Archives for August, 2015

There is a Monroe Township Town Council Meeting tonight at 7pm at the Municipal Building.  We will be there.

Busy weekend for our campaign.   Please come and give blood today at the Rec Center in Monroe.  It is for a great cause.  Summer is a time when blood banks are at their lowest levels.  Giving will be helping people in need.

Later today we are going to a party in Monroe, and tomorrow we are doing more door to door visits all day.  Enjoy the weekend.

You are cordially invited to join us for a Meet & Greet
on Sunday, August 16th!

This is your chance to meet and talk to the Independents of Monroe
Mayoral Candidate Ken Chiarella and
Council-At-Large Candidate Chirag Bhagat
one on one.
They would love to hear your concerns, questions, and comments. Get to know them and what they stand for.

Hosted by
D&T Pizza Restaurant
(upstairs dining room)
1600 Perrineville Rd. (next to Stop & Shop)
Monroe Twp, NJ 08831

Stop by anytime between 12 Noon – 2:00PM

Coffee and light refreshments will be served.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

*Donations are not required but will gladly be accepted.
(Please make checks payable to
“Friends of Chiarella, Bhagat, & Edelman”)

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Ken Chiarella, Chirag Bhagat and Stan Edelman wish our Monroe Township Indian Community and Indians everywhere a happy Independence Day!  We will be celebrating Indian Independence Day at Thompson Park today.  We will be uploading more pictures and the video of the flag raising ceremony shortly

This is a link to the event.
This is a link to a history of Indian Independence.

It looks like our campaign has a place to call home.  We will be giving the address shortly.  We plan on having weekly set dates and times for open house meetings that will be open to the public.  The candidates will be available to answer questions, learn issues and share some free refreshments with anyone who stops by.  We will provide flexible times so that we are sure to make ourselves available to any Monroe residents who wish to stop in for a cup of coffee and to chat.

I have recently heard quite a few party politicians, on both sides lambasting independent candidates just because they are running.  They aren’t attacking their ideas, but they are attacking the fact that they exist.   Let me quickly explain why people are drawn to independent candidates these days and why both parties are on the attack.

People are sick and tired of lying politicians who are out to line their own pockets and the pockets of their friends with money that comes from the voters. They are sick of being sold a bill of goods that, at the end of the day, only helps those politicians and their donating friends. People are sick of being called names, especially ending it “ist”  if they don’t swallow the poison peddled by these politicians.  The taxpayers are browbeaten into submission with these tactics.

The rise of the common citizen is upon us. The party players have long ago abandoned us, and the people are working too hard to even follow the convoluted path long enough to extract the truth until it is too late. They usually discover the truth after they have been fleeced.

The real uproar over independent candidates is that they are exposing these wolves for the predators that they are. Wolves abhor when the public is able to see that the sheep clothing is just a facade! The real uproar over a third choice is that the party players are afraid! They should be! The wasted vote is when you vote for a party that will put it’s own interests above the interests of the people. My take is that the two parties are going to split the vote and we are going to rip right up the middle and take enough votes to win in November. We are fired up and we are coming…

Ken, Chirag and Stan will be attending “Shabbat Under the Stars” tonight, hosted by Rabbi Z.  We are looking forward to a wonderful time as always!

100 best high schools in NJ and Monroe is number 72 out of 662 public high schools. Monroe was listed as number 82 in 2014 and 124 in 2012! Our Teachers and Administrators are doing a great job. There has been steady progress since moving to the new high school.

There is a Monroe Township Council Meeting tonight at the Municipal building at 7 PM.