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Is Gloucester Township a Single-Party Town?

Pay-to-Play contributions keep the township's single-party domination in place.

We received the latest "improperganda" from the township Democrats in the form of a political mass mailer today. Some of the "lowlights":

"Our Community and Country has endured its share of divisive politics."

Our "Community" has endured single party rule for over 10 years. So, where's the "divisiveness" coming from? Try to change things and you get crushed. Research what happened, in 2013, when a citizen's group tried to affect changes in the current G.T. Pay-to-Play politics that rewards democrats with over a hundred thousand dollars in political contributions per election cycle.

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When I ran in 2013, my team raised $7,ooo to the Dem's over $100,000. The council president publicly told me, at the time, that he thought that was fair politics and the two-party system was working and was a wonderful thing. But I digress...

The mailer, amongst its other slurs, calls out "council candidate" Joe Allen for insulting "the intelligence of G.T. voters by using insensitive and offensive memes".

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Attached is a mailer that was put out by the Dems, in 2013, mocking and attacking my team, and misrepresenting, and falsifying, things I had said.

Just DUH fax, ma'am: In the 2013 mayoral/council election, the Democrats amassed and spent over $100,000, contributed solely by township contractors (in fact, the Haddonfield-based township engineering firm maxed out its contributions), to our $7,000 of citizen contributions. My guess is that not much has changed.

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