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[quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"]We would actually be able to reduce our taxes and cover the full budget of our local schools without cuts and without a dime of state aid if Linda, Wayne and their party machine stopped taking so much of our local taxes for the supposed state eductaion fund then redistributing it to other districts. It's not these cuts in aid that are hurting Cranbury, its all the money the state is taking from us to pay for others.[/quote] Excellent point, Cranbury taxpayers collectively would probably need to pay several million in increased taxes to Trenton to get the $500,000 in state education aid restored. For that, we should all be grateful to Linda Greenstein and Wayne DeAngelo for helping Cranbury.[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 10:11 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Linda and Wayne are talking heads for their own interests and groups. Neither Wayne or Linda realize how self sustaining Cranbury is in actuality. However, I do believe they realize how much our town sends Trenton. If they can get us to argue for higher state taxes, then they can get more money fed to their bigger support groups. The truth is Cranbury does not have enough voters to make it worthwhile for them to support us. However, if they can encourage us to argue to spend more in taxes then they win. They get more abbott funding, they get COAH passed, and they can play their political games.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 9:53 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">We would actually be able to reduce our taxes and cover the full budget of our local schools without cuts and without a dime of state aid if Linda, Wayne and their party machine stopped taking so much of our local taxes for the supposed state eductaion fund then redistributing it to other districts. It's not these cuts in aid that are hurting Cranbury, its all the money the state is taking from us to pay for others.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Excellent point, Cranbury taxpayers collectively would probably need to pay several million in increased taxes to Trenton to get the $500,000 in state education aid restored. For that, we should all be grateful to Linda Greenstein and Wayne DeAngelo for helping Cranbury.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 4:46 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Don't forget that when our board of education and teachers came to a comprise this year that Linda Greenstein came to the meeting where it was announced and said she wanted to raise taxes. Does that make sense? Our board of education and teachers work things out and she disregards what they did and says we need to tax you more? She is completely out of sync with the voters here in Cranbury and she is part of the problem and she needs to go.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Linda Greenstein came to the Board of Education meeting with her partner Wayne D'Angelo. They got up together to speak. In addition to Linda wanting to raise taxes, D'Angelo said that these budget changes were "destroying the quality of education in Cranbury". Whether you agree or disagree with the state funding, the board of ed, staff and teachers worked hard to come up with a reasonable plan for the school. It was irresponsible for Linda and Wayne to criticize the quality of education in Cranbury with their solution being raising taxes.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />We would actually be able to reduce our taxes and cover the full budget of our local schools without cuts and without a dime of state aid if Linda, Wayne and their party machine stopped taking so much of our local taxes for the supposed state eductaion fund then redistributing it to other districts. It's not these cuts in aid that are hurting Cranbury, its all the money the state is taking from us to pay for others.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 4:25 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Don't forget that when our board of education and teachers came to a comprise this year that Linda Greenstein came to the meeting where it was announced and said she wanted to raise taxes. Does that make sense? Our board of education and teachers work things out and she disregards what they did and says we need to tax you more? She is completely out of sync with the voters here in Cranbury and she is part of the problem and she needs to go.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Linda Greenstein came to the Board of Education meeting with her partner Wayne D'Angelo. They got up together to speak. In addition to Linda wanting to raise taxes, D'Angelo said that these budget changes were "destroying the quality of education in Cranbury". Whether you agree or disagree with the state funding, the board of ed, staff and teachers worked hard to come up with a reasonable plan for the school. It was irresponsible for Linda and Wayne to criticize the quality of education in Cranbury with their solution being raising taxes.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 2:42 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Sorry, let me clarify. I like Linda as a person, she's friendly and nice. However, I don't want her representing me and I don't think she does a good job representing voter interests.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 11:49 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Don't forget that when our board of education and teachers came to a comprise this year that Linda Greenstein came to the meeting where it was announced and said she wanted to raise taxes. Does that make sense? Our board of education and teachers work things out and she disregards what they did and says we need to tax you more? She is completely out of sync with the voters here in Cranbury and she is part of the problem and she needs to go.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 11:23 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Personally, I like Linda. Politically, it's more of the same pandering that caused her not to take a stand on COAH for Cranbury. She is vested in the party politics and not in the value of running.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Why do you like her? I have seen her at many local events, and while I give her credit for showing up and speaking all she has every done is say how sympathetic she is to us on any given issue (school consolidation bills, COAH, etc.) then proceeded to voet contrary to that sympathy with her party line. That strikes me as cynical and more about her own self-interest than that of her constituents. I'm a Democrat, but I'll never vote for her again (I made that mistake twice before I figured out her priorities).</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 10:58 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Personally, I like Linda. Politically, it's more of the same pandering that caused her not to take a stand on COAH for Cranbury. She is vested in the party politics and not in the value of running.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, May 4 2010, 10:48 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Greenstein launches campaign with broadside at Christie <br />By Max Pizarro | May 3rd, 2010 - 3:42pm <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.politickernj.com/max/38808/greenstein-launches-campaign-broadside-christie" target="_blank">http://www.politickernj.com/max/38808/greenstein-launches-campaign-broadside-christie</a> <br /> <br />PLAINSBORO - In what many political observers anticipate will be a dipstick special election on the tenure of Gov. Chris Christie, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro) kicked off her 14th District campaign against state Sen. Tom Goodwin (R-Hamilton) this afternoon in a suburban Italian restaurant packed with Democratic Party power players. <br /> <br />"In just the first 100 days or so of the Christie administration, we've seen the direction in which the Republican Party, including Tom Goodwin, want to take us," said Greenstein, a public interest attorney born and raised in the Brooklyn projects. <br /> <br />WIth NJEA President Barbara Keshishian in the standing-room-only audience, several bodies removed from AFL-CIO Prez. Charles Wowkanech, Greenstein said, "Gov. Christie would like to keep Tm Goodwin in the senate as one more vote for his disastrous school funding cuts that would ultimately drive up property taxes." <br /> <br /> <br />In this classically split, blue collar district that fuses equal portions of Middlesex and Mercer counties, Democrats are heartened at the prospect of eliminating Goodwin, who stepped up to take the senate seat after Christie appointed Bill Baroni deputy executive director of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority. <br /> <br />"She already defeated the candidate she's running against," state Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) told PolitickerNJ.com in a telephone interview, referring to Greenstein's 2007 victory over Goodwin. <br /> <br />"She is one of the hardest-working candidates I've ever been around, and I expect her to be successful and continue to work hard for working families. It will be great for us to pick up this seat. It has been tough with first (Republican) Pete Inverso in that seat and then Bill Baroni, both of whom were extremely popular. But Linda Greensten is just as popular." <br /> <br />Joining the assemblywoman at the head of the room were U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-Hopewell Twp.), Assembly Speaker Shelia Oliver (D-East Orange), Assembly Majority Leader Joe Cryan (D-Union Twp.), and assorted Mercer and Middlesex mayors and party leaders. <br /> <br />"Linda has a been a big supporter of public education and public schools," Keshishian told PolitickerNJ.com, when asked if the 14th District Senate race is simply an extrention of the Christie versus NJEA embroglio. <br /> <br />"We need the governor to understand that he cannot attempt to destory public education in New Jersey, which is obviously his intent," said the NJEA Prez. "He's cut $1.5 billion between this year and next year in public school funding. Massive layoffs. Massive program cuts. He's taking what is possibly the best public education system in the country and he's trying to destroy it. We're not going to let that happen." <br /> <br />Although they hold a 2-1 advantage (46,527 Democrats to 23,266 Republicans) among registered voters, Democrats here acknowledge that the sprawling 14th is tricky, where whole sections are checkerboard voting districts, divided between public sector employees and angry taxpayers trying to keep afloat in the private sector - and a no man's land up the middle numbering 60,654 - where both groups reside. <br /> <br />Tryng to claim the angry taxpayers as their voters, Goodwin Campaign Manager Matt Mowers today expanded on his candidate's early declarations that Greenstein is a Trenton insider. <br /> <br />"Linda Greenstein has been part of the problem for nearly two decades, voting 83 times for higher taxes and fees and more spending year after year, causing unemployment to skyrocket," Mowers said. "Linda Greenstein epitomizes the status quo in Trenton. Linda helped create New Jersey’s problems, and now she wants a promotion. Taxpayers will say no. <br /> <br />“We deserve effective leadership to change politics-as-usual and make our state more affordable. Tom Goodwin is the small businessman and public servant who will do just that.” <br /> <br />But Greenstein, a proven winner in the 14th District who works fulltime at her job and tallied the highest vote totals in the last two elections among Assembly candidates, laid claim at her kickoff today as middle class champ. <br /> <br />"I'm proud of my record and dedication in serving this district," said the chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, standing with her running mate, labor leader Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Hamitlon) and other allies. <br /> <br />"Whether it's seeking out prescription drug programs for seniors, defending men and women in the labor movement or invigorating the economy to get people back to work, I look forward to talking about the issues - even daunting issues facing New Jersey, most notably our budget shortfall. <br /> <br />"We must meet our obliglations for a balanced budget that protects the most vital programs," added the senate candidate, who decried the governor's decision not to reinstitute a millionaire's tax while cutting tax relief for seniors, and again identified Goodwin as a Christie soldier and "one more vote to push, shove and bully the middle class."</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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