Jason O’Grady’s Blog

With my opponent’s recent rash of lies and slander about me and my family I’m left to wonder who’s running the ship at the Northfield Republican Club?

The Northfield Republican Club has endorsed Mr. O’Neill as their Second Ward candidate and have taken out numerous ads with the headline “Leadership for Today. Vision for Tomorrow.”

Is Mr. O’Neill’s idea of “Leadership” lying to The Current about his record, lying to The Press of Atlantic City about me, or lying to his neighbors? How many other times has he lied?

The other Northfield Republicans have been suspiciously quiet about their candidate lately…

What about the rest of the Republicans on City Council? Do they endorse Jim (Mr. Negative) O’Neill for City Council?

Guilty by association?

Next up: I’ll take a hard look at the Northfield Building Department.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the campaign trail these past few months and I was very troubled by a few things that I heard on the street last night.

• One resident in Sutton Woods told me that Mr. O’Neill promised to “reduce their property taxes by 15 percent.”
• Others told me that he was telling everyone in Dunkin Donuts at New and Tilton Road that I run “a porn site.”

When is Mr. O’Neill going to realize that no one wants to hear his lies? His negative campaign is the worst that Northfield has ever seen and even his own party is distancing themselves from him.

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I want to comment on Mr. O’Neill’s comments this morning on the Hurley show.

• Timeline of posts. I posted the Mission Accomplished piece because O’Neill lied to The Current saying that he’s “accomplished” making Northfield green (his words) and because he was the only candidate to bash another candidate in an article that was supposed to be about his platform and him. Poor form Mr. O’Neill, no one appreciates a negative politician.
• “I don’t want to be on his site.” Mr. O’Neill complained that he doesn’t want to be on my blog. As a public figure Mr. O’Neill doesn’t have a choice. Second, the photo I posted is his publicity photo that he submitted to the newspaper. My opponent may want to read up on my post about the First Amendment.
• Objectionable content. When it was brought to my attention that I had a picture on my blog from two years ago that someone found objectionable, I removed it immediately. What did Mr. O’Neill do? He printed out dozens of copies and brought it to a Pee Wee sports team that he coaches and handed it out. That’s right, he handed out what he considered objectionable content at a Pee Wee game.
• Positive campaign? Mr. O’Neill accuses me of running a “porn site.” (this site). As you can tell, nothing could be further from the truth. This isn’t the first time Mr. O’Neill has lied to the newspaper either.

The Republican Party of Northfield has endorsed Jim O’Neill for City Council. This is the candidate that they think will best represent them. Do you? It’s a real shame that the Northfield Republicans (many of which I am very fond of) have put their eggs in Mr. O’Neill’s basket.

Mr. O’Neill has lied to the newspaper not once but twice and is running the most negative campaign in Northfield’s history. I think that Mr. O’Neill should withdraw from the campaign before he drags the rest of the Republican ticket with him.

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.