By Steve Morris

There is a major contest for control of the Teaneck Council coming up this May 13th, and if last night was any indication it is going to be a bloody battle. Inside Bergen is just lucky we have it all on tape. No one would believe us otherwise. The last of the three videos below has the best action scenes. 

Seriously, there is a contest of epic proportions in Teaneck this year with Mayor Elie Katz backing tax cutting incumbent Elnatan Rudolph and his running mates Mohammed Hameeduddin and Robert Robinson.  They are touting the Council majority’s 0% tax increase budget this year, while the Rudolph, Hameeduddin and Robinson team compares that to opposing incumbent Monica Honis and her backing $10 million in property tax increases over four years. The angry mob at last night's public Honis rally (where I was ejected unlawfully), falsely claim that Honis never raised taxes $10 million, but we found it to be true in researching the records of the Teaneck municipal government.

They also called it racist that Council candidate Robinson (who happens to be African American) was the one who suggested he would be a better choice to represent the northeast because he owns a home there which was hit by a massive tax increase while Honis does not own a home at all.

It looks like propaganda rallies like this one, where disinformation is spread, are not covered under Loretta Weinberg’s new and improved open public meetings act. Apparently openness only goes so far in the eyes of Weinberg backers here...

At the rally last night it was claimed by many that Weinberg is supporting some Teaneck United candidates and that she also supports those who ejected me from their public forum, although Inside Bergen has not confirmed any of that to be true.

Based on their behavior last night, one must wonder how these folks would rule Teaneck if they were the majority on the council and people r the press disagreed with them. Would they surround those in disagreement and chase them from the room? After all, that's what they did to me, a guy there to do some unbiased reporting on the meeting.

Attached is the New Jersey State Police rule governing gathering at a public forum.  Teaneck United and The Northeast Block Association clearly ignored it.