Is Brain Damage a Prerequisite For Being a Politician?

This is a very serious question - Is Brain Damage a Prerequisite For Being a Politician?

Recently, 2 legislative lawmakers got together and came up with a bipartisan plan to rename Route 23 "Robert Roe Highway" after the former longtime politician and US representative. Sounds great on da surface. So does "da Jeffrey Dahmer Restaurant" or "da Jon Corzine Turnpike."

Let's tell da family of da people Robert Roe ruined forever that naming that highway after him is a good idea. In 1993, Robert Roe was driving a vehicle in Rockaway Township when his car crashed into a minivan. The woman and her 15-year old daughter in da van were seriously injured in that crash. Roe was found to have a blood alcohol level of .17 - well above da legal limit of being intoxicated.

Here's what you also need to know - According to da Bergen Record:

"We got hit at 60 mph. He was on the wrong side of the road," Worosila recalled of the accident on May 2, 1993.

Roe, who left Congress several months before the accident, had a blood alcohol content reading of 0.17 -- well above the threshold for intoxication. He lost his license for six months and paid $426 in fines. He avoided a more serious charge, assault by auto, after being admitted into a pretrial intervention program.

"He got a slap on the wrist," Worosila said.

Roe, now 83, did not return a phone call to his consulting firm in Wayne. Stephen "Skippy" Weinstein, Roe's attorney in the 1993 case, declined comment.

Worosila escaped injury in the accident, but his daughter suffered fractures of the ribs, shoulder blade, tibia and fibula, along with a lacerated spleen that had to be removed. His wife, Julia, broke her pelvis in two places.

Yes, Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce backed da bill, and so did John Wisniewski, and Governor Jon Corzine signed it into law!

What's next - a state-run driving school named for Zulima Farber?

Ironically, da minute da newspaper found da outraged family, all of a sudden DeCroce now admits he knew about Roe's night-on-da-town where he admitted drinking at home and again at a bar before plowing into da family's minivan at what was reported to be 60 mph. He claimed, "he deserved da honor because of his lengthy public service."

Great! Should we name a Turnpike rest stop after Jim McGreevey? After all, he was a public servant and he frequented some of those rest stops.

And who was in charge of da vetting process here? Who were da brain-e-acks in DeCroce's, co-sponsor John Wisniewski's and Corzine's office that missed that small tidbit?

Yes, in New Jersey, we want to name a highway after a person found guilty of DWI who wrecked both a minivan and da family that was in it.

You want to bet MADD is hopping MAD about this?

There are some things that politicians might want to rename - also at taxpayer expense like da new "Robert Roe Highway" signs that cost YOU $2,500.

In Manalapan, you can name da Italian-American Association after Larry Roth, da husband of Mayor Queen Roth who uttered da now-famous phrase, "Because I Hate Italians."

In Newark, da Federal Court Building could be renamed for former Sen. John Lynch, da head of da Lynch mob convicted in that very building of corruption.

DaTruth is, naming a road for someone convicted of DWI is an absolute travesty that must be investigated. Nobody can be that blind, and da fact that 3 prominent politicians and their staffs had no clue -- all at TAXPAYER EXPENSE -- is a slap-in-da-face to da family that was ruined by Robert Roe and da taxpayers who put up with these political shenanigans.

Speaking of shenanigans, did anyone go to da Manalapan Township meeting on Wednesday? Former Mayor George Spodak demanded and received 10-15 minutes to speak about whatever was on da mind of George Spodak, a wish granted by da Queen and her court.

What did Porky say? There will be more to come on that soon.

DaTruth is, politicians - and former wannabees - are costing da state money, but they are also costing YOU money on da municipal level. Take as an example da case that garnered worldwide attention, "Da Township of Manalapan vs. Da Mosked Man." It's a case brought by politicians against a former Township attorney about a piece of land a court ordered da town to buy where tainted soil was found, which somehow became a First Amendment case of mammoth proportions.

Da "Love Canal of Manalapan" will cost da astronomical figure of $15,000 for soil cleanup. However, it will cost at least $50,000 for "engineering" work, and former Mayor, current "Defendant" and alleged Manalapan resident Andy Boy is on record claiming da case against da Mosked Man has already exceeded $100,000 when you add in da legal bills involved by da 4-member Manalapan Legal Dream Team. Da case is still ongoing, and da meter is still running - and YOU are still paying!

And, FYI, there has not been even one story about "Da Township of Manalapan vs. Da Mosked Man" in da local Snoozepaper since a judge threw out da First Amendment challenge brought by da Manalapan Legal Dream Team against daTruthSquad, who da Dream Team claimed in court records was da Mosked Man himself!

We obvoiusly must not only demand more from our politicians, on both da local and state level, but also from da local newspaper folks that claim to cover towns like Manalapan.

DaTruth is, naming a road after a convicted DWI offender is a travesty. It's also another stain on da record of Governor Toll Troll. If we don't demand more from these people, then be prepared to check your wallet for a vacuum hose. It will be siphoning money out as you read this blog, and local newspapers like da Snoozer will continue reporting on cats in trees and new guardrails on Smith Street, but not what matters.

And that's daTruth.