March 6, 2008 at 10:33 A.M. new "errors" were inserted in this essay posted moments ago. I will now correct them. I will continue to do my best to correct "errors" inserted in these writings, on a daily basis, by persons responsible for enforcing First Amendment protections.
Ken Belson, "Delay, Turmoil and High Costs Plague Meadowlands Project," in The New York Times, March 5, 2008, at p. B1.
" ... Nearly a decade later, the $1 BILLION project, hard by the New Jersey Turnpike, is what the state's inspector general calls a 'study in what can go wrong.' There are no homes or hotels, Four Landfills, none completely tamed, still sit where sand traps and water hazards were supposed to perplex golfers."
"That project is just across Route 3, the Main Street of the Meadowlands, from Xanadu, an ungainly 2.3 million square foot complex rising next to Giants Stadium that almost drove one developer into bankruptcy, fell more than a year behind schedule and has filled less than half its retail and entertainment space."
"Together the two projects -- backed in part by nearly $1 BILLION in low-interest loans, tax breaks and infrastructure investments by public agencies -- are reminders of the enormous hurdles to be faced when trying to build in the Meadowlands, a much sought-after location because of its proximity to major highways and millions of affluent consumers."
That's your BILLION smackers being pissed away. Pay attention now: "The problem-plagued projects" -- Senator Bob is said to have his finger in the Xanadu pie by way of surrogate, Kay LiCausi -- "also provide a window into the New Jersey pay-to-play culture populated by well-connected lobbyists, double-dealing politicians ["on the one hand, but on the other hand"] and bare knuckled deal-makers who are called on to navigate the maze of regulatory agencies that often frustrate developers, particularly those from outside New Jersey." (emphasis added)
Spacing has been affected by my old friends from Hudson County, either moron Tolentino or one of her ex-law clerks. Perhaps one of the other assholes in the Garden State now facing indictment. As they whisper in Jersey City, you gotta get some local talent and then you got to leave some milk and cookies for the boys. Hire local muscle and some bribe-delivering shysters. Bosses gotta wet their beaks. The Jersey City mob will have to deal with me forever. Ain't that reassuring? I think so.
"... 'It's a very complex place geologically, politically and structurally,' said Thomas H. Bruinooge, a lawyer and developer in Rutherford who in the 1960s helped establish the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, a planning agency that has tried to recast a region once known for its pig farms [still is, different pigs] and garbage dumps. [different garbage] 'And this is a third-world country when it comes to ethics.' ..." (emphasis added -- and how!)
When the newspaper of record -- which has rarely met a Democrat it didn't like -- gets to this level during a presidential election season ... you know that something stinks in New Jersey. Most people in New Jersey, most lawyers -- most people in the world! -- equate New Jersey with mafia-controlled government, bribery of police, sold-out and corrupt tribunals, everything thought of as the opposite of ethics. Trenton knows this and has adopted a "let's pretend everything is fine" attitude or "kill the messenger." I don't think this strategy will work.
New Jersey is a political catastrophe and betrayal of all sound jurisprudential notions. New Jersey's legal system -- with all exceptions granted -- sickens and disgraces the people of the United States of America. It should. The state's Supreme Court is a revolting example of rewarding political ass-kissers and whores with powerful judicial appointments. (See "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Crimes Against Humanity.")
"Part of the inspector general's focus was EnCap's powerful law firm, DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick, Cole & Wisler, whose partners have counseled New Jersey governors for years, and which also represents the developers of Xanadu. In the past, the firm helped wear down mayors' and councils' resistance to new homes in North Arlington, Lyndhurst and other towns in the Meadowlands."
"The towns were told by the developers -- and misled [you mean, lied to by N.J. lawyers and developers as well as politicians?] -- that mostly private money would be used to remediate the unsightly landfills, which could later be the sites of new homes. However, although EnCap contributed an equity stake of $35 million, the Department of Environmental Protection and other state agencies ended up providing about $300 MILLION in low-interest financing. EnCap may yet receive $100 MILLION more in reimbursements to finish the project."
"... 'This deal is dirtier than the stuff in the landfill,' said Jeff Titel, the chapter director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. 'This thing is the Baghdad of redevelopment.' ..."
Where did all that money go?
What New Jersey's legion of crooked politicians have placed in that radioactive landfill is the U.S. Constitution. We cannot allow that process of trashing your Constitutional rights to continue. Give the feds a call if you can help to put these crooks in prison.
