Choi spends tax money like drunken sailor
In a time when headlines scream "Fuel prices up 200 percent," "Healthcare costs up 6-8 percent." "Inflation causing skyrocketing food and utility bills across New Jersey," sadly, Mayor Choi continues to spend local tax money like a drunken sailor.

Yes, he provides the press with fancy news releases that point to 60 fewer employees, but after numerous requests from his office, we can't seem to obtain a list of the employees that have left. Nor can we obtain a list of new employees that he has hired.

In my recent travels through the town, I've noticed shade trees being planted at Choi's million-dollar water fountain parks at $450 each, and yet he is talking about cutting public safety personnel throughout the township. He claims that in these difficult economic times, we must make difficult choices. But what hardworking Edison family would choose a vacation over their children's college education? A sad but accurate analogy of this mayor's priorities.

He purchased hybrid cars and allows them to sit idle in the township parking lot. Yet he allows his overpriced consultants and directors to drive luxurious Crown Victorias. One fellow drives from Toms River every day while enjoying free gas and an E-ZPass, compliments of the Edison taxpayer.

Choi broke ground on a new $2 million "unmanned" fire station recently in Raritan center, a stone's throw away from an existing firehouse, and continues to call public safety personnel wasteful. What is he thinking?

Even Choi's most staunch supporters must begin to question his ability to act in a rational, common sense fashion in these difficult times. His inability to choose between what is necessary and what is not comes from his elitist attitude and the fact that he has never held a job where he was accountable. His appointment by Gov. James McGreevey to the New Jersey Task Force for Education, a division of the wasteful Abbott school program, is a prime example of his bureaucratic mind-set and inability to understand the common man and the troubles we face.
Anthony Russomanno
Committeeman (D-76th
District)
Edison