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Penna
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Freeloader Kelly
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Suzanne Penna & Pete McCarthy,
GOP Primary Candidates For Freeholder, Call For Full-Time Law
Department, And Two New Freeholders After Disclosure That The
Freeholders Paid Counsel Jack Sahradnik $1.15 Million In '06, Plus
Two Salaries Ands $21,100 In Health Benefits: Bartlett Is Cranky;
Calls Citizens "Morons;" Kelly Imposes Gag Rule
Sahradnik's Total 2006 Pay Is $1,201,000
It must be a full moon. Republican
primary election candidates Suzanne Penna of Bayville and Peter
McCarthy of Manahawkin came to Wednesday's freeholder meeting to
present a program for a full-time law department after it was
disclosed that County Counsel Jack Sahradnik was looting the county
treasury.
Sahradnik is paid two pension salaries
totaling $68,234 and also gets
health benefits at a cost of $21,752.88 from the taxpayers.
He also got $1,110,145.85 in hourly fees
during 2006, which may make him the most overcompensated lawyer in New
Jersey.
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Bartlett |
Bartlett Says His
Critics Are "Morons"
The revelations caused elderly
freeholder John Bartlett to become really cranky; he started referring
to speakers critical of Sahradnik as "morons."
Gag Rule Imposed After
Critic Shows Printing And Graphics Dept Overstaffed By 400%
And Freeholder Jack Kelly, beneficiary
of a lucrative pension scam compliments of County Political Boss
George Gilmore, cut off one of the Sahradnik critics in the middle of
a statement pointing out that the County Department of Printing and
Graphics may be overstaffed by more than 400%.
Kelly and Freeholder James Lacey, the
one who got the useless $115.000 administrator's job in Beachwood in
return for his support of Sahradnik and the political machine, are
opposing Penna and McCarthy in the June 5th Ocean County Republican
primary election.
The Statement By Mrs. Penna and Mr. McCarthy follows:
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In A Burst Of Restraint And Patriotism, County
Counsel Jack Sahradnik Accepted Pay Of $1,201.000 |
The revelation that John Sahradnik, a
pay-to-play attorney and one of the top political bosses in Ocean
County, is being paid two pension salaries by the freeholders ($51,615
as County Counsel and $16,619 as County Adjuster) sends the wrong
message to overburdened Ocean County taxpayers, namely that political
machine attorneys who are retained to bill by the hour should also be
on the pension pad.
Sahradnik Gets
$21,752.88 In Health Benefits
The further revelation that Mr.
Sahradnik is also being favored by the same freeholders with
$21,752.88 in paid health benefits is a scandal for most Ocean County
taxpayers who pay at least in part for their own health benefits and
are now forced to pay for Mr. Sahradnik’s and a host of other
superfluous county employees as well.
The further revelation that the
freeholders approved bills from Mr. Sahradnik and his firm totaling
$1,110,145.85 paid in 2006 is the kind of astounding information that
proves conclusively that the rubber stamp county government is part of
a political machine so greedy and so obsessed with power that no
insult to the public’s intelligence is too extreme or too expensive
for the freeholders to approve on a routine basis.
The tail is
obviously wagging the dog!
We recommend a three part program to
reform the system of providing legal services for the County of Ocean
and save at least $750,000 as a modest part of a new program to
downsize the political component of the county government and partly
offset the tax increases and the failure to make real cuts in taxes
during the last few years.
Full Time Law Department Part I
The first part of the program would be
the establishment of a full-time law department with three lawyers
with a target cost of no more than $450,000 annually. The total cost
of legal services in 2006, according to county records, was
approximately $1,263,000, grotesquely excessive by any reasonable
standards, and a number which may be close to a record for New Jersey
counties the size of Ocean, or any other size for that matter.
The difference between $1,263,000 and
$450,000 is $813,000 in potential savings.
Full Time Law Department Part II
The second part of the program would be
the election of two new freeholders. If the current incumbents, who
have overstaffed every other department in the county government,
moved ahead with this, the full time law department would have twenty
lawyers and a dozen clerks and secretaries within a few years, and a
budget of $3 Million.
The only way for the taxpayers to get
justice on these critical and vital issues is through the election of
new freeholders who are not passengers on the gravy train of greed and
power owned by the political machine.
Full Time Law Department Part III
The third part of the program would be
a change in the freeholder meeting time from 4pm to 7pm so people who
work for a living can attend and witness how their money is being
wasted and squandered by the truckload by the current Freeholder
board.
This article prepared for publication on April 18, 2007.
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