'Good ol' boys culture' needs to be replaced

The Republican Party in Monmouth County is imploding … and we will all witness the results at the polls in November.

To exclude an advocate of the people at a time like this is sheer lunacy. To push a proven winner off the ticket for freeholder has to be the work of a demented mind or minds. When I read in the media that the Monmouth County chairman had stated he involved several goons to protect an incumbent freeholder from his temper, I ask if this man realizes this is a democracy, not the trenches of the mob or a dictatorship? What did he mean to do, beat her into submission? Her only crime was to confront an arrogant, insolent and very costly uncooperative county counsel.

Seems this county counsel is more proficient at fundraising for the party than responding to the requests of the freeholders he is hired to assist. What has he to hide is the question that comes to mind for this taxpayer. The people realize much of this dispute has to do with money and this freeholder's efforts to represent the people and not the "good ol' boys culture" embedded in county government. Perhaps a huge amount of male chauvinism is also included in both the chairman and the counsel's actions!

The media has exposed the depth of the problems in legal costs and costs involved in building projects in Monmouth County. Our politicians have got to come to the realization that the public can no longer afford this culture of elitist attitudes that disregards the needs of the populace. The people they represent have families to feed, clothe, house and educate. The wealthy do not comprehend and it seems they do not care. Unfortunately, politics has made many of them rich!

The time has come to be rid of this culture of corruption or elitism that prevails in government today. Replace it with people of intelligence, integrity and honesty. People who have the courage of their convictions. People of character, not people who are characters.

Barbara Thorpe

Lincroft section of Middletown