TOMS RIVER TAX REPORT - Part I

48% TR Tax Hike Funded Huge Payoffs To Lawyers And Political Hacks Connected With Gilmore-McGuckin Political Machine

When the new government organized in 2004, it was quickly turned into a political pork barrel by Republican County Chairman George Gilmore, Attorney-Councilman Greg McGuckin and Democrat Mayor Paul Brush who handed lucrative no-bid contracts to dozens of greedy lawyers (including $90,000 for Gilmore) and cushy township jobs for political hacks.

TR’s Largest Spending Increase From McGuckin & Gilmore

This cost $Million$, and the result was the largest spending increase in township history and a 48% three-year tax increase, one of the largest in New Jersey.

The taxpayers paid for the tidal wave of political spending, but got no benefit from it.

Fake Republicans Gave Democrat Brush A
178% Raise For Selling Out To Gilmore & McGuckin

Because of their generosity with funds recycled from Toms River taxpayers, Gilmore and McGuckin, both greedy pay-to-play lawyers, got reciprocal no-bid contracts all over Ocean County, and Brush was handed the largest pay hike in Toms River history, from $26,000 to $75,000, an increase of 178%.

Recreation & Road Programs
Ignored As Swarms Of Political Hacks
Are Hired For Political Cover

The real problems of the community, like the lifeless recreation and street reconstruction programs, were all but ignored by the political machine, where greed is king.

County government has been more of the same; freeholders waste $20 million a year on 200 superfluous political jobs created to fuel the greed of McGuckin and Gilmore, and County Counsel Jack Sahradnik, who was paid two salaries ($71,000), health benefits costing $21,500, and additional billings of more than $1,150,000 in 2006.

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