Middletown Republican again completely Misrepresents the facts with his letter

I usually take a look at the "Letters" section of the online newspaper Atlantic Highlands Herald each day to see what area residents are talking about. The Herald is quite often used by both the Middletown GOP and Democrats to express their opinions about the latest issues in town and as the campaign season heats up more and more false reteric gets thrown around by the Middletown Republicans.

Case in point; This moring when I logged on to the sight a letter was posted a few days ago that was written by one Michale Vitkansas. 

Vitkansas is a Monmouth County Republican Committeeman who also happens to have been appointed to sit on the Middletown Community Affairs Council by the Republican controlled Township Committee. Vitkansas's point behind his letter is to try and score a few partisen point against Patrica Walsh, who happens to be one of the Democrats running for a seat on the Township Committee this year.

Vitkansas attacks her for being a member of the Middletown Board of Education for the past number of years and tries to argue in his letter that it is solely Walsh's fault as to why taxes in Middletown have been raised so much over the past few years.

Like so many in the Republican party, when Vitkansas can't rely on the truth to attack an opponent he relies on completely false and misleading allegations.

So this morning when logged on the the AHH to check out the "Letters", I was pleasantly please to see a very rapid response by  Paul Jansen. Jansen set the record straight.

Jansen correctly stated in his letter that Walsh is just 1 of 9 members of the BOE, and that the residents of Middletown have to approve of the budget before any tax increases are allowed. So to hold Walsh directly responsible for the increase in school taxes is a completely false allegation.