Filing a lawsuit against the township against their own attorneys advice and losing twice and the judge calling it political in nature is how you handle being outvoted? Getting a ride home from a police officer is not special treatment and causing the Township shame all over the news? That is not what I call a good leader. I would love to see cancelled check for paying your attorney 5k. You should have spent it on anger management seminars.

Big egos produce big battles for control. The four trustees that changed the hiring/appointment policy triggering the lawsuit response should be ashamed of themselves. This dysfunction is about power and control. The Supervisor was not driving while intoxicated and did not ever ask for a ride home. Perhaps the error was the police officers. I have found that anger management seminars are suspect. Some of the biggest bullies around lead anti-bullying campaigns and seminars.
I will not be choosing the newcomer Johnathan Warshay over the current Supervisor. His campaign material has been mean-spirited with three quarters of it dedicated to ripping apart his opponent. Warshay can't believe that his negative messages promote unity and balance. A resident at the last township board meeting said that his communication to voters is lowering the morale of township empoyees. He may not be intentionally trying to do that so he should examine the impact of his words before he voices verbally or in print.
Voters should take a look at the Republican, Dennis Thomson.

Given the amount of money and time that lawsuit cost the Township, the Supervisor's actions were irresponsible. Presume for one moment that she was correct (which both the Circuit and Appellate Courts found she was not)- so what? She had the Township spend approximately $50,000 so that the Supervisor alone could appoint the Police Chief? Or better still, trying to make sure a Board member cannot reject pay from the Township? Really? Brown should have been commended for rejecting additional income from the Township in exchange for his services to it. Is this the type of purely procedural, political power issue the Supervisor should be focused on? Do we not have enough issues in the Township? Meanwhile, aside from the lawsuit, the disharmony between the Supervisor and Board is creating a non-functioning governing body. Unless all of the Trustees can be immediately replaced along with the Supervisor, then we need to at least take whatever action we presently can to restore a working Township.

Have you looked at Ureste's campaign literature? At least three separate pieces had Warshay's photo with a yellow border and several misstatements of truths about his views. None of her "facts" are substantiated. There is nothing untrue in Warshay's literature. And while the supervisor may not have been driving that vehicle, she was a passenger in it. It was her job to tell the police officers to treat her husband as they would treat any other driver found driving over the legal limit - she failed to do this, putting the police officers in a very awkward position, as she is technically their boss. And the "resident" you refer to was reading from a prepared script which contained untruths and misrepresentations. She accused me, Warshay's fiancee, of making statements I never made. She never laid on eyes on me before that night. When I asked her where she got her information, she ran into the ladies room and hid, saying she never met Ureste and Kaplan before. When she came back into the board room, Ureste was mouthing words to her from the podium and she was smiling in response. This is professionalism? No, it's disgraceful and embarrassing - a township of West Bloomfield's stature deserves better. And the trustees don't need to be ashamed of themselves, because FOUR separate judges agreed with them. Ureste and Kaplan are the ones who wasted taxpayer dollars and time they should have used serving the residents.

So candidate Warshay is saying that his focus is telling the bad news about Ureste instead of the good news about himself. Come on, he could run a positive campaign but he chooses not to because winning is more important to him than professionalism. The voters of this community are unhappy with all seven incumbents. Warshay, the attorney, clearly thinks that he can build his best case for becoming Supervisor by hammering away at Ureste instead of promoting himself. His judgment is poor. The voters of this township want a positive change ... not a new supervisor that behaves like the one he would like to replace.

No Mr. Scott. It is imperative that Warshay informs the taxpayers that she lost two lawsuits she never had a chance of winning. That she took a ride from a police officer which she had no right to do. You know the score. It is the duty of all residents to know that she sued the township and that Warshay would never stoop to such a level. If she was doing her job well, Warshay would never run. It is a distinct difference. Ureste and Kaplan may win, if they do so be it. We think John is a better candidate because he is not suing his the taxpayers. Why is your Republican running as a write in?

Johnathan Warshay is an unknown, just like Ureste was four years ago. He has only lived here for two years as a live-in guest of a local homeowner. He is not paying school taxes, public saftey taxes, a library tax or any other tax as I do.
If the negative campaign materials that he sent out about Ureste doesn't communicate her shortcomings, nothing will. However, he needs to realize that those negative campaign materials tell a story about him also. In my opinion, he is stoopiing (term used above) down to a low level which tells me that he may be capable of far more negative actions if elected.

Ureste says hiring/firing policy of Board sets a hostile work environment. I guess she doesn't remember the shabby treatment she fostered to the former directors of the Ordinance Enforcement Department, the Planning Director she fired, the Building Director who was fired, and me, dismissing me three days before my retirement. Ironically, she did most of this stuff while working with the Township Clerk, whom she supported, but, now sues.
I am the former HR Director, Kent Herbert, and I know what a hostile work environment is, and Michele Ureste was the first to foster it.

That is exactly why she has to go. A pure power monger and Warshay has no choice but to tell uninformed voters what she has done creating such a hostile work environment. If she were to win I would organize a recall immediately.

A Republican organizing a recall because the voters choose to re-elect the incumbent (see previous comment). Good luck with that.

Who organized recalls in all of the other races, the opposite party! Just wait and see what happens. Flaisher is waiting in the wings. Nice to hear from you again ficticious Louise. Do you like having your Twp. supervisor start a lawsuit that cost the taxpayers money and lost, then vote for her.

There are two other choices besides Ureste and Warshay for Supervisor (see today's Patch story on Independent candidate David Flaisher in announcements). I assume there will be coverage on the fourth candidate for Supervisor, Dennis Thomson shortlly. I hope that Patch readers will look for substance in my comments as I did when you talked about "recall" in yours (subjective).
I will remain anonymous because it's more peaceful and safer this way. I don't want to be bullied over my online opinions.
By the way, I agree with Mr. Scott. Candidate Warshay has turned out to be a real mudslinger.

Anybody but Ureate!

No Warshay. He appears to be more of the same.

Mr. Scott and Ms. Cantor: Have you been reading Ureste's attack pieces? We received a piece just today, accusing Warshay of things he never said or did! Have you checked his record as Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem in Ferndale? He was a great negotiator who did much to better that community and restore harmony to a contentious board. He will do the same here. You are misinformed about many things. Warshay does own a home here. Since he has lived in WB, he has become active in the Optimist Club, the Jewish Coalition against Domestic Violence, and supported Friendship Circle, our public safety personnel, and many other worthy causes. He has not taken any personal shots at the incumbent; he has merely pointed out things that are already public record: her failed and costly lawsuit and her abuse of power regarding her husband's drunk driving incident. The mud she has been slinging in her attack pieces has no basis in fact. She is even trying to "spin" the facts of the lawsuit to make it sound as if the court ruled in her favor! She recruits residents at every board meeting to sling mud on her behalf. I caught one of them at the last meeting, reading a script filled with lies about Warshay and about me, his fiancee. West Bloomfield deserves an honest leader. Warshay is honest. Nobody who knows him - coworkers, neighbors, or those who served with him in Ferndale - will say otherwise. Many people have been lied to by the current supervisor. Ask some of her employees for starters.

The registered voters that I know who have received his campaign material find it very focused on the negative rather than on his accomplishments or his vision for the township. it's disappointing.

And what do those same registered voters say about Ureste's material? The pieces that contain Warshay's photo along with a picture of some unidentified man crossing his fingers behind his back. That is disappointing...also misleading and very unprofessional. Warshay's material does contain information about his background - and his upcoming piece will have more about his vision for the township, although it does not appear that you really want to know the truth. I don't understand the double standard at work here - you say it's bad for Warshay to point out the negative things in Ureste's record, but it's okay when she attacks him? Which she does not only in print but by inviting a cast of characters to the board meetings to give speeches on topics they clearly have no knowledge or understanding of. The last one said she was quoting from the Court of Appeals opinion - she was quoting Ureste instead, and she probably didn't even know she was spouting a bunch of lies. I had the opinion in front of me, and the words this woman read were nowhere to be found in those documents. I wonder where they came from???

Ronelle you are arguing with a fake person in Louise who is worried about giving a real name. I appreciate her or his statements which he is free to do but do not like the cowardly approach. Ureste must go, I talked to a Democratic politician today who told me that he hopes she loses and is way over head and makes the party look horrible with the lawsuits and is working behind the scenes for Warshay. BIG NAME DEMOCRAT.

So this BIG NAME DEMOCRAT is hiding his or her identity as Louise has chosen to do. Perhaps the Republicans that voted for Ureste in 2008 should worry about getting their own candidates elected. Ms. Cantor made a valid point. It sounds like she is not voting for Warshay or Ureste and will cast her vote for Dennis Thomson or David Flaisher.

Sounds good to me!