Now there's a meritless case!

So this same guy who tried to ban a citizen from attending a public meeting to exercise her first amendment right is now whining about his civil liberties being violated? No sympathy from me, not in the least. This guy needs to be voted out.

Mr.Mancuso, If there is BOE business being discussed in any of the e mails shouldnt the people and parents of the Parsippany be made aware of the content?
Isnt it about " For The Kids"

Mr. Mancuso,
Could it be that one of the "buddies" that you shared your emails with wasn't really your buddy??? This is one of the funniest things I have ever read on Patch. The Great Intimidator is complaining that Bob Crawford is trying to intimidate HIM??? Wow, what a guy!

@ Kevin,

Please know that The For the Kids has been overly spewed by many people in these elected positions,And although it is a great catchphrase to help win terms it is obviously not the case and I think your comments verify that.
I agree and wish luck to the newly appointed people to bring some credibility back to the "For The Kids "
Ps :How is your dribble and different opinions any more important than mine?

Kevin Brancato
The "good of the citizens of this town" are served best when we have transparent, fair and open government, not when YOU say that we should stop inquiring into issues that are obviously important for the rest of the BOE and the public to know about. I wonder if your relative Fran Othwein, was among the recipients of Mr. Mancuso's mysterious emails? You seem to protest too much.
I agree with you that Anthony Mancuso has to go, but he can't be replaced by someone on his "special buddies" emailing list. The BOE policy regarding emails specifically prohibit sending emails about BOE business to other members of the BOE as well as others. If the emails were sent from the BOE server or sent to people whose email addresses are attached to the BOE server, those emails under an honest and non-partisan review of the law, I believe, will eventually be found to be public record and thus OPRA-able. As a taxpayer and citizen of Parsippany, I am eager to see exactly what information Mr. Mancuso and friends were sharing. I do not think there can be a real healing of this community until then.
Lastly, if Mr. Mancuso's emails are out and about, it seems most likely that perhaps one of his trusted "secret buddies" is really not such a buddy after all. Perhaps Mancuso used bad judgement in picking his trusted acolytes???

WHAT IS MANCUSO TRYING TO HIDE?

As someone who has known Kevin Brancato for a quite a while and as someone I consider to be a friend I can absolutely confirm that Kevin can and does make his own decisions and has absolute respect for BOE processes. He and I have differed and agreed over the years but I have never doubted Kevin's intent nor his commitment to what he believes to be in the best interests of the school district and of Parsippany as a whole.

George
I was there the night that Mancuso "banned" Pat Petaccia from the BOE meetings and it certainly did not happen as you describe. If you were there, your memory is faulty on this issue. Pat Petaccia did not speak for anything like 15 minutes and if you were in a leadership role and tried to intimidate a citizen like Mancuso did you would have lot's of people disrespecting you too. The problem was that while Petaccia is little and a female, she was not going to take Mancuso's trying to 'muscle' her lying down. And she didn't, bless her heart.

George
Anthony was wrong when he tried to ban Pat from a public meeting. Anthony was wrong when he took it upon himself to spend $14,000 of our money trying to fight the state over the Superintendent's contract. I have a feeling he is going to end up on the wrong end of this email controversy too!

I read something about banning people from public places,these must be some powerful people.

George the reason Pat refused to leave the micro phone was because somebody before her went over her time and mancuso didn't say anything about it. Why didn't mr Mancuso stop the other lady when her time was up.

ANOTHER FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT CLUTTERING UP THE COURTS - GET REAL

Kevin #1
I would like you to know that months ago, Bob Crawford told me that you and Michael are both decent, fair, stand-up guys. I accept that. My reason for mentioning that Fran Orthwein is a relative of yours is that I have not read that anywhere in any of your or Michael’s blogs identifying that relationship. And, I believe that those things need to be identified. Now that it is discussed, we can put that away. I am not a relation to anyone on any of the town boards nor do I have any relatives working for the town or BOE in any capacity. I never knew Bob Crawford nor Mike Strumolo before I began attending the BOE meetings on or about 11/9/2010. And I too am a tax payer and a long-term one at that.
I disagree with you strongly on what is hurting this town. The issues we are all writing and talking about are anything but “petty”. Speaking only for myself, I have no “personal agendas” and I don’t need Patch for my ego enhancement. What I am focused on is the long-term bullyism that exists on this BOE, the clear nepotism that has been permitted to exist and prosper, and the lack of effort toward convincing the minority side on any issue. Instead this leadership has tried to control the BOE via meanness, character assassination and intimidation. if you need evidence of this see the "Crawford" ethics attack on an inocent kid, the very recent Judge Stein on Strumolo by Calabria et al. There is a whole litany of other examples and you know them.

Kevin #2
Now we see Mancuso trying to intimidate Crawford by threatening a law suit. Why should this be put aside and ascribed to citizens "egos" and "personal agendas"? All of these situation cause legal costs to be incurred by our BOE/taxpayers and this is somehow OK? Here is the real problem, besides lack of character, ethics and decency in our leadership...IT HAS NOT STOPPED! Our majority elected BOE members have not learned to behave in a collegial manner and so the manipulation and intimidation continues to this day. Ths is why the citizens of Parsippany continue to talk and write about the issues at hand.
I am sorry to have to remain in disagreement with you. It has nothing at all to do with you. When I see the behavior of our government officials change, I will be happy to go back to my armchair and watch television or read. I hope it is soon!
By the way, how can the BOE sit down to negotiate a new contract for teachers when they don't even understand how to treat each other? And, whether the teachers have a good case or not, it sure makes it a tough call when they have seen the Superintendent cause himself to be treated rather wonderfully by this BOE majority, while anyone who disagreed with Seitz' non-contract was vilified. Tough place to play, this Parsippany, unless you are a Mancuso/Calabria/Seitz altar person.

Is this all Mancuso knows how to do is start another lawsuit against someone? We have got to get rid of this jerk before he sues anybody who doesn't agree with him. Gee, this all sounds so much like some other guy higher up, if you don't like him, then your a racist.