South Toms River - GOP Mayor George Greitz promised to work for lower property taxes in South Toms River so, following through meticulously on his pledge, he and his Republican colleagues on the all-GOP council approved the largest local purpose tax increase in the history of Ocean County municipalities.

Greitz gave the following as reasons for the tax increase: two police cars had to be leased to replace two old cars that Greitz knew about when he made the "lower property taxes" pledge; and "lost interest because of increased tax collections," a claim that is absurd because more tax collections mean more revenue, not less.

Dover Municipal Utilities Authority Commissioner and former DMUA Finance Chairman Deborah Clement who, among numerous other public policy abominations, was largely responsible for wasting $400,000 over ten years (funded by the ratepayers) for costly "extra" double dip paid health insurance policies for greedy commissioners who didn't even need them, and recently trying to hand millions of dollars in authority reserves to a stock broker who lives down the street from her and her husband, Dover Township GOP Boss Richard Clement.

Lacey Mayor and Chief Nepotist John Parker, Also Chairman of the Ocean County Utilities Authority, who thinks that the highest objective of public service is to hand goodies and payoffs (funded of course by the taxpayers) to your cronies and relatives, and to the cronies and relatives of their cronies and relatives. Parker also helped to mismanage the finances of the OCUA to such an extent that the agency wasted (that's wasted, over and above the legitimate expenses of the authority) wasted more than $500 Million in twenty years; so now the OCUA has a mega sewer rate which is, by far, the highest county sewer rate in New Jersey.