April 15, 2007: Gilmore & McGuckin

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Boss Gilmore

McGuckin Esq.

McGuckin And Gilmore Try To Justify The Unjustifiable By Lying Four More Times On OTB Scam In Toms River

The Ocean County Greed Machine and their puppet officials in Toms River hid the OTB Betting and Boozing application from the public for the entire 45 day public review period so the public would have no input.

The application was approved under totally corrupt circumstances and two appeals were filed with the appeals division of superior court.

Berkeley
Mayor Jason Varano

Haelig And Berkeley Mayor Varano File Suit

One of the appellants is OCP Chief Commentator Robert K. Haelig Jr. and the other is Mayor Jason Varano who is suing on behalf of of Berkeley Township.

A recent Ocean County Observer article quoted Republican County Chairman George Gilmore, pay-to-play attorney for the Toms River School District and lawyer for the gambling interests promoting the OTB, as saying his puppets on the Toms River governing body “had no authority to put the OTB on public referendum,” a proposal made by Haelig.

Toms River Council Can Put OTB On Referendum

“This, of course, is another in string of Gilmore lies, because every governing body has the general authority to put any issue they want on referendum – and they could still do it at this late date,” Haelig said today.

Gilmore also said Haelig is “a paid consultant of Jason Varano; that’s why he’s involved in the appeal process.”

Robert Haelig Jr.

GOP Primary
Candidate TR Council

Haelig: "I Am Not A 'Paid Consultant'"

“This is another Gilmore lie,” Haelig said. “I am not a paid consultant for Mayor Varano; I’m not a paid consultant for anybody. I am in the printing business, and I filled orders for signs and printed materials for various campaigns including Mayor Varano, but I am not a paid 'consultant,' and Gilmore and McGuckin both know that is the case.”

Pay-to-play lawyer Gregory McGuckin, one of the Republican candidates for mayor in Toms River, echoed Gilmore’s claim that Haelig is a “paid consultant” for Mayor Varano, and added another charge that Haelig was a “paid consultant” for Mayor Paul Brush and the Dover Democrats in the 2005 campaign.

Gilmore And McGuckin Try To Draw
Attention Away From Their Greed

“Same lie, same answer,” said Haelig, adding that Gilmore and McGuckin are trying desperately “to draw attention away from their status as the two greediest lawyers on the planet, as they try to continue monopoly control of the Toms River governing body.”

“I have been drawing attention to their greed for the past six years,” Haelig said, as these two law firms suck about $6 million a year from the public treasury in the form of no-bid contracts and an epidemic of influence peddling in communities all over Ocean County, so the fourth lie is the charge by McGuckin that I ‘have no interest in what is best for Toms River.”

Republican Primary Voters Have "Clear Shot" At The Greed Machine

“This is the the same greedy lawyer who recently had Gilmore appoint his wife to a useless $70,000 ‘job’ on the county election board,” Haelig said. “This is why I am a candidate for the Council, to give Republican primary voters a clear shot at the political machine.”

Chairman Gilmore, unbelievably, is also chairman of the Ocean County Board Of Elections, which allows him to corrupt the election process as well as the OTB and various other scams throughout the county.

This article prepared for publication on April 15, 2007.