Mayer Team Misleads, Continues to Deflect Responsibility

Mayer Team Misleads, Continues to Deflect Responsibility

Arrogance and Mistruths Know no Bounds,

While "Say Anything" Councilman Hutchison Can't Keep his Stories Straight

The Dave Mayer Team, desperate to deflect attention from their own tax, spend and roadblock record, looks to avoid responsibility for their mandated obligation to approve the Township's budget.

Their claim that "Rau-Hatton Raises Taxes Again" is a bold faced lie.

The Faulkner Act, under which the Township's government operates, provides no authority for the Mayor to "raise taxes" and obligates that Council to Pass/Modify the budget.  The Mayor has no vote as to whether taxes get increased.  Council alone acts in that capacity. 

In his own campaign literature in 2006, Mayer Team member Councilman Dan Hutchison touted Mayor Cindy Rau-Hatton and Councilwoman Shelly Lovett as tax cutters, while decrying his now-running mate Frank Schmidt's "failed leadership."

Hutchison rightfully pointed out that "Under the failed leadership of incumbent council members...Gloucester Township's property tax rate has skyrocketed by 86% in just six years."  In that same piece, Hutchison accurately stated that "Cindy Rau-Hatton and Shelley Lovett served on council from 1996-2000, and during that time they cut the property tax rate by 24%."

Said Councilwoman Shelley Lovett, "It's sad when two sitting members of the Council and one former councilman do not even understand their obligations as elected officials, or choose to lie about them for political gain.  Yet, when push comes to shove, those same members have voted to raise taxes every year since Mayor Rau-Hatton and I first left council.  Dave Mayer then went on to Trenton to vote for $1.9 billion in tax increases." 

Gloucester Township deserves leadership who will stand up and take responsibility for their actions.  

Added Councilwoman Lovett, "If the Dave Mayer Team is as uninvolved in the process and as ignorant to their obligations as they make themselves out to be, maybe they should just choose not to run at all because they are only hurting Gloucester families."