Well, we have completed five debates, and that's all she wrote. Now, it seems all that is left is the nasty literature.
Two accountants are running for election for the Seda Republicans, and neither one apparently can do math. I am accused of raising the Merrick school budget by 300% on their flyer, or 330% in their debates. Take your pick. It was either over 23 years (my length of service) or 27 years from their newspaper quote in 1974. I didn't even get elected to the board until 1976. But let's take their numbers...330% over 23 years. Ms. Emily "I'm a CPA" Ingram was quick to say that if you divide 23 into 330%, it comes out to approximately 14.3% per year. Mr. Garofano, the other accountant, and Mr. Porter, not an accountant, were quick to ask if we would like someone who raised budgets 15% per year (a little poetic license) to be on our Council. Well, either they don't know math, or they are listening to the wrong advice and delivering it as fact. And either way, I wouldn't trust them to work on my budget. What if someone told them to say the world was flat? Would they? If indeed a budget were to go up 14.3% a year over 23 years, it would come out to over 3000%. In actuality, when you annualize 330% over 23 years, it comes to a little over 5% a year. It is less if you use 27 years as your base. Any 7th grader can tell you about compounding. The bottom line is that while I was on two school boards (one elementary board and concurrently on a central high school board), during years of double digit inflation, I was involved in preparing 27 budgets. Every single one was passed by the voters. How many 32% increase budgets would the voters of Jackson pass if given a chance? I would venture to say NONE. Mr. Seda and team had better learn how to do basic math.
Mr. Garofano said that this wasn't a personal attack. Are you kidding me, Charlie? You are impugning (not a math word, an English teacher word) my fiscally responsible record with manufactured numbers that anyone with half a brain can refute. I take it very personally, my friend. I was a very well known figure in Merrick because of all the good I did, and I refuse to let you knock it down with a few words which someone else encouraged you to say. You have attacked the wrong girl, in the wrong place, with the wrong issue.
I guess I haven't yet seen the worst of it. But again, if all they've got on me is a misrepresented series of facts, then I am WAY ahead of the game.
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You go girl! You, Mike and Mike have a plan - to return Jackson back to the residents. Your opponents plan? To smear you and your running mates because they have nothing to bring to the table. Even if I didn't know you all, I'd vote for you because the smear campaign that your opponents are running is a big turn off to me (and most people that I have talked to). So, let them smear you all they want; they're helping you to get elected! That's how smart they think they are. Duh!
Loved the ad Ken Seda took out - not too many inaccuracies in it - yeah, right! I'm thinking he did that to turn attention away from his lovely, crooked brother and the inept choice on the republican ticket. Well guess what? It backfired!!! What a bunch of idiots. And they want to run this town? First of all, it cracks me up that Todd Porter (Hi Todd, having a fun read?) doesn't even own his own house, not even a condo, or pay property taxes and he's got the nerve to run for Council! Try finding out what it's like to pay the high taxes first, compounded with the 32% increase for 3 years in a row and then come back and give it a shot. Garafano - he's their silent piece of slime. Yes, he looks like he could be a nice guy on the surface but he's far from that from what I've heard. And Emily "The I Run a Business from Jack Martin Blvd. in Brick and not from my Home) Ingram. Liar, liar, pants on fire. When you do a search on her name, the yellow pages pop up with her home address and Emily Ingram, CPA. Maybe when Seda pays her back she can pay Verizon to take that off the internet. Oh wait, according to her, she didn't loan him any money. Only time will tell when the real truth comes out. Amazing how what you say always comes back to bite you in the butt, huh? And it's funny, when my name pops up it appears as Mr. & Mrs. It doesn't list what we do for a living! Oh I forgot, you have to be a liar to run under the republican ticket in Jackson. They're all full of it. Enough said.
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