Art,
It was indeed a pleasure to finally meet you.
The republican party of Monmouth County and especially the chairman, should be very proud of the success of the annual Lincoln Day dinner.
As for the gubernatorial candidates speeches, I felt like Mr. Christie was saying what people wanted to hear while Mr. Lonegan told them what they should hear, that our state is in trouble and that he is the only candidate to thus far have taken on Mr. Corzine and not only has he taken him on, but beat him and beat him soundly. At this point, I am inclined to put my support behind Steve Lonegan the former mayor of the town where I grew up.
You are correct in your assertion that I am absolutely in support of Joseph DiBella as the republican candidate for freeholder. This party has put their support behind three candidates in as many years who could not get it done. They being Andrew Lucas, Jeff Cantor and most recently, Mr. Curley. The time is now to take back control of the government of Monmouth County! It has been a scant seven weeks since the democrats have been in control and already their is more disharmony within the county than anyone can remember, are we really ready to let the democrats bring in outsiders with the biggest check books and to allow them to run amok in Monmouth County? I surely hope not.
Joseph DiBella can be, in my opinion, the one person who can campaign hard enough, deliver the message that people not only want to hear, but need to hear and can work to achieve the platform which he runs on.
I have had the privilege of working with Joseph for two years on the council and while we didn't always agree, he was professional enough to take the time to lay his argument out as well as to listen to mine and there were no hard feelings, just different opinions, but we respected each others opinion.
That in my estimation is the kind of person we need at the county level of government, one who listens with an open mind.
Mike Howell
Councilman
Howell Township
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I will support DiBella. I had voted for Lucas but that was a big mistake. I should have voted for DiBella, then, Lucas would not have been in the Freeholder race and lost the seat!
Like Cantor, Lucas is a Dem! Nuff said!
Love to hear this from Mayor Walsh.
dibella is a phony and bennett bond counsel troll. very stupid choice
Is Joe interested?
Does the fact that DiBella manufactured an incident using the late Councilman Wayne Lucy matter. That he fabricated a story that cost the Howell taxpayers money for a police investigation that led to the police chief stating publicly that the undeniable conclusion of the matter was that DiBella lied and concocted the whole story. That DiBella got run out of Sayreville politics for the same kind of underhanded tactics while on the governing body there. If the Republican party wants to continue to lose then by all means, pick this loser. And as for Andrew Lucas, it was DiBella and his mob that helped that loss happen because they refused to even put signs on their lawns and actually campaigned against a Lucas win. All because DiBella was outraged about not being the candidate even though it was his own fault he didn't get the nomination. Being exposed as a liar right before an election tends to resonate with voters. Expect it all to come up again in full detail if DiBella runs. DiBella must have promised Mike Howell a county job if Howell is working this hard to get a reprobate like DiBella elected to the Freeholder Board. Wasn't all that long ago Mike Howell was blaming DiBella for circulating an anonymous letter that Howell claims was the reason his business went under.
No county job sought or promised.
Please, try to find a new line, that one is getting old already, its the same one used by some here when a candidate for the vacant council seat was told that he was not selected.
Funny though, I wasn't aware that my business had gone under? As a matter of fact, I'm sitting in my office typing this response.
Instead of posting your accusations in an anonymous post, why not try something a bit more gutsy like placing your name along side your accusations? Oh, then you would have to own up to them. I can see why you wouldn't want to have to do that.
Why not leave the grade school nonsense on the local BB's where you thrive and leave this blog for intelligent, fact based discussions.
Mike Howell
Every word is the truth and you know it or are you going to deny you lost your water treatment business after the letter was circulated in Ramtown. A business the letter accused you of trying to build up using scare tactics involving the Parkway Water matter. If DiBella runs expect more truths to surface. As for the rest of it. Nice try but it is all verifiable public record.
Nothing here but an "intelligent, fact based discussion."
Ok, that's enough. Time to take it outside.
Good thing. This was starting to look like a Howellanche.
So you support Lonegan eh?
“It sounds good to say ‘tax the rich’ but the ‘rich’ have options including moving to Florida, Nevada or other states with no income tax,” Lonegan said. “Then we collect nothing and when the economy crashes the effect is even worse.”
So let's stop playing games and have the flat income tax of 0%.
It will attract more rich people to NJ, is that what makes this a great place to live? Rich People?
If only rich people can start and support businesses then the free market weakness has been exposed. The rich get richer, the law of increasing returns, it takes money to make money and all of that jazz.
Republicans survive on the single issue of abortion and that's no joke it's the only thing that keeps any working class people voting for you because you do not live up to any of the other party principles. So if taxing the rich is so bad and it's class warfare, why is it that Warren Buffet feels that he doesn't pay his fair share?
"He told the committee that he recently compared how much he pays in taxes in terms of a percentage of his salary to what his employees pay.
The results? Buffett says he pays 18 percent of his salary to the IRS while the rest of his staff pays nearly twice that — 33 percent, a lopsided equation that put Buffett in a Robin Hood frame of mind. "
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3869458&page=1
It's also pretty tiresome to hear you say claim to be an independent.
This is nothing more than a farce in which you dance around town calling yourselves independent but shine your republican light on every issue.
“Those liberals who oppose my plan will make their usual class warfare arguments, but that only works with some people. Others who dream of success reject pandering to class envy and look to what can be in this great country of ours,” Lonegan added. “The current plan has failed and the exodus of our friends, neighbors, co-workers and too often employers is proof positive.”
Right, so it's OK for a fake independent councilman to push class warfare by voting for $1k licensing fees for tattoo parlors under the guise of regulating them as if the Howell Council was going to implement any sort of real regulation on it. This was little more than a play for money and a signal to these businesses that their kind is not welcome round here. How many tattoo parlors are their in Howell anyway? About 3 perhaps??? Who were you going to have to hire to do this regulation?
And going back to the Lonegan supporting issue.... We're supposed to vote for someone who is going to charge the Warren Buffet's of NJ 3% and me 3%??? Are you kidding me? That's almost as fair as when our police give the NJ Warren Buffets who could throw $500 out the window of the car and not notice or the guy making minimum wage who has to pay a speeding ticket and take a month's pay away from his family and turn to crime or welfare to feed his kids. Sounds like class warfare doesn't it. When you take $100,000 out of Bruce Springsteen's wallet I am so sorry it is NOT THE SAME AS TAKING $100 out of someone struggling to get by.
How about you make all businesses in Howell apply for a license, that should generate some revenue.
Republicans and Fake Independents constantly call for smaller government, lower taxes, and all this liberty yet you also constantly try to play these type of games against anyone you deem undesirable raising fines and fees, standing in the way of liberties you do not like, and increasing the size of government by seeking repetitive regulation of such fringe industries.
$1000 is not a reasonable price for a tattoo parlor license, especially when there will be no regulation that protects the public coming from the fee, it is simply the government (and I mean YOU) trying stick the cash in it's pocket.
PS - You do all this blogging at work when do you find time for your biz? I sure hope you are not blogging at the council meetings, I've seen you guys with your laptops half paying attention, now I know. Wake up and get back to work because every minute you spend blogging at work is potential lost revenue for the state. Oi no wonder the economy is in shambles, all the republicans have been blogging and calling in to talk radio while the rest of us were working. Geez.
If you'd like to raise fee's on me. I have a dog and a cat, go ahead and make it $300 per animal that should go over well. Or you could man up about it and just raise property taxes. I'm cool with it as I live in a reasonably sized home, you might get hit pretty hard though, so think it through. You might want to find some other way to get it done so it doesn't impact your life, your real political party or that of your loyal constituents, like taxing tattoo parlors.
-Jason Carter
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