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: Hey Jim... try drinking a little less coffee. Maybe decaf for a change. You are definately wound a little too tightly. Gonna give yourself an ulcer this way. 

: : Here's your education:
: : The only bias was in that disgraceful, unbylined Jersey Journal story today. I have 
: : just let Augie Torres have it over that piece of garbage story. Our administration 
: : was never contacted to respond.
: : But here's a few things to chew on before one of you  undoubtedly follows up 
: : by attacking Tom or me:
: : Poreda, a business associate of Paul Byrne, has a lot of balls to say something like, "I 
: : thought Janizewski left," in that story.  No, you thought he was still here, pal, that's 
: : why you're so aggravated.
: : The telecom contract was a NO-BID until Tom DeGise made it a competitive 
: : contracting process contract. The no bid was under Janiszewski and Byrne.
: : The competitive contracting process was created by the STATE to allow localities to 
: : use competition to find the best services through competition. It is different than 
: : the RFP process because rock bottom price for certain key services is not always the 
: : best choice. But under this process, competition is still possible and can help 
: : localities do a better job of servicing their needs.
: : Just like individuals can choose between a $19.95 a month 56K dial-up internet 
: : provider and a $39.95 a month high speed cable modem internet provider, so too 
: : the County has to choose based on its needs, not just the final price.
: : Now if an individual is going to send a few emails a month, $19.95 dial-up makes 
: : sense. But if they run a home business doing graphic design or editing, they might 
: : opt for the high speed service because the price differential is worth it.
: : We have an complex, older telcom infrastructure that Hindsight has done an 
: : outstanding job servicing. The same good government champions who think Paul 
: : Byrne's business associate should get this contract in the name of the taxpayer 
: : probably think we should just upgrade our whole telecom operation to make it a 
: : better fit for Desktop's (Poreda's) expertise. That would cost the taxpayers a fortune 
: : -- we're not doing it.
: : This isn't a contract for rock salt. It's a complex, tough job, and having 10 out of 55 
: : invitees come in to meet with us about it is not a poor result.
: : Poreda was not eliminated because he was "invalidated on technicalities."
: : Poreda failed to submit the most basic company  information and provide the most 
: : basic state business form and was warned about this last year. He still did it this 
: : year. These kind of ommissions would have sunk a minority painting contractor 
: : from quoting on a $2,000 seal painting job, let alone a firm competing for a crucial 
: : multi-year county-wide telecom contract.They included:
: : No New Jersey Business Registration Certificate
: : No three years of financial statements containing documents and information 
: : consistent with the specifications(balance sheets, income and expense statements 
: : and retained earnings)
: : No signed declaration of expertise.
: : No past client contact phone numbers or fax numbers.
: : Inconsistency between financial statements and personel matrix
: : Federal Tax ID number not supplied or incomplete.
: : Why does this matter? Well our website, which some the lameos here like to attack 
: : for having old info on it, has been a nightmare to manage. Why? Because it has to be 
: : housed on our own servers and serviced remotely--adding weeks and months to 
: : changes and for long time leaving it vulnerable to hacking because it wasn't built 
: : behind the county firewall. Why? Because the last website the County had, under a 
: : previous administration, was housed on servers not on county property so when the 
: : fly-bynight company that hosted them went belly up, by-by  went county website. 
: : Financials matter. Basic state documents that a mom and pop store have to have 
: : matter. Poreda wants to paint his incompetence as victimization. It's a joke.
: : And of course no post about this would be complete without the "Geoff Perselay 
: : Controls the Universe Angle" right?
: : Look, Tom DeGise and Perselay have no significant personal relationship and 
: : Perselay gives to a host of county parties and pacs around the state, little of it goes 
: : to Tom DeGise. Check our nj elect or email me and I'll send you Tom's elec 
: : statements. Perselay was against us in the 2001 mayoral. He has played in one or 
: : two golfing events that Tom has been invited to. That's it. 
: : What about Abe Antun? Abe Antun is honest. End of story. If you want to attack 
: : from that angle, you've got more balls than Poreda. Abe Antun ran for 
: : Commissioner in Union City in 1996 and couldn't tell guys looking for subsidized 
: : apartments  anything except, "well you have to get on the list" while out 
: : campaigning. It was precisely that kind of Mr. Spock-like inhuman truth telling that 
: : let Brian Stack kick his ass so easily and I'm happy to say to this day makes him a 
: : valuable asset to Tom DeGise's  administration. For god's sake he won't let more 
: : than ten of us have voice mail in the whole county because it's too expensive!  
: : Bill O'Dea is entitled to his opinion. But equating Tom DeGise to Bob Janiszewski as 
: : Poreda did in that story is outrageous. 
: : Byrne and Perselay can go on slashing at each other if they want,  but one of their 
: : flunkies doesn't have the right to slime Tom DeGise in the process. Neither do any 
: : of the hacks who spend so much of their taxpayer funded time here. 

: : 
: : : GO right ahead and educate us all!  What's the true story?  Is another $800K over 
: : the top bidder gonna get selected?  Or is it like a mother goose?

: : : Bobby J's budget was a beached whale, bloated and rotten.  There should be no 
: : peekaboo tax.  There should be a slash and burn of the deadwood followed by a tax 
: : holiday.

: : : : "Degise continues corrupt Janiszewski cruelty to taxpayers!
: : : : Price $842,000 higher than the low bid OKed because of $28,0000 in 
: : contributions?"

: : : : With this on your front page....don't you think you are showing just a LITTLE bias? 


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