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Mayor John A. Peterson Jr. | 06-24-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And so now the mayor of Seaside Park, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: has been very much affected by all this nonsense too.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, John A. Peterson Junior is joining us on
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  Speaker 1: the phone. Mayor Peterson. We looked it up during the break.
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  Speaker 1: This was Governor Corzine's fault. He signed all these deals, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He He absolutely did. But he's got a whole host
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  Speaker 2: of allies, mostly in the form of foreign corporations. It
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  Speaker 2: all poses a grave, ongoing threat to the shore economy,
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  Speaker 2: our precious environment, public safety radar, and a whole host
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  Speaker 2: of other negative impacts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of like you know the
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  Speaker 1: movie Jaws, where you know you got a great white
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  Speaker 1: shark ruining tourism in in a fictitional in a fictional place.
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  Speaker 1: You know this isn't great, right you go to you
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  Speaker 1: go to a place like Seaside Park, you go to
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  Speaker 1: some of these other places on the shore. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see these windmills off the off the coast.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're outrageous and if anyone wants the proof, unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: many of them have been rightfully killed or have gone
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  Speaker 2: out of business because they're foreign corporations with no safeguards.
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  Speaker 2: No insurance, no bonding, no nothing, and no research every
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  Speaker 2: done into them. But putting all that aside, there's still
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  Speaker 2: the ongoing threat posed by the ongoing construction of Empire
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  Speaker 2: Wind just sixteen short miles off the Long Branch Mahmmouth
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  Speaker 2: County coast. They still are there. They're massive prop and
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  Speaker 2: meganda machine that's in favor of them, supported by foreign money,
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  Speaker 2: is still in full force and effect and in operation.
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  Speaker 2: So they have. Indeed, in Seaside Park has suffered the
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  Speaker 2: negative impact directly as we've had one of these majestic
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  Speaker 2: creatures wash up dead on our beach.
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  Speaker 3: Mayor, this is on top of it. Let me get
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  Speaker 3: to the facts. On top of it, the price of
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  Speaker 3: electricity is going to go up two three and people
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  Speaker 3: don't realize it. Meanwhile, who have us signed those contracts?
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  Speaker 3: Got big contributions for the party, They're.
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  Speaker 2: In huge, huge, massive contributions. It was all and some
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  Speaker 2: rightfully labeled the money laundering scheme. That's where the money went,
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  Speaker 2: and it never went to help the rape payers, to
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  Speaker 2: help the state of New Jersey, to help the economy.
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  Speaker 2: That's a whole other one.
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  Speaker 3: And it hurts the coastline. Mayor, it hurts the coastline,
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  Speaker 3: and the so called theoretical environmentalists do not care about
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  Speaker 3: the coastlineill it kills the fish, It kills the fishing,
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  Speaker 3: and it increases the price of electricity two to three
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent. And it's a national security problem which everybody's adorn. Absolutely, Mayor,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing about it?
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  Speaker 2: As mayor of Seaside?
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  Speaker 3: What can you do? And what are you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know millions of people are listening to
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  Speaker 3: you right now, but in reality, what can you do
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  Speaker 3: as the mayor of Seaside to stop this?
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  Speaker 2: I've personally joined two active lawsuits that are still ongoing.
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  Speaker 2: I've spread the word in each and every forum possible.
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  Speaker 2: We notice, for example, the state of Maine donated a
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  Speaker 2: bone from the gravely and critically endangered North American right
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  Speaker 2: well to the national Time Capsule. So we have the
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  Speaker 2: times Capsule project ongoing for our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: and we're donating a cretaceous bone. In all likelihood it
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  Speaker 2: may not be from North American. What is the highlighting everything?
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  Speaker 3: What is the governor of New Jersey doing about this?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, we see the same pattern of behavior of political
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  Speaker 2: support ignoring the substance of the issue. You rightfully mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the absolutely astronomical increase in electric rates, many of which
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  Speaker 2: are directly attributed to this waste of money and failure
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  Speaker 2: to look at an overall realistic long term energy plan
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  Speaker 2: and putting all the eggs in one basket and a
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  Speaker 2: failed non research basket that simply does not work, and
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  Speaker 2: that policy, unfortunately, we see us continuing. So it's an
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  Speaker 2: absolute essential that the public, elected officials at all levels
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  Speaker 2: join those courageous individuals and some environmental groups clean Ocean action,
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  Speaker 2: you've had Barney Brady, They're all sorts of that have
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  Speaker 2: had the courage to stand up, and I would urge
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  Speaker 2: everyone to continue to do so. Right, Yes, elected officials.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's stay in touch and we uh, we want
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  Speaker 3: to have you on maybe the weekend show and you'll
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  Speaker 3: you'll fill us in some more. Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And we're going to donate our time capsule. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to rightfully include a bone from a cretaceous species
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  Speaker 2: to highlight and symbolically keep alize issues. Let your constituents
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  Speaker 2: know that their electric bill is going to go up
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  Speaker 2: to three hundred percent, see what they do about it.
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  Speaker 2: Ah I, thank you, let's take that break.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here.