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Since the school didn't raise taxes... when is Steve going to tighten the belt at the school and lay off school workers to keep the taxes down like his brother did with the town?? Isn't it more important to keep the taxes down than to save jobs?

What will Steve do about these out of control salaries? I'm curious to know.

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Hack and whack 'em all.

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Na Steve won't lay off school employees why?? Especially if the school is in great shape like the town. You would think they would be laying off too? Why Steve Why. We want layoffs at the school.

 

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The size of government has to be cut back.  The taxpayers can't afford what is going on in Trenton and Washington.  Here, it is nice to see HF cutting back.  Yes, the town employees are complaining, but that is a normal union tactic.  Private industry doesn't get the lucrative perks that government employees do.

 

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Sounds good but just more lies... Why did HF hire 18 people since they took office in 2006 and why did they give family and friends huge raises? I know the truth hurts but the whole town knows that they had to have layoffs because we are broke and they could not meet payroll.

 

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The size of government has to be cut back.  The taxpayers can't afford what is going on in Trenton and Washington.  Here, it is nice to see HF cutting back.  Yes, the town employees are complaining, but that is a normal union tactic.  Private industry doesn't get the lucrative perks that government employees do.

 

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Sounds good but just more lies... Why did HF hire 18 people since they took office in 2006 and why did they give family and friends huge raises? I know the truth hurts but the whole town knows that they had to have layoffs because we are broke and they could not meet payroll.

 

 

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Notice the second above comment talks about the taxpayers not being able to afford what's going on in Washington, Trenton and Hammonton. Which means HF wants the people who work at these levels of gov't to be laid off. Notice they don't mention the county. AHH because Jerry Barberio works for the county. I think Jerry should tell his boss he wants to save money for the taxpayers and wants his job eliminated. Especially since he is collecting two salaries one from the county and one from the town. Talk about taking advantage of of the taxpayers. I just can't believe we actually paid him to destroy our lake park.

 

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Steve is not listening to the taxpayers if you are to be believed. Steve who is solely in charge of running all the public schools is Hammonton is not laying off highly paid teachers and administrators. Why not they make much more than the low level secretaries that were laid off in town hall. Come on Steve listen to the taxpayers and layoff teachers. After all if Winslow can do it and our town can do it so can you. WE WANT LAYOFFS AT THE SCHOOL NOW!

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If the Democrats really want layoffs at the school, why not have Joe Ingemi publicly write that in his next letter to the editor?  He does one every week so I am sure he's looking for something to write.

 

HF claims they listen and do whatever the taxpayers want??? We didnt want a 12 million dollar town hall thats falling down and has no parking, we didnt want a Canoe Club, Eagle Theater, we didnt want our lake park destroyed, we didnt want down town renovated at our expense, we didnt want the Mayor to spend $80,000 on new phone polls in front of town hall, we didnt want to have to pay to have Vine St. paved twice, we didnt want another restaurant at the airport, we didnt want town employees laid off, we didnt want HF to bring charges against the Chief and we paid the bills, we dont want HF to keep harassing our police dept. - let them do their jobs! We didnt want the tree cutting and road paving to stop, we didnt want all activities for the people to stop - Senior Citizen Prom, July 4th, Kids Camp etc. WE DONT WANT HF IN OFFICE ANYMORE WE WANT PEOPLE WHO WILL LISTEN TO US - THE TAXPAYERS. WE ARENT HERE JUST FOOT THE BILLS OF HF! GOOD RIDDANCE HF YOU CANT BE OUT OF OFFICE SOON ENOUGH!

Now that Mike Torrissi is hanging with Steve and HF. How long will it be until the Republican candidates drop out of the race in favor of HF?

Did Steve D, get the school finished so that it could open on time? God bless him he is so wonderful. He promised it would get done , he will make a great Mayor we will all know when he is lying his lips will be moving. Truth is he tells so many lies he wouldn't know the truth if he sat on it.

Why would anyone want to go back to the way it was before HF took office?

The accomplisments of the last four years are something that everyone in town can be proud of.

* No tax increase four years in a row on the municipal side.

* No tax increase three years in a row at the school.

* Decrease n debt which was verified by both the independent auditor and S&P.

* Increased surplus savings.

* Bond rating of AA given by Standard & Poor's

* More police on staff today than when Hammonton First took office

* Many new roads paved

* New soccer fields

* New town hall and senior community center

* Sludge dumping stopped

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Why would anyone want to go back to the way it was before HF took office?

The accomplisments of the last four years are something that everyone in town can be proud of.

* No tax increase four years in a row on the municipal side.

* No tax increase three years in a row at the school.

* Decrease n debt which was verified by both the independent auditor and S&P.

* Increased surplus savings.

* Bond rating of AA given by Standard & Poor's

* More police on staff today than when Hammonton First took office

* Many new roads paved

* New soccer fields

* New town hall and senior community center

* Sludge dumping stopped

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The debt is lower today than when Mayor DiDonato took office. 

The bashers want to keep trying to convince people that is not true, however, it was confirmed in the town's audit report by the independent auditor.  Standard & Poor's also gave the town a AA rating based on it's review of the financials.

I guess the bashers will need to make up different stories about another subject.

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Why would anyone want to go back to the way it was before HF took office?

The accomplisments of the last four years are something that everyone in town can be proud of.

* No tax increase four years in a row on the municipal side.

* No tax increase three years in a row at the school.

* Decrease n debt which was verified by both the independent auditor and S&P.

* Increased surplus savings.

* Bond rating of AA given by Standard & Poor's

* More police on staff today than when Hammonton First took office

* Many new roads paved

* New soccer fields

* New town hall and senior community center

* Sludge dumping stopped

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The debt is lower today than when Mayor DiDonato took office. 

The bashers want to keep trying to convince people that is not true, however, it was confirmed in the town's audit report by the independent auditor.  Standard & Poor's also gave the town a AA rating based on it's review of the financials.

I guess the bashers will need to make up different stories about another subject.

 

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Well since you are a rocket scientist then maybe you can answer these questions. If the town is in great financial shape then why did HF give Brian Howell a huge salary increase and layoff secretaries when crime is up, paperwork is up, debt is lower and surplus is up? Don't use the excuse that taxpayers wanted layoffs. The school didn't have layoffs and they didn't raise taxes and they are funded by taxpayers? Explain. The taxpayers want these questions answered!

 

 

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The subject is: why was Brian Howell given a huge salary increase and why were town employees laid off? Are you going to keep avoiding this subject? It's in black and white unlike the town books that are in red you can't avoid it. You seem to know everything. If the town is in great shape is HF going to rescind the layoffs or are they going to lay off police and highway workers?

 

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Let me get this straight.... towns in severe financial trouble are not laying off workers. Hammonton is in great financial shape but laying off town workers and keep threatening more layoffs? HELP!Can anyone figure this out? Cause HF can't either.

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Subject: why didn't the town accountant give this years annual report to council during an open session council meeting? I smell something fishy and it ain't just the Canoe Club. What is HF hiding from the taxpayers? Could it be that the town is broke and that's why they had to lay off personnel? The taxpayers have a right to know - it's our money. WHERE'S OUR MONEY?

 

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Everyone is talking about the town layoffs. They are saying that is the absolutely dumbest thing HF could have ever done before a big election. They have a habit of doing this every few years - they went after the Chief a few years ago and lost the election. Now they went after 4 town employees and now they will lose 4 seats. HOW DUMB CAN YOU GET??? Maybe the nexst movie that will be shown at Eagle Theater will be Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest and Even More Dumber. Will admission be free?

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No dummy, nothing HF does is free. Admission will be your hard earned tax dollars for them to spend on themselves. Maybe HF will give out free food during the movie. Oh no I forgot they ate it all themselves. Maybe if the struggle taxpayers go to the movie with their crumb detector they will be able to eat some of the crumbs left for them by HF. You know like the rotted veggie bags. After all the taxpayers are so important to HF that they get what HF normally throws away.

 

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I was "invited" to the Republicans Family Fun Picnic but it'll cost my family $60.00.  What middle class family can afford that?  Republicans just don't get it!  Shelling out money for a picnic, no thanks.  ask for snacks or desserts when you host a picnic but never ask your guest to give you their money.

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Well, the Democrats are having a homemade dessert and coffee night this Thursday night 9/17/09 at 6:30 pm at their headquarters. I hear some of the best bakers in town will be providing the homemade desserts. It's free and it's fresh not like the rotted veggie bags. You don't have to be a Democrat to attend - just a sweet eater.

 

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so let me get this right . the reps and dems would not have laid off the employees. 
the town clerk said to lay them off she is the dept head. 
we must listen to the chief and buy oil from him.
but not listen to the town clerk.  wow
the construction office work load went down by about 300k or 3//4 
the other depts workload is slowed down .

so we should pay them to sit around and bs all day.. 
wakeup people this is  the real world  
in the real world you work a full week . and if work slows down you get fired. 
fired fired fired. 
The dems or aleast joe ingemi talked about this. 
i would like to thank HF for laying them off. 
before you go spouting off i am a registred dem not voting for corzine.   and undecided about the local race.

 

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What does oil have to do with anything? You are probably HF's number one contributor that's why you are saying what you are saying. Look at the AC Press who prints the truth crime is up in NJ and in Hammonton. Workload in Police and Court are up. Work in tax office (since no new taxes) is down workload in tax assessors office is down (since no new buildings) so what documentation does the clerk have that targeted these people whose work load is up. If the town is drowning in money why layoffs? You think $180,000. can fix a 45 million dollar debt? Oh and just when did Joe Ingemi talk about this in your delusional state? Oh and why won't you tell us why HF gave family and friends huge raises - was their workload up? There is concrete proof from the AC Press that crime is up in Hammonton. So you're saying the town clerk doesn't know what she is doing even though she is paid $126,000 for working 32 hours a week?

 

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I was "invited" to the Republicans Family Fun Picnic but it'll cost my family $60.00.  What middle class family can afford that?  Republicans just don't get it!  Shelling out money for a picnic, no thanks.  ask for snacks or desserts when you host a picnic but never ask your guest to give you their money.

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 Real people realize things cost money and do not look for handouts. I am more than happy to pay $10.00 to for my meal. I do not need silly freebies from political parties I need my TAXES CUT so I can KEEP my own money and pay my own way.

Freebies and government handouts from the Democrats have enable them to tax and spend us to death!!!!

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Why is Mickey Pullia saying to bullet vote for him and that Gribbin is a Democrat?

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 Don't tell me another deal has been made to keep only registered Republicans on town council!

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Why is Mickey Pullia saying to bullet vote for him and that Gribbin is a Democrat?

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Don't tell me another deal has been made to keep only registered Republicans on town council!

 

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Maybe Mickey needs to have the town buy more insurance from his company at the taxpayers expense. After all he is HF you know. He has Kessler Hospital experience.

 

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Did you hear the latest? At the Canoe Club AKA Senior Center ribbon cutting they are going to have Touch-a-Truck, police,fire and even a trash truck! Wow this is awesome since Hammonton is the only town that can afford these vehicles and layoff town employees and give huge salaries increases to family and friends.
It's amazing that poor town's have even better equipment and even a sally port that police can actually utilize and they didn't layoff workers.

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Can you get Swine Flu from touching a trash truck? Especially since the town can not afford to supply sterilized towelettes. Evidently HF has not seen the news about touching people and other contaminated surfaces especially for our fragile senior citizens. How much is it going to cost taxpayers in overtime to have town employees stand there and bs during this ribbon cutting? Will we need to purchase additional insurance from Mickey's insurance company for this event?

 

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Wow, you folks have no limiits to what you will go negative about.  It must be awfullyt depressing to think like that all the time.

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In your eyes the truth is negative and lies are positive? It's hard for the town to have money when Mayor and Council hired 18 people since 2006 and gave their family and friends who have do nothing jobs huge salary increases. That's why they had to layoff 4 hard working secretaries to take care of their own. 

 

Is Joe Ingemi in favor of cutting back on the size of government to help keep taxes down?  Or is he for giving out lots of government jobs like Obama?

These bashers on the blogs really are funny. 

First, they bash HF for cutting back the size of government and keeping taxes down.

Second, they talk out of the other side of their mouths and lie about HF adding 18 additional people to the payrolls.  The fact is there are less people today than 4 years ago with the exception of the police force, which has a few additional officers.

Third, they turn right around and attack HF for having a reduction in force, only a few minutes after trying to tell people that HF hired to many people.

Then the seem to find another way to talk and lie about the debt going up when in fact it went down.  It is in the audit report.

Then they turn around and lie about the mayor being related to all the accountants, when it fact it is not true.  But I guess when they have talked in circles that much, they have to lie to cover their tracks.

Now watch the bashing continue.

Why would people try to lie and saying everything in Hammonton stinks?  Don't you have anything positive to say about your candidates without almost every post being a bash-a-thon?

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These bashers on the blogs really are funny. 

First, they bash HF for cutting back the size of government and keeping taxes down.

Second, they talk out of the other side of their mouths and lie about HF adding 18 additional people to the payrolls.  The fact is there are less people today than 4 years ago with the exception of the police force, which has a few additional officers.

Third, they turn right around and attack HF for having a reduction in force, only a few minutes after trying to tell people that HF hired to many people.

Then the seem to find another way to talk and lie about the debt going up when in fact it went down.  It is in the audit report.

Then they turn around and lie about the mayor being related to all the accountants, when it fact it is not true.  But I guess when they have talked in circles that much, they have to lie to cover their tracks.

Now watch the bashing continue.

Why would people try to lie and saying everything in Hammonton stinks?  Don't you have anything positive to say about your candidates without almost every post being a bash-a-thon?

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The Joe Ingemi & Rich Jacobus team were at it again this week.  More negative letters in the paper today.  Maybe they can save time writing letters constantly and sum it all up on a bumper sticker:

VOTE INGEMI:  WE HATE EVERYTHING!

 

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You're even funnier you are really scared that the truth is finally coming out. The facts are as follows: HF told Civil Service they had to layoff workers because of the economy - but the town is in great financial shape? Then HF said their has been a hiring freeze since they took office and they haven't hired or replaced anyone who has quit, retired or on extended sick leave (do you want to see a copy of the letter to Civil Service)? But 18 people were hired and none of those were laid off. I can give you the names and dates if you would like unless you're saying the town records are incorrect. In 2007 HF gave Brian Howell a $10,000 a year raise and increased his hourly rate - are you saying the minutes to that meeting are wrong? The town is much worst off than it was 4 years ago because we are 45 million in debt. Just because HF has paid down the 45 million by a few thousand dollars is simply a lie to the taxpayers that the debt is down. You're AA bond rating is tenuous at best let's see if it holds next year. I never said all the accountants are related to the Mayor only the one who goes to town hall everyday and has received some fabulous raises. The accountant is the one who is telling people so you are saying he is lying too? The town administrator is telling everyone who will listen that the town is flat broke are you saying she is lying too? I don't have any candidates I am a republican and they have sold out to HF. Your lies don't make it anymore the truth will always come out. I guess everyone is lying about the trees being cut down at the lake park too? I guess town hall is falling apart right? I guess water and sewer weren't run to the bowling alley. You need to keep better records at town hall since that is what I am going by.

 

Did anyone see the AC Press today. HF wants to continue to spend more money down town rather than focus on paving roads in desperate need of repair or trimming trees that could become a safety hazard during this hurricane season. When are the taxpayers going to benefit from the hard earned tax dollars that we pay. HF will say oh this is grant money but..... grant money comes from our tax dollars. Enough is enough. We need to focus on more important things rather than the properties HF owns downtown. It look's like the only way we can accomplish what the taxpayers want is to vote HF out of office. Let's band together as a community and do what's right for the taxpayers for a change. Don't vote for HF. We can't afford the anymore.

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These bashers on the blogs really are funny. 

First, they bash HF for cutting back the size of government and keeping taxes down.

Second, they talk out of the other side of their mouths and lie about HF adding 18 additional people to the payrolls.  The fact is there are less people today than 4 years ago with the exception of the police force, which has a few additional officers.

Third, they turn right around and attack HF for having a reduction in force, only a few minutes after trying to tell people that HF hired to many people.

Then the seem to find another way to talk and lie about the debt going up when in fact it went down.  It is in the audit report.

Then they turn around and lie about the mayor being related to all the accountants, when it fact it is not true.  But I guess when they have talked in circles that much, they have to lie to cover their tracks.

Now watch the bashing continue.

Why would people try to lie and saying everything in Hammonton stinks?  Don't you have anything positive to say about your candidates without almost every post being a bash-a-thon?

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The Joe Ingemi & Rich Jacobus team were at it again this week.  More negative letters in the paper today.  Maybe they can save time writing letters constantly and sum it all up on a bumper sticker:

VOTE INGEMI:  WE HATE EVERYTHING!

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 Joe Ingemi and Rich Jacobus... the dynamic duo of negativity!!!

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These bashers on the blogs really are funny. 

First, they bash HF for cutting back the size of government and keeping taxes down.

Second, they talk out of the other side of their mouths and lie about HF adding 18 additional people to the payrolls.  The fact is there are less people today than 4 years ago with the exception of the police force, which has a few additional officers.

Third, they turn right around and attack HF for having a reduction in force, only a few minutes after trying to tell people that HF hired to many people.

Then the seem to find another way to talk and lie about the debt going up when in fact it went down.  It is in the audit report.

Then they turn around and lie about the mayor being related to all the accountants, when it fact it is not true.  But I guess when they have talked in circles that much, they have to lie to cover their tracks.

Now watch the bashing continue.

Why would people try to lie and saying everything in Hammonton stinks?  Don't you have anything positive to say about your candidates without almost every post being a bash-a-thon?

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The Joe Ingemi & Rich Jacobus team were at it again this week.  More negative letters in the paper today.  Maybe they can save time writing letters constantly and sum it all up on a bumper sticker:

VOTE INGEMI:  WE HATE EVERYTHING!

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 Joe Ingemi and Rich Jacobus... the dynamic duo of negativity!!!

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I wonder what Joe Ingemi and Rich Jacobus will write next week.  Between the two off them, they are averaging more than a letter every week lately!

By the time the election rolls around, they'll have had time to bad mouth just about everything in Hammonton.

Hey did anyone see the Hammonton News today? Crime is up 29% in Hammonton. OK so let me get this straight so HF doesn't accuse me of bashing. The State Police, the AC Press and the Hammonton News all say that crime is up in Hammonton which means the workload in the police dept. and court is up but HF says crime and workload are down. Does 3 rights make a wrong? I guess when it comes to crime HF knows more than the State Police. AMAZING! Now you know why everyone is afraid to go downtown they fear for their safety. The next thing to come to Hammonton are the gangs that we are surrounded by in all other towns. But go ahead HF layoff cops like YOU WANT TO and then lets see who you call when you're downtown is taken over and destroyed by these gangs.

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The last few days posts are all negative !!  I have just 1 question: if Hammonton First or any other political party was spending tax dollars poorly, then why did the audit not show this ???  Why did our bond rating improve ??  Why does the town have a large surplus of tax money ??  If it is as bad as all of you say it is, then why isn't the town broke ??  And don't say that it is without having documented proof, ie: audit reports, etc.

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As you point out, the audit report shows that debt has gone down and the surplus has increased.

* No tax increase four years in a row on the municipal side.

* No tax increase three years in a row at the school.

* Decrease n debt which was verified by both the independent auditor and S&P.

* Increased surplus savings.

* Bond rating of AA given by Standard & Poor's

* More police on staff today than when Hammonton First took office

* Many new roads paved

* New soccer fields

* New town hall and senior community center

* Sludge dumping stopped

 

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from the crime report :

Year     violent              non                  violent              non                   murder robbery

            Crimes            violent              rate                  violent rate

 

2002    27                    228                  2.1                   18.1                 2          6

 

2003    25                    292                  1.9                   22.7                 0          7

 

2004    28                    216                  2.0                   17.                   0          7

 

2005    32                    238                  2.4                   17.9                 0          8

 

 

2006    34                    194                  2.5                   14.3                 2          6

 

 

2007    20                    163                  1.5                   12                    0          4

 

 

2008    22                    215                  1.6                   15.9                 0          1

 

 

Total    188                  1,546                                                               4          39

7 yr     

Avg:     26.85               220.85


so over the last seven years crime has went down way down .
the town had 2 more v. crimes then last year and 52 non v crimes.no murders and one robbery .


WOW WHAT A GREAT POLICE FORCE.   IF THE DEMS AND REPS REALLY SUPPORTED YOU GUYS THEY WOULD HAVE WROTE THEIR STORY LIKE THIS.   THE CHIEF RUNS THE DEPARTMENT THAT GIVES YOU THESE NUMBERS. 
GOOD JOB POLICE.

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 The data shows that the highest year of crimes was back in 2003.  Since then it has gone down.  It seems the the negative campaigners are attacking so hard that they didn't bother to see the facts.  Nice work.

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Let me set the record straight. As one who is currently a Law Enforcement Official, I have dealt with the U.C.R. (Uniform Crime Report) for years. I can tell you, first hand, that the U.C.R. reports are not perfect nor are they accurate !! If you have multiple crimes, ie: burglary, robbery, criminal mischief being committed in the same incident, then only the most serious crime gets reported, while the lesser crimes go unreported.

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Above well said, my family members are in law enforcement too. Crime is up according to 2 reputable news papers. Figures don't lie unless liar's do the figures. If HF supported the police so much and were so appreciative of their efforts then why did they put the screws to Officer Hagerty, why did they attack the Chief, why did they build an inadequate facility for the police in town hall, why can't they fix the sewer back up in the police dept, why can't they fix the sally port so vehicles can pull in there to safety drop off prisoners, why did they off police personnel?  Actions speak louder than words and HF's dislike of our police dept. has been proven over and over again. Nice try but it don't fly!

 

I guess the incident with the deer balls didn't get reported because it probably never happened.

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from the crime report :

Year violentnonviolentnonmurder robbery

Crimesviolentrateviolent rate

2002272282.118.126

2003252921.922.707

2004282162.017.07

2005322382.417.908

 

2006341942.514.326

 

2007201631.51204

 

2008222151.615.901

 

Total1881,546439

7 yr

Avg:26.85220.85


so over the last seven years crime has went down way down .
the town had 2 more v. crimes then last year and 52 non v crimes.no murders and one robbery .


WOW WHAT A GREAT POLICE FORCE.   IF THE DEMS AND REPS REALLY SUPPORTED YOU GUYS THEY WOULD HAVE WROTE THEIR STORY LIKE THIS.   THE CHIEF RUNS THE DEPARTMENT THAT GIVES YOU THESE NUMBERS. 
GOOD JOB POLICE.

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The data shows that the highest year of crimes was back in 2003.  Since then it has gone down.  It seems the the negative campaigners are attacking so hard that they didn't bother to see the facts.  Nice work.

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Now that the Democrats & Republicans have been caught trying to distort the facts, they ae wondering where people got the true data.  It's the same place the Hammonton News did since it is publicly available information.  The only difference is the person above put out all the data.  They didn't just try to distort a little bit of information.

The Dems' and Reps' bashing just makes the police look bad even though they did their job.

 

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Nice try but remember liars have to continue to lie if they don't then people will know they are lying. The Reps and Dems give our police dept our full support. Ever since HF came into office they have harassed them. I guess I'm lying when I said HF brought charges against the Chief, denied Hagerty sick time, built an inadequate police dept (12 million dollar town hall) making it almost impossible for the police to do their jobs and laid off workers in the police dept. Targeting the police dept before got you voted out and targeting them again will get you voted out for good. Good riddance to you and your lies. Go touch a tree at the lake before they are all gone.

 

the crime report was in th press of ac . I saw it.

What a joke.  Joe Ingemi has been doing just as much negative campaigning as Rich Jacobus.  If Ingemi was against Jacobus, why doesn't he return all Jacobus' campaign contributions and write a letter to the editor saying Jacobus is wrong.  Heck, Ingemi write a letter to the editor every week already so it isn't any effort.

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Rich Jacobus does not speak for anyone in the Hammonton Democrat campaign. He only speaks for himself. He has been told to calm down but this is America, he is allowed to speak.

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I would like to see someone tell Mr. Jacobus to calm down. HA! I can't wait till HF gets voted out so the Reps or Dems can return this town to what it used to be NORMAL! None of those candidates own property down town and they would have never laid off town employees or have given such huge raises to their friends and family. Ex: HF gave Brian Howell a $10,000 a year raise. Notice HF won't comment on that they just keep saying everyone is lying. HA! When are you going to post the salaries these people are getting that's if you have nothing to hide.

 

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 I wonder if the above post was put up by Joe Ingemi or Rich Jacobus.  The both of them are so negative.  Or do the Democrats have a third negative campaigner?

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so let me get this right . the reps and dems would not have laid off the employees. 
the town clerk said to lay them off she is the dept head. 
we must listen to the chief and buy oil from him.
but not listen to the town clerk.  wow
the construction office work load went down by about 300k or 3//4 
the other depts workload is slowed down .

so we should pay them to sit around and bs all day.. 
wakeup people this is  the real world  
in the real world you work a full week . and if work slows down you get fired. 
fired fired fired. 
The dems or aleast joe ingemi talked about this. 
i would like to thank HF for laying them off. 
before you go spouting off i am a registred dem not voting for corzine.   and undecided about the local race.

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This is not the real world.  This is government.  The Democrats and Republicans setup the government years ago that the taxpayers are supposed to pay government employees to sit around and do nothing.  They are also supposed to give them great benefits.  Stop bothering these people about the real world!  Go oput and work harder so you can give them more of your money to spend!

 

I have an idea. Instead of this back and forth with salaries, workload and layoffs. Why doesn't HF just come clean. Shortly after HF was elected they negotiated employee contracts, so if HF is proud of the reduced salaries they negotiated and reduction of staff then post the salaries of all the employees including all benefits ie; health, dental, eye and whatever else they get. Give a total amount of what each employee is being paid by the taxpayers and let the taxpayers decide. Let's put this Brian Howell raise to rest and show people the proof you have where you didn't give him a $10,000 a year raise and no increase on his hourly rate. A comparison of salary and benefits from the last year of the Ingemi administration and the last year of the DiDonato administration will tell us if HF has held the line on cost or if they are just blowing smoke. Philadelphia just averted layoffs and they are proud of it.

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What a joke.  Joe Ingemi has been doing just as much negative campaigning as Rich Jacobus.  If Ingemi was against Jacobus, why doesn't he return all Jacobus' campaign contributions and write a letter to the editor saying Jacobus is wrong.  Heck, Ingemi write a letter to the editor every week already so it isn't any effort.

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Joe Ingemi needs to explain the issues and ignore the negative letters written by Rich Jacobus. If Joe Ingemi can just explain the issues with well written and numerous letters to the weekly newspapers, Hammonton will be much better off.

 

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What a joke.  Joe Ingemi has been doing just as much negative campaigning as Rich Jacobus.  If Ingemi was against Jacobus, why doesn't he return all Jacobus' campaign contributions and write a letter to the editor saying Jacobus is wrong.  Heck, Ingemi write a letter to the editor every week already so it isn't any effort.

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Joe Ingemi needs to explain the issues and ignore the negative letters written by Rich Jacobus. If Joe Ingemi can just explain the issues with well written and numerous letters to the weekly newspapers, Hammonton will be much better off.

 

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Rich Jacobus and Joe Ingemi keep writing negative letters every week.  They are pushing their own base of voters away.  People don't want to hear that nonsense non-stop every week.

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For the same reason the good people of Hammonton don't read the local Donio rag, they write the same trash of how great the firsters are week after week when we know its not the truth. Why don't they tell us the truth about the cost of town hall? We now know there were change orders additions and now a heating and cooling system that doesn't work as well as stucco and hand rails that have fallen off the building. People look past those rotten veggies and smashed blueberry pies its just a front like them. Could someone please explain why they are dumping Mickey? could it be he can't be controlled by some of the puppet masters?? Mickey we like you but wake up they are dumping you. 

Rich Jacobus and Joe Ingemi have become quite a pair.  It will be interesting to read this week what stories the two of them can come up with.

It seems Rich Jacobus and Joe Ingemi fully intend to run the most negative campaign in years.  They have nothing nice to say about Hammonton.  I guess they don't realize that Ingemi and the other Democrats are finishing dead last again this year.

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First of all HF hates Mr. Jacobus because he has the guts to say the truth and they don't what anyone to know the truth. Notice no cost figures on Town Hall, lake park, airport, no explanation of why BH got a $10,000 a year raise, no valid reason for layoffs, no excuse for destroying our lake park. No economic validity on why so much money is being spent downtown and why Stockton needs to come to Hammonton other than to improve the value of their properties. HF is like President Bush - wealthy businessmen who get involved with politics to become wealthier, get what they want by using taxpayers money - not theirs, collect a salary, create high paying jobs for their relatives, then leave office fat, dumb and happy, and leave the debt with the taxpayers. President Bush sacrificed thousands of American lives because of a vendetta and greed for more oil and more money. Now he's relaxing in his 3 million dollar home without a worry in the world. Businessmen should not be allowed to run for public office because their greed just gets out of control.

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Typical Democrat logic.......the anti-business democrats are bankrupting New Jersey and this country with the likes of ACORN. In my day "community organizing" was a volunteer hobby not a resume builder to become President of the United States.

Democrats are out of touch like the NJ Governor, Jon Corzine. He steals $600,000,000 from taxpayers thru the sham company GOLDMAN SACHS and then runs for governor in my state of New Jersey.

 

 

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Sorry to disappoint you, I am a Republican and proud of it. How come every time people ask HF questions they change the subject and talk about the state and federal government? Let's talk Hammonton what are you hiding? I've learned to vote the person not the party since I have been often disappointed. The Republicans sacrificed human lives for money and vendetta and you think that is OK? You are really out of touch. Now go stand in front of the mirror and tell yourself how great you are.

 

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I think the person was talking about the hypocrisy of Jon Corzine. On the one hand he pockets (aka, steals) $600,000,000 dollars and puts it in his own pocket while running Goldman Sachs.

Then on the other hand he wants to act the advocate of the poor and downtdrodden. As a union plumber, I really look at Jon Corzine out of touch, elitest who I dislike very much.

 

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First of all HF hates Mr. Jacobus because he has the guts to say the truth and they don't what anyone to know the truth. Notice no cost figures on Town Hall, lake park, airport, no explanation of why BH got a $10,000 a year raise, no valid reason for layoffs, no excuse for destroying our lake park. No economic validity on why so much money is being spent downtown and why Stockton needs to come to Hammonton other than to improve the value of their properties. HF is like President Bush - wealthy businessmen who get involved with politics to become wealthier, get what they want by using taxpayers money - not theirs, collect a salary, create high paying jobs for their relatives, then leave office fat, dumb and happy, and leave the debt with the taxpayers. President Bush sacrificed thousands of American lives because of a vendetta and greed for more oil and more money. Now he's relaxing in his 3 million dollar home without a worry in the world. Businessmen should not be allowed to run for public office because their greed just gets out of control.

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Typical Democrat logic.......the anti-business democrats are bankrupting New Jersey and this country with the likes of ACORN. In my day "community organizing" was a volunteer hobby not a resume builder to become President of the United States.

Democrats are out of touch like the NJ Governor, Jon Corzine. He steals $600,000,000 from taxpayers thru the sham company GOLDMAN SACHS and then runs for governor in my state of New Jersey.

 

 

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Sorry to disappoint you, I am a Republican and proud of it. How come every time people ask HF questions they change the subject and talk about the state and federal government? Let's talk Hammonton what are you hiding? I've learned to vote the person not the party since I have been often disappointed. The Republicans sacrificed human lives for money and vendetta and you think that is OK? You are really out of touch. Now go stand in front of the mirror and tell yourself how great you are.

 

 

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If you're a proud Republican then you should write a letter to the editor and speak out against HF. Not one single Republican dares to do that out of fear from HF. NOT ONE REPUBLICAN WILL SPEAK OUT AGAINST HF.  I Dare You!!!!

 

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I don't need to write a letter to the editor because I have the guts to tell HF to their faces how I feel about them. I don't coward down to no one not even HF.

 

Why won't Joe Ingemi tell people the name of the company where he works?  Is he actually employed?

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If you're a proud Republican then you should write a letter to the editor and speak out against HF. Not one single Republican dares to do that out of fear from HF. NOT ONE REPUBLICAN WILL SPEAK OUT AGAINST HF.  I Dare You!!!!

 

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I don't need to write a letter to the editor because I have the guts to tell HF to their faces how I feel about them. I don't coward down to no one not even HF.

 

 

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Well then you're not effective because you should do so at a Town Council meeting or in the papers.  Good for you if you speak out against HF but it does no good for the rest of us if no one knows what you said because we all know that HF doesn't care what you or I say.  So don't be afraid to put your name out there.  Either write letters, run for office or speak out at a council meeting. Basically DO SOMETHING.  I don't know of any Republicans though that have spoken out against HF.  You might be the only one.  I don't know since as far as I know what you call speaking out might not compare to what Hammonton really needs to defeat HF.

 

 

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What I say is very effective, your telling me to speak out because you and no one else knows what I'm saying but you read and respond to what I'm saying so how can you say you don't know what I'm saying? Trust me I'm not the only Republican against HF and there is plenty going on - hundreds of people are reading these blogs just look at the numbers, people are talking on the streets. Come November HF will be out of office. FYI everyone is talking about what Steve D did to Trina and that Mickey P might drop out because the brothers can't order him what to do and control him. There is a lot happening just sit tight. Good things happen to those who wait!

 

It appears the Republicans are so desperate that the only campaign tactic they have left is to try and tie the Democratic candidates to people that some may not agree with. Joe Ingemi, Mike Ammirato, Jim Scarpato, and Carmen Villani are strong individuals with great records and great plans for Hammonton's future.
And if the only thing they can say about Joe Ingemi is that he takes great care of his dog, that is pathetic.

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Well then you're not effective because you should do so at a Town Council meeting or in the papers.  Good for you if you speak out against HF but it does no good for the rest of us if no one knows what you said because we all know that HF doesn't care what you or I say.  So don't be afraid to put your name out there.  Either write letters, run for office or speak out at a council meeting. Basically DO SOMETHING.  I don't know of any Republicans though that have spoken out against HF.  You might be the only one.  I don't know since as far as I know what you call speaking out might not compare to what Hammonton really needs to defeat HF.

 

What I say is very effective, your telling me to speak out because you and no one else knows what I'm saying but you read and respond to what I'm saying so how can you say you don't know what I'm saying? Trust me I'm not the only Republican against HF and there is plenty going on - hundreds of people are reading these blogs just look at the numbers, people are talking on the streets. Come November HF will be out of office. FYI everyone is talking about what Steve D did to Trina and that Mickey P might drop out because the brothers can't order him what to do and control him. There is a lot happening just sit tight. Good things happen to those who wait!

 

 

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Dude, I know what you're saying but most Hammontonians don't go on these blogs.  We've got to get the message to people who don't know what's truly going on.  HF will not be out of office unless Republicans speak out.  I'm a Democrat and have spoken at council meetings in the past.  I'm not running currently but someday I might again.  You might actually see me speak at a Town Council meeting soon. How about you?  If the Democrats are the only party that do so then HF will win.

 

 

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Are you from Hammonton? Most people know what is going on with HF and for those who don't they will be finding out soon. There are things that HF has done and they don't even realize what they are - not yet anyway. Like I said you just have to sit tight and wait and you will be shocked of what will be happening in the next few weeks. I think even HF will be shocked! By the way who are you?