Burry was director in 2008 but yielded the position to Barbara McMorrow when the Democrats won control of the Freeholder Board.
Rob Clifton, the longest serving Freeholder told the APP that he supported Burry serving a second year as director. Clifton also told the APP that we would seek another term as Freeholder in the 2010 election.
There has been speculation that Clifton would move to the Assembly should Senator Joe Kyrillos be appointed to a position in the Christie administration, prompting Amy Handlin or Sam Thompson moving to the upper house to replace Kyrillos. Kyrillos, Governor-elect Christie's campaign chairman and confidant has said he prefers to continue to serve in the senate but would serve in the administration if needed.
As one of their last acts while in control of Monmouth County government, the Democratic majority passed a resolution urging the state government to change the name of Freeholders to Commissioners. This has been a pet project of soon to be former Deputy Director John D'Amico since he attended a national conference of county government officials and had to explain what a Freeholder was to Commissioners from across the country.
Among the "Wherases" to justify the name change was:
WHEREAS, in Monmouth County, in addition to being mystified by the use of the phrase "Boards of Chosen Freeholders" to describe the governing body of the county, many county residents believe that they cannot vote for a candidate for "Freeholder" because they do not live in Freehold Township or in the Borough of Freehold; and
All those voters from outside of one of the Freeholds must think the ballots were misprinted when they vote. Honest Abe has the entire resolution.
In addition to being mystified by the use of the phrase "Boards of Chosen Freeholders" county government watchers are mystified about what John D'Amico is going to do now that the Democrats will not be in control.
D'Amico was elected in 2007, defeating Clifton's running mate Jeff Cantor. Cantor is now a Democratic Councilman from Marlboro serving in Afghanistan.
There has been a great deal of speculation that D'Amico would not seek another term if the Democrats lost control and because he doesn't like being called Freeholder by mystified voters from Monmouth County and Commissioners from around the country.
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is anyone else SICK of the Dems calling us all racists??..and at the last mtg., Flippy really said, that "Freeholder" meant free white landholder,which is a bad thing now, so that means we can't keep an historic term unique to NJ that says :"chosen Freeholder," which means chosen by all the people!.. Freeholders Rob Clifton and Lillian, as well as John Curley from the floor, tried to explain the historic significance of our county gov't.,and Rob rightly pointed out that the current Pres. of the NJ Assoc. of Counties is an African American woman, and many, many differing ethnicities are and have been elected to Boards of Freeholders, statewide,for many years, reflective of our societal and population make-up.. the things Dems worry about really worry me!.. cut my taxes,cut your superfluous spending, streamline some regulations!..good luck Lillian, Rob, and John: there is MUCH to fix after one year of their madness..and,Flippy does not seem to have much else to do, so look for him hanging around to be the curmudgeon!
What needs to be fixed? We still have the AAA rating that everyone was scared about going away. We still have a nice place to live with abundant parks and activities. The dems took a stand and laid off workers instead of upping the taxes too much. We still have the best schools...so please, tell me what needs to be fixed.
They sky didn't fall because the dems were in charge. On the contrary, they did a fine job. Just ask Malcolm Carton.
Good to see Rob continues to be more concerned about doing the work of the people then silly titles. Needless to say you can call an empty windbag who does nothing but take credit for everyone elses work anything you want but she (or he) is still just an empty windbag.
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