Change of Seasons

The days are shorter and the back to school days are in full swing. As summer unofficially turns to fall, the campaign fundraising season turns to the campaign spending season.

Are we ready? Who are we running against?

Why did a divided Freeholder Board make the appointments they made last week, thereby ceding the the moral high ground Chairman Puharic claimed with his Ethical Roadmap and turning the Asbury Park Press against us again? Was the timing of the appointments significant?

The first line of the APP's Saturday editioral, "So much for the dawning of a new age in Monmouth County government." speaks volumes and telegraphs what we can expect from them in October.

Will Anna Little's dissenting votes and her announcement that she will resign her Highlands Council seat if elected Freeholder make her an Amy Handlin type darling of the APP? Will they remember that she turned down Fred's PAC money and recognize that she is the type of Freeholder they called for when they said, "Fresh blood is needed. A watchdog on the board is needed, one who is independent, unconstrained by party bosses and campaign contributors and prepared to serve only one master — the Monmouth County taxpayer."

By the way, where is Fred's PAC money?