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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Message From Tom Burke:

The floor is yours, Tom.  Take it away: The day after it became widely known that all voting in the upcoming election in Belmar would be held at Borough Hall, the number of requests for Mail in Ballots more than doubled. Do you think this just happened, or is there a relationship between the two? […]

Council Meeting Of October 2, 2013

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

I Guess They Won’t Be Getting His Vote

Former Mayor Ken Pringle on the latest Democratic shenanigans: “This apparently orchestrated attempt by the Mayor and his Democratic colleagues on the Council to suggest the petitioners broke the law is simply the latest in a series of shameful attempts by them to demean and marginalize residents who disagree with the decisions they make.” Unless […]

Electioneering Hypocrisy

The Patch is currently running a story about an idiotic claim the Democrats made at the most recent council meeting.   They assert that somehow collecting petition signatures about the pavilions from the Main Street sidewalk near where people were voting in a U.S. Senate primary was electioneering at a polling station. They don’t seem […]

Economic Nonsense From AARP

In a letter in today’s Press, the communications director for the New Jersey AARP states:   We all know that Social Security helps families, but we rarely stop to think how much it helps the larger economy. In fact, it helps tremendously. Social Security fuels almost $1.4 trillion in economic activity nationally — $41.3 billion […]

And They Think The “Element” Is Scarey

A Halloween Tale As Told By Tom Burke . Just what shenanigans does one suppose our chief Belmar Goblin has planned for this Halloween? Now let me see: Halloween is the 31st of this month, and apparently the Judge will be making decisions on the various lawsuits, etc. concerning our Boardwalk and its pavilions on […]

Will There Be A Debate?

Its Highly Debatable! Actually at this point its looking rather unlikely.  The Chamber of Commerce generously offered to host a debate and Tom and I enthusiastically supported the idea.  The Chamber emailed the other side several times about it and never received a response. I’m pretty disappointed about it because I love debating.  Whenever I […]

Road Report

Well I’ve been out walking a few more times since the last time I checked in.  I really wish I had time to do more of this.  I do enjoy it.  (I may keep doing some of it even after the election.)  But with a full-time job, a long commute three days a week and […]