Gilmore-McGuckin stooges on the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority have voted to allow employees who can access more than one health benefit plan to collect cash kickbacks of 25% of the cost of the second double-dip plan.

Once again, the DMUA is allowing Commissioner Deborah Clement and her husband, GOP Boss Richard Clement, to put their thumbs in the eyes of DMUA ratepayers and many township families who cannot afford even one comprehensive health plan, while the Clements are allowed to scam two.

Double-Dip Health Scam Wasted
$400,000 Over Ten Years At DMUA

Over a ten year period, the DMUA wasted more than $400,000 paying for second double-dip benefits for the Clements, former lottery director Virginia Haines, former assistant lottery director Carole Hedinger, Haines neighbor, former mayor Paul Wnek, county public affairs director Barbara Steele, school board employee Jeffrey Childers, former Republican Boss William Sommeling and several other commissioners who should have rejected the second benefit package, but whacked the ratepayers anyhow, even though they didn't need the coverage.

YR Chair Says It's "Stealing
From The Taxpayers"

Young Republican Chairman Scott Martin has called the double dipping practice "stealing from the taxpayers.," but Boss Clement never lets criticism interfere with his own brand of greed.

Boss Clement is a former Dover Township police chief who is remembered best for keeping a refrigerator full of cold beer at police headquarters, so officers could relax with a cold brew while on break or at the end of a hard day.

Boss Clement is now 83, and has been retired for 20 years, but he still makes the township pay for a "family" package," the one that includes the insured, his or her spouse, and minor children.

Up The Ratepayers!

The absurdity was compounded every year for about ten years after Boss Clement had his wife, Deborah Clement, appointed as a DMUA commissioner so she could get the salary of $2000 annually and join Haines, Steele, Hedinger and the rest in scamming the ratepayers for double-dip second health benefit packages they didn't need (extra cost up to $12,000).

Double Dippin' Debbie Does DMUA

Half An Ounce Of Integrity? No Way!

The new wrinkle would allow the Clements and others to grab cash kickbacks as bribes to forego the second policies which any public official with half an ounce of integrity would have rejected out of a sense of public responsibility.

The kickback to Double Dippin' Debbie and Reckless Rick could be as much as $2500, in addition to her salary of $2000.

Haelig Votes NO: What Else Is New?

The new policy was approved at a recent meeting, but will not become official until the commissioners adopt a formal resolution drafted by DMUA attorney James Gluck at the regular monthly meeting Tuesday, September 27th at 6:30pm.

Gluck is also a trustee of the County YR's, so it is unlikely that he will draft anything that is unacceptable to the Clement's.

The recent vote to approve was 4-1, with veteran commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr. casting the only negative vote, and Juan Bellu, campaign manager for the current Republican council slate, and Joseph Bilotta, membership chairman of the Boss Clement Republican Club, casting two of the affirmative votes.

Effect On The Election? Probably Not

It is not known whether the double-dip DMUA vote will have any effect on the November election when four of the Republican council members who appointed the Clements and other commissioners are up for re-election