City Committee Chairmanship Up For Sale

I have asked the State Comptroller to come in and examine the entire operation of the PMUA before I make any personal comments about the agency. It is important because of the high rate of dissatisfaction with this agency. By asking the State Comptroller for a thorough deduction of the PMUA, this asks a neutral entity to deduce its operation, allowing us to make decisions on facts, not worrying about partiality.

Reading Dan Damon’s blog today, I am rather surprised that he is not aware of all the trips and benefits he negatively criticizes regarding the PMUA, when his partner was an active member of its Board, wherein for him it should have been a norm. Now, he wants to pretend, as usual, that these sorts of behaviors are new to him. When his partner was a member of the PMUA, I am certain that Dan was privy to these sorts of practices. Already, Dan is lobbying that if Adrian Mapp were voted Mayor, he would like his partner to go back to the PMUA’s Board of Commissioners. Now that the public is demanding answers for the lack of the PMUA’s fiscal accountability, Dan is trying to run away from the agency.

A few months ago, Adrian Mapp met with the Director of the PMUA, Eric Watson. Adrian Mapp solicited to Mr. Watson that if he [Watson] encouraged the election of Adrian Mapp for Mayor, he would not only close his eyes to PMUA’s problems, but would also support Watson as the new Chairman of the Democratic Party of the City of Plainfield.

Mr. Watson, upon refusing Adrian Mapp’s offer, is now being thrown under the bus by Adrian Mapp. Recently in the Courier News, Mapp was asked the question, “If the City assumed ownership of PMUA, would the taxes increase?” He answered in the affirmative.

I hope that with the balance of this election, issues like Muhlenberg hospital, as well as the PMUA’s services, would not become a political football. I hope that these issues bring about discussions of solutions, and not political advantage.

Again, I have asked the State to look into PMUA’s operation so that we can make professional decisions, rather than political decisions. These past few months, many fingers have been pointed in targeting blame, while solutions and action have not been yielded. The public is too smart to be caught up in negative campaigns; the public wants answers.

As usual, some of the bloggers will want to challenge me. I welcome such challenges. My only defense is this: ask Mr. Watson if he was offered such a deal.