2 weeks ago I asked if Middletown Committeeman Tony Fiore might Have Women Issues after allowing a person to post a derogatory picture towards women on his Facebook page and hitting the “Like” button back on September 14th. The picture depicted Peanuts character Charlie Brown kicking Lucy in the head while exclaiming “Not this time Bitch!” as she attempted, once again, to pull a football away from him as he tried to kick it.
I stated that the image was offensive and inappropriate for an elected official to display so proudly on his social media page and thought that Fiore would be smart enough to understand how inappropriate and degrading the image was to women. Especially after all the media attention that former Baltimore Raven's running back and Rutgers’s University alum Ray Rice received after video of him surfaced knocking out his then fiancée – now wife- Janay Palmer Rice, in an Atlantic City elevator.
As a result of the post and screenshot that I took of Tony Fiore’s Facebook page, Fiore “blocked” me from seeing his personal page, then changed the privacy setting on his account from “Public” to “Private” so that others couldn’t see it unless they were “friends” with him on Facebook. He then went to Facebook and denied that he ever had the picture posted to his page or that his personal page was ever public after my initial post was shared by others on Facebook.
Good for me I have a screenshot of his denials.
Which lead to this rebuttal from a moderator from the Middletown Smart Growth Bloc Facebook group:
After being confronted Fiore, in what can only be explained as a moment of introspection and clarity, actually admitted that yes, he did indeed have the picture on his page even though he didn’t like it. He used the classic defense ‘most of my friends are…’ to justify the picture that was posted.
His admission however was short lived. He deleted it from the thread of comments sometime after the below comment was posted (but not before the above screenshot was taken).
Why did he delete his admission? I have no clue. Maybe he was afraid to have others see it and view it as a weakness or something that could later be used against him (he would have been right about that).
Back in 2008 when Fiore first ran for Township Committee, he earned the moniker of the “Fibber” from the now defunct Middletown weekly newspaper, the Courier and myself, for his embellished resume that he submitted to the Township’s talent bank when he wanted to be considered by the Middletown GOP for an appointment to one of Middletown’s many boards and commissions (he was eventually appointed as an alternate to the Planning Board). His resume stated he was a member of Recreation Commission for both Carteret and Linden. In an interview with then Courier reporter Melissa Gaffeny, he stated that he served as the "Director of Recreation" for both. This didn’t sit well with Gaffney, how could a college kid in his late teens or early twenties possible be the Director of Recreation if he only had a part-time job during summer recesses while a kid in college? When Melissa Gaffney, did a little digging into his resume and made a couple of calls to both towns asking about Fiore’s claims, no one in either town knew who he was or if he ever worked for either recreation departments. It was later learned in a follow-up phone call that Fiore actually earned $104 from the Carteret as a summertime playground director or something to that effect. He was not however, at any time, Director of Recreation during his time spent in Carteret or Linden.
I'm sure that if he could delete that history, he would.
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Here are a few links that you might find interesting concerning the Fiore's resume story from back in the day:
http://www.sableminded.net/2008/07/fiore-caught-in-fibs.htmlI'm sure that if he could delete that history, he would.
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Here are a few links that you might find interesting concerning the Fiore's resume story from back in the day:
http://middletownmike.blogspot.com/2008/07/fiores-fibs-worst-then-expected.html
http://middletownmike.blogspot.com/2008/07/fiore-resum-surfaces.html
http://middletownmike.blogspot.com/2008/09/middletown-gop-trying-to-make-honest.html
