It’s hard to believe that the Republicans in Brick and in Ocean County take taxpayers for fools. Don’t they realize that the citizens of this community can see through their lies and deceptions?
In the September 25 issue of The Brick Times, (“Democrats Throw Stones From Glass House”) Frank Pannucci Jr, the Municipal Chair of the Brick Republicans, labeled the Democrats’ argument against Mayor Acropolis’ new second job as such: “Their argument is that the Mayor is a full-time position and he should resign immediately from one or the other.”
That’s not entirely the real issue; the real issue is that Mayor Acropolis used his political pull to nab a high-paying, full-time PUBLIC job at the Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority. This is double dipping.
Acropolis joins a long list of Ocean County Republican double dippers, such as Juan Bellu (Brick Administrator and member of the Toms River MUA), James F. Lacey (Ocean County Freeholder and Brick MUA Executive Director) and now Jackson Mayor Mike Reina, who just accepted a high-paying position at the Department of Transportation.
And when writing about the Mayor, Mr. Pannuci wrote that Acropolis “has Brick Township starting to resemble the Brick we used to be known for.” That’s exactly the problem. Acropolis is part of the same old, back-handed, anything goes politics that has corrupted our community. The Republicans run Ocean County like a three-ring circus, with party chair George Gilmore as the ringleader.
Can someone tell the Republicans that the citizens of Brick and of Ocean County are fed up with this type of politics?
This letter was first published in The Brick Times of Saturday, October 16th
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