Congratulations to Mayor Mayer. $1.5 Million!

Congratulations Gloucester Township Mayor Dave Mayer and his band of politicians and political committees. They have reached the $1.5 million milestone in extracting pay-to-play donations from vendors who are then awarded lucrative government contracts.*

Mayer and his cronies are enriched by this.
You and I, the taxpayers, are burdened with higher taxes.

Disclosure: The author of this article, Peter Heinbaugh, is a 2015 candidate for Gloucester Township Council who is committed to making every nickel of your taxes count; and is committed to cleaning up your Gloucester Township government.
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*FOOTNOTES

Since 2007, Mayor Mayer’s Gloucester Township PACs and campaign committees have collected $1.5 million in political donations. Virtually all of these donations are from firms that have been awarded government contracts.
(Source: NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission reports)

From this $1.5 million in donations, here are the 4 most generous active contributors:
Remington & Vernick, appointed as GT’s contracted township engineer many, many consecutive years, donated $293K to Team Mayer since 2007.
CES Engineers, another firm appointed as a GT contracted engineer for many, many consecutive years, donated $101K to Team Mayer since 2007.
Bach Associates, yet another firm appointed as an engineer for many, many consecutive years, this firm received contracts from both GT and the GTMUA, donated $71K to Team Mayer since 2007.
Wade, Long, Wood is a law firm appointed as the Solicitor for Gloucester Township School District and for GT Municipal Utilities Authority. This firm has donated $67K to Team Mayer since 2007.
(Source: NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission reports)

‘Pay-to-Play’ is the term given to the unethical practice of political donations collected by politicians from businesses who are attempting to win contracts with New Jersey government entities. Amazingly, this practice is not illegal in New Jersey. The former state comptroller Matthew Boxer was an outspoken critic of this loophole in state law, and recommended that New Jersey municipalities enact their own ordinances to curb this unethical practice. Dozens and dozens of New Jersey municipalities followed Mr. Boxer’s recommendation and passed an ordinance. Unfortunately for Gloucester Township taxpayers, Mayor Mayer and your current Township government have aggressively resisted this reform; and, to this day, they continue the unethical practice of pay-to-play.

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