Boss Tweed Revisited In Dover Township

The new government in Dover Township is now dominated by a Ring of Greed whose Bosses and their flunkies are systematically looting the treasury of the local government.

The immediate symptoms are the lies and cynicism and political handouts to dozens of greedy lawyers and political hacks who have no real interest in the community.

Democrat Mayor And Republican
Council Are A Ring Of Greed

Other immediate symptoms are the phony posturing and finger pointing on the huge spending increase and huge tax increase for which every elected official in Dover Township (Democrat Mayor and Republican Council) are equally responsible.

No One To Speak For The Taxpayers

Every ridiculous spending increase; every political payoff was agreed to by every member of the council and the new mayor, leaving no one left to speak for the taxpayers.

And the duplicity of these same officials has led to worst of all consequences in the township affordable housing response: They have even tried to con the clergy, making certain that the eventual outcome will be the worst and the most expensive for all involved.

Build 520 Apartments To Get 95 Affordable Units - How Dumb Is That?

The approved construction for Pleasant Plains (520 apartment units to get 95 affordable units) will not help anybody except the millionaire developers who own the property.

Spending For Political Payoffs And Crony Jobs

The exponential increase in spending for political payoffs and unnecessary jobs for political cronies of the mayor and council has led to a $19 million problem, including a $5.3 million problem at the DMUA where the $225 annual customer charge is now in jeopardy along with the vanished financial integrity of the political hacks who are now mismanaging our community.

It is horrible for me, as a Democrat, to see the Ring of Greed that has robbed the local Democrats of real leadership based on real Jeffersonian principles.

Fraternity Of Pay-To-Play
As The Mayor Lies And
The Council Swears To It

Instead, the Local Democratic GreedClub (just like the Republican GreedClub) is a fraternity of pay-to-play cronies who have created a climate of collusion with the local GOP Bosses that allows only for plunder and lies.

The recent lie by Mayor Brush was that if he only had as much “surplus” as the people who preceded him, there would have been no tax increase, his all-time record spending increase notwithstanding.

Brush Off By Only $6 Million

The budget numbers show he was only off by a factor of $6 million on this preposterous claim: the tragedy was that no one corrected him; not his Republican co-conspirators on the council; and not the newspapers who take everything he says at face value, without questioning the accuracy of what he says, even when the lies are obvious, as this one was.

The Ring of Greed plunders the local treasuries, the body politic and the political process, unafraid of censure by either political party because they are the worst and greediest elements of BOTH parties.

Criticize Them, And You Get Smeared!

And if you dare to criticize them, you are subjected to a Boss Clement smear campaign, a cascade of lies and attempted intimidation that would make Richard Nixon blush.

Nothing the equal of this has existed since the 1890’s and the infamous Boss Tweed Ring at Tammany Hall. You may have seen Martin Scorcese’s film, The Gangs of New York in which Tweed was portrayed.

Just Like The Tweed Ring

How interesting to me that the Tweed Ring was ultimately run out of existence with the help of Morristown, New Jersey cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

Nast’s cartoons of the corruption spoils of the Tweed Ring brought public attention to the graft and payoff-ridden city of New York.

My Grandfather Grew Up
In New York's Tenderloin

His cartoons also inspired me to draw cartoons, as a child. I was exposed to his work by my Grandfather, who grew up in Manhattan’s “tenderloin” during those Tweed years. My Grand-Dad later attended The Cooper Union and graduated as an Architect and Engineer in 1908.

I would only hope that my cartoons have helped to show people the need to withhold reverence from those in authority who are disrespectful of the citizenry they serve.

Ring Of Greed Has Eradicated The Two
Party System In Ocean County

Ocean County’s Ring of Greed  has eradicated the two party system and, in its place, established a conspiracy of political payoffs and lies that are a threat and a base insult to every taxpayer.

Taxpayer Base Is Plundered
By Political Payoffs

The whole taxpayer base is being plundered for the division of spoils which are your hard-earned dollars, by the way.

Between the deficit being run up by the Mayor of Dover and the Dover Town Council, and the deficit being run up by the Ring of Greed commissioners on the DMUA, Dover Township faces a $20 Million combined deficit, the relative dimension of which parallels the deficits run up by the federal government in its worst years.

Taxpayers Must Respond With Indignation

Taxpayers must be represented with a slate of candidates to replace discredited incumbents who are coming up for election in November of the new year.

Loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans, who place principles of their respective parties first, must rise to the occasion and offer themselves as candidates to challenge incumbent members of the Ring of Greed.

There is some hope. This election coming up in November can wrest control from the Ring Of Greed majority of the Council and restore good government.

Boss Government Should Go - We Simply Can't Afford It

The time should be past for allowing important institutions of Government to be filled with patronage cronies, stooges and people who lie in their campaigns and then do as the bosses order them when they are elected.

Clean out the Bosses once and for all. Be a Pioneering people, stoke up that patriotic fervor and push hard for a switch.

We can clean up the government and keep it that way!

Keep The Faith!

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