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Okay, this dude is starting to scare me. Puerile insults, okay. Crude photoshops, okay. Fabrications, not-okay, but what can I do? Sticks and stones.
If anyone wants to flog me for my political opinions, fine. But something dark has crept into his obsessive postings, something creepy that feels vaguely threatening.
"Time to take out the trash"
"She needs to be excised'
"She's a cancer"
"Bye bye Pincus"
Bye, bye? Where am I going? What's he going to do to me? What is a person who makes fun of deceased pets capable of?
I have no idea.
Notice to NHSA Commissioner Kurt Gardiner: get your act together. Write your slurs, make shit up, crank out puerile photoshops, but do not ever ever threaten me again. You will not "take me out" nor "excise me" from Hoboken political life.
I am putting NHSA Commissioner Kurt Gardiner on notice. You are a public official and collect a taxpayer salary. You represent Hoboken on the NHSA. You represent me. I pay your salary.
NHSA: Control your animal.
ReplyDeleteCouncilwoman Gianttino: Control your animal. This person was large part of the public face of your mayoral campaign and as such reflects on you. I don't expect you to do so publicly but certainly privately this is very much needed.
DeleteI used to read Hoboken Journal and I voted for Kurt Gardiner when he ran for Freeholder. I called him a friend. He's not the same guy. Insufferable, nasty. No one takes him seriously anymore. You really shouldn't give him attention.
ReplyDeleteListen, I have a family to protect. Kurt Gardiner's escalating hateful rhetoric about me, such as being a cancer that needs to be excised is either a threat (to my ears) or he is trying to incite others to "excise the cancer" It's sick. Insults, photoshops, have at it. Threats to silence me? Not okay. He's an NHSA Commissioner.
DeleteAnd for G-d's sake, how does an NHSA Commissioner get sway with this conduct? If he thinks my dead cat is funny, what else does he find funny?
We always seem to have the worst representation on the NHSA board. When are their terms up?
ReplyDeleteWhat an obsessed blowhard with no life and particularly no love life and delusions of grandeur.
ReplyDeleteEffin creep.
I don't think Kurt is actually dangerous.- he's always been a blowhard even when he was a political supporter of Dawn and Ravi and Co. But his posts make him appear both nasty and unhinged and sometimes unhinged people do crazy things and we look back with hindsight and say "we should have known and done something."
ReplyDeleteGA - have you considered getting a restraining order? Given the threatening nature of his bloviating I think you would have no trouble getting one.
Yes.
Deleteforget the restraining order..... file an ethics complaint.
ReplyDeleteWho should the ethics complaint be filed with? NHSA is a boys club. They’ll probably just let it pass. Whoever oversees them is the right place for it. DCA?
Deletehttps://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dlgs/programs/ethics.html
Deleterestraining order + ethics complaint.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Sorry. Kurt Gardiner is obsessed... I saw! he wrote like 10 comments in a row about you, one creepier than the next. Not normal! You need to take this seriously. My ex-roomate was cyberstalked and attacked by some psycho who started out just like him. It got worse and worse. Making fun of your dead pet is what sociopaths do. File a police report.
ReplyDelete40A:9-22.9 Complaints to Local Finance Board; notice; hearing; decision
ReplyDeleteThe Local Finance Board, upon receipt of a signed written complaint by any person alleging that the conduct of any local government officer or employee, not regulated by a county or municipal code of ethics, is in conflict with the provisions of this act, shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint within 30 days of receipt and initiate an investigation concerning the facts and circumstances set forth in the complaint. The board shall make a determination as to whether the complaint is within its jurisdiction or frivolous or without any reasonable factual basis. If the board shall conclude that the complaint is outside its jurisdiction, frivolous or without factual basis, it shall reduce that conclusion to writing and shall transmit a copy thereof to the complainant and to the local government officer or employee against whom the complaint was filed. Otherwise the board shall notify the local government officer or employee against whom the complaint was filed of the nature of the complaint and the facts and circumstances set forth therein. The officer or employee shall have the opportunity to present the board with any statement or information concerning the complaint which he wishes. Thereafter, if the board determines that a reasonable doubt exists as to whether the local government officer or employee is in conflict with the provisions of this act, the board shall conduct a hearing in the manner prescribed by section 12 of this act, concerning the possible violation and any other facts and circumstances which may have come to the attention of the board with respect to the conduct of the local government officer or employee. The board shall render a decision as to whether the conduct of the officer or employee is in conflict with the provisions of this act. This decisshall be made by no less than two-thirds of all members of the board. If the board determines that the officer or employee is in conflict with the provisions of this act, it may impose any penalties which it believes appropriate within the limitations of this act. A final decision of the board may be appealed in the same manner as any other final State agency decision.
40A:9-22.18 Complaints to county ethics board; notice; hearing; decision
ReplyDeleteThe county ethics board, upon receipt of a signed written complaint by any person alleging that the conduct of any local government officer or employee serving the county is in conflict with the county code of ethics or any financial disclosure requirements shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint within 30 days of receipt and initiate an investigation concerning the facts and circumstances set forth in the complaint. The ethics board shall make a determination as to whether the complaint is within its jurisdiction or frivolous or without any reasonable factual basis. If the ethics board shall conclude that the complaint is outside its jurisdiction, frivolous or without factual basis, it shall reduce that conclusion to writing and shall transmit a copy thereof to the complainant and to the local government officer or employee against whom the complaint was filed. Otherwise the ethics board shall notify the local government officer or employee against whom the complaint was filed of the nature of the complaint and the facts and circumstances set forth therein. The officer or employee shall have the opportunity to present the ethics board with any statement or information concerning the complaint which he wishes. Thereafter, if the ethics board determines that a reasonable doubt exists as to whether the local government officer or employee is in conflict with the county code of ethics or any financial disclosure requirements, it shall conduct a hearing in the manner prescribed by section 12 of this act, concerning the possible violation and any other facts and circumstances which may have come to its attention with respect to the conduct of the local government officer or employee. The ethics board shall render a decision as to whether the conduct of the officer or employee is in conflict with the county code of ethics or any financial disclosure requirements. This decision shall be made by no less than two-thirds of all members of the ethics board. If the ethics board determines that the officer or employee is in conflict with the code or any financial disclosure requirements, it may impose any penalties which it believes appropriate within the limitations of this act. A final decision of the ethics board may be appealed to the Local Finance Board within 30 days of the decision. L. 1991, c. 29, §18.