Nick Droboniku, candidate for Northfield City Council in the First Ward, was recently thrown off the city’s Planning and Zoning Board after missing 10 of the last 15 meetings.
State law requires removal of any member that misses more than four meetings in a row.
How can Mr. Droboniku be expected to show up for City Council meetings when he can’t make Planning Board meetings?
One thing that I find ironic is that my opponent in the upcoming election for City Council Mr. Jim O’Neill, found a picture that I posted on my blog over two years ago highly objectionable, so what did he do with it?
He took it to his pee wee game, where he is a coach (!) and he distributed it at the game. Besides the fact that this is an obvious cheap shot at discrediting me, he took what he considered to be an objectionable photo and distributed it at pee wee game with lots of young children around.
Say what you will about the picture, but would you distribute it at a pee wee game? I think that Mr. O’Neill should have used better judgment in this case. Is this the kind of person that you want representing you in City Hall? Should he be coaching your children?
Northfield is the city that I love and a city that I’m proud of. I want to be on City Council to keep Northfield great.
I want to thank all of the people that discovered my blog today. I just checked my logs and this blog enjoyed 22,500+ unique visitors today. Thank you for the publicity and I encourage you to come back and read JBLOG every day up until November 6. I’ve got a lot of interesting things to tell you in the next few days 
Welcome to my blog. I’d like to show you around a little.
A blog is defined as:
a publication of personal thoughts, experiences, and web links. It is updated frequently and is usually a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web or in the media.
This is my personal blog, it hasn’t really been read that much–until recently I’m also a professional blogger by day, blogging daily about Macs and mobile technology for 12 years. My professional blogs are O’Grady’s PowerPage and The Apple Core. I encourage you to read them.
I am also running for City Council in the Second Ward of Northfield, NJ and President of the Democratic Party of Northfield.
Recently many lies have been spoken about me and my blog in an attempt to discredit me, but it’s all for political gain. It’s all part of my opponents bag of dirty tricks that they’re famous for.
One thing’s for sure, voters are more intelligent than that. They know how to read and they don’t like dirty politicians and dirty politics. I encourage you to read my blogs for yourself and to make up your own mind. Don’t let a desperate politician who can’t run on his own merit tell you how to vote. Read, educate yourself, and decide for yourself.
The Democratic Party is all about Northfield. We’d want to get the speeding problem under control, keep our kids safe and control spending. We love open space and we want to keep Northfield green.
Thanks for reading and come back often, things are going to heat up around here the next week or so.
In an unfortunate turn of events, my opponent in the race for Northfield’s 2nd Ward City Council seat slandered me today in the Press of Atlantic City.
The reporter, Linda Cohen, was calling candidates to get information on our background, bio and platform for a piece in the Press of A.C. about the local Northfield candidates–pretty standard stuff.
Rather than talk about himself and his record, Mr. O’Neill use the opportunity to slander me and my family name saying to the reporter “he’s got a porn site.”
Ms. Cohen latched onto Mr. O’Neill’s allegation and published the story in the newspaper under the headline “Northfield candidate accused of running ‘porn site’”
Obviously nothing could be further from the truth. Please read through my alleged “porn site” (yes, this site) and come to your own conclusions.
This appears to be a pattern of negativity for Mr. O’Neill.
When he was contacted by The Current newspaper for the usual bio and background piece, Mr. O’Neill was the only candidate to bash someone else–in a piece that was supposed to be about him!
What’s worse is that he also used that article as an opportunity to lie about his record, boasting that he’s already “accomplished” making Northfield green.
Nobody likes a negative campaign Mr. O’Neill and you took the opportunity to slander my family name in the newspaper or record.
My opponent had this to say in the October 17, 2007 issue of The Current page 8:
“While Mr. O’Grady talks about making Northfield a green community, I have accomplished it.”
While he’s right that I would like to make Northfield greener, Mr. O’Neill claims to have already accomplished making Northfield a green community. How?
Did he make Northfield green by receiving state grant money to subsidize the solar panels on his home? For certain. But that only benefits him and does nothing for the community.
Mr. O’Neill: please tell us how you’ve accomplished making Northfield a green community.
Next week: How Boogeyman O’Neill is using fear and lies to scare voters.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It prohibits the federal legislature from making laws that establish religion (the “Establishment Clause”) or prohibit free exercise of religion (the “Free Exercise Clause”), laws that infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to assemble peaceably, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
You may want to read up on it folks