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This is a Press Release you never saw from the
New Jersey Lottery “Public Information” operation, although
all of the data is absolutely accurate and obviously something that
the “Public” would like to have information about:
For Data
Confirmation, Contact:
Jaimee Gilmartin, Lottery Public Information Officer
Office: 609-599-5875 • Fax: 609-599-5829
Release which
should have been made on 6/05/02
TAXPAYERS WILL SPEND $2011.93 TO
SEND
"ACTING"
STATE LOTTERY “DIRECTOR” CAROLE HEDINGER, VIRGINIA
HAINES’ NEIGHBOR AND CRONY, TO
NEWPORT,
RHODE
ISLAND FOR POSH SIX DAY VACATION JUNKET
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Carole
Hedinger |
Lawrenceville: Acting NJ
Lottery “Director” Carole Hedinger, a resident of
Toms River, has announced the taxpayers will spend $2011.93 to send
her to a posh vacation hotel in Newport, Rhode Island for six days
beginning June 10th.
Mrs. Hedinger, a neighbor and crony of
former lottery “Director” Virginia Haines, candidate for the Dover
Township Committee, was appointed by Haines to a $90,000 job as
“Deputy” lottery director seven years ago as a part of the Christie
Whitman political patronage recipients appreciation and enrichment
crusade.
The
Newport trip, which purportedly involves a “Spring Directors Meeting”
of the NASPL, a state lottery self congratulatory “professional”
mutual admiration society, is actually a transparent vacation junket.
Hedinger Hotel Stay To Cost Taxpayers
$201 Per Night: Meals Are Extra
The hotel, not including meals, will
cost taxpayers $1004 for five nights, at an average cost of over $200
per night.
Taxpayers will pay extra for Mrs.
Hedinger’s meals.
The Hedinger Newport junket, including
a variety of “miscellaneous” expenses, will cost the taxpayers a total
of $2011.93, according to Jaimee Gilmartin, “Public Information
Officer” for the lottery department.
Ocean County citizens who regularly spend more than $200 per night
plus meals and “miscellaneous expenses” for hotel accommodations in
Newport
will no doubt agree their money should be squandered this way.
Senior Citizens And Working Slobs May Take
Exception
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Virginia
Haines |
But Senior citizens on fixed incomes
and the other 99% of the working slobs who have to pay for their
vacation trips themselves, (spending somewhat less than $200 per night
“plus meals”) may take exception to Ms. Hedinger abusing their money
in a way they could never afford to abuse it themselves.
Mrs. Hedinger didn’t say whether her
husband, Leonard Hedinger, Chairman and Chief Squanderer of Public
Funds at the Dover Sewer Authority (also appointed at the behest of
Ms. Haines) would accompany her on the
Newport
junket, but the taxpayers have a right to hope.
103rd Out-Of-State Junket For Lottery
Queens
This will be the 103rd out-of-state
junket which Mrs. Hedinger, Ms. Haines and Lottery Marketing
“Director” Linda Melone have taken at taxpayer expense since they
became prime beneficiaries of the Whitman administration “one hand
washes the other” patronage fulfillment program.
Click Here For Story On:
Haines/Hedinger Vacation Junkets
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