‘I’m a Little Disgusted’: Why Is NJ Capital City Down to Its Last Box of Toilet Paper?
- Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:41pm by
Liz Klimas
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Down to the last box of toilet paper. (Photo: Michael Mancuso/The Times)
TRENTON, N.J. (The Blaze/AP) — The city of Trenton is in a toilet paper crisis. The situation has gotten so bad and stocks dwindling so low that there is a threat of closing city buildings if health code violations begin to occur.
As the Times of Trenton reports, paper products are running low thanks to a quarrel over the paper products contract by the New Jersey state capital‘s Mayor Tony Mack’s administration and the City Council. Council President Kathy McBride tells the Times paper towel and toilet paper dispensers in senior citizen centers, police headquarters, the fire department and other city offices likely won’t last through the week.
The council has twice rejected a $42,000 contract for a year’s supply of paper products because members raised concerns about a high unit price for hot drink cups.
Mack’s administration removed the cups from the contract and sent it back to the council. The Times has more on the crisis from McBride:
“I’m embarrassed,” she said. “I’m a little disgusted, and I feel we’re doing an injustice to the residents of the city and the employees.”
Watch this ABC News report:
The Times reports that the council will vote on the revised contract tonight. Officials hope it finally passes, as city health officer James Brownlee told the Times if an employee complained about the lack of toilet paper, it could launch an investigation by the state for adherence to the Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health Program.
Mack has faced frequent criticism and scandal since he took office in 2010.
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Comments (63)
EP46
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 5:46amHow about they all do their FAIR SHARE and bring a roll to work !!!!
Report Post »little big man
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:52amWell tell them to save their old coffee cans fill them with water and place them next to the toilet so they can dip their fingers in it before they wipe. That‘s how the Filipino’s did it while I was on Diego Garcia back in the 80′s
Report Post »screw
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:11amI have the solution.
Obama should issue an Executive Order to limit tissue to “one square per restroom visit”.
Actually, it is not my idea, the brilliant ‘stinky’ Sheryl Crow proposed the limitation.
http://newsbusters.org/node/12226
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:16amReeeeelax! AlGore and his Greenies(sound like a commie-rock band) will deliver you millions of {CORNCOBS]…they can be washed and reused!!…and those pathetic 1.6gal-toilets will just flush them—woooosh—rite dwn the drain…OMG–wait!! They are diggin’ holes in the back for outhouses! Hee, Hee, heee heeee—-(take a deap breath)…Hee Hee Hee Heee Heeeeeeeeeeeee…. .
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:38pmWhy can’t they use the legislative proclamations generated by the state house? They are just as useful?
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:55amCan’t they just use the New York Times?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:19pmThis is just like the schools… they do not get a levy passed; the first thing to go? buses and school crossing guards- next band & sports. Never dealing with the Fiscal problems, salaries- pensions-& health care.
I smell the same rat here……
Report Post »RedDawn2012
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 4:52amWelcome to New Albania!
Report Post »SusquehannaMan
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:06amTime to TP Trenton!
Report Post »floridacockleburr
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:54pmcause Christie called the charmin man an idiot.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:40pmCentral Planning.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:49pmDoesn’t work, does it!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:38pmWho staeling all (most of it) TOILET PAPER?
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:21pmI just used my last toilet paper roll… Coincidence? I think not…..
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:13pmconspiracy
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:04amconstipation
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:18pmHA! During the Reagan build-up, we had to bring most of our consummables to work — TP, pens, paper. No big deal, go to Sam’s Club and buy the TP you need. Be happy you have a job and can buy TP.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:06pmWait until the dollar collapses. You can use a 100.00 bill to wipe with…
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:47pmGovernment moron union slugs…. Let em use their bare hands for all i care….
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:46pmDo like the muslims do
Report Post »dawghowse
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:45pmAnother piece of crap city run by the democrats!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:38pmwetwipes and tissue..in my purse at all times because I am self sufficient. what an idiotic situation.
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:32pmCall Sam’s Club.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:38pmyup
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:24pmPssst…Hey buddy…I got some primo Charmin for a nickle and some already rolled for a dime. And tell your friends to see Rayblue if they want the squeezeably soft hard stuff.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:10pmHot drink cups? Grab a damn coffee mug or buy your own, you idiots!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:35pmA commission has to be established. Then an environmental study done. Then Eric Holder and Barry have to grease the SEIU union thugs. Then they want the company’s insurance to pay for shatterproof, green mugs. It’s just a Fluke thing
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:02pmConserve TOILET PAPER….Use Both Sides…..Problem Solved!
Report Post »Gal from Canada I used to work with told me her Father gave everyone in the House three sheets of Toilet paper per day. So I came up with the Solution for her. Use his Bed Sheet! Wish I knew how that worked out. She disappeared after my advice. Her Father went around telling everyone she must have met some guy and probably was wrapped up in Sheets Somewhere!
Magyar
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:56pmWhy is anyone surprised—All extra cash is paid to the Union workers!
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:23pmNo on going to say it…?
Report Post »Headline should have read…!
Trenton NJ.. Full of crap…!
yippyio
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:23pmMack is black. Is Trenton getting Detroit’d?
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:50pmYou all should look at Detroit it is your future.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:38pmyes indeed
im from the area , and mack is as dirty as twice used tp
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:20pmThey have water and a left hand, like that old Bangels song goes “Wipe like an Egyptian”. Come on people, everybody…..“Wipe like an Egyptian”
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:44pmDarmok, you ROCK!!!!! Brings new meaning to the B.Y.O……T. Don’t leave home without it!
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:53pmWe have plenty of Rattlesnakes in W.V.
Report Post »Should we send them some Vipers..
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:14pmI think there is a fairly easy way to present to people the thing they have done with paper money. They have printed so much money and so much debt that the flow used to be based on say for example a person making or being worth 40,000 dollars per year, but now it will be based on that person who is actually worth 40,000 but surprise you better decide to be worth 300,000.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:25pmAnd people who don’t want to be worth more are saying well take that additional 260,000 that I would have to be worth, and take it from the people who are worth 300,000 already. But see the problem is that then that 300,000 person will only have 40,000 left, and then they will increase the price of good and services that will cut down the value of the original 40,000 dollar people to maybe 20,000. But of course the government will try to keep that from happening, and therefore enslave that 300,000 dollar person whereby they will just quit trying to the point of not being worth 300,000 but instead 40,000 just as everyone else. And everything will continue to flat-line.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:34pmBecause I’ve got news for people, no one is created equal, and they darn sure don’t put equal work into life. Because if they all put equal work “Into” life, then they would all be born with the same fruit, but they are not. No one is born with equal fruit, and that’s why Jesus said of many “They already have their reward”, and that’s also why Jesus said “Lest you be born again you will not acquire the kingdom of Heaven.”
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:37pmAnd I know people were not created equal just by reading Genesis, because some were created after “Their” kind, and some were created after “His” kind. So eat dust, dust eaters.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:45pmAnd if you don’t want to eat dust in the after-life, and even have your remaining fruit stripped from your soul by God because you have squandered it, then I suggest you multiply your fruit for yourself while you are living.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:51pmBecause Heaven is like a wedding, and if your fruit is marginal, then you will not have on the proper garments for the wedding, and you will be made to leave.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:55pmBut just remember that unless you be born again, and be given new fruit while in the womb of your mother, then you will not acquire the Kingdom of Heaven.
Report Post »M13
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:57pmHaven’t we told you before. Do not take the red pills with yellow pills, because it makes you babble on like an idiot.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:59pmNot to confuse people with the previous “Multiply your fruit while you are living” but that it means you earn your fruit while you are living, and then when you are born again you get your earned fruit.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:05pmHey Timmy please do us a favor and don’t multiply your fruit please.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:09pmThe price of koran paper just went up.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:22pmgoing the way of russia……….i am old enough to remember no toilet paper and very long lines at the grocery storers only to find nothing there……….get use to it if obama is reelected…. and the energy sec. said today he no longer wanted european gas prices here {until after the election}
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:21pmI think your refering to the time Johnny Carson mentioned a TP shortage and it caused a panic. Later they had to say it was a joke. It was really funny at the time.
Report Post »Impenitent
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:59pm“got to get out while we’re young…”
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:19pm“…….’cause we’ve spent our coin, and our bottoms are all caked with dung.”
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:47pmOkay they are fighting over toilet paper? Here in Phoenix one of three bus unions is on the fourth day of the strike all but shutting down the mass transit system – their demands (higher wages, less hours, health care, etc.) are nuts; our city is all but broke.
This matter of NJ is another good example of a government system run nutsoid across the board; a family of squirrels would have a field day.
Maybe if their city governance got shut down for a few days it might help out.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:23pmfire them all……….get people not in union……………..
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:39amDo what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers when they thought they couldn’t be replaced. I know some retired UAW people who laugh about Sweet-Old-Barack (SOB) using taxpayer money to bail out the auto industry and pay their retirement and benefits.
Don’t for get SOBs use of your tax dollars coe November.
OMG
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