OceanCountyPolitics•Com Gains Added Measure Of Respectability With Asbury Park Press Feature Article Including Giant Photo Of Mayoralty Candidate Max The Puppet And Bearded Friend

AP Press Acknowledges OCP Is “A Must Read For Politicians And Political Insiders” And Calls WebSite The Medium “Local Politicians Love To Hate”

WebSite Is “Filled With Erroneous Information”, Says Virginia Haines, Adding She Has “Never Looked At The WebSite”; “Doctor” John Furey Says WebSite “Is Not Credible”, But Says He “Doesn’t Know The Contents”

Ocean County: OceanCountyPolitics started offering lightning video coverage of township committee meetings a couple of months ago and has been very much in physical evidence ever since.

So much so that Asbury Park Press reporter Jean Mikle met with mayoralty candidate Max The Puppet and OceanCountyPolitics editor Rich Schiff in front of Town Hall, home of the Lame Duck township committee still in charge of wrecking the town pending the complete transformation of the government via the 2003 Mayor and Council election following voter approval of the Change of Government last November.

The Press noted in a January 28th article that the OceanCountyPolitics Web Site came about in the wake of the “Posse” scandal that rocked Dover’s Planning Board in the Spring of last year.

“Schiff said the Posse scandal piqued his interest in starting up a local political WebSite”, the Press article noted, and the rest, as they say, is recent history.

The Press also got quotes from several local political figures and the comments were quite predictable.

Virginia Haines used the opportunity to continue her policy of distorting nearly everything, no matter how foolish it makes her look.

Haines Charged The Website Is “Filled With
Erroneous Information”, But Offered No Corrections

Haines charged the WebSite is “filled with erroneous information”, but offered no corrections to the “erroneous information”. This has been her practice since OceanCountyPolitics began using public records to correct the misinformation in her public statements.

She should have quit while she was ahead. The Press was extremely kind to her, making reference to articles citing “several trips she had taken - using taxpayer dollars - as executive director of the New Jersey Lottery”.

Same Old Haines Coverup Of Dozens Of Trip
Junkets And Double Dip Health Benefits Scam

Facts on the public record show Haines spent 337 days out of town on dozens of lottery junkets. She and two other lottery employees used public funds on more than 100 junkets costing taxpayers more than $100,000.

Then, when she retired with a bloated monthly pension payment, she put in for $9787 in “unused vacation time” - and lucky taxpayers paid the bill.

Furthermore, public records show that every year, double dipper Haines helped herself to expensive extra health coverages at the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority, even though she didn’t need the second coverages because the taxpayers were already paying for the first one as a result of her $110,000 lottery job.

We don’t want to bore readers with the entire list of Haines’ record of greed and self serving ambition, but if there is anything “erroneous” about information taken directly from the pubic record, Ms. Haines is cordially invited to correct it. These invitations have been extended before - there have been no takers.

Also, Ms. Haines told the Press she “has never looked at the WebSite.”

Furey “Doesn’t Know The Contents”, But He
Knows The “WebSite Is Not Credible”

“Doctor” Township Committeeman John Furey admitted he “doesn’t know the contents” of the WebSite, but he knows by some mysterious process of political osmosis that the WebSite “is not credible.” Baloney!

The Press correctly described OceanCountyPolitics as a “must read” for “politicians and political insiders”. Are Haines and Furey the only politicians in Ocean County who have never accessed the WebSite? Or are they the only ones who have lied about it? We don’t know.

But we will continue bringing Ocean County residents the whole political story, and as accurate as we can possibly make it; and if the politicians don’t like being confronted with their own misrepresentations, our advice is not to make them in the first place. We congratulate and thank the Press for a great article.

Author Of The Eight Rules Of Good Local Government
Says WebSite Provides Important Service

As former Assemblyman Robert K. Haelig Jr., author of the Eight Rules of Good Local Government and an OceanCountyPolitics Dot Commentator, told the Press, the WebSite “provides an important service.”

“I think it is vitally important because the daily newspapers don’t get as deeply into the political ramifications of things that happen in Ocean County”, Haelig said.

Click Here For Haelig's Eight Rules Of Good Local Government

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