Dirty Doherty
By JIM BEAN
With regard to the “a proposal, a helicopter and a conspiracy theory” story, the public needs to understand that Mayor Doherty used his official capacity to grant a favor to a friend “of many years.” This favor was paid for by us, the taxpayer. It involved using multiple employees’ time, police resources, a green acres park, and the risk of liability in which the town shouldered the insurance. This risk is why the NJDOT believes landing a helicopter somewhere other than at an approved heliport is considered a sufficiently dangerous operation that requires special approval.
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Posted: August 4th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News | Tags: Belmar, Dirty Doherty, Dirty Doherty's Magic Show, Jim Bean, Lawless Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News | 3 Comments »
Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty had a bad couple of days in Court last week.
After hearings on Thursday and Friday, Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Katie A. Gummer Ordered that a referendum on Matt’s Law, the Pay to Play ordinance that Doherty and the Belmar Council passed earlier this year that would allow the mayor to hide the identity of donors to his campaign for Monmouth County Freeholder, be held in the Borough on September 27, 2016.
Judge Gummer reiterated her earlier ruling that Belmar’s current Pay to Play ordinance which requires the disclosure of all donations and requires Belmar officials who accept donations from borough venders, developers and liquor licensees to recuse themselves from decisions involving those donors’ applications and business with the town is “the law of the land.”
Matt’s Law “is suspended and has never been in effect,” Judge Gummer said from the bench on Thursday.
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Posted: July 18th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Pay-to-play | Tags: Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Dirty Doherty, Dirty Doherty's Magic Show, Judge Katie Gummer, Ken Pringle, Lawless Matt, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Matt's Law, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Superior Court, Pay-to-play, Ramon Rivera | 2 Comments »
First in a series
By Art Gallagher
Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty’s first order of business after winning the Democrat primary for Monmouth County freeholder was to promote his record of not raising taxes in the borough. He’s attempting to put his fiscal credentials up against Republican Freeholder Director Tom Arnone and Deputy Freeholder Director Serena DiMaso who, along with their colleagues on the Board, cut county taxes $4.5 million this year and have kept spending flat since 2008.
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Posted: June 18th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County, Monmouth County News | Tags: Belmar, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Deputy Freeholder Director Serena DiMaso, Dirty Doherty, Dirty Doherty's Magic Show, Freeholder Director Tom Arnone, Lawless Matt, Lawless Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News | 2 Comments »
