PART VI

Observer Story Left Out Vital Details??

Teamsters/Democrats Political Goon Squad Violated “Most Important” Election Law Regulation When They Filed 48 Hour Disclosure Forms More Than 144 Hours Late

Cover-up Effort Deepens As Opponent “Doctor” Furey, Who Used Six Month Old Poll From Hudson County Firm To Embellish Smear Effort Against Mayor Russo, Is Now Mum On His Part In Teamster Interference In GOP Primary

Dover Township: OceanCountyPolitics revealed five days before the recent primary election that Teamster Democrats, who fronted a telephone and mail campaign to smear GOP Mayoral candidate John Russo Jr., may have violated important election laws requiring all significant expenses to be reported within 48 hours of when they are incurred, if they are incurred within 13 days before the election.

A week after the June 3rd primary election, the Ocean County Observer reported that “financial disclosure forms” filed the day after the election showed “Voters For Responsible Government”, a group of three Democrats associated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, spent more than $10,000 to smear Russo in his campaign for the GOP mayoral nomination against insurgent candidate Vance Speirs.

Speirs knew nothing until after the fact about the smear campaign and repudiated it shortly before the election.

Teamster/Democrats Sent Out Three Smear Fliers -
Violated 48 Hour Report Requirements

The Teamster/Democrats sent out three separate glossy fliers to GOP voters and paid for a telephone campaign to paint Russo as “a devil” and identifying him with Democratic governor Jim McGreevey.

But the Observer never bothered to add that the “financial disclosure forms” mentioned in their report were the 48 hour reports that should have, by law, been filed a week or more earlier, before the election.

And nobody bothered to point out that postage costs, possibly as much as $6000 or more, were never reported at all, even though they were obviously incurred at least a week, maybe as much as ten days before the election.

$6000 Postage Expense Was Never Reported On 48 Hour Forms

The mailers were sent out on Permit #203 at the Toms River Post Office, a permit which was apparently taken out before the election by the Teamster/Democrat group. The post office requires all postage on political mail to be paid in advance, which indicates that the postage was paid between May 26 and May 29.

No 48 hour forms were filed, before or after the election, by the anti-Russo smear group.

In several previous articles, OCP reported “the campaign featured an eleventh hour attempt by Teamster members, led by Democratic County Chairman and Teamster official Fred Potter, "Doctor" Furey and Dover Township Democratic Boss “Doctor” Jack Moriarty to get votes for Speirs with the last minute smear campaign against Russo.”

Democrat Mayoralty Candidate Furey Embellished Smear Campaign

OCP also reported that Democrat Mayoralty candidate John Furey used a six month old straw poll commissioned by Potter as an excuse to embellish the teamster smear literature with the dubious claim that he would have beaten Russo Jr. by 15 points if Russo had challenged him in a Democratic primary election.

"Doctor" Furey released the “poll” four days before the GOP primary to coincide with the appearance of the teamster smear literature and negative telephone campaign.

Additional campaign expenses, including the postage costs incurred by the teamsters group, may be forthcoming after June 23rd when additional disclosure forms, required 20 days after the election, may become available.

Reached at the International Brotherhood Of Teamsters office in Washington DC, Todd Thompson, listed as an organizer of “Voters For Responsible Government”, the smear group attacking Mayor Russo, said the Teamsters were “not involved” in the Russo attack effort.

Who Dunnit? Part VII will include more on these important issues, a further 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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