Haddon Township Commissioners Have Found A Replacement For Dougherty

Ryan Linhart (Source: Facebook)

Haddon Township Commissioners have selected Ryan Linhart to replace former Commissioner Paul Dougherty who resigned in disgrace for reasons completely unrelated to his hit and run car accident.

Linhart will serve as the Commissioner of Revenue and Finance. This makes sense since he makes his living as a financial analyst.

Apparently, establishment Democrats aren’t happy about this as Linhart comes from the progressive wing of the party. Sources close to the situation say local Democrats were lobbying heavy for someone else.

Linhart is married, has two sons and lives in the Bluebird section of Haddon Township. He did run against current Commissioner Jim Mulroy. He appears to have been active in the township having headed up the restoration of the New Jersey Avenue public park. He also served on the township’s Shade Tree Commission.

Linhart will have to run for a full term in May 2019. With local Democrats not particularly happy with this pick the May election in Haddon Township could be exciting.

Has Disavowed Freeholder Candidate Vincent Squire Lost His Mind? Now He’s Claiming A Real Person Isn’t Real.

Vincent Squire

Twice in the same day with this guy, but it truly does appear Vincent Squire has lost his mind.

Squire has been very active on social media today with some ridiculous stuff.

First, Squire chose to share an almost week old post by Paul Dilks to claim “Vengeance” is his.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make in a blog post shortly after Dilks’ first posted his comments now being shared by Squire. I explained in the blog post, “It helps no one.” Now, perhaps the few people who sided with Dilks understand what I was talking about. Squire is using that post as a way to claim the Camden County GOP attacked him. They didn’t, but in the world of Squire truth often doesn’t matter. We already know Squire was collecting $5 donations for an apparently illegal game of chance, that he attempted to solicit $20,000 campaign contributions and that he paid for billboards.

Given the fact Squire has yet to report raising or spending any money to New Jersey’s Election Law Enforcement Commission, he should be the last person sharing anything that mentions money. He obviously spent money on his billboards and campaign literature.

Not only is Squire using someone else’s social media post to claim vengeance and that he was attacked, he also has made the claim that an actual, real person is a pseudonym for Pennsauken blogger Mike Astringer.

To write, “For those who don’t know Scot DeCristofaro is really Mike Astringer,” is beyond stupid.

Not only is Scot DeCristofaro an elected member of the Camden County Republican Committee from Haddon Township, but DeCristofaro is also a past Republican candidate. In 2009 he knocked on 15,000 doors as a candidate for the Assembly in LD6. In 2010 DeCristofaro ran for Camden County freeholder, the last time Republican freeholder candidates raised enough money for TV ads.

It’s ashamed so many people were duped by Squire into believing he would be a good candidate for office and an even bigger embarrassment that there are people out there who still buy this guy’s cons.

Hopefully, by now, it should be obvious to anyone reading this that Vincent Squire either has a serious problem with the truth or he has simply lost his mind.

Unfortunately, I doubt this will be the last time I write about Squire because he never quits. He doesn’t embarrass easily either. He does have a court date coming soon for the second-degree assault charge hanging over his head, maybe that’ll finally silence him.

PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman Comment On New Jersey Losing Amazon Bid

Amazon isn’t bringing HQ2 to New Jersey and NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt isn’t happy. Following is a press release from the NJGOP:

NJGOP Chairman Comment On New Jersey Losing Amazon Bid

For Immediate Release

Trenton, NJ - Amazon officially announced that New Jersey lost out on their bid to attract the Amazon HQ2. 

NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt reacted to this news with the following comment:

"New Jersey was on track to attract 50,000 new well paying jobs and $5 billion worth of investment before our state's new management de-railed our bid. To survive, New Jersey needs to be competing with states like New York and Virginia, but we're consistently losing out. We're chasing out job creators and storied companies like Gerber because we send all the wrong signals to new, cutting-edge companies like Amazon.

Steinhardt continued, "Phil Murphy and legislative Democrats may coddle the state's business climate with their words, but their actions are killing it. The country's economy is booming around us, yet New Jersey’s Democratic leadership is yanking back on the reigns with a steady stream of new and debilitating tax increases.

"Senate President Sweeney came forward in recent days and claimed he's done raising taxes, yet he's proposed and supported billions of dollars in taxes this calendar year alone. Lip service won’t save New Jersey the private sector investments we're capable of winning, but Republican leadership will.”

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