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• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Are You Ready For Some Football?   1 year, 9 months ago · View

  Christie Punts On The Ground Zero Mosque. Throws A Block For Pallone By Art Gallagher Governor Chris Christie copped out on Monday when he declined to take a position on the building of the Cordoba House mosque at Ground Zero. His point, that we cannot paint all of Islam with a jihadist brush, is true. Certainly there are some who are [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Casagrande Introduces Sick Time and Vacation Reforms   1 year, 10 months ago · View

  By Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande, R-Monmouth and Mercer, 12th Legislative District Nearly every day we learn of another public official cashing out an exorbitant amount of unused sick or vacation time at retirement: $132,223 for the Freehold Regional schools superintendent, $153,790 for the Keansburg police chief, and of course, the infamous $741,000 retirement package to the Keansburg schools [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Hypocrisy Asbury Park Press Style   1 year, 10 months ago · View

  In our recent interview, Middletown Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger mentioned that the township’s revenue from newspaper recycling was down by $400,000 this year. Maybe if the Asbury Park Press put out a better product we could lay off a few less people. If the Neptune Newsies would stop being such dolts, more people would buy the paper and [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Proof That Frank Pallone Is Worried   1 year, 10 months ago · View

  By Tommy DeSeno, Southern Monmouth Correspondent For years, Frank Pallone ignored Asbury Park – because he could. This reliable little City would traditionally give him enough of a victory margin to wipe out the Republican victory in several Monmouth County towns. That meant while Asbury Park kept other towns at bay, all Pallone had to do was waltz [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Wasser Watch   1 year, 10 months ago · View

  Mr. H. James Wasser is the poster boy for New Jersey’s taxpayer abuse. According to an article is the Asbury Park Press the once esteemed superintendent of the Freehold Regional High School System who was forced to retire early due to the outfall of the scandal over his diploma mill doctorate, is cashing in $132,000 in unused vacation and [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Costigan Will Challenge Oxley For Monmouth GOP Chair   1 year, 11 months ago · View

  John Costigan. Photo credit: Rhoda Chodosh Howell Township GOP Municipal Chairman says he will seek the chairmanship of the Monmouth County Republican Organization at the party’s statutory reorganization on June 15, 2010. He will be challenging incumbent Chairman Joe Oxley who has said he will seek a second two year term. Costigan, who has in recent months publicly [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Janice Venables Enters The Democratic Freeholder Mix   2 years, 2 months ago · View

  

  Spring Lake Councilwoman Janice Venables will compete with Vincent Solomeno of Hazlet to be Freeholder John D’Amico’s running mate in this year’s Monmouth County Freeholder race. Venables, a practicing attorney in Manasquan, has served on the Spring Lake council since being appointed to fill a vacancy in 1999. She was elected to a full term in 2000 and [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Curley’s Tactics Are No Surprise   2 years, 2 months ago · View

  That John Curley is shaking things up in Freehold should be no surprise to anyone. His tactics (detractors would say antics) are perfectly consistent with his past performance as a councilman in Red Bank and perfectly consistent with his performance on the campaign trail during the two previous elections. We got the Freeholder we nominated twice [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: The Halfacre Interview Continued   2 years, 2 months ago · View

  Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre spent over an hour with me last week in a “job interview” for the “party lines” to be awarded this month by the various GOP county committees in the 12th Congressional district. Since the mainstream media doesn’t pay attention to this critical process, my intention is to provide those who will vote [...]

• Art Gallagher wrote a new blog post: Monmouth County Freeholder John Culrey Says More Cuts are Needed   2 years, 2 months ago · View

  As a businessman and Monmouth County Freeholder, John Curley is gravely concerned over the dire economic climate in New Jersey and Monmouth County. The Freeholder states, “the reports from Trenton are discerning with dramatic cuts in state aid to counties and municipalities being cut by as much as 15%.” The Freeholder believes that under the present operation [...]