HAMMONTON BLOG

These two are a waste. One gets free benefits and also wants low income housing and sits on no committees. Now they want to waste our money on the Reagan rock. To tell you, these two must have rocks in their head. I think they are wrong with this idea,just like the rest of their failed ideas. They are a joke, please Hammonton cut them loose. There are many more important issues facing Hammonton, lets' start with all the broken sidewalks and streets that are busted up, and these two loose cannons want to fix something thats' not broken. The only thing broken is them.Go to the next council meeting and tell them they need to go, they are out of touch, with the community.Beam Me UP Scotti.

no tax payer money is being used for this.  the gazette has grossly misled the public.  marino and vitalo just want to fix the lights, flowers, and some of the masonry.  jerry is donating his time and resources, and there's a fundraiser in town to pay for anything else.

if you guys like broken lights and dead flowers, so be it.  personally i like the idea of reagan rock being done correctly.

the dems should know better than to listen to the gazzette

Anonymous wrote:

---

no tax payer money is being used for this.  the gazette has grossly misled the public.  marino and vitalo just want to fix the lights, flowers, and some of the masonry.  jerry is donating his time and resources, and there's a fundraiser in town to pay for anything else.

if you guys like broken lights and dead flowers, so be it.  personally i like the idea of reagan rock being done correctly.

the dems should know better than to listen to the gazzette

---

Get real, have a fundraiser,the gazette is correct this is a joke.We don't need those two to fix anything.Why would their handler do the talking for them.They are out of control, when there are so many problems in Hammonton what the hell are we worried about a rock for? If this is what these two duds think elected service is all about get real. Why didn't Bertino jump in on the idea, he knows this is bad.Wait until everyone sees the look on his(Bertino)
face at the next council meeting with the two jokers.

Wait until you see the next council meeting, spinzo, has had an entire month to pratice with Jerry, maybe he won't use such big words this time, because his puppets get messed up on them. We should go ask him to give a defination
of some of the words he usede last time.

Bertino must think they are nuts. 

These two "butt" heads have to go.What crazy thing will they propose next? I think that the Gazette is dead on with is one. This needs to stop what a misuse of our tax dollars. why hasn't Bertino said anything. Just because Jerry didn't get a committee he now runs around finding things that aren't broken. What a waste of a council seat.Republicans wise up , dump this looser now, before it's to late? If this is so great why isn't on the GOP website? Jerry has no record of accomplishment, this is sad.Why didn't the Hammonton News print anything about this?They must even think these two are a joke.  

When your handler knows nothing about Hammonton... that's what you get.

What a terrible idea. And what a terrible way to promote canidates.

Can someone from the GOP just tell these three that they have to go. Seriously every GOP insider you talk to... the people who are actually from Hammonton and actually call the shots...bury these idiots every chance they get.

So give them the old heave ho !!!

with the  people the d's and r's have been running.  hfis the clear choice.  strong leadership tough decsions.  zero taxes

Why would anybody want to tear up brand new sidewalks that the town just put in? Why pay for the same thing twice? No wonder the Republicans keep demanding HF spend more money when HF wants to go for zero tax increases. They just don't have any common sense. Bertino has been on council 10 years. That's enough.

The county Republicans don't want Jimmy Bertino for freeholder. Whose idea do you think this whole Reagan Rock joke is? Bertino is supposed to be the leader of his party with all the experience. If so, then this must be his idea. Or maybe the Republicans locally don't think he knows what he's doing anymore.

Why would taxpayers pay to tear up brand new concrete?

Anonymous wrote:

---

Why would taxpayers pay to tear up brand new concrete?

---

Why would the mayor take advantage of tax loopholes to rip off the town to the tune of over $100,00?

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

Why would taxpayers pay to tear up brand new concrete?

---

Why would the mayor take advantage of tax loopholes to rip off the town to the tune of over $100,00?

---

Simply put, because your republicans put the ordiance in plce about ten years ago to attract business to the town. So are you now against business's? or just the people who own them? get a life.

---

Are you saying Mayor DiDonato took advantage of a tax incentive set up for businesses outside of Hammonton to move here?  Mayor DiDonato is not a business from out of town.  He's had local businesses for years.  So, basically he's just taking advantage of incentives put in place to bring new business.  What a sheister!  He should answer for that.  How come he paid he taxes so late?  Everyone else needs to pay them on time.

Anonymous wrote:

---

You make no sense, why don't you go hide under your Reagan Rock. Your arguement is weak at best.Attracting new business in Hammonton has always been a goal of anyone who has served our local government.Where did the ordinance say it wasn't open for Hammonton people? It didn't. Your are probably one of the two people in Hammonton that believe that jerry Vitalo is really doing a good job on council.The business / construction of a new building is new, you must not understand the principle behind it all.I hope that someday soon you will see the light, but think that will be impossible best you my friend are stuck under the Reagan Rock.Please get over it, if not seek help.

---

So you think Mayor DiDonato should pocket over a hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money(by not paying his fair share, its going in his pocket)? how come the zoning board had to vote in raspberry run and not the planning board?

as for jerry, he did a great job with the fireworks last year, even though past sponsors like KMD Construction refused to donate any money to it.

Anonymous wrote:

---

The only thing to go up in smoke this year will be Jerry Vitalo, the Republicans need to dump this clown and do it now. The problem with political jokes is, I've seen to many get elected. Vitalo is the biggest joke ever to hit the town.

---

Hey I got a political joke for you:

Hammonton First Headquarters
Knock Knock

Who's there?

Attorney General!

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

Why would anybody want to tear up brand new sidewalks that the town just put in? Why pay for the same thing twice? No wonder the Republicans keep demanding HF spend more money when HF wants to go for zero tax increases. They just don't have any common sense. Bertino has been on council 10 years. That's enough.

---

Jimmy Bertino is supposed to be the leader of the Republicans. Is this idea how he shows his leadership? He can't even organize his party? I think it's time for Jimmy to go.

---

The Republicans with Jimmy's leadership have served this town well. Jimmy, Jerry, and Anthony didn't use tax loopholes to rip the town off to the tune of over $100,000. I guess us lowly residents will have to make up that money so Hammonton First's shopping centers are built.

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

Why would taxpayers pay to tear up brand new concrete?

---

Why would the mayor take advantage of tax loopholes to rip off the town to the tune of over $100,00?

---

Simply put, because your republicans put the ordiance in plce about ten years ago to attract business to the town. So are you now against business's? or just the people who own them? get a life.

---

Why would the town want to encourage new ratables! We should tell anyone who wants to build commercial properties to build in other towns! We don't need ratables! We don't need to keep taxes down! We have Jimmy Bertino. He's done nothing for years except help raise taxes. Why stop now?

Let it go! The Mayor did nothing wrong, in fact he brought new ratables to our town and we will see the benefits of those ratables phased in over a 5 year period.

you guys tried your lies. it did not work . so now you bash away .  the tax breaks where given to the new store owners.  so go ahead and bash away.  it just makes yo look like a jerry . 

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

you guys tried your lies. it did not work . so now you bash away .  the tax breaks where given to the new store owners.  so go ahead and bash away.  it just makes yo look like a jerry . 

---

so why is it given to the Mayor then, and not the store owner? I know why, becuase the store owner IS the mayor. The business owner, they are just renting from the owner. See, even though you may think most of us Hammontonians are backyard rednecks, we're not that dumb.

---

Actually, you made a mistake. About 10 years ago, the Republicans voted in a tax abatement program that is actually fairly common in towns all over the State. To attract new commercial ratables, the tax rate is set to 20% for the first year, 40% the second, and so forth until year five is 100%.

Commercial leases are done in segments. The tenant pays a rental fee per square foot, their share of the overall tax bill (again per sq ft) and finally the common area mtce. By reducing the taxes, the savings goes to the tenant which helps them when their business is starting.

These two have to go, and just maybe they can take "spinzo" with them. Why do you defend Jerry as if he really ever done anything. If fireworks are his biggest accomplishment you are a joke.The only thing he can truly take credit for is the fish kill, this was all him.In fact, the credit he deserves is for cleaning the lake of it's fish.Plus he take benefits in family style, and has done nothing but to hurt our town. Let's face it this guys IQ is about the size of his shirt, and that,s being generous. The brains of a fruit fly are more like it. Nobody is bashing him, spinzo, just pointing out the facts.(the person who responses to this is spinzo, just incase you don't know who you are, because no one else in Hammonton thinks this guy belongs on council, but YOU)

Isn't there anything else Jimmy Bertino thinks is a good idea for the town? He's supposed to be the leader of the Republicans. Maybe the Republican leadership needs to change to turn the situation around.

Yea, impeach the mayor that's his idea! Bertino for mayor...

He completed his campaign finance report!

I was just in the dinner, and overheard an older lady at the next table saying just how bad Vitalo is as a councilperson.It was sad,she was upset with the job he has failed to do during his tenure on council.She went on to say she hoped that people from out of town were not able to see his actions on tv because people would think less of Hammonton.She went on to say that in her entire life he was perhaps the worst she had ever seen in council. We ,she said, as Hammontonians deserve more than that. His chances of re-election are fading fast, because even the seniors think he is an embarassment. I hope the republicans are looking elsewhere for candidates.It's time  for a change. 

yeah, your a good case.  the people where at the diner because thaks to hf. They now have enough etra money to go out and support the local economy.  zero taxes across the board. 

Guidelines have been developed by the American Family Foundation (AFF) ^[16] that the group suggests be used for making a provisional judgment as to whether a particular group might be a "political cult" rather than simply an ideological sect that uses flamboyantly extreme rhetoric and/or elicits a high level of voluntary commitment from its core members.

1. The group is preoccupied with making money and often elevates money-making duties above the group's ostensible ideological or religious goals. In a political cult, this would include excessive fund raising, especially by illegal means such as electoral campaign-finance fraud.
2. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations). In a political context, this would apply to cult-of-personality dictators, as well as other political leaders who strive for a position of authority free from oversight.
3. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group. In a political context, this could include criminal activities, including unprovoked violence against opponents.
4. The group has an us-versus-them mentality that causes hostility towards, and/or conflict with, political opponents and the wider society to an irrational degree that usually undermines the cult's ostensible goals. Although non-cults, including mainstream political parties, also frequently encourage us-versus-them thinking, in the political cult it is carried to an extreme in which the entire world outside the cult is regarded either as the enemy or as pawns to be manipulated in the fight against the enemy; in turn, critics of the cult and other opponents are demonized in a manner that brooks no questioning from the cult's cadre.
5. The group not only requires members to adhere to particular doctrines or a particular "line" (a feature of many non-cultic groups as well) but also strongly discourages or even bans any questioning or criticism of the behavior or instructions of the group's leadership, and often harshly punishes any members who persist in criticism even if such members are loyal to the "line."
6. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law. In the context of a political cult, this could be compared in some respects to Stalin's cult of personality or Nazism's Fuhrerprinzip.

Jerry is really worried about Reagan rock. Earlier today he was seen talking to the rock. He became very agitated when the rock would not answer him. He went and told Anthony how mad he was and Anthony responded, "You dummy, of course the rock didn't answer you, rocks hibernate in the winter!"

Anonymous wrote:

---

Jerry is really worried about Reagan rock. Earlier today he was seen talking to the rock. He became very agitated when the rock would not answer him. He went and told Anthony how mad he was and Anthony responded, "You dummy, of course the rock didn't answer you, rocks hibernate in the winter!"

---

Come on now,thats' Jerry's pet rock.Him and the rock communicate very well together.It was cold last night and I saw Jerry placing straw around it so it could keep warm.
The problem is their handler has rocks in his head. Jerry if the rock really answers you it someone hiding behind it just making you think its' talking.
Read this weeks Hammonton News Jerry said all this fixing of the rock is for Ronald Reagan, Jerry I guess you talked to him about this too. Fact of the matter is 24 years have past since that rock was put there and trust me it hasn't changed one bit, so why the big deal? Is this the most important issue in Hammonton ? If you were to take a poll this wouldn't even be an issue.Why don 't you talk about taxes,roads, ratables,going green (and Jerry thats not the green paint you got at Chesters the other day)and countless other issues. Your handler brags that your biggest accomplishment is fireworks, now thats' something to hang your hat on.Spinzo is taking you down the wrong path,this rock will not help you win any election, because 25% of the voting public could care nor did the ever about Ronald Reagan.He now is history just like you and your handler.

For heavens' sake they haven't even made that big of a deal about the plymouth rock, when your done screwing this one up,Jerry, maybe you can head up to the plymouth rock and do free mason work there, that would be good. Please you are making a complete fool of yourself. Only your handler will tell you how great your doing, use that town insurance,while you still have it and get out from spinzos' butt while you can still can.If he wants the light bulb fixed on the rock, please fix it, but at last check it was lite, because everyone saw Jerry in deep conversation there. 

Anonymous wrote:

---

The new editor of the Hammonton News doesn't get it either. He says, "...the significance of the site is lost on many of those who travel through downtown. There's a movement under way to change that."
On the same page of his own newspaper, Anthony Marino clairifies what he wants to do with Reagan rock. He says he wants to add decorative rock around the rock and flagpole, put a vandal proof lighting fixture on the rock, and put in a sprinkler to water the flowers. How will any of that bring it more to the attention of people driving through town?
The point is, WE HAVE ALREADY SPENT TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO FIX IT.
Why tear up the brand new concrete to put in new block and sprinklers. As a Town we gave away serwer hookups so that we wouldn't have to tear up the sidewalks for a long time and now these two want to do just that. If they want to change the light to a more secure fixture, no one would have a problem with that, but that is certainly not a news story.
Jerry and Anthony,  leave it alone. It looks great now. If you were so concerned you should have voiced your opinion when the sidewalks were being done. Now it's too late. Second guessing after the fact shows your true worth to us on Council....zilch!

---

Didn't council approve removing trees from downtown to add other new trees?

Anonymous wrote:

---

Anonymous wrote:

---

If you were so concerned you should have voiced your opinion when the sidewalks were being done.

---

Funny you should mention that. As I understand, several meetings were held with the Mayor and ARH about Reagan Rock. Specifically, it was said to NOT redo the concrete around it, and Jerry would donate the work for free, so they could set up sprinklers.

But of course, Mayor Knows Best!, and he went and spent money we don't have yet to do repairs to Reagan Rock that look HORRIBLE.

Standard fare for this town.

Hey look! They put vinyl siding on the Town Hall. What happened to the succo? MAYOR KNOWS BEST!

---

Hey Spinzo, there is much more to life than your Reagan Rock. The only people that will come to the meeting are those who will tell you to leave it alone. Could it be that some people know what Jerry's work is like and are not even interested in it for free? It's always for free, no benefits included? Is he on council for us or to remind everyone hes' a mason and looking for work? Leave the rock alone, you are making a fool out of this town.

Hammonton Republicans are stuck between a ROCK and a hard place (Hammonton First Town council).  Vote Democrat, they're not afraid to speak up for Hammonton.  How many times did we hear Marino say that he wants to work with Hammonton First. Looks like Hammonton First doesn't want to work with anyone.

WATCH THE TOWN COUNCIL SHOW! LIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AT 7PM! SEE WHAT JIMMY BERTINO AND THE OTHER TWO REPUBLICANS DO NEXT!

Anonymous wrote:

---

WATCH THE TOWN COUNCIL SHOW! LIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AT 7PM! SEE WHAT JIMMY BERTINO AND THE OTHER TWO REPUBLICANS DO NEXT!

---

Jimmy Bertino and the Republicans are focusing on the important issues in Hammonton.

HF is wasting their time keeping taxes down.

Jimmy Bertino is focused on Reagan Rock, MUAC, stopping the Fire Department from charging insurance companies, and the website.