The March edition of New Jersey Monthly Magazine rated Plainsboro the No. 7 best town to live in and West Windsor No. 176. With the same school district, why is Plainsboro rated 250 percent better than West Windsor?
West Windsor has seen a large and steady dose of tax increases over the last 10 years, including the 2005 immense hidden tax hike when your house was reassessed at the top of the housing bubble. We simply have gotten much less bang for our buck than other townships.
As we prepare for yet another “normalized” tax hike from our mayor, we should take this into consideration. In financial terms, West Windsor consistently underperforms the marketplace. You get less return on your capital than you would elsewhere. You only have to look at the next town over to validate this statement.
While we get less bang for our buck in West Windsor, our mayor is drunk with political power. In the March 5 edition of the WW-P News, Richard Moody declared in a letter to the editor that the mayor “still refuses to meet” with him to discuss township issues. The mayor’s secretary told him “she was not allowed to make an appointment for the Mayor with him.” The “Cell Group” and many others have continually asked the mayor to work with them and they too have been “stonewalled.” I have reached out to the Mayor in good will, many times, only to be stonewalled and even thwarted in my efforts on Route 571. Our stories are just a few of many in West Windsor.
While I think my point is reasonable and sound, the mayor and his attack dogs want you to think that I am “full of it” for pointing this out to you. They want you to think that my point makes me a bad person. One of the mayor’s attack dogs even yelled out for me to “get a life” for speaking my fact-based point of view at the State of West Windsor meeting. The mayor and his attack dogs use Rovian political tactics to attack anyone with an opposing viewpoint.
It is time for West Windsor residents to have an honest discussion about our leadership. Too often any differing viewpoints are being demonized by the mayor and his attack dogs. Too often the mayor uses slimy political tactics to “stonewall” and even work against the very West Windsor residents he is supposed to represent.
The facts are the facts. This mayor and his 10-year spending spree have not measured up.
Andrew Hersh
West Windsor
