We
Told You So: Grand Jury Clears Planning Board Of Criminal Wrongdoing
Is It
Too Late For Democrats To Recoup On Political Issues Generated By Posse
Greed?
The
Posse: Who Are They? What Do They Want?
Democrat
John Furey Messed Up Big Time By Sending Non-Criminal Posse Issues To The
Prosecutor After Arrogant New GOP Patronage Seekers Pulled Traditional
Political Payoff Greed Act, And Ms. Potter, Aligned With Power-Freaked Old
Guard, Tried To Blow The Whistle
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John Furey
Credibility Damaged, But Maybe Not Forever |
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Frank Sadeghi
Posse II |
Toms
River:
A grand jury has cleared the Dover Township Planning board of any
“criminal” wrongdoing in connection with charges made by former Board
Chair Margaret Potter as she resigned early this year, saying a “Posse” of
insurgent upstarts tried to exercise undue “influence” on the board.
When the
Republican “Posse” first reared its ugly head, Democratic Township
Committeeman John Furey and party chief Jack Moriarty saw an opportunity
to grab some cheap headlines.
Even If
Potter’s Charges Were All True, The Issues Were Not Criminal
Never mind
that Potter’s charges, even if they were all true, would not have
constituted “criminal” conduct. Mrs. Potter never even suggested that
there were any “criminal” implications in her “undue influence”
allegations.
Furey and
Moriarty screamed for a prosecutor’s investigation instead of seizing on
the issues of political influence, overdevelopment, political payoffs, bad
planning, political greed, chronic mendacity, gridlocked traffic and the
expensive and counter productive GOP party patronage implicit in the Posse
allegations.
Planning
Board: A Developer’s
Paradise
And Pure Hell For The Taxpayers
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Michael Fiure
Possee III |
These are
the factors which have made the Dover Township Planning Board and the
Township Committee a developer’s paradise, and pure hell for taxpayers,
who will pay through the nose when the inevitable chickens come home to
roost.
It was
easier for the Democrats to scream for headlines and demand “criminal”
justice, instead of the work it would have taken to evaluate the issues
confronting taxpayers who are now starting to pay the price of Posse
greed.
Grandstanding and posturing non stop, Furey even set up a “Posse Hot Line”
to get “information” on Posse misdeeds.
Posse
Violated A Whole Bunch Of Basic Republican Policy Principles
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Carmine Inteso
Posse 1 |
The Posse
may have violated no criminal statutes but, just like its senior township
GOP colleagues, it violated a whole bunch of important public policy
principles, including some of the most sacrosanct Republican principles
that have made government successful when they have been honored.
Fiscal
conservatism, attention to the public interest, controlled spending,
conservation, careful planning and avoidance of of nepotism and payroll
padding were all abandoned wholesale for simple old political and
financial greed.
But
criminal? No evidence of that. Furey and Moriarty know that costly
political payoffs are a cherished way of life in the Dover GOP, but are
generally not illegal.
The
Democrats wasted a lot of valuable time lurching after a criminal
investigation that any good criminal lawyer could have told them would
lead to nothing and would likely backfire.
Is it now
too late for the Posse issues? Find out by watching for our non-criminal
Posse series, coming soon, at www•oceancountypolitics•com.
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