Episode 143

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This past Saturday the Bob & Steve Show broadcast live on Crusin 92.1 FM on location at Crust N Krumbs Bakery, the winner of our first ever South Jersey Bakery Donut Review. We were honored to present Ann, the owner, with a plaque for winning our review. We were happy for Ann that we were joined by Congressman Jeff Van Drew, state Senator Michael Testa, Assemblyman Antwan McClellan, Cumberland County Commissioner Doug Albrecht and Vineland City Councilman Paul Spinelli who presented her with proclamations, commendations and citations for winning the review and her dedication to the community.

If you missed the 143rd episode of the Bob & Steve Show live on Crusin’ 92.1 FM you can listen to it or download it here. For those who prefer to listen live and live outside our broadcast area you can listen on TuneIn or at wvlt.com Saturday mornings from 8:00-10:00.

As always, you can listen to any of our past shows on the Radio Shows page.

PRESS RELEASE: Donuts For Breakfast On The Radio

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As promised The Bob & Steve Show will be awarding the winner of our South Jersey Donut Bakery Review a plaque live on the air Saturday. It’ll be a big show with many others joining us. We just issued a press release on the matter, the release follows:

Donuts For Breakfast On The Radio

Elected officials will join radio show co-hosts at local bakery

VINELAND – The Bob & Steve Show, a talk radio program co-hosted by former Cumberland County Republican Chairman Bob Greco and veteran South Jersey GOP political operative Steve Kush will award Crust N Krumbs Bakery of Vineland with a plaque for winning the radio show’s first ever South Jersey Donut Bakery Review. The show will be broadcast live from Crust N Krumbs Bakery on Crusin’ 92.1FM from 8:00AM – 10:00AM Saturday.

Joining The Bob & Steve Show co-hosts and awarding commendations and proclamations of their own to Crust N Krumbs Bakery will be US Congressman Jeff Van Drew, state Senator Michael Testa, Assemblymen Antwan McClellan and Erik Simonsen, Cumberland County Commissioner Doug Albrecht and Vineland City Councilman Paul Spinelli.

Over the last several weeks as part of the weekly talk radio program Greco and Kush were joined by Barrington GOP municipal Chairman Bob DelVecchio, who suggested the segment and offered to provide the donuts each week, and the show’s producer Norm Donohue in rating donuts on a scale of 1 to 10. Donuts from bakeries in Camden County, Gloucester County, Cumberland County and Cape May County were reviewed. The review was a way to promote local businesses during the pandemic.

“We were happy to do our part to help promote local businesses in what has been a difficult time for mom-and-pop shops,” Bob Greco commented. “Especially during these difficult times when government is strangling small business it was our way to help. At The Bob & Steve Show we understand the importance of small business. Congratulations to Crust N Krumbs on a job well done. And, congratulations to all we reviewed for baking quality products.”

“Never in our wildest dreams did we think a weekly review of donuts would attract so much attention. Folks who listen to WVLT called and emailed every week with suggestions of bakeries to review. We were happy to do our part to help steer extra customers to local businesses during what are very difficult times for small businesses,” Steve Kush said.

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It’s A New Year And Vineland Is Getting A New Council President. The Question Is Why!

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Under Mayor Anthony Fanucci’s leadership Vineland has been improving. City voters know it, that’s why Fanucci cruised to re-election and his council slate received opposition from only one candidate.

Fanucci has had a great working relationship with city council. No doubt the council ship has been steered by Council President Paul Spinelli. No one can argue that Spinelli hasn’t done a fantastic job as Council President.

Regular listeners of the Bob & Steve Show heard the bombshell dropped by Bob on last Saturday’s show that Paul Spinelli will not be Council President come the new year.

The obvious question is why.

You don’t hire a new coach for a winning team. Vineland has been winning. So that can’t be it.

There was an argument that tradition calls for the top vote getter to be installed as Council President.

That argument is untrue! Some of us are old enough to remember when Cumberland County Freeholder/Commissioner Doug Albrecht was on Vineland City Council. He was top vote getter and was NOT Council President. Nope! No tradition!

Sources close to the situation tell us there was a meeting between a few stakeholders.

What we were able to get out of our sources is that a Democratic party leader, Todd Edwards, from Bridgeton was at the meeting.

Sources confirmed to us that Edwards was there to lobby for Dr. Elizabeth Arthur becoming Council President. We were informed some stakeholders at the meeting pushed back and they were told it could become problematic if Dr. Arthur is not made Council President. It’s also when the top vote getter lie was floated.

Of course, this leads us to wonder exactly why there could be issues if Dr. Arthur is not installed as Council President. Under current leadership Vineland has been running better than it has in years. Besides, who holds the position of Council President is something the typical city resident pays little, if any, attention to. It’s an inside baseball kind of thing.

We’re also wondering why a resident of Bridgeton had any role in selecting who might become Vineland Council President. Why was Edwards even part of this discussion? Did Dr. Arthur invite him? If not, then who invited him and why? Why not invite a Republican leader to the meeting to balance things out? Why not invite another out-of-towner to make a decision about Vineland’s government?

Why not invite one person each from the unincorporated communities of Vineland, Alabama, Vineland, Colorado and Vineland, Florida? It makes as much sense as having someone living in Bridgeton play a role in who serves as Council President in Vineland.

Vineland has been running better under current leadership than it has in years. Suddenly, someone wants to change course. It makes no sense.

What makes even less sense is that someone who doesn’t live in Vineland is playing a role in the decision to change course in Vineland.

We’re going to keep our eyes on this situation. No doubt there is more to come.