{"id":2222,"date":"2019-11-02T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:39:38","slug":"get-to-know-your-candidate-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know your Candidate, PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Candidate in His Own Words<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Carlos Luaces, not worthy of your vote for Byram Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In my last blog post, Byram Township Voters \u2013 Be Informed for the Upcoming Election<\/strong><\/a>, I made the statement regarding candidate Carlos Luaces that “He is hot-tempered, arrogant, ill-informed and often practices purposeful deceit <\/em>to try to make his ill-conceived arguments.” I stand by that statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since that post, several people, including the candidate himself, have accused me of a ‘personal attack’ on him. Incredible, since he himself has personally attacked me as “immoral and unethical” on a number of occasions, (including once in the <\/em>article mentioned below<\/em><\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s just use a Byram Council meeting as an example of what I and my fellow council members experienced with him at almost every meeting until he quit halfway through his term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I<\/a>n less than three minutes<\/a><\/strong>, <\/a>(listen)<\/a> <\/em>he shows his complete lack of decorum, his arrogance, his hot-temper and his ignorance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a statement by the Township attorney: “I totally disagree\u2026this is ridiculous! \u2026it’s absurd! It’s absolutely absurd! I refuse to vote on this! I’m not going to vote on this!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, after having voted “Here” during roll call on the vote, while the clerk continues to take the roll, he blurts out, “Hold on! Did I just vote on this whole ordinance?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Carlos. You did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m voting absolutely not! I don’t want to discuss this at all! This should be tabled 100%!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mayor Oscovitch tries to explain to him that he’s already voted, his response is, “What are you gonna do, throw me in jail? NO! I’m taking my vote away! I WILL NOT VOTE ON THIS AT ALL!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the grand declaration: “Do I have to throw over a god damn table? This is ridiculous!”<\/strong> He then stumble and grumbles until the attorney suggest he is abstaining, to which he says, “Yes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vote is finished, it passes 3-0, with two ‘abstains’, to which he shouts “Congratulations!” and begins clapping. Then scatters paperwork on the dais.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Mayor Oscovitch tries to continue the meeting, Luaces shouts “Yeehaw! This is a total cowboy move!”<\/strong> To which the Mayor agrees, and Councilwoman Raffay quietly adds, “On your part.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You think this is hard to believe? That I’m making this up? Listen yourself by <\/strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also read how the New Jersey Herald<\/em> covered the meeting by clicking here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And read an email sent to the entire Town Council by a resident upset by what he read in the paper and listening to the complete tape of the meeting by clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u2026I was not at the meeting but I read about it in the paper and have listened to audio of the meeting.  I want to say how disappointed I am in the way councilman Luaces acted.  \u2026I do not know enough about the Highlands Act to comment on the Act itself but from what I heard and read, there are some opposing views on the council.  After listening for about 15 minutes I still don’t know much about the Highlands Act but do know that I don’t care for Mr Luaces style of governing. “<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealing with Carlos on a regular basis back then, and on the VERY few occasions where he bothered to attend Municipal Building Sub-committee meetings recently, I still stand behind my statement \u2013 I believe he is completely lacking the moral character that Byram\u2019s residents deserve of their elected officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cast your vote wisely on November 5, neighbors. There is no place on your governing body for a person like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respectfully,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Olson, Byram Councilman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Candidate in His Own Words Carlos Luaces, not worthy of your vote for Byram Council. <\/p>\n

In my last blog post, Byram Township Voters \u2013 Be Informed for the Upcoming Election, I made the statement regarding candidate Carlos Luaces that “He is hot-tempered, arrogant, ill-informed and often practices purposeful deceit to try to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26,5,231],"tags":[44,308,263,279,407],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nL7w-zQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}