Reader urges Brick to vote down school budget

If you are a senior citizen in this state, you better be prepared to move to more taxpayer friendlier territories in order to escape from the rampant political corruption, pollution, traffic congestion, and the highest property taxes and auto insurance in the nation. The main cause of this property tax crisis is the uncontrolled and unregulated school boards numbering over 500 individual districts.

In Brick, for example, this superintendent, Thomas Seidenberger, after much delay, announced his intention of reaching deeper into the taxpayers’ lifelong savings accounts. This publication reported on another double-digit tax raid to the tune of 12.8 cents per recommendations of a zealous superintendent and a rubber stamp school board. Seidenberger loves to employ the famous “bait and switch politics.” He whines and cries in public that the school district is in crisis and we need to survive. He wants the “trust of the taxpayers” and yet he blames the state for lack of state aid and rising enrollment. He uses his endless public relations budget to confuse the residents of this town with his “fuzzy” math figures. The most repugnant quality of Seidenberger is his efforts to suppress the senior vote. He knows full well, the seniors will overwhelmingly vote down this budget as they did for three consecutive years. During Seidenberger’s failed traveling budget forums (which incidentally stayed far away from our local senior centers) he felt it necessary to hire Vito Gaglairdi for some public relations backup. This guy doesn’t even hold Brick Township as his primary voting district. The cost, $500 per day, not to exceed $7,500.

If Seidenberger has a need to enhance his public appearance, how about taking the money out of his salary instead of ours? I strongly encourage my fellow seniors to rise up on April 19. Call upon your families, friends and neighbors and make it your business to vote down this budget scheme and send a strong message to this superintendent and his close cronies including voting against William Boyan.

Robert Gordon

Brick