When daTruthSquad got wind that da Manalapan Township Committee had decided to close all municipal offices for 10 Fridays during the summer months, we have to admit we first thought - Wow, da fiscal conservatives of da Manalapan Township Committee finally get it!
This means all municipal offices will be closed on June 4, and for 9 other Fridays in July and August. Sounds great in theory. However, in Manalapan, one thing we've learned is that theory is sometimes like using gasoline to put out a fire. Yes, gasoline is a liquid, but it probably won't do much to put out da flames.
So, kudos to da Manalapan Township Committee to try to save da taxpayers money. In all, it's expected that just about $100,000 will be saved this summer on salaries of da furloughed workers. Anyone who works in da building, and we can only expect that it includes Tara Tiara, will be losing 10 days of pay over da summer!
Now, even daTruthSquad has to admit that for once, da Manalapan Township Committee is doing something right. Ever since da recession started, money has been spent by da "TC" on a lot of things --- including lawyers for da many cases they are facing from da return volley by da Mosked Man in his defamation case and wrongful prosecution case against da town, and certain Manalapan Township officials, as well as da defamation case brought by Manalapan Police Chief Stu Brown against certain Manalapan Township officials.
Yes, some people are going to be a little lighter in their paychecks, but so many others have faced this, so now it's Manalapan's turn.
Interesting though, is da timing. We're getting closer and closer to getting a budget done, and why now is this cut coming? Why wasn't it announced before when da budget was first introduced? Why did they wait until now to release this information?
Now, to be fair, da Manalapan Township Committee has been cutting everything in sight that doesn't move. Manalapan Township doesn't even subsidize Manalapan Day anymore, leaving da fine men and women at da Heritage Committee to work their backsides off to make this great event da success it usually is. Anyone who has seen da posters out about Tommy James and da Shondells has to be impressed, and getting a big time New York City radio station to come to our little town is a testament to da Heritage Committee's hard work and dedication.
However, we have just one question --- does da furlough also include da five members of da manalapan Township Committee?
If it does, then daTruthSquad will admit they did da 100% right thing here. If they're getting their full pay and benefits while da office staff is getting unpaid days off, then they owe us an explanation.
DaTruth is, da furloughs were long overdue. Outside of da years that Joltin Joe, may he rest in peace, was on da township committee, and da fiscal conservative Queen's big campaign year, taxes in Manalapan have usually gone up - and in some cases double dights! You ask any homeowner who can't print money, and they'll tell you it's been rough. Da Manalapan Township Committee has no business base to draw money off of, since da town's ratables ranks as one of da lowest in da county and in da bottom 25% of da entire state, so it's up to da homeowners to make our town's ends meet.
And, to be fair, our townspeople have spent their hard earned money that maybe they should have not spent money on. One case that comes to mind is da Land Deal Gone Bad - First Amendment case heard 'round da world -- a case that Mayor Andy Boy said in 2007 had already cost well "over $100,000" just six months into da 25 month case! As to exactly how much was spent - we'll never know, because they refuse to tell us.
Da situation with Chief Brown is another waste of taxpayer money, and will only get worse because a female sitting member of da Manalapan Township Committee didn't appreciate being called "lady."
Remember too that da Manalapan Township Committee used over $1,000,000 dollars in school cutbacks just to balance their budget gap, something daTruthSquad previously blogged about in "Will Da Manalapan Township Committee Balance Their Budget On Da Backs of Kids?" In fact, over $20 million dollars of da Manalapan budget comes directly from taxpayers - Manalapan homeowners - one of da largest percentages of any town in Monmouth County!
DaTruth is, this "furlough plan" is long overdue, but it shouldn't stop here. DaTruthSquad challenges da Manalapan Township Committee to place da budget on da town website for everyone to see. However, it shouldn't end there. With each meeting, they should also place up there on da website every expenditure and bill for town residents to see -- including all legal billing.
DaTruth is, we have all been promised transparency in local government. That promise will not be fulfilled until we can see what is being done with our money.
On another front, this blog will continue to support our new adopted sister, da "BordentownMayorReallySucks.com" blog. Da First Amendment is something great patriots and great men and women in our Armed Forces shed blood and gave their lives for. Like da Andy Boy-led Manalapan Township Committee did in 2007, we at daTruthSquad will not stand idly by while a mayor who allegedly has some issues regarding "sucking," according to that blog, tries to take da Constitution of da United States and fold it into a paper airplane.
To Mayor Lynch and his Lynch Mob, simply put - prove your detractors wrong. Prove their statements are lies - and you shouldn't need da "Bordentown Legal Dream Team" to get that accomplished. If you can, that's one thing. if you can't, then it only proves you are trying to use taxpayer money and 800 pound gorilla attorneys to silence your critics. That doesn't make you a mayor - it makes you a Kommissar. That doesn't make you an American - it makes you a Communist. It doesn't make you a leader - it makes you a tyrant. Do da right thing, and learn from da mistakes of da Manalapan Township Committee and end your taxpayer-funded facade.
Like daTruthSquad, we in this great nation have da right to blog anonymously. If you need further proof, look up a document that is called da US Constitution. You may have heard of it. Libraries have copies of it. In some career politicians homes, however, apparently it could be found being used as a bookmark for someone's Communist Manifesto.
Finally, daTruthSquad has a major announcement to make. It's been a long time, but if we've learned anything from da latest events in Bordentown, we've learned that anyone can be a BaconHead. Therefore, after a unanimous vote of da TruthTellers, we're going to be bringing back da beloved BaconHead Award!!!!!!!
Who will win da BaconHead Award this month? Whoever it will be, you know they will be well deserving. And that's daTruth!
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Joey D leads the charge in controlling costs and lowering taxes. Joey D is in no one's pockets he's his own man. Joey D no's how to tell others not to raise taxes. Vote for the working man with a plan. Joey D
About time. There's too much dead weight working in town hall anyway that my tax money pays for. Excellent work Michelle! Having you lead the Manalapan Township Committee is a blessing!
Why is it that so much taxpayer money goes to paying the budget, while in other towns including Marlboro the tax burden is less percentage-wise? Can someone explain that?
The bigger problem for that female member of the Township Committe is not how she feels about the chief or any other issue. It is what she says and how she expresses it. Sort of like our not-so-cherished state and national leaders.
Michelle Roth is keeping Manalapan taxes low not Joey D.
I nominate Stu Moskovitz for the Baconhead Award for writing the self-serving crap that gets postd on this blog.
News flash - this is not 2007 - Joey D is not running for Township Committee
Michelle Roth????
Pleeeeezzzzzz. She never met a tax she didn't hike. She's devisive. Remember Jerry Collincini? Remember the symphony conductor? Remember what she tried to do to Chief Brown before Moskovitz stepped in? Remember Moskovitz and his blog?
Michelle Roth has cost this town much moe than she will ever save it!
That Borden Town mayor sucks site is hysterical. I agree. To use taxpayer money to take it down is no better than what Manalapan did years ago. If the mayor doesn't like it, let someone else be mayor.
How is she "keeping Manalapan taxes low"? By costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyers' fees?
Oh that's right. One goniff looks out for the others.
This Fridays furlougth deal is gonna backfire. How will they make up the work? They're gonna have to come in over the weekend and finish all of their work on overtime!
I say double the furlough, and it better include the people on the township committee, since they meet only once each month in the summer anyway. If they can miss a meeting, they can hand back some pay too.
Point about the furlougs which I agree with. Since the Manalapan TC only meets once per month in July and August, does that mean they should give back money too? They should be a part of the furlough too, and if they're not, I'll be the first to cast my vote against Andy.
Michelle Roth a tax cutter.
What are you smoking? And can I get some?
Michelle Roth is a lady who keeps taxes low. The only thing Joey D keeps low is his IQ.
I just wonder. If Larry Roth and Fred Stone stopped posting on this site, would there be any childish posts? Would there be any vicious attacks? Would there be any obsessive ridiculous postings about a lawyer who is laughing his a$$ off at them all the way to the bank while they're wasting away blogging about him? I doubt it. Do these two realize they are the laughingstock of Manalapan?
Let's all remember Manalapan Day is this coming Saturday. It should be a wonderful day with games and rides for the kids, Tommy James and Tommy G with music and fireworks and great food. It's always a wonderful event. That is what Manalapan is all about.
How many people on the Manalapan Township Committee run businesses out of their houses?
Great way to avoid paying business taxes in the town you govern. Maybe they're smarter than we give them credit for.
stu, you would run your business out of your house if you had a house.
That makes no sense. First of all, everyone knows Stu has a house and even knows where it is, unlike some township committee people who don't know if they live in Manalapan or Freehold. Second, when you have a successful business like Stu's you can't run it out of your house. Now Larry, on the other hand, has no trouble running his business out of his house -- of course that's because he can't afford an office any more.
LOL. Unlike Roth, Stu can't run his business out of his house because there are too many workmen there every day -- thanks to the Manalapan democrats who are making him very wealthy.
to be more accurate, he would run his business out of his house if he had a house OR a business.
"Stu can't run his business out of his house because there are too many workmen there every day -- thanks to the Manalapan democrats who are making him very wealthy."
Whoever wrote that is a genious. By continuing to pursue a case against Moskovitz, you know the settlement will be high and this %$#@ will get very rich off of us. By the factthe town had to dropp the case shows THERE NEVER REALLY WAS A CASE. End it now and save the taxpayers a few $$$.
I knew the case against Moskovitz was a political vendetta when they went after his blog, and found out it wasn't his blog. The whole thing was a taxpayer funded stunt to silence a critic and a political rival. It's shocking to me that the state hasn't investigated this mess. But then again in this county, everything's political.
Hopefully some independents will run against Lucas and his running mate Moskowitz.
Joey D?????? Save our town!
Joet D is our only hope!
Joey D is the returned messiah. I've seen him step in dog poop without his shoes getting dirty. I've seen him magically throw a piece of a dead animal onto a flame and turn it into veal parmagiana. So i know he will be the saviour of Manalapan, and take this corruption infested garbage heap of a town and turn it into some place like frickin new zealand.
Even better than all of that he stood up to the Ivy League losers who wanted to raise taxes and wouldn't allow it. Joey D standing up for the working man and woman.
"Hopefully some independents will run against Lucas and his running mate Moskowitz."
It's Maskowitz and he happens to be a salt of the earth type of person who will be a huge asset to this town.
Try understanding what you are talking about, before you open that putrid mouth.
"Maskowitz"
"Moskovitz"
Are they related?
"It's Maskowitz and he happens to be a salt of the earth type of person who will be a huge asset to this town."
Didn't someone once say the very same thing about Andy Lucas?
Why am I concerned all of a sudden?
You should give Jordan a chance. He has accomplished alot in his life. He's a former state trooper, he's been very active in town and he's a wonderful person. He can probably do some good on the TC.
'He can probably do some good on the TC."
Just tell him not to call anyone "Lady," not even his pet dog.
Jordan may be a nice guy but he doesn't have the experience or record of cutting taxes like the man of the people Joey D does.
joey D will save our tax $$ by personally picking up all the town's garbage!!
Sounds like Joey D would at least try to do the right thing. He doesn't seem like a guy who's into election year gimics. We need an independent team to run against Lukass.
jordan can't collect half the garbage that joey D could.
Even if he does live in Manalapan, being that he lives on a "farm," Andrew Lucas pays $30 per YEAR in property taxes, whereas the average homeowner pays something in the area of $7,000+. Ponder that between now and November and make your choices accordingly.
Lucas is keeping his FREEEE healthcare because the Mrs. is going to need lots of health care in the next nine months. On the backs of furloughed workers Lucas uses our tax dollars for his personal gain!!!!!!
I just wanted to post this here. On the Kathy Baratta hate/rant site, Mr. Larry Roth posted the following, to which I would like to comment:
"...in my opinion the current chairman (if it is still McHenry) is the biggest horses ass in the town. He usually surfaces the last week of an election to spout lie after lie after lie. He distributes material to select areas of towns with targeted lies that he knows are lies. The proof of this is that I have actually seen this crap in people's doorways at Covered Bridge and other places.
You don't need to learn anything from McHenry. There is nothing for him to teach you except how to destroy an enemy. The man has no soul and will do anything to win. Keep your eyes wide open. particularly during the last week or two of the election.
You have looked my in the eye and have said you will tolerate none of the nonsense that existed in prior campaigns. I would ask you to go a step farther and if the lies surface again, I would ask you to write a letter to the papers distancing yourself from the people who continue to bad-mouth honest, hardworking people year after year."
So if he's all about letter-writing in the name of what's right, where's the letter to all of the townsfolk of Italian heritage, to apologize for how he vehemently hates us?
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