Chris,
In a town, where you can get elected with as little as 400 votes as a
low, is incredible! All I have IS a voice! I'm not rich or well
connected, so I can bitch all I want, it just doesn't resonate.
Now, if I have the ability to raise copious amounts of cash, KNOW
people, be WELL connected, (like be related to someone, who IS
someone), you'd be surprised by the difference. You're treated a
"little" better!
If you bemoan AP ALL the time, you draw the wrong kind of attention,
the authorities are "sicked" on you, and could land you in jail! Mind
you, no one has made threats against anyone, we just bitch! You can
BUY a "Go Straight to Jail", card, here!
Moving right along, you have the native born/grew up near/been here a
long time, people, who are "vested" in AP. They have a "We own this
place" mentality! I'm one of them. Silly me!
Mind you, progress is good, but no one expected Condos to replace the
Palace! Redevelopment means different things to different people! I
thought they'd just refurbish the BOARDWALK! Rejuvenate the
amusements, repair the historic places and reopen them! Well, no
disrespect but "gentrification" HAS arrived! See the paragraphs above
to gauge how natives, as opposed to "newbies", feel about each other
or not!
I don't have a problem with "new" residents, but they DO have a
tendency to have built-in opinions of us. They want Brooklyn,
Manhatten or Jersey City, which we aren't. This was just a summer
resort, which is why the population tends to stay small, because after
the summer, the sidewalks were rolled up and we had the boards to
ourselves! QUIET, except for the roar of the sea!
I dunno! I stay to myself, have always been sort of a loner, but love
a good time! I'm from New Orleans and New Orleans, this isn't! I
love it just the same though. So much, I've never left, as they call
folks who visit and never leave, there. I miss home, but this is
home, now.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "chris.hartsgrove"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> True enough... but let's be realistic. Of that 17k, how many are
vocal? How many have a
> voice, let alone one that's actually heard in what goes on in the
"rebirth" of Asbury Park?
> And how many of those voices are responsible for the insane Imminent
Domain policies,
> or the comical contracts entered into with redevelopers that allow
things like the
> wasteland that is the second two Kushner properties of the
Waterfront Skeleton Part II to
> happen?
>
>
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