Ocean County Politics .com: September 26, 2002: Whitman-DiFrancesco Pension Tax Hike

Ocean County Politics .com

Whitman-DiFrancesco Spending Disaster: Part III

Virginia Haines, Self Proclaimed “Confidant” Of Whitman: She Runs, But There Is No Place To Hide

Part III-Whitman-DiFrancesco Pension Tax Hike May Cost Dover Township Taxpayers $11 Million Extra Next Year, And Ocean County Taxpayers Over $50 Million More, Because Of Failed Pension System Ponzi Scheme Based On Greed And Bad Arithmetic

Virginia Haines

Response To McGreevey’s Criticism Of Whitman: No Protest From Haines, Other Political Flunkies Seeking To Stay On The Gravy Train

Dover Township: Virginia Haines, the Republican state assemblywoman who abandoned her constituents early in her term to climb on the Whitman gravy train for an inflated salary and pension arrangement at the state lottery department, offered no comment on Democratic Governor McGreevey’s criticism of Gov. Whitman and her successor, “Acting” Governor Donald DiFrancesco, for leaving the state government a shambles.

Whitman Record Included Huge Budget Deficit,
EZ Pass, Other Scandals

Christie Whitman

Whitman’s record, augmented by "Acting" Governor Donald DiFrancesco after she resigned and left for environmental adventures in Washington D.C., included EZ Pass scandals, character assassination of GOP gubernatorial candidate Brett Schundler last year, an illegal $2.5 Billion State Budget Deficit, a costly and wasteful political patronage operation, scandals at the state DMV over the Parsons mess, aggravated over-development and sprawl, a massive increase in the state’s debt, huge losses in stock market investments ($22 Billion), more traffic gridlock, excessive development, and near insolvency in the state’s pension system.

Whitman Says McGreevey Should Stop Criticizing Her Record

"Acting Governor" Donald DiFrancesco

Whitman said Governor McGreevey should stop criticizing her record of screwing up nearly every aspect of the state government before she abandoned her New Jersey constituents, left for Washington and turned the mess over to “Acting” Governor Donald DiFrancesco who made it worse.

But the Asbury Park Press and other media say McGreevey was right.

Whitman’s patronage operation handed out big salaried jobs to every GOP political flunkie in NJ, including former lottery “director” Haines, who helped the former governor waste taxpayers’ money and destroy the morale of thousands of career public employees in the process.

In addition to other bad practices, Whitman victimized retired career public employees with an eleventh hour change in legislation which handed the bulk of pension payment increases to the same political flunkies she hired at inflated salary and benefit costs.

Haines Replaces “Mayor” Aldrich, After Manipulating
Him Off The Township Committee And Into A Job
With An Inflated Pension At The DMUA

Clarence Aldrich

Haines, a former Dover Sewer Authority Chairman who bragged about being a Christie Whitman “confidant”, was recently appointed to the Dover Township Committee to replace “Mayor” Clarence Aldrich, after she arranged for Aldrich, who abandoned his elected office in June, to get a “Superintendent” job at the Sewer Authority.

Haines, who is now a Republican candidate for Aldrich’s committee seat, has good reason to duck the role she played in Whitman’s awful record which she will try to avoid like the Bubonic plague as she tries to persuade Republican voters that she never even heard of Christie Whitman or Donald DiFrancesco or Trenton.

Haines Left DMUA With 2002 Operating Deficit
Now Estimated At $6.4 Million

Haines resigned from the Sewer Authority (DMUA) in February. Her policies, imitating Whitman’s grossly unbalanced budget and destruction of needed reserves, left the sewer agency with a current year operating deficit now estimated at more than $6 Million.

For detailed story on Gov. McGreevey’s criticism
of Whitman’s Record: Click Here