Bob Ingle writes this morning that the government is protecting its butt by keeping documentation of escorts classified.
Bob is writing of the New Jersey State Police luxury sport car escorts that have been in the news recently. Not the Secret Service’s recreational activities.
Ingle is the co-author with Sandy McClure of The Soprano State, the New York Times bestseller about New Jersey’s culture or corruption. His new book, written with fellow Gannett reporter Michael Symons, Chris Chrisite: The Inside Story Of His Rise To Power, arrives in book stores on May 22. Pre-orders are available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million.
Posted: April 26th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Bob Ingle | Tags: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bob Ingle, Books-A-Million, Caravan escorts, Chris Christie: The Inside Story Of His Rise To Power, Michael Symons, NJ State Police, Politics Patrol, prostitution, Sandy McClure, Secret Service, The Soprano State | 3 Comments »
Are they all necesarry? What can be privatized?
The thing that I found most disturbing about the Middletown Library story is that Randall Gabrielan, in addition to being president of the Middletown Library, is a employee of Monmouth County.
In his role as Executive Director of the Monmouth County Historical Commission, Gabrielan is paid almost $36,000 per year and earns pension credits. I wonder if Executive Director of the Historical Commission is one of the jobs that you can retire from, start collecting a pension, and go back to work the next day.
I don’t mean to minimize the seriousness of the Middletown Library situation. It is serious. It’s bad enough that Gabrielan sold his own books and signed his own purchase orders. Even though the sales did not amount to a great deal of money, what stinks about what he did in Middletown in addition to the obvious, is that the library could have gotten Gabrielan’s books cheaper from Barnes and Noble or really cheap from Abebooks, Middletown Mike’s favorite book seller, for the library’s shelves.
I suppose we should be grateful that Mayor Fiore and the Township Committee got wind of Gabrielan’s practice, that has been going on for many years, before he bought Middletown Mike’s newsletter, beautifully bound in brown cloth with gold lettering for $59.00 per copy from Abebooks.
I wonder if the Monmouth County Historical Commission has also been buying Gabrielan’s books.
But I digress.
Why does the Monmouth County Historical Commission have a paid executive director? How many of the other 25 volunteer county commissions have paid staff?
The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders are taking their budget meetings on the road this month. Let’s ask them if there are savings to be had in these 26 commissions.
Posted: February 1st, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Middletown, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders | Tags: Abebooks, Barnes and Noble, Middletown Library, Monmouth County Freeholders, Monmouth County Historical Commission, Randall Gabrielan, Tony Fiore | 11 Comments »
