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The Blogfinger cow wonders what is happening at the A. Park Press. “Moo who wrote this story?  Blogfinger already did that, done that. This is udderly repetitious.  It’s about as new as pasteurization”  Ann Paterson photo.

 

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor  @Blogfinger.net

After a month on the front page of the Coaster, just when it seemed that the Bridgegate nonsense was over, the Asbury Park Press shows up with a story on their front page that is about as stale as a fish sandwich in July.

Even Mayor Moor of A. Park is quoted in the APP as saying, “We’re all friends. I’m just disappointed in maybe the process, not the outcome necessarily”

So it seems we are left with the Mayor’s feelings being hurt… we all can survive that issue.

The APP reporter tries desperately to find a new hook for this story.  He tries to compare the contrasting cultures of the two towns, but that is a concept that is over 100 years old,—-hardly a new idea.

Moor is also quoted as saying that “despite the differences over the bridge he hoped the communities would continue  to closely partner  on issues of public concern.”

We hope that he will remind his town council of the same thing.  Many of us in the Grove have not forgotten how the AP Council voted not to support our bid for FEMA funds after Sandy.

Do any of you read the Asbury Park Press?  You may have noticed that they almost never send a reporter to Neptune Township Committee meetings.  They used to.  So while they routinely ignore our game changing issues, such as the North End Redevelopment, their reporter has evidently awakened from a coma to file this  story and to try to stoke a fire that has already been snuffed out.

This reporter and the Mayor of AP must have time on their hands.

 

CHAIM TANNENBAUM:  “Time on My Hands”

 

 

 

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Time for A. Park bigwigs to stop clowning around over Bridgegate.

 

New Jersey Avenue bridge seen from the Asbury side. Paul Goldfinger photograph. ©

 

From the Blogfinger Editorial and Op-Ed Staff:

For the forth time the Coaster has run the Bridgegate matter on their front page.  Mayor  Rizzo and her  Committee have done the right thing and supported the long-standing crime-prevention policy  of nocturnal gate closures across Wesley Lake.  They followed the recommendation of the Neptune P.D., and that should be that!

But no, the whiners in A. Park are jumping up and down over this ridiculous issue.  A.Park Mayor Moor and his mini-me Councilperson Chapwoman are determined to continue fussing over this, although they have seemingly abandoned the threat of a law suit.

Now the Mayor is trying to intimidate the Neptuners by saying that he will demand police reports regarding crimes near the bridges, as if such reports would somehow force a change in policy.  Nonsense!

The Asburians are full of ridiculous statements as recorded by the Qoastericans:

a.  They are shocked. Shocked! that Mayor Rizzo would be decisive without telling those silly A. Parker pols  in advance.

b.  Mayor Moor was so upset that he didn’t get a “heads up” about the decision that he said, “This shows a total lack of class and disingenuousness.”  Which seems to say a lack of disingenuousness.  Boy, is he mad, using such a word!

c. The A. Park Councilperson Chapwoman said that she was “stunned and disappointed.”  Wow, when these people have their feelings hurt, they do have a way with their Qoaster Quotes.

d. Two people were shot in A. Park last night.  It’s time for Moor and Chapwoman to get their priorities straight.

 

LEWIS LYMON AND THE TEEN CHORDS:  “Tra-la-la-la-la-la-!

 

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