Found Wayne Deangelo. He's been busy with a blow up Rat lawsuit.

[Guest]

Well, I found out why Wayne has ignored Cranbury and COAH. He's too busy with his Union suing Lawrence Twp. because they won't let him and his organizers put up a Giant Blow Up Rat.

I also love how he's suing a town in his own district as part of the Union. Anyway to make residents pay more and protect the unions.

You also have to love the fact that a censure judge is still on the bench making pro union comments. Judge Rivera-Soto you may recall, was the judge who the Supreme Court censured forfor judicial misconduct, a rare public rebuke for his decision to file criminal assault charges against a teammate of his son.

The court found Rivera-Soto contacted police, prosecutors and trial judges about the case, doled out home-made business cards and even insulted the boy's father, a Ben Franklin re-enactor, over his hairstyle.

You just have to laugh at NJ politics. Only here could a censured judge, pro union judge and an elected official employed by a union act against a town who wants to havea clean appearance. I edited it to avoid any conflict of full article posting.

http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1222229114260640.xml&coll=5

Judging by the tenor of questions posed by some of the state Supreme Court justices yesterday, Lawrence Township may soon be revising its sign ordinance to allow for inflatable rats.

The issue arose from an April 2005 ticket given to Wayne DeAng elo, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrician Workers Local 269 in Trenton dur ing a labor protest outside Gold's Gym.


DeAngelo ended up with a $100 ticket for running afoul of the township's sign ordinance, which bans temporary, inflatable signs such as the 10-foot-high rat the union members used to gain attention for their cause. The four protesting union members were trying to draw attention to a contractor doing work at the gym who used non-union laborers.


Justice Barry T. Albin peppered Dember with questions, asking him about the distinction he'd drawn concerning signs placed on public rather than private property. He noted that a hypothetical sign on the side of the gym reading "We treat our employees like kings" would not be prohibited while "the protesters are going to get arrested" for picketing on public property.

"We need to differentiate between public forum and private property," Dember said.

"Where's the equity there?" Albin shot back. "How is that not content-neutral or overly broad?"

Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto added, "Without some kind of signage, how do they communicate?"

Noting the various kinds of temporary signs not allowed under the ordinance, Albin added, "Tell me how that's rational. The sandwich board is prohibited but you're re quiring the union members to dress up in a rat suit."

"I thought the arguments on our side went very well," DeAngelo said. He added that he was confi dent the high court would "come out with a judgment that is positive for working families getting their voice back in Lawrence Township."

[Guest]

It's good to know he's being productive....here I thought he was just disinterested in our issues.

[Jersey Dad]

This article is a great find. I think it would be funny for us citizens to rent a big rat and put it up at Wayne's next campaign event in Cranbury, but he probably won't bother to visit.

[James]

JD,

That would be great!! When he starts running again we should show up at one of the campaign stops with a blow up rat. I wonder if he'd still appreciate free speech under that circumstance.

It did strike me as rather perfect that the union symbol is a rat. That Wayne being an elected official is maintaining his union job supporting the use of a blow up rat. And when faced with COAH and having to work for his constituents he acted like a rat.

I don't understand how a censured judge can keep his job. Wouldn't being censured show poor judgement? Especially if it is for using his position in an unethical manner. Seems rather important for a judge to show good judgement and ethics.

[Jersey Dad]

James,
Maybe we can start a "tax payers union" and bring the rat with us to all of his campaign events. Wayne would be so confused. As taxpayers, he would want to take our money from us, but as a union he would feel obligated to give it back in the form of no-show jobs.

[Cranbury Conservative]

I vehemently agree with JD's Rat idea

[Guest]

I love the idea but I warn you -- and I am not kidding -- that you risk your life if you really do this. The Union takes the Rat very seriously and they will physically intimate and hurt people who try using it or even those who mock it in public. They use this all the time in NYC construction and I know of someone who used a large Cat inflateable as a counter protest and he was beat up and his car wrecked...