08/11/2022
East Hanover Treats People Helping Cats as Criminals
In a shocking and misleading video, the Township of East Hanover showed edited photos of garbage and implied TNR caregivers were destroying the town. To make matters worse, the town's police put up cameras to catch and prosecute the caregivers. In the video, photos of the caregivers were shown and the town portrayed these good people as the equivalent of violent criminals. Furthermore, the town showed photos of coyotes and stated TNR people attracted these "dangerous" animals (they are not). In reality, coyotes are everywhere in northern New Jersey. Additionally, the town cited false information from PETA that says TNR does not work when in fact it does.
The most absurd part of the video discussed how the town puts feral cats up for adoption at shelters and those not adopted get transferred to "regional animal facilities." In reality, truly feral cats can't be adopted. Furthermore, the town's animal control provider, Animal Control Solutions, provides no paper trail of where animals go and what happens to them. If East Hanover wants us to believe its cats are safe, it would provide a full accounting of each cat, each facility it went to and what its final outcome was.
Unfortunately, this is part of a long pattern by Mayor Joseph Pannullo who has bullied women at town council meetings who dared to exercise their rights to free speech. During these meetings, Mayor Pannullo cut off these women, yelled at them and treated them with utter disrespect. Similarly, Mayor Pannullo refused to stop using a town attorney who was part of a huge illegal campaign contribution scheme until that town attorney withdrew himself. Simply put, Mayor Joseph Pannullo is a bully, close minded and deserves to be booted out of office.
East Hanover Video Treating TNR Caregivers as Criminals: https://vimeo.com/735809940?fbclid=IwAR0aGZMpuqMqTLDWaefFy9zN9M7xmQeQY5V-ivg5zNd9Jekup-cCjh5tMIQ