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• On the article City To Prevent Weekend Construction at Waterfront with Court Order

  

  Ojo Rojo

  5:19 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

  Better a hospital that takes the 85% who are on Medicare & Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield & many other insurance carriers than no hospital at all. Those were our options. We could sell to the group that owns Bayonne Hospital or see it close. No other bidder bid more than them and no other bidder who wanted the hospital wanted to keep it open as a hospital and had the financial wherewithal to close on the transaction. One over the losing bidders even had the gall to suggest just taking over the management of the hospital and they didn't even want to buy it or even guarantee that they would take out those bonds Hoboken was on the hook for.

  So before you start complaining as usual about something, think about what you are complaining about. There were no better options on the table from anyone when it came to selling this bankrupt money losing hospital. Hell, that is why the state, the Feds & a federal bankruptcy court judge all signed off on the sale of the hospital to begin with!

• On the article City To Prevent Weekend Construction at Waterfront with Court Order

  

  Ojo Rojo

  3:45 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

  No, just stop work on Saturdays. They can and have kept working on weekdays.

• On the article City To Prevent Weekend Construction at Waterfront with Court Order

  

  Ojo Rojo

  5:20 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Actually it is the municipal code as dictated by the city council that forbids construction on Saturdays. You know this. And you also know if you read the article that the contractor asked that the waiver from these restrictions be pulled from the CC agenda and unilaterally decided to do construction this past Saturday in violation of the city noise ordinances. That isn't trying to compromise or work with anyone when you behave like that.

  Stop hating so much. The city was trying to enforce the law. Or do you have a problem with government enforcing laws that have been on the books for years?

• On the Blog Post The Good Business Sense of Early Education

  

  Ojo Rojo

  10:57 am on Monday, May 20, 2013

  If that correlation did exist, the schools would be best in the inner cities where unions are the strongest. Schools in places like NYC, JC, Newark, Chicago & DC would be the absolute best in the country. Nothing could be further from the truth.

• On the article Hoboken Housing Authority Elects New Chairperson

  

  Ojo Rojo

  12:12 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013

  If he really is a stand up person then he will do most of the following:
  He will demand at the next meeting that the executive director allow the board to select the auditor and legal advisor for the HHA. He will demand a list of employees, their salaries, job responsibilities and titles. He will demand the waitlist. He will demand the executive director remain at his job in Hoboken every business day except those days he uses sick/personal days and,he will actually check the director's attendance daily if he is elected to state office and ask the director to keep a daily activities log. He will demand a comprehensive budget that lays out the HHA's finances in exhaustive detail. He will demand a complete audit of the HHA including how every dime was spent, every contract, management practices & so forth. He will demand a list of every contract & require all future contracts be dealt with in a far more transparent process including having all bids & RFPs opened publicly as is done in many government agencies. Failure to comply with the above would result in said stand up guy exercising the board's option to give the director his 120 days notice so they can find a new director who will do the bidding of a stand up board.

  I won't hold my breath on any of the above being even asked for by Davis.

• On the article Report: Christie Lap-Band Surgeon Faces Multiple Malpractice Suits

  

  Ojo Rojo

  2:17 pm on Sunday, May 12, 2013

  Are you entitled to look at the medical billing records of any other state employee? I think not.

• On the Blog Post School Vouchers Are Bad Medicine

  

  Ojo Rojo

  9:07 pm on Saturday, May 11, 2013

  Until the liberals accept that the school systems of this state need to be reformed in some manner that actually holds employees accountable without forcing districts a fortune and a million hoops to jump through to get rid of bad employees, bloat, inefficiency and waste then you will always have to deal with the opposite extreme where some people just want to opt out of the public schools entirely and take that money and go to the private schools. Both sides in this argument are right to some degree and both are wrong to some degree. Your complete inflexibility on the issue is why exactly nothing is being done to fix our schools.

  And yes, the #1 problem is the parents and not the teachers. No solution that doesn't involve dealing with them will ever work.

• On the article Bhalla Withdraws Assembly Candidacy

  

  Ojo Rojo

  7:04 pm on Sunday, May 12, 2013

  Didn't think you would answer that question about the GOTV budget. That lack of a response kind of answers that question for me.

  You heard Eric, he filed and he can prove it. Those filings will be up and online when they get around to posting them and I also can't wait to see his filings just like I can't wait to see Ruben's, Move Forward's and everyone else. It just is so much fun to see how much money some folks toss at people and see how many people some of these campaigns spread the wealth to. But I must say the $40 checks to people who vote by mail and turn their ballots over to be handed in is just such an inefficient and unseemly way to spread the wealth. You guys should just fly over in a helicopter and dump the money out. Much less paperwork that way and optically it doesn't look as much like a quid pro quo.

  But I suspect you feel differently. I suspect you don't want to see anything show up online that makes your side look bad which is why you aren't outraged over some people not filing their campaign filings or steering their political expenditures through entities that never have to report their expenditures to the board of elections. The only thing consistent about your questions and curiosity is how inconsistently you even care about the issues you raise from candidate to candidate.

• On the article Bhalla Withdraws Assembly Candidacy

  

  Ojo Rojo

  2:38 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013

  Yes, you are all about names. I find the list of names of who got $40 checks to be even more interesting than who gave money. Will Ruben be doing that this year? You are the manager, are you not? You should know if there is a GOTV budget or not. Please do tell us b/c I just can't wait several months to see!

• On the article Residents Ask Planning Board to Keep Pier 13 Open

  

  Ojo Rojo

  4:53 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013

  You are the first person who went political on this thread. The Barry brothers are the owners of that pier and that is a fact. They put a bar/nightclub on that pier 3 nights a week on a seasonal basis. That too is a fact just like it is a fact that the city believes they did so in violation of city ordinances. It is also a fact they have a desire to put condos on another pier they originally agreed to put recreation amenities on. There is nothing political about pointing any of these facts or that their actions are based on a desire to make money. I know you see politics in everything but perhaps if you stopped focusing so much on "winning", politics or reflexively trashing Zimmer and started worrying more about "doing what was right" you might see why people have a problem with the specific actions some people take in this town take.

  And just so you know, there are plenty of people that individuals like myself who support reform dislike who are not born & raised in Hoboken. We dislike them purely because of what they do and what they stand for. Place of birth has absolutely no bearing on my low opinion of you or anyone else I personally dislike.

  Have a nice day ;-)