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Monthly Archives: November 2013

The Official Numbers Are In

Mail In/ DISTRICT 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL PROVIONALS MILITARY TOTAL FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOROUGH COUNCIL DEMOCRAT BRIAN MAGOVERN 165 204 216 208 153 946 15 225 1186 JANIS KEOWN-BLACKBURN 134 180 208 208 139 869 13 202 1084 REPUBLICAN DAVID SCHNECK 99 152 136 206 170 763 12 75 850 THOMAS BURKE […]

&@$%##&%@#$!!

Matt Doherty in NJ.com yesterday: “The lawsuits did not influence this decision in the least bit, “It had zero impact.” “While we were campaigning door to door, one of the things we took away was that we had tremendous amount of support for our rebuilding, but at the same time people supported a one-story building at […]

BREAKING!

DOHERTY JOINS “THE ELEMENT”* With his funding cut off by two unfavorable court rulings, the mayor seems to have suddenly found religion and done what the public wanted him to do all along. From the Patch story: Mayor Matt Doherty said public input has caused the governing body to reconsider its plans for the two-story […]

Affordable Housing Contradiction

In today’s @Issue section of the Asbury Park Press are four competing “solutions” to the problem of affordable housing.  As usual, the Press picks “experts” whose opinions are all just slight variations of the opinion of the Press’ editorial board.  All four call for more coercion to force the market to do things it wouldn’t […]

Council Meeting Of Nov 6, 2013

BANQUET HALL JUDGE SERVES DOHERTY CROW!!

Mayor Doherty may or may not ever get to dine at his hoped-for Taylor Pavilion banquet hall but Superior Court Judge Lawrence M. Lawson, a newly inducted member of “the element”, served him a big old plate of crow yesterday.  Lawson handed down opinions in two of the three “frivolous” lawsuits files by Ken Pringle […]

District 5 Clearly Has The Smartest Voters

  District 1.  Magovern 165,  Blackburn 134,  Burke 112,  Schneck 99 District 2. Magovern 204,  Blackburn 180,  Burke 159, Schneck 152 District 3. Magovern 216,  Blackburn 208,  Burke 140,  Schneck 136 District 4. Burke 211,  Magovern 208,  Blackburn 208,  Schneck 206 District 5. Schneck 170,  Burke 168,  Magovern 153,  Blackburn 139

I’m Sorry

Couldn’t pull it off. Congrats to Brian and Janis.  

Who’da Thunk?

I have to say that when I decided nearly a year ago to do this thing I didn’t think there was much of a chance of success.  At least success as defined by actually winning the election.  I viewed the race as simply a good opportunity to spread my message, using the campaign as a […]