PART V

NJ Chiropractic Society Legislative Chairman Says “Doctor” Furey “Is Not A Member And Has No Relationship With The New Jersey Chiropractic Society”

Teamsters Say Teamsters Were Not Involved In Last Minute Russo Smear Effort Centered In Teamster Offices In Washington DC; Neither Was Chief Ocean County Teamster-Democrat, Or “Doctor” Furey With Cleverly Timed Release Of Aged Hudson County Poll

Voters Were Not Buying Any Of It As Russo Won By Nearly Three To One Margin; Gilmore Says If You Believe Potter, “You Have To Believe In The Tooth Fairy”

Dover Township: The Board Chairman and Legislative Chairman of the New Jersey Chiropractic Society has demanded a “clarification” of information that was printed on our WebSite to the effect that a member of the Society “encouraged support of a candidate with a last minute smear campaign”.

Steven G. Clarke DC, said “although I have never met and have no relationship to Dr. John Furey mentioned in other parts of your site, I assume this was directed towards him as he was intimately involved in the election”.

Dr. Clarke Said Furey Is Not A Member Of Chiropractic Society

Dr. Clarke said Furey, a chiropractor, “is not a member and has no relationship” with the New Jersey Chiropractic Society.

In a previous article, OCP reported “the election campaign featured a last minute attempt by a group of Teamsters Union members, led by Democratic County Chairman Fred Potter and one member of the New Jersey Chiropractor’s Association (Furey) to support (Van) Speirs with a last minute smear campaign attacking Russo.”

OCP: We Got The Name Wrong By A Word - And
We Assumed “Doctor” Furey Was A Member

Dr. Clarke is absolutely correct: we got the name of his organization wrong, and we assumed “Doctor” Furey was a member of the representative Chiropractic organization in New Jersey. We were wrong twice. We should have checked and we didn’t. Our apologies to Dr. Clarke and the Society.

Russo Jr. defeated Speirs by a wide margin to win the Republican Party nomination to run for mayor in the change of government election, and will face Democrat Furey and independent Paul Brush in November.

Three Separate Mailings To Republican
Voters May Have Cost $25,000

Three separate mailings to Republican voters and a weekend negative telephone effort, estimated to cost $25,000 by Republican leaders, linked Russo to Democratic governor James McGreevey and suggested Russo was “the devil” complete with demonic horned photo.

Furey’s “Poll” Part Of Anti-Russo Smear Campaign?

Furey released a “poll”, supposedly completed in January, which, he said, showed Russo Jr. left the Democratic party because he (Furey) would have beaten Russo by 15 points in a Democratic primary election.

Republican leaders suggested Furey’s $4500 “poll” was released as an organized part of the attack campaign by Potter and the Teamster group which has offices in Washington DC.

The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters office in Washington DC, where a staff member, Todd Thompson, is listed as an organizer of “Voters For Responsible government”, the smear group attacking Russo, said yesterday the Teamsters were “not involved” in the attack effort.

Gilmore: To Believe Potter, “You Have To Believe In The Tooth Fairy”

Democrat County Chairman Fred Potter, an officer in the New Jersey Teamsters political action committee, also denied any knowledge of the teamsters anti-Russo attack fliers, a disavowal which Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore described as absurd.

To believe there is no connection between teamster official Potter and the teamster-led Dover Township smear campaign against Russo, “you have to believe in the tooth fairy”, Gilmore told the Asbury Park Press.

Who Dunnit? Part VI will include more on these issues, a post mortem on the primary election and the latest facts emerging from the clumsy Democrat/Teamster effort to bend and batter the election laws in their bungled attempt to intrude on the GOP primary election.

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