Medical freak doesn't tell readers heart disease is No. 1 killer

UNEVEN KEEL: At low tide this morning, the USS Ling was stuck in the mud of the Hackensack River and listing. The New Jersey Naval Museum is closed and not conducting tours of the World War II submarine, which is tied up to North Jersey Media Group property at The Record's old headquarters in Hackensack. According to rumors, Publisher Stephen A. Borg and NJMG Vice President/General Counsel Jennifer A. Borg can't agree on the company's role in saving the sub.

The Borgs, owners of NJMG, are planing to sell land along River Street in Hackesack to an apartment developer, including parking lots. It isn't known whether the family also will sell Borg Park, where the sub and museum are, and land where a diner now operates.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

You'd never know heart disease is the No. 1 killer in the United States from medical coverage in The Record.

The Sunday edition's Page 1 takeout on a medical freak who is awaiting a second heart transplant in 20 years certainly doesn't hammer home that message.

Frank Bordino, 70, is atypical, and has little in common with the hundreds of North Jersey residents who get new heart valves or have as many as five coronary bypasses every month.

Despite the tens of thousands of words devoted to him, readers are no closer to understanding the genetic, dietary and other factors that cause heart attacks.

That's a colossal waste of space.

And there isn't much else to engage readers today.

Boring politics

The front page offers two boring pieces on New Jersey and national politics, including another story on a presidential campaign we're sick of reading about (A-1).

Staff Writer Christopher Maag is no longer assigned to cover NJ Transit, judging by his Page 1 stories today and Saturday on "portable churches," and New Jersey's high suicide rate, respectively.

Still, Maag's suicide story is incomplete, failing to explore whether the hike in suicides is tied to Governor Christie's continuing war on the middle class.

Local news?

Today's local-news section leads with a story from Hackensack, where Prospect Avenue high-rise residents have declared victory over a plan for a medical-waste disposal plant near them (L-1).

Those Hackensack residents are mostly seniors, and today, Road Warrior John Cichowski continues to ignore the challenges facing them and other older drivers (L-1).

They are probably wondering what Cichowski's coverage of the driving test for teens has to do his column's commuting mission or anything else relevant to their lives.

June candidates

Today, the editors list candidates in the June 7 primaries for county and municipal offices (L-3).

Let's hope that unlike a similar listing of April school board candidates, we'll be seeing stories on the issues involved before we have to vote.

New Yorkers?

On the Opinion front, Mike Kelly offers another boring column on the battle for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers in last week's Democratic presidential primary (O-1).

Hey, Mike, you're working for a major New Jersey paper. Why are you covering New York?

Bergen County readers aren't interested in New Yorkers or even the Atlantic City residents you also wrote about recently.

They want you to explore local issues, including colossal voter apathy, and the attempted political comeback of the Zisa family in Hackensack.

Jason W. Some holds onto Hackensack City Council seat

Before noon today, a voter was seen emerging from a polling place in the Fairmount School on Grand Avenue in Hackensack, where four candidates are seeking a single City Council seat.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

With the backing of the Hackensack City Council and a powerful group of business leaders, Jason W. Some appeared to hold onto his council seat in today's election.

Some, 25, was appointed to the council in April after Rose Greenman resigned.

Only 2,360 residents cast ballots, according to unofficial results from the Bergen County clerk. Hackensack has about 20,000 registered voters.

Some received 724 votes for the unexpired term, Deborah Keeling-Geddis had 711 votes, school board President Jason S. Nunnermacker got 682 votes and Richard L. Cerbo trailed with 237 votes, county Clerk John S. Hogan said.

Nunnermacker was backed by the city's bare-knuckle Democratic Party, which kept the Zisa family in power for decades.

The attorney lost his first bid for council in May 2013.

Councilman Jason W. Some, right, with former City Attorney Joseph C. Zisa Jr. (Photo credit: Hackensack Scoop)

Today's paper

The Record today made clear to readers and voters in Bergen and Passaic counties that the Woodland Park daily has given up trying to be their local paper.

In the print edition and on NorthJersey.com, the so-called endorsement recap in today's general election doesn't include Hackensack or any other municipal races (A-8).

Residents of Hackensack, where The Record prospered for more than 110 years, don't get any guidance beyond the four City Council candidates' statements, which appear on the Web site.

Cerbo for council

Homeowner Richard L. Cerbo, who had promised to end giveaways to developers and lower taxes, was the clear choice for an unexpired term on the 5-member council.

The polls closed at 8 p.m., and Hogan posted the unofficial results on his Web site a little before 10 p.m.

The candidates' statements appeared first in last Friday's edition of the weekly Hackensack Chronicle, but an editorial urging readers to vote also doesn't endorse anyone.

Both The Record and Hackensack Chronicle are published by the Borg family's North Jersey Media Group, which is expected to make a huge killing by selling 19.7 acres along River Street to an apartment developer.

"As a community newspaper," the Chronicle's unsigned editorial states, "our main concerns are the mayoral and councilman races in Hackensack."

"Councilman races"????

One of the candidates was a woman, and the seat she and the others were seeking was held by a woman. Deputy Mayor Katherine Canestrino also is on the council. 

Larger turnout

Mayor John Labrosse said this morning that if the past is any guide, about 7,000 residents are expected to vote in today's general election.

That turned out to be optimistic.

In May 2013, when Labrosse and a slate of council reformers defeated the Zisa family's handpicked candidates, only about 3,800 residents voted.

Hackensack has about 20,000 registered voters, and if you think the May 2013 turnout of 3,800 is pathetic, fewer than 1,000 turned out for this year's school board election and budget approval.

Other candidates

Nunnermacker was making his second bid for a council seat, but he has tried to hide his involvement in the board's irresponsible $106.88 million budget, bigger than the city's own.

Some had the support of the other council members as well as Joseph C. Zisa Jr., a former city attorney.

Zisa is said to be a big supporter of downtown redevelopment, which is being pushed by the Some and other members of the Main Street Business Alliance.

Christie lies

Governor Christie's list of failures in New Jersey is long: 

He's made a mess of fixing the public employees pension system, mass transit, roads and bridges, and the environment, and he's used the Port Authority as a patronage mill and a way to seek political retribution against Democrats.

On top of all that, he's vetoed more than 400 bills to keep the state Legislature's Democrats in line.

Yet, Editor Martin Gottlieb and Christie's chief apologist, political columnist Charles Stile, continue to parrot Christie's criticism of President Obama.

Even if you believe Christie is only trying to salvage his dying campaign for the White House, the GOP bully's attacks often seem racially motivated (A-1).

More crapisch

Readers who were hoping for a Mets-free front page today were disappointed again.

Columnist Bob Klapisch continues with the endless couldas, wouldas and shouldas (A-1).

In Monday's early edition, sports Columnist Tara Sullivan referred incorrectly to "Game 6" of the World Series, according to a reader on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack.

That was corrected in a later edition to Game 5.

In the past few weeks, Gottlieb has devoted more space to the Mets, those miserable failures, than he has to the issues at stake in local elections.

No local news

Today's Local seemingly has more police, fire and court news -- and stories about the police -- than I've ever seen in a section that is supposed to be largely devoted to municipal news (L-1, L-2, L-3 and L-6).

There would have been plenty of room for endorsements of candidates in Hackensack, Maywood and other towns, if only local Assignment Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza had gotten off of their fat asses.

Taylor Swift, editors' love-hate relationship with women

Police activity on Euclid Avenue in Hackensack on Friday afternoon.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

When Taylor Swift complained last month that Apple wasn't paying music owners during a three-month trial period, the gazillionaire pop star got enormous media coverage.

Today, just her appearance at a stadium in East Rutherford had the editors of The Record kissing her feet.

Assignment Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza ordered that half of the Local front be devoted to Swift, again denying readers legitimate municipal news (L-1).

Yet, the editors spend little time covering another form of pay discrimination -- lower wages for millions of women than for men who hold the same or similar jobs -- possibly in the Woodland Park newsroom itself.

Bridget Anne Kelly

Meanwhile, on Page 1 today, Editor Martin Gottlieb continues to demonize another woman, Bridget Anne Kelly, the key aide Governor Christie fired in the Bridgegate scandal (A-1).

The byline may say Melissa Hayes, but the long paragraphs on the front are so crammed with detail, they could have been written only by a former New York Times reporter and editor like Gottlieb.

And he wastes no time attacking Kelly, who has been indicted by a federal grand jury and wants New Jersey to pay her legal bills, as it is doing for other current and former employees.

Is the third paragraph of today's story really the place to quote a report Christie commissioned at a cost to taxpayers of $7.8 million, part of his successful effort so far to avoid blame for the George Washington Bridge lane closures?

No. But Gottlieb just had to slam Kelly high up in the story, saying she was "cast as an overly emotional woman in a legal report clearing him [Christie]."

Of course, if Kelly goes to trial, a federal jury -- not the editor of a fading local newspaper or Christie's hired gun -- will decide whether her expected testimony implicating the GOP bully in the plot is believable.

Finally, in a third story illustrating the editors' love-hate relationship with women, the focus today is back on members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, not on the moldy history of Manhattan ticker-tape parades (A-1).

Gabrielle Reuveni

The promising life of Gabrielle Reuveni, 20, of Paramus was snuffed out on July 14, 2012, when a crazy guy in a pickup truck swerved, struck and killed her as she jogged along a road in the Poconos (A-1).

Now, even in today's Page 1 story on the defendant's surprise guilty plea, the editors waste another opportunity to share a basic safety lesson that could save other people who walk or run along streets and roads.

Pennsylvania State Police said Reuveni was running with her back to traffic when she was struck. She might be alive today, if she were running toward traffic.

Hackensack news

On L-1 today, Staff Writer Todd South reports attorney Richard Salkin has filed suit for seven Hackensack municipal court employees, who claim a $10,000 raise given to the wife of a councilman is "political discrimination."

The suit alleges that after Councilman Leo Battaglia was elected in May 2013, he met with the city manager and asked him to promote his wife, Maria Battaglia, and give her a raise.

Today's story doesn't mention that Salkin's current job as school board attorney, and his former positions as city attorney and municipal prosecutor, were political plums awarded to him by the once-powerful Zisa family, which ruled River City for decades.

Nor does South tell readers that Salkin has appeared at numerous council meetings in the past two years, along with Democrats on the losing, Zisa-allied council slate, to attack city officials for nearly everything they have done.

Salkin often is accompanied by Board of Education President Jason Nunnermacker, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for council in 2013; and board members Daniel Carola and Joseph Barretto.

Barretto was one of Nunnermacker's running mates in 2013.

Meanwhile, there has been no word from the school board on whether Salkin will or has returned $58,000 in legal fees he billed in 2014 over his $95,000 contract limit.

Cliche-filled column rehashes 10-day old domestic dispute

Meridia Metro Hackensack at 94 State St. as it looked on Aug. 6. The completion date for the 222-unit building -- called the "first significant residential project ... downtown" -- has been pushed back several months to May 2015.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Is there anything new in Mike Kelly's front-page column today rehashing a 10-day-old domestic violence incident in Saddle Brook?

This is vintage Kelly, The Record's appointed sage, eager to report the lessons he sees in routine police news (A-1).

"Sometimes small local disputes can touch on deep, divisive national debates," Kelly says in the third paragraph.

He must think we're morons. 

Home arsenal

Police found nearly 200 guns and more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition in the home of Robert and Eileen Lintner.

OK. The old guy is off his rocker, but he certainly doesn't look like a revolutionary or terrorist or guns-right advocate, and his wife didn't use a gun; she allegedly stabbed him in the neck with a knife.

Word pushing

Once you start the fourth paragraph, the rest of Kelly's long-and-winding column is just recapping all the details of what amounts to old news.

It's just a rewrite. What's the point, Editor Martin Gottlieb? Slow news day? We get it. But a colossal waste of space.

Would you have stood for Kelly's cliche-ridden introduction at The Times? 

"When they sped to a quiet neighborhood of well-trimmed lawns ...."

Page 1 is boring

What a crappy front page.

Below Kelly is a golf column from Tara Sullivan in Sports.

The first paragraph is filled with puzzling detail: 

"A perilously setting sun," dueling golfers and "a battle rife with drama and thick with tension."

The A-1 story on Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale makes one passing reference to his nearly nine years as Passaic County sheriff (deep on A-6).

But there is no mention of all of the controversy he generated in that job -- reported in detail by The Record's old Passaic County Bureau.

Lynne Hurwitz of Hackensack at a May 20 meeting of the City Council. Her husband Howard is executive director of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority.

Hag of Hackensack

Kelly's Page 1 column on Saturday focused on Lynne Hurwitz, chairwoman of the Democratic Party in Hackensack.

The columnist calls her "the key strategist behind the Zisa family political machine, which ruled the city for three decades until its slate of candidates was defeated last year."

In other words, she is the "Hag of Hackensack."

Now, Kelly quotes the grandmother in her mid-70s as saying she is back in the Bergen County political game.

Silk City's black mayor exposes editors' bias

Today's edition of the weekly Hackensack Chronicle lists seven "dilapidated streets" that will be paved soon, but Prospect Avenue, above, and Euclid Avenue, between Prospect and Summit avenues, aren't among them.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
Editor

The Record has had a lot to say about Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones in news stories and editorials, such as the February report that he will return $17,300 he received for unused vacation days in 2011 and 2012.

But I can't recall the Woodland Park daily every reporting Jones' views on the "causes of inner-city poverty," as the mayor stated in a letter to conservative Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a potential GOP presidential nominee (L-1).

"Come to Paterson, Congressman Ryan, and I will take you around the streets of one of the poorest cities in New Jersey, and you can meet the families of people who work two and sometimes three jobs to put food on the table and clothes on their children," Jones wrote in his Tuesday letter.

Editors' blind eyes

But there is more in the letter the editors and reporters at The Record seem reluctant to touch, while focusing relentlessly on crime, fires, drug dealing and problems at City Hall:

"Impoverished neighborhoods are not the result of lazy black men, " Jones wrote, "but rather the result of 400 years of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, housing policies and redlining which resulted in the confinement of whole races of people in substandard areas with substandard educational and employment opportunities."

The letter could just as well be addressed to Governor Christie, who has cut the state budget on the backs on the middle and working classes in New Jersey.

Christie also cut state aid to Paterson, Newark and other poor cities, forcing  layoffs of police officers and aggravating crime.

Worst slumlords?

You've read story after story about fires in Paterson's ramshackle multiple dwellings, but where are the reports identifying the city's most notorious slumlords?

Has the paper ever done any serious reporting on redlining by banks in Paterson, Passaic city or North Jersey's wealthy suburbs?

To deliver The Record and Herald News, I imagine North Jersey Media Group exploits some of those people who have to work two or three low-wage jobs to make ends meet.

If Ryan accepts Jones' invitation to come to Paterson, we can only hope The Record's clueless publisher and editors accompany him.

Hey, Editor Marty Gottlieb, you're not in Paris anymore.

More Christie B.S.

Today's paper gives another platform to loud-mouth Christie, the GOP bully whose inner circle carried out political retribution against Democrats who didn't support his reelection last year (A-1 and A-8).

At a town hall meeting in Flemington on Thursday, in answer to a man in the audience, Christie refused to say whether then-Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly broke the law when she and his Port Authority cronies orchestrated George Washington Bridge lane closures last September, causing four days of gridlock in Fort Lee (A-1).

This is news?

The Page 1 story on Bergen County having the highest average property tax bills in the state tells residents nothing they don't already know (A-1).

Shouldn't the paper remind readers that Christie promised to lower property taxes in his 2009 campaign, not praise him for slowing increases?

Hackensack news

Hackensack officials deserve credit for capping unused sick-day payouts at $15,000 on retirement (L-3), but don't residents deserve an explanation for why the city can't afford to repair pockmarked Prospect Avenue, one of the city's premier streets.

Staff Writer Hannan Adely covers City Council meetings, and I'd like to see more stories reporting the fiscal mismanagement of prior administrations allied with the now-deposed Zisa family.

At Tuesday night's meeting, a sweetheart deal the prior City Council made with a towing business was discussed, and Mayor John Labrosse told a resident evictions proceedings are under way.  

A story on the retirement of Teaneck Police Chief Robert Wilson doesn't say how much he is paid (L-2).

Is he one of the chiefs who is making more than Christie's $175,000 a year?

Stars in her eyes

Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung swoons over the lobster-and-fried-egg sandwich ($14) at Cravings Tapas Bistro in Ridgewood, but says the seafood in the $19 paella "was served a little stiff" (BL-14)

Does she mean overcooked or rigor mortis?

A pitcher of sangria was $26? Ouch.

Anyway, who wants to line up and wait for a table, even with a reservation?

In New Jersey, apathetic morons stifle real change

The campaign office for Barbara Buono and Milly Silva on Cedar Lane in Teaneck.

By Victor E. Sasson
Editor

If Democrat Barbara Buono fails today to unseat the worst New Jersey governor ever, she can blame the legions of apathetic morons who sit on the sidelines and allow the right wing to seize the high ground.

The real poison in our democracy -- a story The Record has rarely told -- are registered voters too lazy to get off their asses and go to the polls or even apply for a mail-in ballot.

Their corrosive influence can be seen in every local and state election, but in months of election coverage, The Record hasn't bothered to interview a single voter.

Democratic edge

With a 700,000 edge in registered voters, apathy is likely the leading explanation for how a Democrat running for governor loses in New Jersey.

Of course, in 2009, when Republican Chris Christie won his first term as governor, the electorate fell for the Big Lie that he would lower property taxes.

Instead of his first term being one of compromise and bipartisanship, Christie likely employed the veto more than any other previous governor.

And The Record, which insists on calling him "popular," has distinguished itself as little more than a public-relations apparatus for the GOP bully.

What about voters?  

Instead of speaking to voters, Editor Marty Gottlieb and his gang of lazy columnists and reporters have spun endless tales, predicting the outcome of the gubernatorial election based on so-called experts, pundits, polls, politics and fund-raising totals.

I picked up a real newspaper on Monday, The New York Times, and found four large color photos of Brooklyn residents and a story on their views of the mayoral election in New York City.

Imagine that.

Steve Waldman, 65, a computer supplier, is quoted as saying the last presidential candidate he voted for was Hubert H. Humphrey, and the last mayor he cast a ballot for was Edward I. Koch.

(That's pronounced "Kotch," not "Coke," as in the evil Koch brothers behind Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing group that is financing GOP attack ads).

The Times did its interviews in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where only about half of the registered voters cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election, and less than a third voted for mayor in 2009.

A Times editorial on Monday urged New Jersey voters to approve a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage to $8.25 an hour, starting on Jan. 1, a move the greedy Borg publishing family opposed in a Record editorial.

Christie also vetoed a hike in the minimum for low-wage workers, one of the groups he likes to screw with his mean-spirited policies.

Today's paper

What dominates The Record's front page today? Not the election. The editors are already tired of that.

The top half of Page 1 carries a big, black headline:

Gunman strikes panic

in Garden State Plaza

Of course, the "panic" was in shoppers, not in the Paramus shopping center itself.

The phrase "at Garden State Plaza" would have conveyed that, but six-figure Production Editor Liz Houlton missed the clunky headline. 

Still, the real weakness in the story is that it fails to report the only one hurt was the alleged gunman, Richard Shoop, 20, the Teaneck man who police say committed suicide in the mall.


Who is to blame?

Was the paper's early deadlines or the five reporters who worked on the story or the editors to blame for that major omission?

Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza and the rest of the Woodland Park daily's local-news operation fails miserably almost every time to get to the law-enforcement sources who have the information readers demand.

This morning, the paper's Web site, NorthJersey.com, actually has the nerve to quote a neighbor of the Shoops as saying Richard was "a nice kid."

A correction on A-2 today acknowledges the misspelling of the name of a candidate in the Bogota Borough Council election. 

How sloppy can Sforza get?

Hackensack news

The Local front today reports Hackensack High School finally got a new resource officer after the school board agreed to pay his salary (L-1).

The dysfunctional Board of Education is the last remnant of decades of Zisa family rule over Hackensack. 

Sforza couldn't find enough local news to fill his section, so he resorted to a time-tested filler photo of a non-fatal auto accident (L-3).

As usual, the caption tells readers little, especially in this case, where Ridgewood police are quoted as saying the brakes on a relatively new Mazda SUV "failed."

Maybe, the driver "failed" to use the brakes and mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead.

Something is rotten in the city of Hackensack

A recent City Council meeting in Hackensack's City Hall.

Should a city employee function as "Editor" of Hackensack's Community Message Boards, delete information about the Borg family he considers "a personal attack" and not identify himself?

The "Editor" is Albert H. Dib, executive director of  the Upper Main Alliance, a business group that will receive $360,595 in city taxpayer money this year, including his $58,000 salary.

The Main Street group is dominated by real estate interests who pushed for approval of a downtown redevelopment plan by the City Council.

Dib also is said to be Web master of the city of Hackensack's official municipal site, Hackensack.org. 

He is listed on the Community Message Boards, at HackensackNow.org, as:

Editor

• Administrator
• 
• 
• Posts: 2649
• Karma: 16
• [clap] [boo]

The May 14 Hackensack City Council election is one of the most important in Hackensack's history, and recently, a lawn sign supporting the Hackensack Coalition for Open Government -- widely viewed as the "Zisa Slate" -- appeared in front of Dib's home in the Fairmount section.

Victor E. Sasson, an independent candidate for City Council, was able to identify the home as Dib's from the list of registered voters and their addresses.

When Sasson questioned Dib's impartiality on HackensackNow, he replied:

"This is a two-family house. My tenant has a right to display lawn signs as well. I have not made up my mind as to all five candidates yet.

"I have been very careful not to endorse any candidates for office on this site. You don't need to try to do that for me. 

"'Editor' has been my handle on this site for almost 10 years now. I don't plan on changing it for you."

The lawn sign was removed a couple of days ago. 

Lawn signs at Euclid Avenue and Clarendon Place in Hackensack.

Kenneth Martin, a retired detective who heads the Open Government slate, has been charged with removing the signs of a rival slate from in front of Hackensack Market on Passaic Street.

Martin boasts of having been the first school resource officer at Hackensack High School. He's setting quite an example for students.

Martin was undone by a surveillance camera after City Council candidate Leo Battaglia of the Citizens for Change slate filed a complaint with police.

A probable cause hearing for Martin is set for Thursday, according to The Record (Friday's L-10).

The home page of HackensackNow.org.

City employee Dib's role on HackensackNow might be overlooked, if he clearly identified himself and didn't censor and delete remarks posted on the sight by "members," who also don't have to identify themselves.

They use such tags as "JustWatching," "BLeafe" and "averagejoe."

The 537 members -- in a city of 45,000 with 20,000 registered voters -- range from residents proud of Hackensack's history and interested in current events to crackpots and vicious character assassins.

When Sasson started posting Eye on The Record and his campaign announcements on HackensackNow, the "Editor" objected and put them under a new category, "Community Soapbox."

The "Editor" even started a poll among members to see whether he could kick Eye on The Record off the site, but only 6 members expressed any opinion. 

When Sasson defended the blog as trying to tell the story of how the Borg family abandoned Hackensack and stood by as editors drastically reduced news of the city, the "Editor" deleted some of those comments.

Specifically, he deleted how a 2008 downsizing followed by several months Publisher Stephen A. Borg's purchase of a $3.65 million McMansion in Tenafly with a company mortgage.

Dib says he has identified himself on HackensackNow in the past.

But new members remain in the dark about his city salary and his loyalties to the Zisa family and city Democratic Party chairwoman Lynne Hurwitz, who have ruled Hackensack for so many decades. 

Today's paper

Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes plays catch up today with an expanded story about Tuesday's school board election in Hackensack (L-1).

The story appears after Eye on The Record wondered why Sykes had published immediate follow-ups on the contests in Englewood and Secaucus, but ignored Hackensack, where machine politics again triumphed over reform candidates.

In Hackensack, incumbent Francis W. Albolino won yet another term, having first joined the Board of Education in 1992. 

Fewer than 1,100 of the 20,000 registered voters went to the polls, so the losing slate -- incumbent Rhonda Williams Bembry, Lawrence Eisen and Judith Carter -- also were victims of voter apathy.

Considering all of the board's failures and the poor reputation of the public schools, Albolino is a persuasive argument for term limits.


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