Stacy Jordan

It’s getting acrimonious in what Democrats hope will be Battleground Burlington.

The minority party in that county today stung their rivals with a video on their website detailing what party chairman Rick Perr says is a misuse of taxpayer dollars to further a bloated and beleaguered Republican Party.

"There is one fact that is undeniable," said Perr. "Taxes and spending in Burlington County have risen dramatically in the past five years. It is unacceptable that while Burlington County residents continue to pay more in taxes, these insiders are living off of the public trough."

In less than a year, 19 or 20 of what Perr calls "Paulsen’s 20 Republican Investment Team" (a nod to former Burlington County Republican Chairman Glen Paulsen) have each guaranteed $30,000 in campaign loans to the Burlington County GOP, according to the Democrats.

BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOOTS THE BILL FOR FENTON’S CRONIES WHILE COUNTY’S SENIORS SUFFER

(Mt. Laurel, NJ)Chris Brown and Mary Anne Reinhart, Democratic candidates for Burlington County Freeholder, today blasted incumbent Republican Freeholders Aubrey Fenton and Stacey Jordan for yet another example of rewarding their friends at the expense of Burlington County taxpayers and seniors.

Bill Layton says he must have been in diapers when the Democrats had a freeholder in Burlington County.

"It was the early 1980s anyway," said the Republican Party chairman, who unanimously won re-election at his party’s re-organization meeting last week and champions GOP Freeholder Aubrey Fenton and his running mate, Stacy Jordan.

The history doesn’t dim the enthusiasm of Layton’s rival, Rick Perr, chair of the Burlington County Democratic Organization, who believes this is the year his candidates for freeholder, Chris Brown and Mary Anne Reinhart, can win.

"Looking back on 2007, it wasn’t a good year for Democrats," admitted Perr. "We assumed the anti-Republican sentiment we saw in 2006 would build up to a crescendo."

It didn’t happen.

Sources say the leading candidate for Dawn Addiego’s seat on the Burlington County Board of Freeholders is Stacy Jordan, a former Moorestown Council candidate and the daughter of former Freeholder Vincent Farias. Farias did not seek re-election to the Freeholder Board in 2007 and lost a bid for Surrogate in 2006.