How appropriate that Biden will be visiting a (former) brothel to raise funds!

How about these rich people go write each other checks somewhere that doesn't require kids sports to be canceled, play practice to be canceled, SAT prep classes to be canceled, etc. Seriously, have it at some hotel and not a a private home, It also seems ridiculous that apparently our school system is unable to cancel events at the affected schools; no no, they have to cancel every activity system wide.

@Paul - very funny, I was thinking the same thing!
@Chris - first, nothing has been canceled, all closings were retracted by the district yesterday...second, you do understand that Normandy Park School, Frelinghuysen and MHS all have students who live in the area effected by these closures? so to "only cancel events at the affected schools" is a ridiculous statement...
I am wholly against these closures - not just because I live on Normandy Parkway, and the only way home from work for me is either Columbia Tpk or Madison Ave - because it is ridiculous to inconvenience thoursands of residents, commuters, etc. so that 2 people can have a cocktail party at rush hour. Give me a break. Why on Earth was this allowed in the first place?

The good news is the school district has reconsidered and is now back to a full day--as it should be. As a working parent as many other are, it is ridiculous to close school early just because someone important is coming to town. The fact that he's NOT visiting the children to spread the importance of education rather trying to make money for the Party is even more of a ridiculous reason to close school. I'm happy the school district has seen common sense--or perhaps listened to the concerns of the parents.
As I live down the street from Biden, I have no problem of his visiting a private home. It is the right of all people to invite whom they wish into their home but, I certainly hope I'm not paying for it in my taxes for the police to work overtime. As it is, the township has CUT many services because of the lack of government funding. I would certainly expect the Democratic Party will pay for these services and not burden the Township further.

My comments and opinions are on the original article thread about the event, itself. Glad to see they have gone back to a full day with the schools but the rest is absurd and uncalled for....have your fund raisers in a place and at a time that does not totally mess up the schedules of the rest of the community. Fund raisers are not on the top of my "must do" or "need to do" lists. This entire scenario is uncalled for and should not be a burden on the shoulders of the residents and tax payers. Who is paying for alll of ththis disruption and police/law enforcement security and traffic control, etc? I guess "we", the local taxpayers are....with the exception of possible Secret Service protection for Biden...that would be our federal taxes hard at work, I guess. Will there also be a "no fly" zone over our area??? Really, folks, this whole "party" is ridiculous. Want to raise funds for a political party??? Then do it at a time & place that does not screw up an entire community's life and schedule. IMHO.

The Patch survey questionnaire's responses are skewed such that they hardly answer the posed question. Instead, the choices simply pander to narrow partisanship without addressing the issue. "Yes" or "No" are the only reasonable option answers. Your insertion of partisanship skews the answers. One can only presume that a visit by a national Republican candidate would be welcomed. In 1992 former President George HW Bush visited Madison while campaigning for re-election and was heartily welcomed. Should we infer that the Patch is pandering to local partisanship?

President Reagan was here as well as Nixon. I remember the Reagan arrival at the Morristown Airport because it was just after he told us not to worry about poor kids not eating vegatables because they had ketchup and then the papers printed the elaborate menu to be served for his visit. A group of us carried picket signs suggested that he sybstitute ketchup for veggies also, as his limo and the secret service drove by. Yes, his visit was costly and the local municipalities were not reinbursed for the cost of their services.

At Ms Brady & Davison as I rwcall Bush was herr in a public forum as was Reagan. You seem to miss the point that this is a private fundraiser. I didn't get an invite. Did anyone else? I couldn't agree w/ Ms. Tangel more.If he was going to be in a public venue paid for by Obamas election war chest planned in a organized and thoughtful manner than I would say fine. This type of thing should never happen again and the mayor should be telling his
constituents if the Selligmans will be receiving the bill for
And Ms Feldman-you're a councilwoman and all your
worried about are walkways? Seriously?

If you expect to be traveling westbound on 78 or 24 at rush hour make sure you bring a good book to read because both will be closed for significant periods of time as the Veep travels from EWR to Morris county. Lived this nightmare back in the 90's whenever Clinton or Gore would come to NYC to collect money for their campaigns. Eight months to election day, expect more of the same.

A big problem I have with this fundraiser is that it will remove the police from patrolling the roads; we have had many burglaries in our neighborhood in the last few weeks!

@Elihu -- We're sorry you felt the options suggested partisanship. It certainly wasn't our intention, but we get the concern. Thanks for elaborating in a comment — we always want to hear as many views as possible, even if some feel we miss the mark setting up the options in a poll.

Elihu is exactly right. Why insert political leanings at all? They aren't relative to the question. Why not the following answer, "I won't vote for either candidate, but of course this is a normal occurrence in election years"?

It would have been nice to let other towns know about this too. Millburn,Springfield,Maplewood,Union.. It was terrible.