I once lived there. A lot of political cronyism even then. Fled New Jersey close to 20 years ago because too many people were moving in from the city. Now my nearest neighbor speaks "moooo" (but the sales tax is 1.65% higher)... How far are you from the recently flooded onion fields?
I am actually 37 mi. from Vernon, (I checked)—
thought I was closer-—driving to certain customers
I often see turnoffs for Vernon. An interesting development
there. At least there was a sizable majority population still able to act on its own behalf. The same is not true for the worst offenders, towns small and large, so steeped
in corruption and bleeding the system dry by “officials”, that there’s no chance for a sensible ‘uprising’ like this.
What was that small California town which should serve as an
example of “what’s gone wrong”??Ashamed to say I’ve forgotten it.) Don’t know anything about those onion fields.
Just remembered the Cal. town : It was BELL, California,
“the most corrupt town in America”.
We had a mini-scandal up here in the Clarkstown NY area
(I live in Bergen Cty NJ, but my political friends are in
Rockland)—It was discovered that the THREE “top” police officials in Clarkstown were ALL raking in over $300,000/yearly. That’s nearly double what Ray Kelly of NYC
makes. My friends from “Disgusted Taxpayers” started making an issue of this at the beginning of the new Tea Party consciousness nearly 3 years ago, but I haven’t checked in recently to see how its progressing.Clarkstown used to send over contingents of local officials to ‘participate’ in our Rally for America Tea Party meetings at the Nanuet Mall Food Court, and try to explain to us why it wasn’t nearly as bad as we were making it. One ludicrous 60ish Woman official had to nerve to stand up and say “You’re just not taking into account that some of these officers have many years of Seniority”.