Congratulations.

First things first. Congratulations to Mayor Barrella, Brett Gordon and Bill Mayer for their well-earned victories, and best wishes to them as they face the difficult issues that face them in the upcoming year. However, I was saddened to witness that once again, one of the time-honored traditions in Point Pleasant Beach was trampled upon. Dan Hennessey, Jack Pasola and Dan DiCorcia will attest that after each election the candidates who are defeated take the walk to the winners campaign headquarters and wish them well. As one who has made that difficult walk with my candidates to the Woman's Club on St. Louis Avenue with hat in hand, I can attest it is a painful journey but one that demonstrates a willingness to put an end to sometimes bitter campaigns, accept the will of the voters, and acknowledge the need to work together. I will never forget the class of former Councilman Mike Loughran and his running mate making that difficult appearance to our victory party when they lost an election. Being gracious in defeat is often more difficult than being humble in victory. It is a shame that only Councilman-elect Bill Mayer had the class to make that journey from St. Louis Avenue this year to congratulate Mayor Barrella and his running mate Councilman-elect Gordon. His running mates should have been there with him.

Congratulations to Mayor Barella, And to all the soar losers. Have some class guys or should I say boys. It was a tight race and it could have been anyone's race. They all should be thankful for all the votes that they received. Maybe it would have been different if all the games were not played. I would say the Lurie plan backfired. There were to many spoilers in this race, who knows what could have happened.

Congratulations to all who threw their hat in the ring.
The winners are all very intelligent citizens that should serve this town well!

I do not think that Andy 28-6 is a sore loser.
He does a lot for the kids in town.

The taxpayers of Point Pleasant Beach have made their beds and now they must prepare to lie in them. Sweet dreams and enjoy the ride for those who are still around to afford it.

Those 81 people who voted for Tim should be allowed to revote! There wasn't enough time in everyones busy lives to know for sure he wasn't running. Some say they never saw it in the paper and others never received his flyer.. Those votes need to be done over to be fair to both of the candidates? People need to pay more attention to the news it seems!

Well then it is obvious something needs to be legally looked into.

The voters that wasted thier votes should contact Mr. Laurie and take it up with him. He decided to drop out of the race due to his hectic work schedule. He alone is responsible for these voters being disenfranchised. My only suggestion to him would be to evaluate if his schedule allows the time to continue as Council President and a sitting Councilman. His sudden realization of a busy work schedule and hasty departure left a bad taste in my mouth as well as a lot of voting residents in PPB.

Andy:
I have known you for many years, and I apologize to you for having painted with such a broad brush. You are one of the nicest and classiest guys I have met in PPB and I have no doubt you were unaware of the tradition. The fact is that there were plenty of folks there that did and should have advised you -- rookie to all this that you are! Congrats to you on running for office and offering the town the choice of a good guy to serve on council. I hope you stay involved. Best John

Mr. Barilla should not accept the position of Mayor. HE WOULD HAVE LOST IF ALL VOTES WERE CAST EVENLY!!!! He knows this was a sham of an election, and still he barely won!!!!!The right thing should be done here, so along with Mr. Corbally,you Mr. Barilla, should give uo the title of Mayor and RESIGNH IMMEDIATELY!!!!

I believe that because the Voice of Reason can`t spell worth a damn, he/she should RESIGNH IMMEDIATELY!!!!

Voice,
truly you need to get back on your meds....

The real question in all of this is will these two newcomer councilmen be their own mind or will they be two more Barrella puppets ? Only time will tell. I met Gordon once and he seems like a guy who will not be told what to do by anyone so it should be interesting. On a side note is that Barrella or Uncle June from the Sopranos in the red shirt in the pic above.

why are patch comment wars so entertaining?

The guy`s been mayor for 4 years. You think you could at least spell his name correctly.

doesn`t

Who is this Mr. Barilla guy? And who is Joe Mayer?

and my favorite..."I met Gordon once and he seems like a guy who will not be told what to do by anyone" - you do realize the guy has been a member of the military for many years....where all you do is follow the orders of someone above you. (you know, like being told what to do)

The Barilla guy makes good dried pasta!
The Barella guy stands up for the people!

Next they will start confusing Mike DiCicco with the DeCecco Pasta Co.

Hey Mick Diaz

When I was a kid there was a game I played in the arcade that reminds me of you and it was called donkey kong. The little guy mario looks exactly like you. Overalls and all.

Voice,wow I am impressed that you know that SI is the 5th boro of NYC..I guess you ARE capable of using google....your accusations are still empty......please elaborate and try not to sound as ignorant as you have been. It is simple really,just state what I have done,,,,you are a coward,liar and absolute classless person who likes to throw things out there to make yourself sound smart...I would bet everything I have,that your family does not know about this blog because they would never allow this embarassment...Grow up!!!!!

Voice, I shamelessly left,,,,haha ,that in itself is funny. I can't wait to find out who you are,as we have done with so many on this blog..ie,,,sandinmytoes,so everyone can truly see how foolish you are....I can say that if you were a member in my family,you would have been disowned a long time ago....

Voice,please take your meds.......

Cathy , I tell you what, I am just going to get my facts straight and in chronological order.I'm done for tonight, I'll be back Saturday and will post each and every one, you prove me wrong, eh , I owe you an apology, but rest assured, All I want to do is double check them..See you Saturday!

Voice, Why are you so against our schools and superintendent. What are you trying to say? Anyone who supports the Point Pleasant Beach School system is sticking it to the taxpayer? "Your words" not mine. If you have such a problem, why don't you go to the BOE or Town Council? Ask questions or even go ask the Administrators or Council President. Ask questions if you feel something is wrong or going on with in the town but don't make up something that is true or half truths if best. Our schools have a good reputation and it appears to me they have gotten better since Dr. Ravally took over in my opinion. Sorry, you are starting to sound like Joe Billotti and friends in my opinion. You are starting to sound like all the fliers I have received from him in the past with all his mailers, at least in my opinion..... I could be wrong, hasn't been the first time I have been wrong, shocked and surprised when I found out some truth to issues, but at least I am willing to admit to it. I have supported individuals and issues prior to finding the truths that I have regretted, it happens to all of us at times, you would be lying if you are trying to tell me that never happened to you. The problem I am having, is what you have been saying in many post on different issues, I just don't see any proof or facts with your accusations on individuals and the exact reason why you want certain individuals to resign. Go to council and ask and state the reason and give them true facts

Voice, You are the one who is fraud and indigenous, I have come to the conclusion you are a looney toon for sure. I don't have a problem with our town, it seems that you do, go back and look at all your post. You are looking like a fool and do not know what you are talking about. I told you it was a bunch of teachers aide that loss their job, my record is clean buddy, We won and Wall loss! You should really watch what you keep on saying, because this might all come back to haunt you. Only you would stoop so low to attack our football team and coach, your alias name should be "lack of logic and reasoning" I am getting to tired, just call yourself an idiot.

Indigenous means you are from that area..for example(not exapmle) jackasses are indigenous to Don Bosco.

Voice of reason, You are starting to scare us all on these posts, you have managed to attack just about everyone on various posts and stories. Including going after kids, you are really starting to worry us all. You are talking about pop warner, boys and schools. I think you might have some problems. You should stop pointing fingers at everyone including young boys who are playing football and working so hard and has come a long way and you keep on putting them down. You are the one who isn't bright, you can't even spell example never mind set one. No one is taking you serious, I know Darlene, I am quite sure and certain she new what the word meant. Personally you don't belong here, you are a loon and need to check your self in to a looney bin and you really should stay away far away from the boys in our community. You do have some skeletons in your closet, you have done nothing but lie on just about everything that comes out of your mouth voice. I hope someone finds out soon who you are, so we can keep our community kids especially the boys from you.

Voice, By the way, I will stick up for my friends. I personally know Darlene, you don't know what you are talking about and should stop why you are a head of yourself. She was the best Teachers aide, that any teacher or any assigned child that had her over the years. They were lucky, she was an advocate for all the kids who were assigned to her. You would definitely be considered a bully and should get some help.

Why is voice of reason allowed to spew, quite possibly, libelous statements on here?

leo, You should really go to council meetings and ask these questions to the council members, not here on patch. Who cares what the budget was? What are you saying? Why should Denise Destephan look in to what happened in Monmouth Beach? Do you know what happened? Even if you do, is it irrelevant to why he should leave his post here as councilmen. You and voice, keep on going after the same individuals in town. Why? You are started to sound like the same person, keep on asking for resignations. For what? For something that happened years ago in another town. Everyone has skeletons in their closet. If you don't know the entire story, don't spew nonsense. Does not mean they are the same person? Let us know who you really are? I already made my guess and in my opinion is Bill Mayer? Bill is the only one originally from the Don Bosco area and thinks they are the best football players, no comparison according to him, not that I don't agree with him on that. I agree there is no comparison, and I know the Point Pleasant Beach belongs to a very weak division, for them this is big and you really should not spoil it for them. Give the boys a break. I even did and that is not at all like me.

Good job on Jenkinsons Beach with the snow fence that are building little dunes. Now they are adding more fence all the way down to the Risdens beach line.That will help if we get a big nor'easter a least for the winter.

Perhaps next year they could put dunes in permanent and a little closer to the Beach and separate the volleyball ball area from the other beach activities.

I thinks they should move sand near inlet to widen their southern beaches. That sand end up as shoals in the inlet anyway. Use a excavating pan and you could do 1000 cubic yards a day.