Clement won't let anybody join who won't take an a priori loyalty oath
to swear allegiance to the club leadership no matter how preposterous
their policies are, or how ludicrous the waste of taxpayers money
becomes as a result of the greed of specially anointed members.
Club President Castrated In Advance?
The new By-laws changes effectively castrate the new Club president in
advance by giving Clement, who will become Chairman of the Board
through the process of cosmic inevitability, effective power to
appoint members of all the committees that count in the power
structure of the Republican pecking order.
One part of the amendment process has been tidied up to adjust
Clement's compulsive tendency to misinform the club members even when
he doesn't have to.
New Cover Letter Leaves Out Dopey Claim That GOP Club Changes Are
Needed To Conform With Change Of Government
The cover letter, sent out this time by Clement supplicant "Sr. Vice
President" Thomas J. Hourigan, charitably doesn't repeat the
ridiculous assertion, made by Clement in the first cover letter, that
the By-laws changes were being made, not as a result of a desire for
more power, but to conform to the "recent
form of government change" in Dover Township. Right!
Most Rights Reserved For New Board Chairman - Guess Who?
One of the proposed changes takes away the right of the club president
to call trustees meetings, a right that will now be reserved to the
newly minted "Chairman Of The Board." (Guess Who?)
Clement Gets The Important Appointments
It is clear from the proposed changes that Clement doesn't trust
anybody, even if he hand picks the next club president who, according
to the new By-Laws, "shall appoint all standing committees and their
respective chairperson, "except the Finance Committee, By-Laws
Committee, Screening Committee and Nominations Committee."
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Juan Bellu |
New President Gets Entertainment Committee
The Refreshments Committee, Latrine Committee, Military Drill
Committee, the Monthly Notices Committee, Entertainment Committee
and the Bad Publicity Committee will still be under the control of the
new President, presumably (at least through last week) former Planning
Board Chairman Juan C. Bellu.
Public Circumvented Once Again
Everything of any significance will continue to run through Clement,
Municipal Chairman Joseph Coronato, a Clement yes-man who gets $46,000
a year as "public defender" for the Township and still represents
clients before the township Planning Board, and a small group of
patronage beneficiaries who genuflect on cue and can be counted on to
send in vouchers on time.
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Joe Coronato |
Paranoia Endemic?
Clement is so paranoid that "alternate" members are now prescribed for
the nominating committee for club officers, in case it turns out that
he can't trust even the people he now trusts the most.
Brings to mind the classic remark of one of the characters in the
movie,
Atlantic City:
"I only do business with the people I do business with."
11,250 Of 11,300 Rank-And-File Republicans Up
The Creek Without An Identifiable Paddle
The big losers in all of this, no matter how the big By-Laws charade
works out, are the vast majority of the rank-and-file Republicans in
Dover Township, many of whom absolutely refuse to vote Republican on
the local level because of the bad policies of the local GOP.
Sewer Increase And Over-Development
Tax Increases All But Inevitable
And it will probably get worse before it gets better, because the
costly, destructive and damaging policies pushed for years by Clement
and his Republican Club associates have made a sewer rate increase and
a big over-development tax increase for both the school system and the
township government all but inevitable.
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Clement Part I - Story From 2/26/04
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Here For Boss Clement Part II - Story From 03/03/04
