Gus MCd ” I have no desire to get involved in the politics of Highlands, and I won’t because it’s none of my business. But when my name is being thrown into the mix with blatant lies attached to them, I will not stand quiet.”
Cheers and congratulations to Sea Bright Councilman Marc Leckstein who has considerable pride, as he should, in both his name and reputation as well as his excellence as an elected councilman in Sea Bright.
The councilman made his remarks on the Facebook in response to comments made by alleged Atlantic Highlands resident Gus MCd.
Veni Vidi Scripto does not know Gus MCd nor where he lives, other than what is listed on his Facebook profile, which is Atlantic Highlands, nor what he does, nor if he is a real person who actually exists. Although this blog’s representative has been present at numerous meetings in both Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, and an occasional meeting in Sea Bright, she has never heard or seen, to her knowledge, the Gus MCd who is so prolific with criticism of things he/she apparently does not like and wants to convince others of that opinion.
Gus MCd, whoever that is, hides behind a Facebook account that enables him/her to pick and choose to whom or about whom he wants to make slanderous and non-slanderous remarks, say what he wants in spite of facts or knowledge, and is apparently trying to influence an election and a vote on Regionalization.
It appears at this point he wants to oust a Mayor who has done some pretty extraordinary things for the borough over the years and supports a board member who is looking to unseat the Mayor and leave her post on the school board if she is successful.
Keeping Sea Bright out of the loop in becoming part of the Henry Hudson School District which would result in saving a few million dollars for Highlands residents seems to be his aim in his latest “Highlands Almost unCensored” Facebook Group, amongst several other Facebook Groups.
Whatever his reasons, he is choosing to try to get Sea Bright and Atlantic Highlands involved in its neighboring town’s election. The very astute Sea Bright Councilman Leckstein has made it clear from the start that isn’t going to happen.
He wrote back to Gus MCd ”In an effort to influence Highlands’ politics Gus MCd has apparently made it his personal mission to spread lies about me and Sea Bright where I happen to currently be a councilman. I have no desire to get involved in the politics of Highlands, and I won’t because it’s none of my business. But when my name is being thrown into the mix with blatant lies attached to them, I will not stand quiet.”
Then the councilman continued to explain how Gus MCd lied about him. “for the record, I have not attended a meeting of the Shore Regional Board of Education since around the time of Sandy. I don’t remember the exact date – but it was in the range of 2012 or so – I learned at that point that such meetings were useless because those Board Members had no respect for us here in Sea Bright. After that there was no reason to go back.”
Then Councilman Leckstein went on to explain his own borough’s commitment. “Sea Bright remains committed in its efforts to work with Highlands and Atlantic Highlands toward regionalizing with you to form a PK-12 school district. The majority of Sea Bright residents voted to continue exploring that possibility last November with a vote of 686-141.
And he concluded “People like Angus (Gus MCd) can lie all they want otherwise – but the facts will always prevail. Just wanted to set the record straight.’
Unlike Gus MCd and others who have opinions about elected officials or regionalization without attending meetings, getting informed or even asking questions, this Sea Bright Councilman is doing the same thing the Highlands mayor is doing; namely, listening to the majority of people, forming opinions based on information and knowledge, following the law, and continuing to work for what the majority of people in their own community have said they want.
This VeniVidiScripto representative is expressing an opinion based on the number of phone calls and mail she has received from readers of “Highlands Almost unCensored” who strongly object to Gus MCd comments on Mr. Leckstein.
If the truth be told, this writer did not personally see the unCensored blog.
The reason the VeniVidiScripto writer has now seen “Highlands Almost unCensored”? … Irony.
It may be called “Highlands Almost unCensored”, but VeniVidiScripto has been banned from any posting or comments on the unCensored site.
So much for honest opinions, transparency, or civil discourse from Gus MCd
Even more, it appears, according to his Facebook profile, that Gus MCd lives in Atlantic Highlands. So now we have an opinion from an Atlantic Highlands resident which appears to be lies about a Sea Bright elected official with reference to the Highlands election of a mayor. Now that’s an opinion I would certainly respect and heed. (Sarcasm INTENDED)
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If you children keep this up and can’t play nice with each other – we’re just going to have to close down all of the schools and save everybody a lot of money!