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negative, distasteful

The Press assigned a nice young lady to cover the Ms. New Jersey Senior America Pageant at Harrah's Atlantic City. She was unable to attend the pageant on June 4, but was there with a photographer at rehearsal the day before. All seemed to have gone well.

But what appeared in The Press the next day was very disappointing. Not having seen the pageant, but only the rehearsal, the reporter noted that "it's no Miss America." A great observation, since our contestants are all older than 60. Statements such as, "one woman walked with a limp, several walked with a stoop," and "nearly all with greying hair and lines" were very distasteful. Most of the contestants were quite sharp. Would a reporter covering the Special Olympics write about contestants' poor physical or mental conditions? I don't think so.

Unfortunately, for the ladies' hard work, the reporter accented the negative and never saw the positive. What a pity.

JOHANNE SANTORI

Director

Ms. New Jersey

Senior America Pageant

Margate

Northfield council

disregarded public

Being a resident of Northfield for more than 40 years, I've had the privilege of being a volunteer firefighter for a short while and sometimes worked side-by-side with the men and women of the rescue squad. After working with those guys as I did, I gained a new respect for all of the volunteers, fire or rescue.

It just makes me wonder: Why would someone take a well-oiled machine like the rescue squad and throw a stick in the gears? The five members of City Council decided to replace the squad in spite of hundreds of citizens of our town voicing their opposition to this move.

Election Day will be upon us soon. I only hope that this move does not put our safety in jeopardy. My hat is off to the members of the outgoing squad. I believe that they have set the benchmark for excellence.

RICK JUCKETT

Northfield

Does Corzine think

voters are fools?

Gov. Jon S. Corzine's poll numbers were at an all-time low when he tried to push through a budget that eliminated property-tax rebates even as he raised fees and taxes, making New Jersey the most expensive state to live in. Then, the morning of the budget vote, he suddenly "finds" $400 million to restore some of the rebates, and instantly starts running campaign ads touting his largesse? He must think we're fools.

The "Wall Street wizard" promised four years ago to change the way Trenton budgeted, but he just couldn't say no to the state employees' union and the Democrats in the Legislature, so the budget ballooned year after year. Now he's forced to use billions in one-shot gimmicks, but all that just pushes the bill off into the future.

Eight years of Corzine and former Gov. James E. McGreevey is enough.

RICK ANDRIEN

Mays Landing

5 comments:

• MrWhite (94) posts 1:04 pm

  njdlmkr, did you know that we used to have intellegence tests for people to qualify to vote? Unfortunatly, too many states used those tests in a racist manner.There were two diferent tests for blacks and whites, the one for whites being too simple,and the one for blacks being excesssivly hard. This does not mean that I disagree with you. There should be strict standards on who can vote, and a test on knowledge of current affairs should be required. Furthermore, bums on public assistance should not be allowed to vote. They have too much of a tendency to vote for politicians who will loot others to give to them. Democracy is a a suicide pact for liberty. Only a fool thinks that by entrusting the vote to everyone will liberty prevail.

• todfiat (0) posts 10:48 am

  ya can't blame it all on the lightweight Barry O - he's just doing what Puppetmaster Pelosi makes him do. Tho once in a while she authorizes The Suit to go out of town with his wife, and no teleprompter. (While she jets back & forth to California on her USAF jet with 20 of her closest Democrat friends). It's pathetic to watch, Barry making flowery speeches as we edge into nuclear war, while all the winks and nods show the reality is that he's President Pelosi's gelding. The same Pelosi who was shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that she had ALREADY known about waterboarding, and was enthusiastic about it. Oh. She forgot. Third in line for the presidency, and utterly clueless, the botox queen of San Francisco. What a dooshbag.

• Bob1234 (5) posts 9:57 am

  Rick, Enough about the NRS. They lost the bid its over. But to respond to your comments. If you consider the NRS a standard of excellence, you have extremely low standards and dont care about your health. the problem is is that most people have no idea about the inner workings of EMS and think that just because they have a rescue squad they must be excelent just because they show up (sometimes). I am sure that NRS at some point in its past was a relatively qualified squad, however it no longer is for many reasons. I dont think northfield residents realize that resourses their town now has at thier disposal. The town will now have an EMS provider that has accountability for thier response and service, something the NRS never had. As i believe Perri put it 'we dont need anyone spying on us'. thats right, so no one can see your apalling response times. any way Northfield get over the "loss of the NRS" and be happy that you have a gaurenteed response in an emergency.

• Notamused (97) posts 9:28 am

  Then we wouldn’t have had eight miserable years of Dubya and sixty-some million people wouldn’t have had to bother voting. That would have been nice.

• njdlmkr (309) posts 7:41 am

  Rick - voters ARE fools! They put Corswine in Trenton. They put Barry O in the White House. Anyone who follows what's going on daily would never vote for these two. However, once a year at election time the uninformed are asked to choose someone who will affect their lives for the next four years. You should have to pass some sort of common sense test to be allowed to vote.

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