paid, he raised your taxes as a mayor and now is putting his hands in your pockets again as the superintendant of schools. It's time to say enough with this pathetic administration.

North Bergen residents: Your taxes are going up

Despite a $3 million increase in ratables, your taxes are STILL going up nearly 4 percent, North Bergen property owners -- an average of roughly $250 a household -- if your township council approves a budget introduced last week.

Given that a town of roughly 65,000 people will have to cover a $79.2 million spending binge (up from $76.4 last year)

And don’t count the $170 you got last year for the regionalization of local fire departments. That’s been eliminated. So many homeowners’ tax bills will top out at more than $400.

“The budget was a very difficult one to do,” said the ever-articulate Mayor/State Senator/Assistant Schools Superintendent/Multi-Pension Recipient-to-be Nicholas Sacco.

This is the same power-wielding politician who wants to siphon money from your LIBRARIES to help keep the people he gave jobs in the school district employed.

For those of you who don’t know yet, Sacco was wearing his state Senator’s hat when he introduced a bill in Trenton allowing municipalities to tap into the surplus accounts of their public libraries.

“Many libraries are holding an enormous surplus, a good deal of which came from the municipality to begin with,” said Sacco (D-Bergen/Hudson). “Given the fact that many municipalities are now struggling due to a loss in revenue and state aid brought on by the recession, this bill will allow one healthy partner in the community to help out the struggling partner.”

Sacco didn’t suggest giving up any of the three salaries he gets. He didn’t try to reduce a school administration he bloated with toadies.

Where I come from -- THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH BERGEN -- we used to call this type of library tap a shakedown.

If Gov. Christie signs the bill, what happens if those libraries that sacrificed their surpluses now find their funding cut in the future? There will be no rainy day fund to turn to, will there?

North Bergen government will keep dry, though.

For their part, the puppets known as the Board of Commissioners mandated 10-percent cuts from all departments -- which will surprise no one if it means reductions in the number of actual employees who do the jobs instead of the higher-paid, desk-bound friends and relatives beholden to Sacco for their all-but-guaranteed administrative positions.

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EXACT FIGURE$: If approved, the North Bergen municipal tax rate will be $21.36 for every $1,000 of property value, while the school and county rates sit at $16.03 and $9.48, respectively. The owner of a $140,000 home will pay approximately $6,565 in overall taxes for the 2011 fiscal year, as compared to $6,316 last year. Unless one of you beats us to it, CLIFFVIEW PILOT will formally request a full listing of administrators and their salaries. We’ll add the total and divide by the number of residents. Then you’ll see how much of your average $6,500 annual tax bill is going where and for how much.

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There will also be no replacements for retirees or others who leave (something we used to call “attrition”).

“The three biggest items that drive the budget are cops, firemen, health benefits, and actually a fourth, pension, and they are all going up considerably,” the township’s business administrator said, setting the stage for an attack on the very people who keep you safe, while the massive group of school administrators are conveniently ignored.

Pension costs aren’t “actually a fourth.“ They’re first and foremost, the PAC MAN of budgets, especially when your mayor is also your assistant schools superintendent AND a state senator, and his girlfriend works for the Board of Education, along with FOUR of her sons.

No talk was raised about cutting any of their salaries or letting any of them go, likely out of fear of crossing Sack o‘ [fill in your own noun].

But here’s where they silently slip in the knife: Along with the budget, the township commissioners approved a $3.7 million bond ordinance to borrow for street, sewerage, building and machine repairs. And you know what borrowing means: That loan must be repaid -- with interest.

The commissioners also inked a $421,433 contract with English Paving, Co. of Clifton for work on Boulevard East from 71st to 89th streets. Sidewalks, lights, benches -- you know the kinds of things that are going to better educate your kids, make their lives safer, keep the streets clean and plowed, etc.

Here comes the best: $1.5 million was set aside for a left-hand turning lane on 91st Street into the mall on Tonnelle Avenue. Most municipalities make the developers themselves responsible for taking care of road work around their property as a condition of approval. This time, it’s coming out of YOUR pocket.

But this is North Bergen, Jack. It has not one but two boulevards of broken dreams.

Vigilant residents might want to formally seek the information on what other contractors are getting the work -- and for how much -- and what connections they have to Sacco.

I've known Nick Sacco a long time. I was privy to a private conversation he once had with a potential judge whom he told in so many words would have to contribute heavily to the Democratic Party just to be considered. Christie is trying to put a stop to any say state Senators have in who becomes judges, and Sacco is obviously one of the reasons.

For all the political pull he has in the county, Sacco is Old School, first trying to horse trade, then blaming the Republican for everything from poor schools to global warming. After that, he became a bully, taking our libraries’ lunch money.

His “not for lack of trying” excuse rings hollow, especially when you consider he once held FOUR pension-eligible jobs until he was forced to resign as principal of one the district’s schools.

Until people stand up, band together and shut down the Old School, it will continue to take money from their pockets and use it not to make a better community but to line the pockets of its "team."

That was pretty eye opening stuff, wasn't it.

Now comes this article saying he is raising taxes again only 8 months after his last pickpocket affair. The most hilarious statement by this clown as you can all see for yourselves all over town on his ugly signs that most people were forced to put up or face consequences is his slogan, STABLE TAXES, STABLE NEIGHBORHOODS. What a joke this guy is.

I looked up North Bergen properties for sale and i don't understand why they are using 140,000.00 as the benchmark for homes. The median value is about 330,000.00 in town. I know why, because then the figure over 100.00 again in tax hikes. By using the lower figure they can say the increase will only be 43.00 and people will think it's not so bad. Only 1 home under 15k was not a fixer-upper, a foreclosure, a closed business, or a condo.

The propaganda that he has his goons passing out is so hilarious that when he loses this election he should open up a comedy act and use Paul Swibinski as his ventriloquist dummy since he is is mouth piece anyway.

Under stable taxes he states "North Bergen has one of the lowest and most stable property tax rates in New Jersey thanks to professional financial management, aggresive economical development and honest, open government".

1. I checked the towns bordering NB and they came in 3rd behind Jersey City (5653), Guttenberg (6105), NB (7438), WNY (8543), Fairview,Bergen County (9026), Union City (10,682), and Secaucus (11,179). So if they are 3rd out of the 7 towns surrounding them, the claim that they are "one of the lowest in NJ" is a lie.

2. "Professional financial management" is addressed in the articles and is to pathetic to add more insults to.

3. "Aggresive economical development" pertains to their own pockets as they take the money before they get caught and have to run.

4. "Honest, open government" is obviously the magician's encore performance. Honesty is a lie in many forms but sticking to the propaganda, stable taxes are a sham, the multi salaries a disgrace since he does not work any of them, and you only see him in an election year going around spewing his garbage. Open government is non-existant since he had to be sued and taken to court to turn over public records that even now, an average person who has every legal right to see, has no access to. He doesn't want or allow anyone to question him and those that do are referred to his puppet Swibinski and dealt with accordingly. Threatened, harrassed, taxed, fined, ticketed, denied services like garbage pickup, denied certificated of occupancy, evicted, and other tactics that probably haven't been reported.

WAKE UP NORTH BERGEN AND TAKE A STAND, VOTE COLUMN A ON MAY 10TH AND RID YOURSELVES OF THIS DISEASE THAT HAS BEEN DRAINING YOU FOR 20 YEARS

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