Will There Ever Be A Two Party System Again If Beachwood Democrats Throw Another Election?

There Should Have Been A Huge Uproar Over Lacey-Morris Job Scam, But Former Dem Chair, Under Chairman Gilmore'$ Thumb In Cu$hy Election Board Job, Has Done Nothing So Far

Will Jim And Harold Get To Work Every Day, And Will They Find Something To Do When They Get There?

By now, there should have been dozens of letters to the editor from Beachwood citizens decrying the ambush of Beachwood taxpayers by Freeholder James Lacey, Councilman Ronald Roma, Chairman George Gilmore, Freeholder Jack Kelly and Mayor Harold Morris, all Republicans, and every one of them except Gilmore directly elected by the voters as a guardian of the public interest.

Two Party Checks & Balances Are Supposed To Work - Right?

After all, isn't that how two party checks and balances are supposed to work? When the party in power insults the intelligence of the public and engages in behavior that makes taxpayers want to throw up, isn't the loyal opposition supposed to provide the loyal opposition?

Not in Beachwood or in Ocean County, it's not.

The Beachwood Mayor and Council, all Republicans, didn't need an administrator. But they created the $110,000 job anyway, and gave it to Freeholder James Lacey, who just happened to be in between jobs.

Another Political Hack At
The Fire And First Aid Academy

Five months later, the Ocean County Fire and First Aid Academy, already loaded with political hacks paid big salaries to do next to nothing, provided Beachwood Mayor Harold Morris with a useless $55,000 job which enables him to gets lots of sleep in the daytime.

All the Democrats needed to do to have a clear shot at winning two council seats in Beachwood is conduct a textbook campaign denoting the Lacey-Morris job scam as a useless waste of taxpayers money.

Beachwood Taxpayers Need First Aid, But They Don't Get It

But all there has been is dead silence from the Democrats. Former Democrat County Chairman Al Santoro, a Beachwood resident, never said a word because, some said, he owes his $105,000 job at the county election board to election board chair and GOP county chair George Gilmore.

Beachwood Democrat candidate Vincent Santoro, himself a public employee, also never said a word, even though he was supposedly schooled in vigorous two-party politics by Al.

The other Beachwood Democrat council candidate, Charles Amorosi, also never said a word, even though he is, cosmic coincidences and small worlds aside, employed by the same county election board as Gilmore and the elder Santoro.

Amorosi Deserts Beachwood Taxpayers And Resigns

In fact, Amorosi resigned as a candidate recently, leaving the ticket one election board employee short, as Beachwood taxpayers, duped again, yearned for an opportunity to get a clear shot at Lacey and Morris.

The Santoro's know they need another candidate to fight the battle of silence in Beachwood and Al Santoro says it's very difficult to find someone to run, even though the chances of winning are good.

List Of Registered Democrats,
With Phone Numbers, Costs $25

A list of registered Beachwood Democrats, all 558 of them, complete with telephone numbers and addresses, is available to the Santoro's from a local mail house for a payment of $25.

The deadline for getting the Beachwood Democratic committee together to select a replacement candidate is September 24th.

Soap Suds: Will Jim And Harold Get To Work Every Day, Etc?

Will the Santoro's meet their responsibilities to the two party system? Will Al and Vincent defy papa Gilmore and actually run a campaign in Beachwood to redeem the screwing suffered by the taxpayers of their beloved community? Will Jim and Harold get to work every day, and will they find something to do when they get there? The answers to these questions as the world turns on the voters of Beachwood and hands them another bad break - on OCP soon.

This article thoughtfully prepared for publication August 27, 2005.