“The voters should understand that in Ocean County Freeholder Jack Kelly and Medford ‘Mayor’ Chris Myers may be the most disingenuous public officials on the planet,” said the Traditional Republicans Of Ocean County (TROOC).

Kelly and Myers are hand-picked candidates of the Ocean and Burlington political machines for the Republican nomination for the 3rd District Congressional seat being vacated by Congressman Jim Saxton.

“Kelly, a phony ‘Republican’ whose liberal Democrat spending policies are somewhere to the left of Frank Lautenberg, recently approved a record $15.9 million spending increase in the county budget, and continued a policy of massive payroll padding which keeps at least 200 superfluous employees sleeping away in county government, all appointed as cogs in the machine headed by Boss George Gilmore,” TROOC said.

Yesterday, Kelly criticized Myers for a spending increase in Medford of 45% in six years, and a 15% staff increase in the same period, TROOC noted.

The record shows, however, that most Ocean County Departments are overstaffed, some by 250-300%. The Department of Printing and Graphics, for instance, has sixteen employees, when other print shops in NJ producing the same amount of material have only four or five employees.

Kelly is clearly entitled to the Hypocrite Of The Month award, TROOC said.

Although he may not be in Kelly’s class, Myers is also a big spender. Furthermore, the record shows that Myers is a lobbyist for a big government contractor. His constituency will most certainly not be the taxpayers if he goes to congress.

“It is fortunate that the taxpayers have an alternative, and that is why we have endorsed Justin Murphy, the only real Republican running for congress in the Third District. Justin is a true conservative who treasures the Republican values we support,” TROOC said.