LETTER: Hypocrisy alive and well in Middletown campaign

The following letter appears in the Asbury Park Press:

People regularly rate politicians as not admired. One reason for this, I suspect, is the hypocrisy that too often oozes out. Whether it is the liberal who lectures about equal rights but sexually harasses his assistant or the conservative who champions the right to life but asks his lover to get an abortion, people are sick of hypocrites.

Unfortunately, hypocrisy is alive and well in Middletown. Stephanie Murray is running under the slogan: “Taxpayers First.” The slogan is printed on her super-sized signs around town. Why is that slogan hypocritical one might ask?

Read this quote from Middletown official's home up for sheriff's sale the Dec. 13, 2016, Asbury Park Press: “The IRS has placed a lien for more than $78,000 in unpaid federal income taxes on Middletown Committeewoman Stephanie Murray’s and her husband’s home.” It is hypocrisy to run for office on the slogan “Taxpayers First” when there is a tax lien on your home.

Paul J. Jansen
Middletown