"Sometimes Party Loyalty Asks Too Much” - John F. Kennedy (1958)

Violent Verbal Attack By Moriarty Clone Jeffrey Horn On Senator John F. Russo Sr. Points Up Deep Divisions Among Dover Democrats After Defeat Of Rodgers, As Russo Jr. Holds Trump Card (And Big Responsibilities) On New Committee

“Doctor” Moriarty Fails To Get The Three Sycophant Votes He Needs, So Russo Jr., Is Either ON The Hot Seat Or IN The Catbird’s Seat

Dover Township: OceanCountyPolitics•Com has learned from a variety of sources in and out of the Democratic Party, that on election night, one of local Democratic Boss “Doctor” John Moriarty’s chief cult followers initiated what amounted to a violent verbal attack on former Democratic Senator John Russo Sr.

Moriarty “Cult” Follower Horn Accuses
Senator Russo Of “Bullet Vote Campaign”

Violently shaking his finger in the face of the former Senator, an icon among Democrats, bitter Moriarty cult follower Jeff Horn, the new Democratic Municipal Chairman, allegedly attacked Russo for what he called “a bullet vote campaign that cost Tom Rodgers the election”, a charge that was patent nonsense.

The Moriarty “cult” problem, with Rodgers out of the picture, is that Democratic Committeeman John Russo Jr., the Senator’s son, becomes the arbiter of political sanity in the new Democratic administration in Dover Township, instead of the virtual irrelevancy he would have been if a Rodgers’ win had given Moriarty  and his little band of wackos the three votes (Furey, Larsen and Rodgers) he needs to make a Russo-free majority on January 1, 2003 and subsequently.

But Rodgers was narrowly beaten by former Manville Councilman Michael Fiure, so Moriarty must get Russo Jr.’s support to garner the three votes he needs to organize the Committee.

Many Democrats regard Moriarty as a “cult” leader because of his obsession with ritualistic personal allegiances and profit-based campaign initiatives.

Committeeman Russo Jr. Holds Democratic
Trump Card - How Will He Use It?

Moriarty has ordered immediate initiatives like liquidating the local sewer authority to get its reserves to phoney over a burgeoning township budget deficit, appointing Democratic patronage pigs to become the new $160,000 “labor relations” lawyers in the Law Department, finding a way to hide another double digit spending increase to fund Moriarty-inspired township payroll padding, and using his new power to blackjack Democrats in other towns to allow him and Colavito to screw up their campaigns.

But Moriarty may have to wait, if Russo Jr. exercises the trump card in favor of the taxpayers who elected him. So Russo Jr. has some very serious choices to make, choices which could have a profound effect on his own political career and on the immediate future of the community.

“Sometimes Party Loyalty Asks Too Much” - John F. Kennedy

The basic issue recalls a somewhat similar confrontation in 1958 between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, where Johnson demanded that Kennedy go along with some travesty involving a sellout to Southern Democrats. Kennedy’s response to Johnson’s appeal to party line discipline was: “Senator Johnson, sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”

Moriarty Loyalty Asks Too Much - And He
Hates And Fears The Russos

Young Russo and Moriarty were colleagues and shared office space until last year, but Moriarty’s paranoia and passion for surrounding himself with supplicants and toadies to the detriment of a serious Democratic program, put an end to the relationship. Russo threw him out.

The Democrats should have won by at least 1500 votes because, as we all remember so vividly, the unelected Republican “administration” made a bad joke out of the local government every week for an entire year (three bogus “mayors” in six months, the ballad of “camera crusher” Carmine Inteso, the Home Depot and JAMM Realty fiascos, the Haines-Aldrich DMUA job exchange, etc., etc.) and then the GOP lied about all of the above throughout the entire political campaign.

Pathetically Weak Democratic Campaign

With a plethora of major issues which could easily have devastated the GOP, Moriarty and his rubber stamp candidates put together a pathetically weak campaign effort that emphasized a big profit for Moriarty, but came up very short on real substance.

With Reorganization Day only a few weeks away, OceanCountyPolitics•Com will liven up the holiday season with special reports on the projected arrival of Santa Claus in Dover Township, and lots more on “Doctor” Moriarty and his quest for more hero worship and profits from “loyal” Dover Township Democrats.   (for 11/25/02)

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