Bulls-eye!
The rumors about Charlotte DeFilippo, Union County Dem chair, weighing in on the budget crisis and Assemblyman Jerry Green via Politifax were true.Yesterday's issue of the weekly faxed newsletter focused on the budget kabuki theater Corzine is going through for the first time, with a sidebar devoted to Assemblyman Green -- whom Politifax identifies as Gerry. [After all these years people still can't get his name straight?]
We quote the entire sidebar:
Who's Hot: Gerry GreenAs Gov. Corzine pointedly noted yesterday, Friday will be the 100th day since he submitted the budget to the Legislature. He has met almost non-stop with various members and is holding fast to his "recurring revenues for recurring expenses" mantra. Translation: No gimmicks.
The Assemblyman was the northern member of Steve Sweeney's trio that suggested state workers come to the table voluntarily to offer some givebacks. We don't know why he was in that mix. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that South Jersey sources sent him a bunch of money when he was challenged last year. But Union County Chair Charlotte DeFilippo was "underwhelmed" by the participation of an Assemblyman from her county. We just wonder where he'll be on the budget.
HOMETOWN KID IN BISHOP RACE -- The Very Rev. Michael Barlowe, who served as Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Plainfield from 1986 through 1991, is a finalist for the office of Bishop of the Diocese of Newark. A North Carolina native, Fr. Barlowe had been an executive with Citibank before entering the priesthood. He served as an assistant at St. Paul's Church in Westfield before coming to Plainfield. Subsequent to leaving Plainfield, he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Des Moines, Iowa, where he served for ten years. He is now the director of congregational development for the Diocese of California, which covers the San Francisco Bay area. Clergy and lay delegates of the Diocese of Newark will meet in September to elect the new bishop. Full disclosure: DD is a member of Grace Church, and served on the Vestry -- the governing board -- during Fr. Barlowe's tenure.TWO BEATINGS -- PT's community network reports that there have been two beatings in recent days. Late Tuesday afternoon a woman was attacked and severely beaten with a hammer on Madison Avenue. She was medevaced to RWJ's trauma unit from Hub-Stine field. Her condition is unknown. Another woman was beaten so badly by her boyfriend --
-- Dan Damon
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
By LESLIE MURRAY
CRANFORD -- Hale Insurance Brokerage, whose appointment and subsequent resignation as the township's insurance broker earlier this year prompted a storm of controversy, has been charged by the state Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) with forging the signature of a local official.
The DOBI filed an order to show cause against the company on April 24, after the township reported the infraction. An abstract of the case available on the DOBI Web site says Hale and its president, Donald Readlinger, are charged with "forging the signature of a municipal official on change broker request letters with respect to the municipality's employees' health and dental benefits insurance; submitting the change of broker requests to the municipality's insurer without the knowledge of or authority from the municipality; initially falsely denying committing the forgeries and submissions when Readlinger responded to an inquiry from a municipal official; (and) misrepresenting to municipal official that his firm had never committed similar types of actions, when in fact, similar types of conduct were admitted in a prior consent order entered on August 16, 2004."
In that prior case, according to the abstract, Readlinger consented to having his license placed on probationary status for 12 months and a $5,000 fine.
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