Senator Skoufis's Dumb Plan For Woodbury Is Defeated (For Now)

A win is a win, and Woodbury residents scored two last night.

Howdy,

This is a short post today. I am under the weather and exhausted from last night’s marathon Woodbury Village Board meeting. Regular posts will resume on Monday, September 16th with a recap from this meeting.

I am happy to report that there was a huge turnout, as you can see pictured above at the Woodbury Village Board meeting. (So much so that I wound up parking by the library and had to hike over to the firehouse.)

And unlike the Woodbury Town Board, the public was listened to and heard.

I am equally happy to report that the Village passed a resolution rejecting State Senator James Skoufis’s plan to create a unified Woodbury municipal board.

The Senator’s plan required both the Town Board and the Village to pass a resolution accepting his proposal for legislation that would allow a Unified town board to be created. Now that the Village Board has told him to go screw, that legislation is dead.

For now.

If Mr. Tyler Etzel Jr. and John U. Keleman are successful on getting on the Village Board, you can expect this situation to change. Etzel Jr. has already voiced support for the legislation, and he would have a majority with Fabbro and Freiband, or with Keleman, Freiband, and himself — should Trustee Fabbro remember he works for The People and not Senator Skoufis.

The jury is still out on that one.

Builing Moratorium Continued

At the same meeting, the Village Board also continued the Building Moratorium and suggested that a Sewage Moratorium is forthcoming.

That’s all excellent news. Even if it means the threat of lawsuits from local developers, whom I am sure, are going to empty the bag of old tricks that you’ve seen and heard since the 1970s:

“The moratorium is antisemitc.” It’s not. There is literally no sewer capacity and limited water available. Please explain how scientific fact is discriminatory against my people.

“The moratorium is anti-Chassidic.” It’s not. The Talmud commands us Jews to put the preservation of all life, Jew and Gentile alike, above everything else. Building homes when there is no water and sewer is morally and ethically WRONG, and a violation of what the Halakha (Jewish Law) commands us.

If you’re going to spend all day reading the Talmud — which is totally fine with me — it doesn’t hurt to actually remember what it says.

“There’s plenty of water. Just check out these magic wells that nobody knew about until this lawsuit was announced.” This is the claim being made by Trustee Freiband, Wayne Corts, Tyler Etzel Jr., and John U. Keleman. To which I’ll remind you that, at the time of this writing, I have not received a completed FOIL request from Trustee Freiband about Wayne Cort’s “magic wells.”

Honestly, there should be a penalty for filing these frivolous lawsuits, and I hope anyone who brings them are made to pay all of the related legal expenses for doing so by the Village of Woodbury when they prevail in court because they will.

Facts are facts.

As mentioned, Orange County Sewer District 1 is out of capacity (in Woodbury) and over capacity (in Monroe.) It will be at least four years until that situation gets settled, and that’s assuming the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection doesn’t have something to say about all that sewage getting dumped into the Ramapo.

I’ll have more for you soon, but until then, take the win when you can get it. Because as I told the public last night, you only have one shot at this.

If you lose in Woodbury this Fall — with Etzel and Keleman — you will not get your town and village back. Just look at South Blooming Grove and all the “help” we’ve seen provided by the FBI, IRS, OC District Attorney, OC Department of Health, and State Senator Skoufis.

P.S. Yes. Next week, we’re going to talk about Congressman Pat Ryan coming to South Blooming Grove and … *checks notes* meeting with Joel Stern, Isaac Ekstein, and other members of the local hate group and not a single person with the tainted water caused by these men.

Actions always speak louder than words, and as I keep saying about Congressman Ryan and Senator Skoufis, when people tell you who they are? Believe them.