Part I: Furey Leaves Town - The Last Straw??

Is The Badly Timed Out-Of-State - Out-Of-Country “Vacation” The Last Straw?? Should John “Doctor” Furey Get The Fifth “OCPolitics•Com Ten Worst Public Officials” Nomination??

Furey Is Designated As The Last Appointed Bogus “Mayor” Of Dover Township At A Time When The Community Desperately Needs Some Leadership, So He Reportedly Takes Off For Texas And South America, And Will Apparently Miss The Two Most Important Meetings Of The Year For The Lame Duck Township Committee

Clueless Democrat Sold His Political Soul To “Doctor” Moriarty, Sucked Up To Patronage Interests, Mismanaged Everything He Touched For Two Years; Then, He Lies About The Sewer Authority, Cites Non-Existent Report

Dover Township: John Furey has been a flop as a member of the Democratic “loyal opposition”.

And if recent days are any indication, taxpayers can expect little improvement from Furey as the township’s last bogus appointed “mayor” in the transition to a new government.

Furey’s answer to urgent problems of overdevelopment, open space acquisition, and traffic gridlock - not to mention a transition to the new government approved by the people in the recent referendum - is to head South on a winter vacation when he's supposed to be attending to the public business.

AWOL For The Year’s Two Most Important Meetings

Furey will apparently be absent for what could easily be described as the two most important meetings of the year.

The lame duck Democrats will take control of the township committee for twelve months while the new mayor and council is being nominated and elected.

Democrats Cannot Agree On Patronage
Appointments So Furey Leaves Town

But it became apparent at the last committee meeting that the Democrats couldn’t agree on lucky campaign contributors to get township patronage appointments at the new year (funded with taxpayers’ money, of course).

If there ever was a time for a public official to attend the meetings he was elected to attend, that time would be now.

There is nothing more important to the community than to do a good job during this vital transition period but “Doctor” Furey is now apparently AWOL for two meetings of the Township Committee.

Furey Again Turns Over Patronage Chores To Boss Moriarty

This is bad enough, but Furey has apparently again turned over complete responsibility for the little party patronage matter to party boss “Doctor” Jack Moriarty, who is now furiously wheeling and dealing trying to nurture an embryonic patronage empire and preserve what is left of his flagging credibility in the County Democratic party.

So (hopefully) when the “mayor” designate returns from South America, the whole tawdry patronage business will be all straightened out and the tail will wag the dog again, and “Doctor” Furey will get his marching orders from Moriarty without the tiresome need to expend any intellectual energy on trying to do the right thing for the community.

Furey Is Literally Asking For A
“Worst Public Officials” Top Ten Nomination

“Doctor” Furey is literally asking for a citation as the next OceanCountyPolitics•Com nominee for the “Top Ten List” of Worst Public Officials in Ocean County.

He sold his political soul and sold the community out to the greedy and treacherous Moriarty.

He looked the other way while his own election reports were tainted by Moriarty and other political hacks.

He lied about the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority and, when he was called on it and asked for documentation, he said ponderously over and over: “I am relying on the report developed by Tom Rodgers and Rich Larsen”.

The "Larsen-Rodgers Report”, of course, is a figment of Furey’s imagination, unless he is referring to a couple of confusing and contradictory press releases which could not be even marginally called a “report” by anybody with a brain.

Furey Rejected Only Open Space Acquisition
Plan That Could Have Worked

Furey rarely answers his mail and rejected, without even giving it a hearing, the only open space plan that could have worked to counter overdevelopment, because the plan was offered by a conservative Republican who was not connected with the township committee.

When the township budget was voted on a few weeks ago, Furey never criticized its world class 10% spending increase ($5 million) because, as he acknowledged, he wanted to spend even more.

The local government is clearly falling apart, but the leader-designate has, reportedly, left for South America.

Click to “Four Lies In One Sentence” for more on “Doctor” Furey’s credibility.

Lots and lots more on Mayor-Designate Furey’s apparent near-neurotic desire to be part of the OCPolitics Top Ten Worst Public Officials list as time marches on. (for 12/16/02)

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