Jim Grenafege

August 10, 2009 - 4:22pm
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Culturally Embedded Political Corruption Costs NJ Taxpayers

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Middletown (Monmouth County, NJ) - Today Bob Brown and Jim Grenafege, candidates for New Jersey State Assembly in the 13th Legislative District, called for tougher penalties for elected and appointed officials, as well as public employees, convicted of corruption charges.  They also called for a major initiative to eradicate and transform the culture that silently supports and justifies the unethical behavior that promotes illegal acts.

 

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October 30, 2008 - 12:57am
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WALSH, GRENAFEGE JOIN SHORT, BYRNES IN OPPOSITION TO TOWN CENTER PROJECT

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ):  According to Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Patricia Walsh and Jim Grenafege, they join Middletown committeemen Patrick Short and Sean Byrnes in opposition to the Town Center project in the township.

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October 27, 2008 - 12:04am

Going all out in Monmouth County

In Monmouth County, every town comes intriguingly into play on some level, several more critically than others.

Republicans have owned the Freeholder Board for over 20 years, but in the last two elections Democrats picked up two seats to bring them to within one of county control.

A profusion of newly registered Democratic voters have boosted the party’s confidence heading into Nov. 4th, and now Democrats Amy Mallet and Glenn Mason are ready for that 11th hour jolt of cash from the Democratic State Committee.

State Party Chairman Joseph Cryan wants to win here.

He wants it more than he would like to pick up additional warm bodies in the Assembly next year, where his party’s already built a comfortable majority.

A victory by either Mallet or Mason would make a Democratic Party statement.  But neither is a name candidate running against incumbent Freeholder Director Lillian Burry and auto dealer vice president John Curley, an intensely focused campaigner who served as a Red Bank Councilman and has close political connections to state Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth).

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October 26, 2008 - 10:56pm
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SHORT ENDORSES WALSH, GRENAFEGE

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): More than two years ago, Middletown Committeeman Patrick Short was elected to the governing body with a mission.

“Government cannot be about politicians—it has to be about the residents of Middletown,” Short said.

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October 14, 2008 - 12:34pm
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Contamination was covered up from taxpayers

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): The fact that the Republican-controlled Middletown Committee covered up contamination beneath Town Hall and the Middletown Cultural Center, respectively, is not in dispute.

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October 8, 2008 - 2:00pm

Middletown: GOP tries to push back rivals in Monmouth microcosm

 

Deputy Mayor Pam Brightbill and fellow Republican candidate Tony Fiore: Politicker photoDeputy Mayor Pam Brightbill and fellow Republican candidate Tony Fiore: Politicker photo 

MIDDLETOWN - In his nightmares, Tony Fiore sees Democrats overrunning the landscape.

He grew up in Carteret, but the town changed with the population influx and the schools worsened, in his view, and government control shifted from Republican to Democrat, giving him Robert Menendez - of all people - as a congressman after redistricting.

Fiore ultimately re-entrenched beyond the border of Middlesex in that GOP-run county to the south - Monmouth, where he has lived for five years, and where he already fears his adopted home town is going the way of Carteret.

"You’ve seen an out-flux of people down here because their quality of life changed," said Fiore. "My town became more inner city, so my wife and I picked a place to live, and we picked Middletown. We don’t want it to turn into that. To tell you the truth, it keeps me up at night."

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September 16, 2008 - 11:38am
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Walsh and Grenafege propose Sunshine ordinance when striving for transparent government

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MIDDLETOWN, N.J (MONMOUTH COUNTY): Democratic candidates for Township Committee Patricia Walsh and Jim Grenafege called for a departure from the opaque, closed government of the GOP majority with the introduction of a new Sunshine Law ordinance.

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August 19, 2008 - 3:20pm
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Legal cost issue should be about capping or in-house counsel

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MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): “I have always been an advocate of in-house counsel at the county level,” said Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege. “So it makes sense that I am all for it here in Middletown.”

 

Grenafege’s running mate is Patricia A. Walsh. She said, “The school district caps legal expenses in the context of its annual budget. There is no reason to tolerate excessive legal spending on the municipal level from the numerous attorneys the township now employs.”

 

Walsh said she recently saw a published report where Township Attorney Bernard Reilly is paid for 200-hour months and 15-18 hour days. “More scrutiny must be given to each of these individual legal bills,” she said.

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August 11, 2008 - 10:26am
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M’TOWN DEMS HOLD FIRSTCAMPAIGN PRESS CONFERENCE

MIDDLETOWN (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh and Jim Grenafege will be holding their first campaign press conference at the Middletown Town Hall, 1 Kings Highway.

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July 21, 2008 - 4:11pm
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Middletown Committee fails to provide fiscal leadership

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): The Middletown Committee, led by a Republican Majority, is not getting the job done where it involves fiscal leadership, according to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege.

 

“A 7.1 percent tax increase is not what our taxpayers need. We need to be watching every dollar just as our residents are. Years of non-stop bonding and unnecessary expenditures must and will come to an end when my running mate and I are elected to the Governing Body,” Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh said.

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