RUMOR: Threats And Intimidation In Haddon Township

The story of Haddon Township Commissioner Paul Dougherty just keeps getting bigger!

Multiple sources have told us there are now threats of lawsuits against Township residents speaking out on the Dougherty issue.

If true, this is BS and needs to stop.

Based on comments on social media that have been forwarded to us it appears the residents are fighting back. Good for the residents!

In one heated social media discussion a man who may or may not be involved in real estate, who might allegedly be a friend of Dougherty’s posted at least one comment about lawsuits. As we understand many of the comments have since been deleted but following is a piece of how residents are pushing back on those alleged threats.

We’re leaving the names out of this post because we didn’t ask permission to use their names. But this is one reply to the alleged threat of lawsuits:

not to be rude, but who the heck are you to tell people what they can and can’t talk about? I hope it does cause a frenzy in all honesty! The residents of HT deserve someone honest and ethical to make decisions for them. I don’t know this gentleman and he is probably a decent guy, but he broke the law and most likely needs to go get help for his problem. I can tell you from personal experience that the worst thing you can do is NOT talk about it, “brush it under the rug,” or ignore this behavior. This is a public forum where the good people of HT can talk about these kinds of things and get some facts (think of all the “rambling nonsense” that is going on outside of here). What’s wrong is wrong and the facts speak for themselves.

We had one source explain, “People have been getting phone calls with threats of criminal charges.” Furthermore, it’s been alleged that Dougherty may be coaching the guy who may or may not be involved in real estate.

As we were tracking down sources for this piece, one source replied, “Yes, I just received a message yesterday about it. Apparently they are threatening with lawsuits to those going against Dougherty.”

All this talk of threats and intimidation adds up to one thing. Tomorrow night’s commissioners meeting in Haddon Township has the potential of being very exciting.

Camden County’s Rogue Republican Has To Go

Vincent Squire

I rarely contribute to our blog because I’m more of a voice guy, the talent if you will. Because of this Steve Kush does 98% of the work on our blog but for this particular post, he couldn’t contribute because it would be a professional conflict of interest. Kush is consulting to many of the Camden County Republican candidates this year and that’s his conflict. I did, however, ‘interview’ Kush over breakfast after our show Saturday.

It looks like one of the Republican freeholder candidates in Camden County needs to drop out of the race. The Camden County Republican Party certainly has been trying to get him to resign from the ticket. His name is Vincent Squire. The more I learn about him, the less I think he should be given the benefit of any doubt.

I, like many other Republicans, had heard grumblings about Squire, but I was a chairman once and I know it can be difficult to get candidates in tough races and you sometimes have to settle, so I paid little attention.

Then last week happened. A post on a blog I had never heard of started circulating on Facebook. I read it and then looked up more stuff on Squire. Hang on because I have a feeling this is going to be a long story.

So I read about Vincent Squire on this Rabblerouser blog.

After reading that blog post I have only one thing to say. Congratulations Mr. Squire on being the only African-American I have ever heard of to try to stop the installation of a plaque honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.

To make matters worse the plaque memorializes the first civil rights incident in which King was involved. On top of that, the plaque Squire was trying to stop had already been installed.

This alone is enough to give Squire the idiot of the year award. But it gets worse!

Squire has a checkered past. A checkered past disqualifies no one. The late, great former Philly city councilman Jimmy Tayoun proved second chances can be success stories.

I’m not going to go much into Squire’s checkered past, the blog Positively Pennsauken does a good job with that stuff, scroll through it if you want more information. I will say I asked Kush about it and he explained, “We knew about the white collar stuff, Vince was very open about that. We could live with it because he turned it into a positive by doing volunteer work to prevent recidivism and volunteering with a prison ministry. But he failed to disclose some other stuff and every time we asked he blamed it on a bitter divorce with his ex wife.”

I pressed and Kush explained that the CCGOP Chairman, Political Director and Kush all met with Squire on August 10 and asked him to drop out of the race. Squire didn’t drop out. The chairman asked again in an email, still Squire refused. A third time Friday night in a text, still Squire refuses to drop out.

What happened to three strike and you’re out?

Squire’s had more than three strikes. According to Kush, one of his running mates told him to drop out and the other running mate told him to do the right thing.

I asked Kush if the fact Squire left some of his past out of his story is the reason they asked Squire to drop out and Kush told me, “No, we want him out because we learned he has a second degree assault charge pending against him in Superior Court, which county we don’t know because he’s told us different stories, and the charge is against his own teenage son. We learned about it after exposing the Arthur Barclay incident. Vince explained it away telling us it was a minor thing that his ex-wife blew out of proportion. Obviously his explanation was a lie. As an organization we’ve gone after Barclay and now we’re going after Paul Dougherty in Haddon Township, keeping Vince on the ticket would be hypocritical.”

There’s a lot more stuff out there but I don’t want to embarrass Squire any more than I have to.

I considered calling Squire to set up an interview, but then I stumbled upon a video of Squire threatening a blogger who attempted an interview.

Nope! Not happening. I will not sit down with this guy.

Vincent Squire, do the Republican Party and yourself a favor and drop out of the race NOW. With trying to stop the installation of a plaque honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, a second degree assault charge and a video of you threatening a blogger you are a giant embarrassment.

Haddon Township Documents From A Citizen's OPRA Request

Paul Dougherty

We can't seem to escape the saga of Haddon Township Commissioner Paul Dougherty and his hit and run accident. Not only is he a commissioner, Dougherty is also the municipal prosecutor in Cherry Hill, Clementon and Gloucester City. He should have known better than to (a) be driving on an expired license and (b) leave the scene of an accident.

It turns out rumors the Commissioner initially tried to blame his wife were true. He told the Police Chief his wife hit the other car and left the scene. This email, obtained through an OPRA request proves this to be true:

The second document is the official police report:

And finally, we have the official police activity logs from the night of the accident:

And, there you have it, all the information necessary to prove we haven't been wrong to stay on top of this story.