More Gray-Gorman lies - Watchdog Retracts Nothing

When will the campaign of David Gray and Kathleen Gorman stop pretending that they are this website?  More importantly, when will Gray and Gorman start obeying New Jersey election law and put a disclaimer on their ridiculous attempts at impersonation?

The election is less than a week away.  Here's what you need to know:

Freeholder candidates David Gray and Kathleen Gorman were recruited to run by the three Freeholders who voted for the taxpayer-funded bailout of the Sussex solar project that went bust last year.   That is a fact that nobody disputes.

http://www.njherald.com/story/29199152/solar-project-payments-may-have-skirted-federal-law

Then, those same three Freeholders (Vohden, Crabb, and Mudrick) held a big fundraiser for Gray and Gorman.  Insiders from Morris County showed up to lend their support, making Gray and Gorman the candidates of the corrupt Morris County grease machine.  That's another fact beyond dispute.

Gray is being sued under New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act.  The plaintiff, Juliette Bresnahan, is a single-mother of three who worked full-time as the office manager of David Gray's law firm.   Here's what the lawsuit alleges: 

". . . around mid-October 2015, Gray informed Bresnahan that he received a tax bill for around $62,000.  Gray indicated that he was unsure how he would pay this bill. . .

. . . Gray's directive was aimed at intentionally falsifying and fraudulently increasing the bills to generate more revenue to the firm to extricate it from its current financial predicament."

Read the entire complaint against Gray here.

Gray and Gorman are Solar Scam Insiders

Freeholder candidates David Gray and Kathleen Gorman were recruited to run by the three Freeholders who voted for the taxpayer-funded bailout of the Sussex solar project that went bust last year.   That is a fact that nobody disputes.

http://www.njherald.com/story/29199152/solar-project-payments-may-have-skirted-federal-law

Then, those same three Freeholders (Vohden, Crabb, and Mudrick) held a big fundraiser for Gray and Gorman.  Insiders from Morris County showed up to lend their support, making Gray and Gorman the candidates of the corrupt Morris County grease machine.  That's another fact beyond dispute.

At Tuesday night's debate, Gray and Gorman lied to the voters of Sussex County when they said that they "opposed" the solar scam. They are supported by the very people who voted for it, the same people who bailed it out, and they are running using the money of the insiders who are responsible for it.  How is that "opposing" it?

This could be the most ethically challenged political team in Sussex County history.  For months now they have been lying in the emails they send out, pretending to be this website and using a false address.  Gray and Gorman have viciously attacked a single-mother, her family, and her children -- and then tried to make it appear as if the attacks came from Watchdog.  Real dirtbag behavior.

But what can anyone expect from lawyer David Gray and his client, Kathleen Gorman.  Gray is being sued under New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act.  The plaintiff, Juliette Bresnahan, is a single-mother of three who worked full-time as the office manager of David Gray's law firm.   Here's what the lawsuit alleges: 

". . . around mid-October 2015, Gray informed Bresnahan that he received a tax bill for around $62,000.  Gray indicated that he was unsure how he would pay this bill. . .

. . . Gray's directive was aimed at intentionally falsifying and fraudulently increasing the bills to generate more revenue to the firm to extricate it from its current financial predicament."

Read the entire complaint against Gray here.

Watchdog drives the Freeholder race

We are watching with delight how the Gray-Gorman campaign is using past Watchdog columns to run a very hard-hitting campaign against incumbent Freeholder George Graham and his running mate, Hopatcong Mayor Sylvia Petillo.  Watchdog's insights, often missed by corporate media, have provided nearly all of the hits used by Freeholder challengers David Gray and Kathleen Gorman.

This is the most curious campaign on record in Sussex County, not least because of the changing merry-go-round of alliances.  In 2012, George Graham started his rise in Republican politics in Sussex County as the manager of Dennis Mudrick's campaign for Freeholder and the ally of Glen Vetrano and Wendy Molner.  With Graham's help, Mudrick won that election, but the following year saw Graham side with Gary Chiusano in the race for Surrogate and against Alicia Ferrante, the candidate recruited by Glen Vetrano.  Chiusano won and Vetrano subsequently developed some ethical problems as a Trustee for the Sussex County Community College.  In 2014, Graham helped Molner with Freeholder Phil Crabb's successful bid for re-election.  Then in 2015, Graham backed fellow Freeholder Gail Phoebus in her successful bid for State Assembly against Molner-recruited candidate Marie Bilik.  

George Graham was elected to the Freeholder Board in 2013, with the strong support of the county's local elected officials.  In 2015, Graham split with fellow Freeholders Phil Crabb and Richard Vohden over the solar issue -- specifically rejecting their plan to place the entire blame for the 2011 solar project on the shoulders of Parker Space, who was a Freeholder in 2011, but who had subsequently been elected to the State Assembly in 2013.  Graham's support for Space led to his falling out with Crabb and Vohden.  This is curious, because this year Space has been somewhat loose in his support for the man who came to his aid last year.  But that's politics for you.

Mudrick shills for solar

Fresh from hosting a big fundraising event for Freeholder candidates David Gray and Kathleen Gorman,  ex-Freeholder Dennis "it's sexual discrimination not sexual harassment" Mudrick has been making the rounds to public meetings trying to hard sell the solar scam all over again.  Hey, has he been down to see the FBI yet? How about the State Attorney General?  We've asked, but he hasn't told us anything.  Maybe he should try the hard sell with them?  On the record.

Mudrick lost his place on the Freeholder Board last year, not only because he voted for the solar bailout and spent the county's rainy day fund, but because he tried to bully the board's only woman member into voting for it too.  Some guy!

Mudrick would like us to forget the sad, sordid story of the solar scam that left Sussex County taxpayers on the hook for upwards of $40 million.  But we won't forget .  We read about it week after week... in the Herald, the Star-Ledger, the Record, the Sparta Independent, and the New York Times.  We don't forget!

Why must wannabe politicians lie?

Freeholder candidates David Gray and Kathleen Gorman claim that they "are anxiously waiting for the results of the investigations that are being done by the federal government and the attorney general."

Note the lawyer language.  The two wannabe freeholders never say that they "support" these investigations.  They don't even mention the independent county investigation designed to get back the $34 million the solar scammers ripped from the pockets of Sussex County taxpayers. 

Look, we have no personal beef with either David Gray or Kathleen Gorman or the people who support them.  We do have a beef with ANYONE who supports the solar scam, the bailout, or the language in the bailout.  And we especially have a beef with ANYONE trying to cover-up or protect the scumbags responsible for the solar scam.  We agree with Harvey Roseff and John Snyder -- investigate the hell out it, make the on-going project totally transparent, support all the investigations, hold a public hearing,  sue the scumbags to get the money back, and -- per the criminal investigations -- send those responsible to prison.

Now forgive our skepticism, but we find it highly unlikely that candidates Gray and Gorman share our views on solar.  For a start, they enjoy the support of the three knuckleheads who voted FOR the bailout! 

And not only do Gray and Gorman enjoy the support of Freeholders Vohden and Crabb, and former Freeholder Mudrick, but Gray and Gorman have allowed these idiots (who defended the bailout language and OPPOSED the investigation) to hold a big fundraiser for them.  Gray and Gorman have willingly climbed into the sack with and taken money from the politicians responsible for the bailout and for delaying the investigation.  Do they still want us to believe that they're virgins?

We'd like to believe, but then we watch lawyer Gray skip a charity event in Sussex County to attend a political fundraising event for one of the Morris County Freeholders responsible for solar.  What is that about?  You shouldn't be anywhere near those scumbags if you want to represent the taxpayers of Sussex County.

If Gray and Gorman want to purify themselves, this is what they need to do:  (1) Stay away from Morris County solar scam money; (2) Stay away from the three knuckleheads (Vohden, Crabb, Mudrick); (3) Join with reformers like Harvey Roseff and John Snyder and demand that every vendor connected with solar be canned.  Amazingly, despite everything that has happened, some are still on the payroll, collecting tax dollars.  Shame on the Board and shame on these wannabes for not shaming the Board and instead sucking up to solar and their allies.

You have a chance to correct yourselves.  Take it!  Say NO to SOLAR!

Yikes!  The three knuckleheads are hosting a fundraiser for Gray and Gorman