Caesar Has No Tunic!

Caesar Has No Tunic!

As Hans Christian Anderson wrote: The Emporer Wears No Clothes.
That title can easily, in this writer's opinion, be paraphrased to read: 'Caesar Has No Tunic', in the case of Woodbridge Township's Mayor's State of the Township Address!

On Wednesday, January 30, Nick Muscavage of the Home News Tribune wrote a front page piece on how Mayor John McCormac touted his claimed accomplishment during his State of the Township Address.

By accounts from some local business people that attended McCormac's State of the Township luncheon, they had to endure McCormac's hyperboles, while they waited for their pricey lunch. Some, perhaps from a loss of appatite, after listening to McCormac's Address, left before lunch was served.

From what I have heard and read, McCormac must really believe that putting 'lipstick on a pig', with all his blustering makes it attractive. It doesn't!
All of his claims about how great business and life in Woodbridge Township is doing are nothing more than, as the saying goes, but a sad attempt at putting lipstick on a pig.
Just drive around the township and see how many stores are empty, and have been for years.
Many schools are in direr need of renovation, if not replacement.
Thousands of new apartments rentals,
many of which come with 30 year Pilot Programs (tax abatements for wealthy developers), now add to the tax burdens on small business and property owners.
The School District and the various township Fire Districts see less of their share of property tax revenues because of McCormac's Pilot Programs.
The McCormac Administration is using taxpayer monies, and binding generations of residence to come, to bond debt to buy and operate business entities, like the Club at Woodbridge, which were once taxpayers, not tax liabilities.
Taxpayer's money are spend on fivolous expenditures, like a $500,000.00 electronic billboard at the township's Community Center. A billboard that is all but impossible for drivers to read, and certainly causes a driving distraction!
Salaries and perks to McCormac's loyal cadre are rediculous; just look at how is Chief of Staff went from a $25k /year clerks position in the Township to $175k plus. That is but one example of how ripe the McCormac Administration (and its other related 'Teams') are with cronyism and political patronism. The list is extensive.
For those you fear saying, or just won't see, that Caesar Has No Tunic, I hope you soon do.
For those that can see, you will have an opportunity to take the lipstick off the pig, come the November elections!