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Lou Amato |
Lacey Pay Raises: Are Lou
Amato (GOP Committeeman) and George Gilmore (Township Attorney and GOP
County Chairman) losing it? Committee members voted 2-1 to give
themselves a 35% pay raise (19 times the rate of inflation).
Department heads are getting 12% raises (8 1/2 times the rate of
inflation). Can you pass pay raises without a majority voting in the
affirmative? Democratic Committeeman Bob Bischoff, who voted against
the pay raise, now has a really, really big issue. He and Amato are up
for re-election in 2003. Senior citizens on Social Security got 1.42%
cost of living raises if anybody wants to know. Let them eat cake.
Details soon.
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"Doctor" Moriarty |
County Tax Board
Politics: Late last year, one of NJ’s most respected tax
officials, Democrat Lucille Foley, was dumped from her job on the
Ocean County Tax Board and replaced with neophyte Jeff T. Horn, an
inexperienced tantrum-prone clone of Dover Democrat Boss “Doctor” Jack
Moriarty. What’s going on here? Has the Tax Board become even more
party patronage inclined? Update soon on OceanCountyPolitics•Com.
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Senator Len Connors |
Ocean County Musical
Chairs: When will Assemblyman Jeff Moran be named Ocean County
Surrogate? The hours are short because deputies handle nearly all the
work. And the pay is good ($90,000 a year). Rumors abound that Senator
Len Connors will not run again for re-election (he’s 73, but looks ten
years younger, and he loves his job). We’ll believe the retirement
rumors when it happens. Who gets Moran’s Assembly seat? Mayor Carl
Block of Stafford (that would give him three public payroll jobs),
Committeeman Lou Amato of Lacey, and Committeeman Dan Van Pelt of
Waretown have been mentioned. More on a timely basis on
OceanCountyPolitics•Com.
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Robert Toscan |
Ethical Lapses On The Ethics Board:
The last time the Dover Township Board of Ethics actually heard a
complaint, Chairman and former Republican Mayor Robert Toscan and the
Board whitewashed charges that former Republican Mayor Ray Fox had a
conflict of interest because he wanted a big workers compensation
settlement from the School board. Fox said his back hurt from standing
up in a classroom for 30 years. He was a Mathematics teacher. If
ethics charges are brought against accountant Richard Larsen for lying
about the DMUA and filing contradictory campaign disclosures and
violating the Accountant’s Creed (please don’t snicker), will those
charges also get whitewashed? Details soon on OCPolitics•Com.
(for 12/20/02)
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