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Part I - In Brick, John Barrett Mixes It Up With Max The Puppet, But Ignores The Scarpelli Administration

Former GOP Mayoral Candidate John Barrett, With No Bricktown Election To Foul Up, Attacks Max The Puppet, Who Is Running For Mayor In Dover Township

Brick Township: Max the Puppet, a non-partisan candidate running for Mayor in Dover Township under the slogan, "Get A Puppet For Mayor", has come under vicious personal attack from former Brick Mayoral candidate John Barrett.

In a mean spirited letter to the Asbury Park Press, the full text of which is included in the OceanCountyPolitics•Com letter section, Mr. Barrett singled out Max as “made up- imagery” and also attacked OceanCountyPolitics•Com editor, Richard Schiff.

Schiff, a totally innocent citizen who has never even set foot in Brick Town Hall, was assaulted by Barrett's poison pen as using “his distorted views via hurtful personal attacks”, a shocking departure from the plain truth.

Barrett also complained that OceanCountyPolitics•Com coverage emphasized Dover Township, and did not give Brick Township the attention it "deserved".

No Brick Election This Year

OceanCountyPolitics•Com has learned during a short investigation that there was no local election in Brick this year, a fact that has been verified by recent geiger counter measurements of the relatively low level of bragging and posturing from Brick Town Hall recently.

The political inactivity (and hence the coverage) in Brick is also reflected in the near total absence of loyal opposition activity in Bricktown, where Mr. Barrett, the titular leader of the opposition party, wants to be a candidate in the enormously important council elections for which candidates will be fielded in a little over four months.

Brick Council Control Will Be Contested

Control of the Bricktown Council will be up for grabs, as four of the seven council seats will be contested and, if the issues are any indication, assuming Mr. Barrett and other Republicans wake up sooner than they did when Barrett was the mayoral candidate last year, Republicans could grab all four seats and take control four to three.

This would give the GOP an equal voice on many aspects of the Brick local government, particularly in the preparation of the annual budget, which dictates the tax rate.

Would Hold Scarpelli Hostage To GOP Policies

Mr. Barrett has complained about "spending" and "tax increases" but has never made OceanCountyPolitics•Com aware of a single specific recommendation about budget cuts in spending plans of the administration of Democratic Mayor Joseph Scarpelli.

Instead, Barrett turns his attention to a puppet who, unlike the Scarpelli administration, has never done a thing to injure good public policy.                         (for 11/19/02)

Coming Soon On OceanCountyPolitics•Com: Bricktown Part II: More about the Barrett attacks on Max, taxes and spending and nepotism and bad planning and political payoffs and the dismal loyal opposition, where the only thing worse than the performance level of the Scarpelli administration is the quality of the Republican opposition.

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