Pete Carton probably has a friend in Alison Herget

The APP's Alison Herget wrote a story that included some of the Democratic side to the ELEC nonsense the Republican Chairman, Peter Carton, got big headlines for in the August 11th paper (where it was on the front page of the "Our Towns" section).

But at the end of the story, she let Carton get away with saying that the Democrats are doing something wrong and every year we "get away with it." Well, did this lady ever stop and wonder: If we are "getting away with it" every year that is proved because every year Carton files an ELEC complaint that has NO MERIT whatsoever?

EVERY YEAR the Middletown Democrats are accused of something by Carton and EVERY YEAR we are clean. And, it is for THAT REASON I am proposing that frivolous and groundless ELEC complaints be A CRIME in this state. Yet, none of that made it into the story. i wrote press releases and letetrs to the editor about it. The Star-Ledger is printing that letter, not the Press and that is nowhere in the story by Miss Herget.

Carton said at the end of the story he is going to "Push" ELEC on this investigation. But this guy has been pushing ELEC to try and find something wrong with the Middletown Democrats for years and there isn't because we aren't doing anything wrong, and most especially I am not doing anything wrong. So there's a newspaper reporter letting this guy get away with hitting the Democrats with ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF AT ALL. And, THAT is supposed to be from the "Best Newspaper" in the state. Well, if it isn't the Ledger, it's not the best paper in the state, the way I see it.

You know, it's all well and good for a young reporter to come in and want to make a big name for herself. But this Alison Herget is trying to make her big name on harassing and slanting stories against Democrats now. Pete Carton and the Republicans have a lot of great connections, and reporters have been known to enjoy some of those connections. I don't know if this is a case where this Alison Herget is a Republican or if she is looking toward her next job or she just wants to take up with a side and try to throw an election with her pen. Whatever it is, I do not think that Alison Hedrget is an unbiased reporter. The Democrats may have to work with her, but i do not believe we are going to get a square deal from this one at all.

A reporter is "crusading" if they find some dirt and put it out to the people. But what is it when there is no dirt, the reporter puts out big headlines about how there is and there is no merit whatsoever to the people who are accusing the Democrats of dirt. Miss Herget hasn't said what law we broke, what tranbsaction was wrong, or had anyone but Peter Carton tell her this Middletown Democratic Party is doing anything wrong. So, her chief witness is the Republican Chairman of the town.

This is the same Republican Chairman who would lose his place on the Sewer Authority if Democrats won. He is the same Chairman whose company would not be chosen as bond counsel if Democrats won. This Chairman would no longer pick appointees to sit on ther towns boards and commissions and Miss Herget, who is supposed to be some big deal out of Penn State, evidently didn't catch that.

She also didn't catch the fact that Federal felon Ray O'Grady was from Carton's inner circle, and so was Pat Parkinson (who settled out of court with the old clerk for sexual harassment charges). She's crusading alright, I don't know in what direction. Maybe instead of cornering the bad guys she's just going after people who DIDN'T do anything wrong.