The speculation over which party controls the Monmouth County Freeholder Board is over. Barbara McMorrow stopped swinging and has landed firmly to the left.
At the Freeholder meeting last Thursday, Republican Freeholder Rob Clifton proposed a resolution authorizing the county administrator to start the negotiations to move Monmouth County's 20 some odd detained juvenile delinquents to the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center. Such a move would have resulted in detaining the youth in a superior facility and saved Monmouth County taxpayers $2.5 million. Clifton's resolution failed, 2 for, Clifton and Republican Lillian Burry, to 3 against, Democrats McMorrow, John D'Amico and Amy Mallet.
At the same meeting, Burry proposed a resolution to amend the county administrative code to eliminate the position of Inspector General. This position which has been advocated by Democrats throughout New Jersey, will create a new level of bureaucracy and duplicate some of the functions of the county prosecutor and the auditor. D'Amico has been doing the bidding for the position here in Monmouth. Burry's resolution failed 2-3 also, with Clifton supporting the measure, but not before D'Amico tried to change the subject by proposing yet another level of bureaucracy, an Ethics Commission.
As a Democratic blogger recently wrote, McMorrow's flirtation with the GOP members of the Freeholer Board was just election year politics. She is firmly pro-union and pro-patronage. She will vote to cut funding for Brookdale Community College, the Monmouth County Library and the Park System, while maintaining the wasteful Youth Detention Spending. She will create new high paying government positions for Trenton cronies to fill.
The Monmouth GOP can win this year. The deadline for Freeholder candidates to declare their intention to Chairman Joe Oxley is Saturday March 7. Time to get off the fence and get busy.
Let Me Count the Ways
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Anonymous said...
McMorrow will have an opportunity to vote against the wasteful patronage inspector General position today. She will also decide if union support or saving millions of taypayors $$$ by shuttering the YDC is a more important priority. Smart? Integrity? Today she will kick of her campaign.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:40:00 AM
McMorrow failed miserable on Thursday. Over the next few weeks she will be filling more patronage postions, wasting millions of taxpayers $ and compromisng what little is left of her integrity to satisfy Cryan and the Trenton democrats who will finance her campaign this fall.
Send used teabags to every democrat politician, from US Senator, Congreesmen, and locals!
Boston Tea Party II!
Good summary, Art- unfortunately for us taxpayers, this year's Director has, in the interest of getting her line with no problems, cast her lot with the Trenton and DC Dems, who are, on a daily basis, over-regulating and taxing us to death, while eroding any liberties we have left with continuing giveaways and NO respect for those who produce, vs. those who take!..so, nice person or not, she must be replaced.. "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have".. Pres.G. Ford..problem is, it only took 30 years, and the first 30 days of this Obama-nation, for it to become nearly irreversible!.. the poor kids and grandkids..tune into C-Span for any hope at all, and listen to reruns of Rush Limbaugh and (Pres.) Newt Gingrich's speeched to CPAC this past week: and, yes, we have THIS county and state election in '09, and the Congressionals and county in '10, if there is any chance at all,to start getting some sanity back...be inspired once again: that is our call to service, and duty to work on, now!..
Great politics. The GOP controlled the County for years and never closed the place. Now they vote to do it without it actualy closing it.
Fine to try and re-write history and divert from the "now"..look, each era's different: before the ability to share such services,some counties chose to create and maintain such facilities, or not..the YDC we have is part of the 5-star nat'l. accreditation Joe attained, but today is beginning to need expensive updating and repairs.. also now, with ratables and values down, sharing services with nearby counties who have better facilities for less $$ makes more sense, so, the GOP gets that, and wants to do that.. the D's only reason for keeping this now-albatross open is purely union-pacification and their own sorry necks, make no mistake.. do appreciate being given the campaign issue, though..
Figurehead, Hammerhead and Flippy.
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