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"Doctor"
Township Committeeman
"Mayor" Designate
John Furey
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WOW!! Four Lies In One Sentence!!
OCPolitics Readers And Captain Renault
Are Shocked!! Shocked!!
Local Politicians Are Lying Again!!
Furey
Makes It Into The Guinness Book With Four Whoppers In A Single
Sentence Re: Larsen Tax And Spend Plan To Dissolve DMUA And Bail Out
The Runaway Township Budget
“Doctor”
Moriarty Squeezed Two Lies And Three Grotesque Exaggerations
Into A Single Short Campaign Flier; But “Doctor” Furey Is Now
Ahead Of Everybody With Four Lies In One Compound Sentence
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Captain
Renault Is
"Shocked" |
Dover Township:
“Doctor”
Mayor Designate John Furey has made it to the head of the Liars Parade
with four distinct and separate lies in a single sentence.
In a press
release apparently prepared for him by “Doctor” John Moriarty, Furey
regurgitated the following sentence regarding the wacky proposal by
Dover Township Committeeman-elect Harold Larsen to dissolve the Dover
Municipal Utilities Authority and use its assets to cover up explosive
spending increases in the township expense budget.
The four
false claims in a single sentence by “Doctor” Furey: “This plan is
good for the township (1) and good for the residents (2) and it will
lower taxes (3) and it made good fiscal sense (4)”, said “Doctor”
Furey.
The claims
are all false. Lets take them one at a time:
Furey
Lie #1: “It’s Good For The Township”
Plan
Is Good For The Township?: The numbers show that Larsen’s plan
will do what every other scheme of its kind has done every time it has
been tried in Dover Township: Inspire big spending increases and raise
both taxes and sewer rates before very long. It is NOT good for the
Township.
Furey
Lie #2: “It’s Good For The Residents”
Plan
Is Good For The Residents?: The local sewer rate has been
stable for 19 years because the DMUA budget has been balanced with
income earned from the agency’s reserves. If the DMUA is turned over
to the Dover Township Public Works Department (the one that can’t get
the leaves picked up efficiently), and the reserves turned over to
out-of-control politicians in the new township committees majority,
the sewer rate will go UP, not down. The Larsen plan is NOT good for
residents.
Furey
Lie #3: “It Will Lower Taxes”
Plan
Will Lower Taxes?: “Doctor” Furey should give us all a break
and, in the words of Archie Bunker, stifle himself. Furey’s brand of
deficit politics produced a world class local tax increase in 1980, a
record sewer rate increase in 1982; a humongous county sewer rate hike
in 1983; a huge school tax increase in 1988; and the largest municipal
tax increase in the history of South Jersey municipalities in 1993, as
Township officials paid the price for doing precisely what Larsen and
Furey want to inflict on the community again. The Larsen plan WON’T
lower taxes.
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"Doctor"
Moriarty
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Furey
Lie #4: “It Made Good Fiscal Sense”
Plan
Made Good Fiscal Sense?: Within a few years, all the money
will be gone, spent by the great thinkers who are about to inflict
themselves and their wacky spending ideas on us to produce another big
financial crisis for the sixth time in 22 years. The result this time,
because the financial stakes are higher, and the township budget is
further out of control, will be BOTH a world class sewer rate increase
AND a world class tax increase. The Larsen plan is fiscal nonsense.
World
Class Sewer Rate Increase
AND Two World Class Tax Increases
AND,
because a lot of argumentation over the cockamamie Larsen-Furey DMUA
dissolution plan will push the need for an adequate plan to fight
overdevelopment and acquire open space even further into the
background, you can throw in a world class school tax increase just
for good measure.
That’s
three serious problems: two big tax increases and a big rate increase.
And it all starts with four lugubrious lies in one Moriarty-inspired
“Doctor” Furey sentence.
And he
hasn’t even been sworn in yet as the township’s last and final bogus
“Mayor”.
(for 12/6/02)
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Larsen-Furey plan to raise
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