Is This The Reason Camden Mayor Frank Moran Was Afraid To Call Out Congressman Donald Norcross Over Comments About Camden Workforce?

Camden Mayor Frank Moran

Social media is a wonderful tool for politicians, it’s also great for those of us who talk about those politicians on the radio or write about the politicians using social media. Thanks to a post earlier today on the City of Camden’s Facebook page we can now ask if the reason Camden Mayor Frank Moran was afraid to call out Congressman Donald Norcross for comments he made about Camden’s workforce is the mayor’s chummy relationship with the congressman’s big brother.

The post that causes us to ask the question:

“Mayor Frank Moran joins Cooper University Healthcare Board Chairman George Norcross, Cooper University Healthcare CEO Adrienne Kirby & Senate President Steve Sweeney as they celebrate the 5th Anniversary of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden. Camden is proud to be home to the premier comprehensive cancer center in the U.S. if not the world!”

A post on the City of Camden Government Facebook page. Screenshot taken approximately 2:30PM 9/25/2018

Look at the photo of the mayor and George Norcross. Look how happy they look together.

Mayor Moran and George Norcross. The same photo is in the bottom left corner of the above Facebook post by the City of Camden Government’s. Photo was taken from that Facebook page at approximately 2:30PM.

I have no idea how well Moran and Norcross know each other, but a picture does say a thousand words, and sometimes more. The two appear very friendly in the picture. Maybe that friendliness is why Moran never called out the younger Norcross.

PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman Calls On Newly Formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability To Investigate Marcellus Jackson Hire And Provide Oversight Of His Employment

NJGOP Chairman Calls On Newly Formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability To Investigate Marcellus Jackson Hire And Provide Oversight Of His Employment

Trenton, NJ - Last week Governor Murphy defended hiring former Passaic councilman, Marcellus Jackson, who, as a Passaic City councilman, was convicted of taking bribes from undercover FBI agents.  Murphy called his decision to hire the convicted felon into the Department of Education his administration’s “new norm.”

In response to this, New Jersey Republican State Committee Chairman Doug Steinhardt made the following statement:

"We should be throwing corruption out of public government, not welcoming it back in. If hiring corrupt officials back into state government is Governor Murphy’s new norm, then he clearly is deaf to the tone New Jersey residents want to hear.”

The Bergen Record ran an editorial this weekend that referred to Jackson's hire as "one of those made-up, soft-suds patronage jobs that is breaking the state’s pension bank".

Steinhardt said, “The hypocrisy of this hire is palpable. I call on the Attorney General to use the newly formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, whose purpose, according to northjersey.com, is to ’root out the corruption and misconduct that hurts faith in public institutions,’ to take definitive steps towards ensuring that this practice is monitored closely. The Attorney General should also investigate if Mr. Jackson's guilty plea for accepting a bribe in exchange for a taxpayer funded contract caused a forfeiture of his public pension. It is bad enough that his new job puts him back into the pension system, but it would be an even bigger slap in the face to New Jersey residents if he was allowed to add to his previous pension.”

"After admitting to taking more than $25,000 in bribes, Jackson is making $70,000 a year on the public payroll, in the public pension system, with premium healthcare benefits. On the day he entered his guilty plea, Mr. Jackson remarked boldly, “I shall return,” perhaps foreshadowing that New Jersey Democrats hiring someone who went to jail for public corruption would be their new “normal.”

“New Jersey's residents deserve to see the results of an investigation into Jackson’s actual hiring. The bar should never be this low. At a time when we should be building the public’s trust in government, questionable decisions like this do nothing but set us back."

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PRESS RELEASE: CCGOP Freeholder Candidates Ask Why County Residents Pay For Two Police Departments But Are Served By One

Cybulski And Gustafson Ask Why County Residents Pay For Two Police Departments But Are Served By One

Republican Freeholder candidates say county police department should serve the entire county

CHERRY HILL – Republican candidates for Camden County Freeholder, Keith Cybulski and Claire Gustafson said today that a Ferris wheel that broke down with at least six children on it at the Camden County Fair over the weekend raises some questions.

According to published reports the Ferris wheel left some riders stranded 40 feet in the air. The Blackwood Fire Department and Gloucester Township Police Departments responded and performed flawlessly.

“I spent over 10 years as a member of the fire department in my hometown, I know the difficulties that come with the job, as such Claire and I want to congratulate the Blackwood Fire Department on a job well done,” Keith Cybulski said. “While the fire and police departments performed well, one has to wonder where the Camden County Police Department was, county taxpayers pay for the county police and the County Fair was held on county property.”

Claire Gustafson added, “It only makes sense that a county police department should be handling issues on county property, leaving local police to patrol their local neighborhoods. We had a great county parks police department that would have handled police duties at the weekend’s incident before the Democrats messed things up with the creation of the county police department that patrols only Camden city.”

Cybulski asked, “Is it fair county taxpayers pay for their local police departments and a county department that only patrols Camden? Is it fair to force local departments to do the job that should be done by the county police department?”

“It’s terrible that it took a broken Ferris wheel to show taxpayers how unfairly they’re treated by county government,” said Gustafson. “Every taxpayer not living in the city of Camden is paying for two police departments but only being served by one. At least when we had a parks police department we were served by two departments.”

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