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Give The Gang A Heave-Ho
What is wrong? Why the total disconnect of the Ocean County electorate that allows a few avaricious people to pull all the strings? George Gilmore and Greg McGuckin misrepresent something important every time they open their mouths.
Voters seem to absence themselves from their own responsibility to clean up corruption and patronage that are harming their pocketbooks.
An outsider would have to wonder why a county like this has not used the ballot box opportunity afforded to them to evict those responsible for odious tax increases, a failure in important services, payroll padding on a huge scale and the disappearance of open space.
How is it a man like George Gilmore, Ocean County Republican chairman, chairman of the Ocean County Board of Elections, attorney for numerous governmental boards and municipalities, is permitted to tell you who to vote for and how to vote?
George Gilmore will deny this, though there are witnesses, but when I first met him in his palatial Allen Street office conference room in 2003, he was out to institute "good government." Those were George's words to me. He said we had a real challenge in Toms River where we were up against a real devil in Jack Moriarty, then president of the Dover Democrats. I agreed to help him and his list of candidates.
Now, Jack Moriarty is working for Gilmore. You figure that out. I already have. The "devil" now serves Gilmore's gang.
A fine young Republican, Van Spiers, a decent and hardworking family man, put himself up for mayor that year. Then, Gilmore drove him out of New Jersey after Gilmore applied pressure on all who would employ him. You see, Spiers was an engineer and all the engineering firms are part of Gilmore's empire of greed for their no bid contracts.
Not long after the new government was installed in Toms River, Gilmore was handed a useless $90,000 no-bid contract.
Recently, in an article in the Ocean County Observer, McGuckin (said) I had offered a $30,000 price to video council meetings. That was not true. That price was to video not only council meetings but planning board meetings, zoning board meetings and all other public functions of the council, mayor and in the town hall and place them on Channel 22 Comcast for all to see. These people would not know the truth it if were in front of them.
What is this, Dodge City? Do we need a federal marshal to come in and clean out boss Gilmore's operation and restore responsible, accountable government?
To highlight this old west analogy, please understand that the Republican base in Ocean County includes many loyal political machine members who have all had employment or nobid contracts at the county, state and municipal level for years, thanks to blind allegiance to Gilmore and McGuckin.
If you do not owe your job to George Gilmore, please get out to the Republican primary on June 5 and vote for the real Republican candidates. They are Robert Silva for mayor, Robert Haelig, Ed Butow, Charles Henry for council and Suzanne Penna and Pete McCarthy for freeholder.
Give boss Gilmore's gang the heave-ho and inject a breath of fresh air in Ocean County. Richard E. Schiff, Toms River
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