Spending public money on relatives, booze and an iPad
With Christie making news this week for cleaning house at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission - a place he described as a patronage pit - colleague Maya Rao turned today to the governmental authorities in South Jersey, where:
Spending public money on relatives, booze and an iPad
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
William Dunn, director of the Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority, makes $192,796 a year. "People say, 'He's making more than the governor.' I have to say, 'So what?'" said Dunn. (APRIL SAUL/ Staff Photographer)
With Christie making news this week for cleaning house at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission - a place he described as a patronage pit - colleague Maya Rao turned today to the governmental authorities in South Jersey, where:
- The Merchantville-Pennsauken Water Commission provides benefits and pension credits for Pennsauken Mayor Jack Killion's daughter to attend monthly meetings.
- The executive director of the Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority, William Dunn, earns $192,796, which is more than the governor's salary (but less than the $313,000 earned by the former PVSC executive director).
- The Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority billed ratepayers $236.96 for meals at the Robin's Nest restaurant, $714.42 for an iPad engraved with the executive director's name, $500 for alcohol and $4,000 for hotel stays in Atlantic City.
- The Merchantville-Pennsauken Water Commission pays $75,000 for health insurance for its part-time commissioners.
- The Pennsauken Sewerage Authority has a maintenance man, the son of an authority commissioner, earning $58,032, while a township committeeman, William Orth, makes $123,240 as its executive director and Orth's wife collects $51,168 as an administrative assistant.
As the gov pushes for a bill that would give him veto power over the PVSC and the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, will Christie soon turn his attention down here?
Comments (11)
No comments necessary. Greed and corruption never ends.— tonyS- Sounds like Philadelphia… Hummmm, what is the common denominator here? Wait for it… Ah that’s right Democrats… Funny how that works… Keep Voting Democrat!— CrashTestCorzine
- i was thinking it sounds like South Florida...a cauldron of republican corruption.— tdoc
- @Challenger: Corruption and malfeasance is rampant in ALL political parties. I know this to be true, but not absolute. You'll find good R's and D's and L's, etc. all over the place, but you'll also find a lot of corruption when people believe that they're in control of their own little fiefdoms and that no one can do anything about it. Let's stop mud slinging and start discussing ways that the problem can be fixed. We have to get out of the us vs. them mindset and move into the "our" mindset in order to make changes that everyone can agree on. I could list ten things right now that you and I could see both agree are worth working toward, but it is the few things that draw emotional arousal out of us that causes hostility and loathing. I don't hate or dislike people who think differently than I do. In fact, I value their ideas and opinions b/c they force me to think in a different way. I still may not agree, but b/c I value their ideas I am open to making accommodations that work for everybody. One thing that I try to do is ask myself how I have contributed to or helped to deteriorate a situation and then seek personal fixes to make sure I am better next time. I hope others are able to do the same. We have too many problems to waste our resources and energy being angry with each other.— jokyjoky
- Oops! Should have written "Corruption and malfeasance ARE rampant.." — jokyjoky
- Corporate welfare will never be addressed until we abolish one party system
Thencorporate party represents corporations and the privileged, not ordinary people— Belmont1001 - These numbers didn't sound too bad. People are going to get paid, we can't stop that.— BentLogic
- The Inky tweeted about this article as "PhillyInquirer:
Spending public money on relatives, booze and an iPad http://ow.ly/3UZIA #christie #chronicles #patronage #nj" Which implies it's Christe doing those things." I think a retraction is in order.— MaggieL - The only thing that the big gas bag will be pushing is his dinner plate.— tfcrow
- Typical liberals have to resort to personal attacks instead of the subject being discussed. Keep talking about his waist line instead of all the rocks he is turning over to reveal the cockroaches of corruption and waste that are entrenched in government and you will make him a HERO!!!— charladan
- Mount Holly is a republican controlled town in a republican county so I doubt Christie will do anything about this.
— BCdad
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