Will The Liars Answer For Their Lies And Apologize For Corrupting And Demeaning The Political Process?

OceanCountyPolitics•Com Campaign Police Are Assembling A Collection Of Campaign Publications From Members Of Both Parties, In And Out Of Dover Township

A Comprehensive Evaluation Will Be Made Over The Next Several Weeks, And Those Who Are Responsible For The Huge Cascade Of Misinformation Will Be Ask To Retract Their Lies And Apologize To The Voters For Misleading Them

The misinformation circulated by the President of the East Dover Little League in his endorsement of Democratic candidates last week is the freshest example of the kind of grotesque distortion circulated during the recent campaign in Dover Township.

It was not the worst lie, nor was it the last in a series of lies. Any Top Ten list of the Worst Liars In Ocean County would have to include deposed Committeewoman Virginia Haines and Republican Boss RC Clement right up at the very top of the list.

But the James Ansbach situation is helpful because it illustrates how these things can get out of hand, and pretty soon, with Boss Clement and Ms. Haines as notorious but successful examples, everybody in the room is circulating misinformation.

Ansbach’s press release, prepared for him by Democratic party boss Jack Moriarty and “Mayor” designate John Furey, circulated the ridiculous charge that the DMUA wanted to “punish thousands of kids and their families” by refusing to hook up sewers at the East Dover Little League.

The bogus charge was in a release following a letter Ansbach wrote to the parents of little league ballplayers, despite the fact that he knew perfectly well his charge was baseless.

Sewers Installed More Than Fifteen Years Ago

Nobody “refused” to hook up sewers, which were installed at the little league site more than fifteen years ago. Ansbach’s letter was written to support Democrat candidate Richard Larsen.

Clement And Wnek Apparently Lie When It Isn’t Even “Necessary”

The Republicans could have answered Ansbach’s phoney charge simply by saying it wasn’t true, and pointing out the sewers Ansbach was lying about were already in the ground for fifteen years.

But, instead, they had to compound Ansbach’s lie with one of their own from former Public Works “coordinator”, and compulsive patronage hog Paul Wnek, the Vice Chairman of the DMUA.

Wnek’s Inaccurate Press Release Initiated By Boss Clement

Wnek’s press release, initiated by GOP boss R. C. Clement, contained another unnecessary distortion when it represented that if Ansbach had “not hung up so quickly”, he “would have learned that nothing had changed, and that the favor to the Little League was still being honored by the MUA,”, a representation that was patently untrue.

Larsen and Ansbach and Clement and Wnek and Furey, and especially Moriarty, the spin doctor for the Democratic candidates, will be asked to explain the situation and say in a straightforward way whether they are willing to retract this and any previous misstatements they may have circulated with the intention of deceiving and misleading the voters they were asking to trust their candidates.

Campaign Police Will Ask Candidates For A
Collection Of Campaign Publications

So when candidates and public officials-elect are asked to fork over a collection of their campaign publications for our files and evaluations, it would be appreciated if they are straightforward about it and get them to us in a timely manner.

Lots and lots more on this issue in the fullness of time from OceanCountyPolitics•Com (for 11/07/02)

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