A NEW DAY IN OLDBRIDGE

bY CHARLES MEASLEY

If Old Bridge residents continue to vote for party over policy they will get what they have always gotten. After 16 years of Democratic control Old Bridge residents have higher taxes, deficit spending, dictate, deceit and the State telling us to get our budgetary practices in order or they will have to step in.

            The Democratic committee of Old Bridge calls themselves progressive and forward thinkers. All I have seen and experienced are my taxes progressing higher with a reduction of services. Desperate for votes the Democrats are promising tax relief during an election season, very convenient and finally transparent. I won’t give them my vote on an empty promise.

            While the economy has been tanking for the past four years the Democrats have been fiscally irresponsible. Old Bridge residents are facing an $8 million deficit for 2012 and the Democrats blame lack of state funding. I blame them for their lack of commitment to be effective leaders and good stewards of our hard earned tax dollars. Where have they been under a progressive rock.

            They have dictated by a 5-4 vote, along party lines, the early retirement health care ordinance for municipal workers. This reduces their years of service to Old Bridge from 25 to 15, allowing 10 years from other municipalities and Old Bridge residents left to pick up the cost of their health care until they pass. On a petition over three thousand resident signatures against the ordinance wanted a referendum on the ballot for the taxpayers to decide. This did not happen due to the deceitful shenanigans of a partisan democratically run town and county.

            The State of New Jersey has warned the township several times in writing not to plan their budgets around non recurring revenues. They were told if they continued the state would have no choice but to step in. The OB Municipal Utilities Authority, water and sewer, has been an expedient slush fund for borrowing $1.3 million in 2009 and 2011 and selling OB land to them for $5.3 million while our water and sewer bill has skyrocketed. If the rumor is correct the Democratic council wants to sell the MUA, why would they sell our water rights away? Is this the way we want to run our township?

            If anyone has ever watched the council meetings on public access they would see and hear how unprofessional the democrats attitudes are towards residents comments, verbally dismissing them, not returning resident phone calls and passing ordinances, without public comment, that effect their safety and pocketbook .

            Due to the lack of a record to run on the Democrats have taken their money machine and have resorted to slandering Republican candidates while all these individuals did was contribute to their communities and be on boards in the town. Democratic Mayor Patrick Gillespi was disingenuous in the Suburban when he did not give credit to the planning board for their work on the master plan for OB. The credit belongs to Republican mayoral candidate Owen Henry and the other planning board members.

             The Democrats will have to run on their 16 year record which is not good enough for me or the residents of Old Bridge. They can try to blame the Republicans but the residents are not stupid, the Democrats created the mess, allowed it to progress and haven’t fixed it to this point.

Remember, if you always do what you have always done you will always get what you have always gotten.

 

Vote Republican Column A on Nov 8th and together we can get Old Bridge back on track.

Posted: October 26th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

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