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Monmouth-Ocean
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Overtime
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Monmouth
Jail Overtime Costs
Taxpayers Million$;
In Ocean County, Useless "Executive" Jobs, Excessive Salaries, Overtime Payment$
To Gilmore'$
Election Board Stooge$
In Exchange For Suspension Of Two-Party Check$
& Balance$,
Approval Of Worthless Crony Job$:
Partially Explains Why "Opposition" Democrat$
Are Silent On Lacey-Morris Job
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Huge overtime payments have been made to Monmouth County jail
employees according to the Asbury Park Press.
One jail officer, Dana J. Townsend, whose base salary is $73,350, got
overtime pay of $114,079 for a total of $187,429.
The overtime expense was not limited to Monmouth. The Press said its
reporters got data from every county in NJ except Cumberland, but did
not mention Ocean County's jail overtime costs in its survey.
County jails traditionally have high overtime costs, but there are
many departments where there should be no overtime at all.
The Ocean County Board of Elections, for instance, is stuffed with
political appointees, and is one of the most amply staffed agencies on
the planet; there should be no need for overtime.
Gilmore Brags About "Holding The Line," But Doesn't
Head of the Board, GOP County Chairman George Gilmore, brags
inaccurately about holding the line on spending and taxes.
You would think election board folks would be compensated with time
off after those rare periods around election time when they might need
to break a sweat.
Gilmore's Law Firm Got More Than
$1.3 Million In No-Bid Contracts In 2004
Records show,
however, that Republican Chairman-Chairman Gilmore, a lawyer whose
firm received over $1.3 million in no-bid contract payments from
public agencies last year, approved overtime payments for political
stooges employed by the election board.
The Ocean County election board may be the most overstaffed department
in the county government. Supervisory employees have very little to do
for most of the year.
Most of their “work” occurs around election time, and if they put in
extra hours, they are supposed to take compensatory time off during
the periods when they are largely twiddling their thumbs.
Greedy Lawyers Dominate Greed Conspiracy
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Dover Township Council President
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But Gilmore, always kind to the taxpayers, gives election board
employees taxpayer-funded “overtime” opportunities, reportedly for
political services like looking the other way on controversial items
like the Lacey-Morris Beachwood job scam and helping to lubricate
political payoffs to numerous lawyers, architects and engineers.
Overtime And Lacey-Morris Job Scam
Are Components In $110 Million Greed Tax
This makes “overtime” payments another multiplier component of the
$110 million annual greed tax paid to fund the patronage empire
dominated by Gilmore and Dover Council President Gregory McGuckin,
both greedy lawyers who extract million$
every year in no-bid contracts from county taxpayers.
Useless Jobs For Lacey ($105,000); And Morris ($55,000)
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Useless Job For
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Useless Job For
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Freeholder James Lacey was handed a useless $105,000 "administrator"
job in Beachwood, and Beachwood Mayor Harold Morris was given a
useless $55,000 job with the Fire “Academy,” another depository which
is overstaffed with political stooges.
Santoro: Democrat From Beachwood
Among the election board employees who got special “overtime” payoffs
from Chairman Gilmore and the Freeholders was former Democratic County
chairman Alphonso Santoro of Beachwood.
Al Santoro is a congenial don't-rock-the-boat politician who was a
Democrat member of the election board, salary of about $27,000 until
he retired as Democrat chairman a few years ago.
Santoro Wanted A Big Public Pension
Al wanted a big public pension, however, compliments of the taxpayers
of course, so Gilmore had him appointed "Election Board Executive
Supervisor" at a executive supervisory salary that in August, 2004,
with benefits, was about $100,000.
No Flak From The Loyal Opposition
About Lacey-Morris Or Anything Else
It wasn't entirely clear what Al was going to "supervise," but the
details are not important; the big salary and benefits were a kind of
"bonus" from the taxpayers for enabling Gilmore and a squadron of
greedy lawyers and political cronies to plunder public treasuries all
over Ocean County without worrying about flak from the "opposition."
There was not a whisper of criticism from the opposition Democrats
about the Lacey-Morris job controversy.
Al Santoro's compensation of $100,000 was augmented in 2004 with
$2537.18 in useless overtime payments. For what? Nobody knows.
Election Board Has Two (Count 'Em) Executive Supervisors
Another Gilmore stooge with the title of Election Board Executive
Supervisor (that makes two of them at the same election board) a
former councilman in Seaside Heights, home base of Gilmore's personal
pension scam, was paid more than $11,000 in '04 overtime.
More Soon On The Gilmore-McGuckin Greed Conspiracy
More on the Gilmore-McGuckin greed conspiracy in the fullness of time,
including a report on the Central Regional School board member who got
more than $5,800 in useless overtime payments from the Gilmore
election board last year.
This article
prepared for publication August 13, 2005.
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