Subject: Dibabbo Revisted: Gadfly, The DiBabbo case shows it pays to break the law in Mullica. Why should a homeowner voluntarily comply with our building laws? You're better off just taking a chance that if you get caught, you'll get off cheaper than if you do the right thing. Perhaps Mr. DiBabbo should seek a position with the Mullica Police, where breaking the law and violating the public's trust puts you on the fast track to a promotion. Can't believe that people are allowed to get away with this 1. bulls@!t.


Subject: Dibabbo/Sandman/Gabris: It is so interesting how the Forman/Schlues are brought into this discussion, and how you politically twist the hiring of Sandman to the towing contract. My opinion, off base on this one. The guy that Gabris shoved through zoning (no he didn't meet the requirements for another tow and impound yard in Mullica..Before being approved a judge made him give up a couple of the uses on the property)(p.s. There is a court order that declares that as soon as he complied with zoning he could obtain a towing license)that's what all the hub bub was about.Gabris said the yard was OK..and the judge didnt. And after being on Mullicas towers list a couple of months....he drops off.(YOU NEVER WROTE WHY HE WAS ASKED TO GIVE UP HIS EXPENSIVE TOWING CONTRACT AND LICENSE AFTER ALL THE EXPENSE OF GOING TO COURT!!!!)Politically speaking, if this was Forman/Schlue, you would have written a book on what was going on there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, the other new tower was a democrat, and politics being what it is, and this being YOUR website, people have to understand that what is written by you will always have that certain slant....with just a few items left out..enough to try to disparage people YOU dislike personally. I understand that fact..your readers I hope will keep that in the back of their minds. Thank you for the opportunity to express my views. A concerned citizen for the truth in Mullica.

RESPONSE: I would respectfully posit the notion that the ‘slant’ of GadFly has always been owned and all opinions are posted here and no one is cut off from their opinion or commentary as oft happens at Town meetings under the control of Mullica Republicans. GadFly has no problem noting that when control was in the hands of Mullica Democrats the practice of cutting people’s right to express an opposing opinion off before they were finished at town meetings was the practice too. Power corrupting all parties and at some level the roll here is to point that out.

As a purported ‘concerned citizen for the truth in Mullica’ you might garner more credibility if you acknowledged the fact that THE TRUTH is often somewhere in between the two posited political spins on the facts. The benefit of an open forum ... so often cut off at Town meetings where too much is decided in the back room ... affords the public the opportunity to access which 'spin' should receive more weight in the market of competing ideas. There is an honest attempt here to be factually correct and the interpretation of those facts is opinion slanted by where one is often in the political spectrum.

Your language is slanted as well and clearly you have some insights into the issues and perhaps an agenda too. I have not seen a Court Order, but accept that it exists as the one case did go to Court and as you note the party interested in becoming a town tower did acquiesce to abandoning a dwelling usage on the property. And again, after some time, he did abandon the desire to be on the Mullica Towing roster for reasons not fully clear to me. Having said that, there was an earlier application and approval to be on the towing roster from Quality Auto that Republicans rejected holding to the unsustained legal concept that being a junk yard or auto repair operation and seeking to join the towing roster in some way represented a secondary use and needed an additional approval process. This was perceived by many as an effort to protect Republican towers Schlue and glen THE AUTO INSURANCE FRAUD KING forman and yes, is my perception.

And there is a contextual history here of immoral and wrongful acts being protected and hidden that you conveniently leave out ...facts of documented police findings of overcharges by THE AUTO INSURANCE FRAUD KING forman and the recommendation to no longer allow him on the towing roster as a result of several such police investigation findings. We all selectively remember the facts and more often than not that is less malicious than you wish to make it. The glaring difference, or so it seems to me, is you repeatedly seem unable to own your repeated inaccuracies or omissions.

In the context of the perceived role here of ...however foolishly to address corruption and abuse of power wherever it exists, GadFly notes the recent signing of Complaint against Democrat Jon Corzine for his failure to wear a seat-belt. For too many people allegiance to political Party takes ownership over allegiance to ethics, integrity and honesty...and we are all the loser ... most especially the principles in the Party or persons we support.

And the other exception I wish to note to your posting, is your false assumption that I don’t like people with whom I disagree with here. The offense is taken at their actions and/or positions on an issue, not as you represent a personal dislike. I have no problem stating that I sincerely like you as a person, although at times we may disagree...and that disagreement may be verbally intense and ugly at a moment in time...but it is about an issue, or a spin on an issue, ...and maybe it is because I am not looking for ‘perfection’ and expect human beings to be flawed, and thus am able to not inherently dislike those with whom I disagree with. Sorry, there is no aspiration here, to your level of ‘perfection.’

I would also note, I don’t believe there was a twisting of the Sandman contract to the towing issue. I found Mr. Sandman to be basically struggling to perform the job in an ethical manner...it was the concept of a four year contract that I take exception to and would like to think that would have been the case were the same offered to Mr. Gabris.

I note further that the unwillingness of Republicans to debate openly the issues here is one suspects clear to readers and speaks to the integrity of their ideas. Further, there is very little reluctance to critique Democrats by GadFly...it just that Republicans seem to be in control at this moment in time. My hope would be that if after the next election Democrats take control here...that you will see and acknowledge the same level of vitriol and disdain for their stupidity and short comings.