The history of the Republican Party rule in Monmouth County is one of corruption and scandal. Even, then US Attorney, Chris Christie has said that public corruption in Monmouth County ran "both wide and deep."
And now in 2013 we have Birdsall and more pay to play issues raised.
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| (Brian Froelich) |
Birdsall’s principal alleged tactic was to make many small individual donations below the publicly reportable amount in order to hide these actions from public scrutiny.
But each Freeholder has the actual, detailed, nonpublic records of any such donations- the very information that Birdsall was trying to hide from the public.
The citizens and voters of Monmouth County have a right to know specifically the number and amount of donations, if any, each Freeholder received- in any form, directly or indirectly- from Birdsall and/or its employees for the last 6 years.
Each Freeholder should disclose all such information and make all such records available for inspection by the public and the press prior to this upcoming primary election.
I’ll assume that if they publicly report this information and that actual contradictory information subsequently becomes available that they will have the decency to resign their Board seat.
I ask for their immediate public commitment to such action.
Sincerely,
Brian Froelich, Democratic Candidate for Freeholder
5 comments:
Right after Kevin Settembrino was elected in Middletown he brought in Birdsall to head up a solar initiative that never got off the ground. I wonder how much he received in donations for that work.
The pay-to-play issue that is even bigger than Birdsall is the all Republican Freeholder Board replealing the county Pay-to-Play ordinance. They were confident that human nature had evolved to the point that a less restraining set of state rules would work. And, it would be much less confusing for vendors and contractors and peddlers of snakeoil. Actually the repleal of the county ordinace probably made it easier for the Birdsall crew to operate accross county and state. I wonder if its worth investigating?
Anon 3:28,
There is an invoice that Birdsall submitted, probably for 'consulting' work, that has a dollar amount linked to it. Could ask Settembrino (re-election candidate) if he remembers what the Birdsall fee was and if they contributed to his campaign. The ELEC people might be able to help with reported contributors and if they worked for Birdsall. The results might liven-up the Middletown election.
The murky waters of the cesspool of republican politics just get more contaminated in Middletown don'tcha think ???
Blood Sport get ready,get set, GO !
Middletown repealed their pay-to-play law, also. It was stated at the time that repealing it was done to "level the playing field".
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