Running for Council in North Arlington

Hello Folks,

As you are probably aware. I'm running for a council spot in town. I'm running with Sal DiBlasi owner of Cobra Construction and co-founder of the North Arlington Property Right Coalition and Councilman Pete Massa. To all of you who have supported my family before. I ask you to support me in this run to put Eminent Domain and Encap to rest in North Arlington. Thanks Again to all of you.



NORTH ARLINGTON - Big promises and little detail best describes the political mailing sent to homeowners this week by the Pitman ticket as the race for mayor begins to heat-up in North Arlington.Paid for by the committee to re-elect The Pitman Team, the incumbents talk about the perceived benefits of the Encap agreement without ever mentioning the words Encap or Arlington Valley."The drop in the Mayor's poll numbers are directly reflected in his support of EnCap, eminent domain and random development. It's no accident that he would not refer to the very plan North Arlington homeowners overwhelmingly oppose.

North Arlington voters have lost trust in this incumbent who refuses to acknowledge the sentiment against EnCap and the usage of eminent domain to make this project a reality," said Massa Campaign Manager Steve Tanelli, a borough councilman."North Arlington is alarmed - and rightly so - because Mayor Pitman continues to operate in a vacuum where dissent and discussion have no place in the construction of legitimate public policy," noted Tanelli."

Mayor Pitman said the devil was in the details when it came to EnCap and Arlington Valley. When is he going to share those details with the voters?" questioned Councilman Peter Massa, who is challenging Pitman in the June 6th Democratic Primary."How can you make irresponsible statements about cutting taxes 35% when spending is set to increase because of this very proposal? Why not claim taxes are going to decrease 50% or 100%? These remarks lack any credibility and that's why I want to debate Mayor Pitman so the voters can see for themselves how reckless this course of action has become," said Massa."Mayor Pitman is disguising his Low Income Housing plan as something for seniors and middle income residents. He then insults the rest of the community by inferring that some homes in the borough are neither clean or safe. In the eyes of the Pitman Team, all of North Arlington must be some blighted, deteriorated slum. When you have a sitting councilman refer to the community as "an armpit," I think we need a change of leadership," observed Massa.

Massa and his running-mates Al Granell & Sal DiBlasi dismissed Pitman's pie-in-the-sky rhetoric."The Mayor will say anything to get re-elected. This is bait and switch salesmanship at it's worse.

What is North Arlington's financial obligation when it comes to schools, roads and public safety?

Why won't the Mayor admit that eminent domain will be used to seize private property?

Why won't the incumbent explain to voters that 40% of all property tax revenues will go to EnCap and not North Arlington?

Why didn't Mayor Pitman negotiate school impact fees paid directly to the Board of Education? Cost is word Mayor Pitman is avoiding at all costs," observed council candidate Al Granell."We have a Mayor who simply doesn't trust the people he claims to represent. He refuses to place a referendum on the ballot. He refuses any public input as it applies to his back-room MOA. His Advisory Committee is such a sham and a phony that one of the borough's finest citizens resigned in disgust. This is a Mayor who had a sitting councilman removed from a public press conference.

North Arlington has one opportunity to change the course of the community and that day is June 6th," said candidate Sal DiBlasi.

The Massa campaign was not surprised by the level of "hyped rhetoric" coming from the Pitman camp."They have no choice but to put the best face on a very flawed project. This election is a referendum on his handling and negotiation of EnCap. Droves of former supporters like myself have deserted his campaign. His closest supporters have left in disgust. EnCap is the single worst public policy initiative in the history of North Arlington and the only people who don't see it that way are the three incumbents," observed Massa.