Ringing the Dumb Bell

Alright, I know some of you think GA's been mean to 4th Ward City Councilman Timothy Occhipinti. 

And to those of you I say: get real.

Have you ever seen a bigger dummy on Hoboken's City Council?  My friends serving on the City Council have told me point-blank that Timmy's NOT a dummy, but I have to ask them: how do YOU know?  Do you listen when he opens his mouth?  Have you read his web site?

The beaut adorning his home page today is called "Connors School Snubbed- Again".

In it Timmy lobs the uber-simplistic 'Zimmer hates your children' grenade at 4th Ward residents, riddling Governor Christie with shrapnel from the blast.

Ding-a-ling...

Where to begin?  Let's start with the politics...

If YOUR campaign was under investigation by the NJ State Attorney General (Paula Dow), would YOU be insulting her boss (Governor Christie)?  If you were the governor and got word that this yutz was slamming you, what would stop you from making a phone call and moving those criminal complaints to the top of the pile? What a dunce.


Onto the facts.
 

read Patch article here

read nj.com article here

Do you see what I mean now?  Either Timmy's a liar or an idiot.

I choose 'idiot'.

Now... this is where GA starts to feel like she's clubbing a baby seal.

I contacted a couple of people I know who are 'regulars' at Board of Education meetings. And asked them if they've EVER seen this champion of the 4the Ward public school education at a single BoE meeting.  Here is one email response I got:

Tim never ever, ever has been at a BOE meeting.....

here's a good question- has Tim ever contacted the state or worked with mayor zimmer to try to secure the $ for the renos? He such a big cry baby after the fact (just like the pool last year- long after the opening date was announced he starts crying). He is such an idiot.

That was a typical response.

Now, I'll give YOU a chance  to find the Connors School Champion Timmy Occhipinti,  at this well-attended BoE meeting back in April 2010:

BoE meeting audince- left side of room

Did you find Timmy in the picture?

Neither did I.  But I did find Councilwoman Carol Marsh, Eric Kurta (before he was  a 1st Ward CC candidate) and Tom Greaney (before he was a 2nd Ward CC candidate)... hmmmm...

Let's check the other side of the room:

BoE audience-right side of room

Now, if we are to believe in The Passion of Occhipinti for the Connors School children, wouldn't he be attending School Board meetings BEFORE haranguing about their neglect became a campaign STUNT?  Then he might have been in the audience with actual members of the public like Greaney and Kurta who showed up BEFORE they decided to run for office.

Well, what do you call an elected official (Timmy) who has done nothing for Connors prior to running for office, then lobs grenades at another elected official (Zimmer) who has tried to help Connors in a multitude of ways: by pleading with the governor to return funding for critically-needed renovations, writing to him, meeting with him, cultivating  a relationship with him? 

No excuses, Timmy... this news about the mayor was ALL OVER the print and online media.

Would you call him a liar or an tragically-uniformed dimwit?  A low-wattage bulb?  An elevator that doesn't run to the penthouse?  A dull tool?  A Happy Meal missing it's toy?

Or...