Matawan Councilwoman Toni Marie Angelini has resigned from the borough’s governing body effective June 30. Angelini, who declined to seek reelection this year, is moving to Wall Township.
Mayor Paul Buccellato said that Angelini will be missed. “Toni was a valuable member of the council who represented the residents of Matawan with honesty and integrity,” Buccellato said, “She always made decisions with the best interests of the people in mind.”
Angelini has lived in Matawan for 15 years and was elected to the Borough Council twice. Her move to Wall brings her closer to her family, Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini and Ocean Township School Board Member Bob Angelini, and gives her a shorter to commute to Trenton where she is the Senior Media Manger for Northeast and Midwest at the National Federation of Independent Businesses. (NFIB).
Toni Marie was formerly the manager of the Hazlet Motor Vehicle Commission facility and worked on Superstorm Sandy recovery in Governor Chris Christie’s office until October of last year.
Governor Chris Christie came to national prominence in large measure through his unorthodox “Jersey style” of giving as good as he gets from citizens at his Town Hall meetings and reporters back in the early days of his administration when he talked to the New Jersey press corp. Calling a reporter “thin skinned” and telling him “you should see me when I’m really pissed,” calling a reporter and a former Navy seal an “idiot,” telling former Asbury Park Councilman Jim Keady to “sit down and shut up,” and many other “Youtube moments” have contributed to Christie’s national appeal and also been a cause for concern for many about his temperament should he become President of the United States.
On Tuesday afternoon at a Town Hall meeting at Old Bridge High School, Cheryl Meyer, a kindergarten teacher in Woodbridge, asked Christie to explain.
There are some familiar faces in the background during the 11 minute video; Matawan Mayor Paul Buccellato, Matawn Councilwoman Toni Marie Angelini and your favorite blogger snapping a photo, among others.
With all the attention and excitement being paid to Joe Kyrillo’s U.S. Senate candidacy and a new map that most think makes Frank Pallone even harder to beat, there is little if any talk about a GOP candidate in the 6th Congressional District.
So let’s throw some names out there and have then have a poll. I start with names that come to mind. Please add names in the comments. Over the weekend I’ll create a poll.
Former Highlands Mayor Anna Little
Selika Josiah Gore, Marlboro
Matawan Councilwoman Toni Marie Angelini
Matawan Councilman Tom Fitzsimmons
Assemblywoman Amy Handlin
Atlantic Highlands Councilman Peter Doyle
Keyport Mayor Bob McLeod
Former Middletown Committeeman Tom Wilkens
Middletown Mayor Tony Fiore
Hazlet Committeeman Scott Aagre
James Hogan of Long Branch
Oceanport Councilman Joe Irace
Former Freeholder Bill Barham
Former Assemblyman, triCityNews Publisher Dan Jacobson
JCP&L’s Belford Substation @ 12:48 PM, August 31, 2011
Middletown Mayor Tony Fiore reports that he has a call into JCP&L’s Roberta Sheridan. Fiore also said that Middletown GOP Chairman Peter Carton told him via email that “all available men” went to the Stone Church substation this morning and Navesink now has power.
Is JCP&L’s electronic message telling you your power has been turned on and it hasn’t?
Not that Angelini got much satisfaction from calling. In her Matawan neighborhood a crew “finished” repairs and an announcement went out that the power was back on. Problem was, half the neighborhood still didn’t have power. When one of the neighbors called a JCPL rep told the person “we didn’t know you didn’t have power.” The person was told the neighborhood went back on the list….the bottom of the list with a 5 day wait.
Maybe JCPL days are like dog years.
The tanker trucks are still heading up Route 36 from the Bayshore sewage plants without power. May I suggest the truckers deliver to a large fan outside a JCP&L office.
In Highlands, Councilwoman Becky Kane reports that the State of Emergency is still in effect and that there is a curfew from dusk till dawn.
In an email to a Highlands Google group this afternoon, Kane said that JCPL told Highlands OEM that power would likely be out for several days. At 1:47, a Highlands resident reported to the same group that has just been restored at Shore Dr. and Miller Street.
There is hope for power, but evidently not for a straight story from JCPL
I didn’t write it, thus the quotes. Dan Jacobson didn’t write it either, but he’d be more likely to do so than I would.
I read the headline to my assistant, a 42 year old single mother, and asked her what it made her think of. Her answer was probably what you are thinking now, which was the same thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
The headline is from APP.com’s InJerseyMag. The sub-headline is worse:
“Jersey Shore housewives defy TV stereotype”
The related article is not terrible. It is about five dynamic Monmouth and Ocean County women who don’t live like the Jersey women portrayed on MTV or Bravo. It could have been a great piece highlighting role models healthier than Snookie for our region’s teenage and twenty something women . That was probably the writer’s intent. However, the context of the article created by the headlines defeated the purpose. Epic fail.
Toni Marie Angelini. APP.com is selling this photo at the linked article. I got it for free at Angelini's facebook page.
One of the women featured is Matawan Councilwoman Toni Marie Angelini.
While Angelini is real and she is spectacular, she is not a housewife! She’s an ex-wife!
Toni is single and available. Why is APP.com limiting her opportunities by highlighting her in an society piece about housewives? Even when APP tries to do something nice for a Repubican they manage to screw it up.
“I am the furthest there is from a housewife,” Angelini told MMM, “not that there is anything wrong with that.” In addition to raising her three children, running the Hazlet MVC office and serving on the Matawan Council, Toni is apparently a huge Seinfeld fan. She filled me on the Seinfeld origin of “They’re real and they’re spectacular.”
Toni is endowed with great talents. Not Teri Hatcher type talent so much, but equally as beautiful, if not more so. Every guy I know, married, single, straight or gay, who meets Toni and finds out that she is divorced wonders, “What was they guy thinking? Is he gay? Is she gay?” That last thought often leads to other wonderings I can’t print on a right wing blog.
“Oh my God, Art! That is going to be the new rumor now! Forget about it, I’m hanging up,” Toni said in reaction to those wonderings, “My feet are firmly planted in the straight column, not that there is anything wrong with feet that are not in the straight column.”
The point of the APP article, despite the disempowering and inaccurate headlines, was to portray Monmouth and Ocean women as intelligent, capable, productive , “real and spectacular.”
The point of this article is to affirm all of those things about Toni, and to provide a public service to any eligible guy who had an eye on Toni, saw the APP story, and was heartbroken about her being a “housewife.” The point is to make Toni’s phone ring.
As a car and truck dealer that frequents the Hazlet MVC office, I can attest to Toni’s abilities. The place runs much better since Toni took over from the Manalapan Democrat.
At first I thought the improved service might be because I’m a “powerful Republican blogger,” as Dan Jacobson likes to write. But the quality of service hasn’t changed since I started writing about Dan and publishing his work here. Dan is running for Assembly against Toni’s mother, Mary Pat.
I thought for sure I’d have to start taking my dealer work to Eatontown or Freehold after we (MMM readers) killed Mary Pat’s bill A3242. I was wrong. Mary Pat and her staff have not called me back since I broke the story about the bill that if passed would have allowed school personnell to question students about personal and private family matters without their parent’s consent, but the service at Hazlet MVC keeps getting better, even when there are computer problems.
Then I thought, maybe the service from Hazlet was lacking, for me, when the Manalapan Democrat was running the place because I’m a “powerful Republican blogger.” I suppose that is possible, but I don’t think so.
The give away that something has changed radically is the employees. They are happier and friendlier than at anytime since I’ve been doing business with the agency dating back to 1992 when it was in Matawan. Most people only go to MVC once per year, if that. The employees go everyday. Us dealers go weekly or more. I see more smiles now on both sides of the counter, employees and drivers, than at anytime over the last 19 years. The only thing that I can see has changed is the management.
Don’t believe everything you read in the newspaper. While Toni Marie Angelini is “real and spectacular” she is not a housewife.
Matawan Councilwoman Toni Marie Angelini has resigned from the borough’s governing body effective June 30. Angelini, who declined to seek reelection this year, is moving to Wall Township.
The filing deadline is April 2.
The tanker trucks are still heading up Route 36 from the Bayshore sewage plants without power. May I suggest the truckers deliver to a large fan outside a JCP&L office.