To the Editor:
It seems to me that everyone is missing the real issue in the story about Glenn Douglass resigning his Lower Township Council seat. With all the hubbub about the vacancy process, no one is paying attention to the fact that this looks like a brazen, public attempt to defy the pension laws. Obviously, if it requires Douglass to step down in order to collect his taxpayer-funded pension, then he should not be taking steps to retain the seat.
Douglass submitted a petition to retain his seat less than two weeks after he resigned. He fooled the pension board into believing that he had walked away from the council seat so he could get taxpayer money, but then immediately took steps to retain that same seat.
What is the point of the pension laws if politicians like Douglass can collect their money and then resume in the same position? It appears that he even had the township solicitor research the issue. What is this costing us? Is Douglass so desperate to keep Douglass that he is willing to use taxpayers’ dollars to fund the effort? Has any one looked into whether the pension board knows that Douglass has taken affirmative steps to return to council during the period of time that the pension law prohibits him to do so? We have really sunk to a new low in this country when public officials can conspire to break the law and the rest of us just yawn.
Fishing Creek – If the government wants you looking UP, like at the sky for drones; then you should be looking DOWN for what they want you distracted from. Stuff like underground nuclear testing or an AI defacto…
