The First 45 Days Of The Lame Duck Axis Of Greed

No Real Progress Of Any Kind; More Revisionist Propaganda Intended To Distort Recent History To Keep The Facts From The Taxpayers; Ludicrous Posturing Designed To Draw Attention Away From Their Massive Failure To Recognize Emergencies On Overdevelopment And Worsening Traffic Gridlock; And The Only One Without Massive Culpability Is Newcomer Rich Larsen

Now Reports Are Becoming More Persistent That The Russos Will Bolt The Democratic Party And Become Republicans Following Negotiations With GOP Patronage Interests, Including (Gulp) Double Dipper And Government Change Campaign Liar, Boss R. C. Clement

Worsening Conflicts Of Interest, Laughable Campaign To Kidnap The DMUA, Abortive Bond Issue Debate, Grotesque Financial Misrepresentations And Consistent Betrayal Of  The Taxpayers May Lead To Further Chaos As Voters look Towards Government Change Election Which, In The Absence Of Healthy Taxpayer Vigilance, Could Produce No Change At All|

Dover Township - There was not a single public official elected in the past fifteen years who was not deeply involved, directly or indirectly, in the massive failure to adequately confront the worsening overdevelopment and traffic gridlock that threatens the community's quality of life.

Every Republican official, without exception, was part of a conspiracy to promote drastic overdevelopment, a searing dereliction that produced huge profits for developers and their lawyers, and promises of payoffs for their political sponsors.
Republicans And Democrats Did It - No Exceptions

By their refusal even to acknowledge the galloping extent of overdevelopment and traffic disasters, and to consider real responses even when specific and meaningful plans were put under their noses on the table in front of them, two Democrats elected in 2000 became an integral part of the problem - as opposed to part of the solution.

The problems worsened in 2001 and 2002 as the developers' planning board refused to look beyond the next approval, and a plan for a big Home Depot store and JAMM Realty approvals, enabled by years of posturing by officials sucking up to rich property owners instead of doing their duty for the taxpayers, presented the twin realities of exponentially higher prices to publicly acquire the properties, or exponentially more overcrowding and traffic gridlock if the applications went forward.

JAMM And Home Depot Properties Could Have Been Acquired For Total Of $1.2 Million Only Three Years Ago

Both properties were urged as part of a comprehensive open space acquisition plan nearly three years ago, and both could have been purchased for a total price of less than $1.2 million, according to the owners of the tracts.

Now, after three years of weasel words and other species of double talk and shear posture nonsense from elected officials and planning board functionaries, the price for the Home Depot piece is $2.4 million, and the price for the JAMM Realty property will be at least $4 million - in the unlikely event it ever finds its way back on the market.

Prices for these Barnegat Bay estuary properties have escalated by 400% because of the grotesque incompetence and double dealing of the now lame duck township committee and the local planning board - factors which were central in the decision by the voters last November to try their luck with a new form of government in the 2003 election.

Patronage Greed And Personal Agendas Dominated The Political Environment
It became apparent even before the ink was dry on the 2000 election returns that the single ruling characteristic among public officials in Dover Township was patronage greed and personal agendas, financial and otherwise, and most definitely NOT a single-minded determination to extract the community from its major problems.

When two John Russos teamed up with the GOP to form a patronage-based lame duck majority axis on January 2nd, it was not for the altruism of a community agenda but, as everybody but the most incredibly naive knew perfectly well, was all about which attorneys and other professionals get to share in the excessive political distribution of taxpayers money.

Will There Be Substance Instead Of Name Calling On Moriarty's RussoWatch WebSite?

Will Russo Jr. And Russo Sr. Become Registered Republicans?
Now, reports persist that life-long Democrat Russos, both John Jr. and John Sr., will make the seditionist deal of January 2nd manifest, and become official Republicans so they don't have to worry about the little detail of running a Democratic primary election against candidates fielded by local Democratic boss, Dr. Jack Moriarty (left), whose main response to the Russo treachery is the construction of a web site www.therussowatch.com which is long on name calling and short on substance.

Discussions with Republican Boss R. C. Clement (left), so the stories go, center on how to whack up patronage with the Russos, and how to sell Russo Jr. as a mayoral candidate to 11,000 GOP voters sick and tired of being lied to and taken for granted by a local Republican Club dominated by the political and development interests (Clement, Joseph Coronato etc.)who unsuccessfully lied their way through last year's government change referendum. In case anybody doesn't know, they lost.
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