Politicker NJ - "Second Myers Mail Piece As Misleading as the First"
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Politicker NJ - "Second Myers Mail Piece As Misleading as the First"
Third District Republican candidate for Congress - Freeholder Jack Kelly - today called on Chris Myers to come clean about his real record as an elected official in Medford. A record that shows that under his "leadership" Medford's property taxes have climbed to the second highest in all of Burlington County.
Jack Kelly today also said that Chris Myers' second campaign mailer, like the first, attempts to deceive the Republican voters in New Jersey's Third Congressional District.
"Chris Myers is claiming to be a tax-cutter in 2008 - totally ignoring the fact that taxes have increased over 50% in his six years as a councilman or Mayor in Medford," Kelly said.
According to the Burlington County Times and Central Record newspapers, Medford's local property tax for an average homeowner in 2001 (the year before Myers was elected) was $649. In 2007, after six years of Myers, that tax had risen to $998 - a 54% increase.
"Myers has helped give Medford the second highest property tax of all 40 towns in Burlington County. The voters of the Third District deserve more than election year gimmicks and misleading mail pieces touting those gimmicks as real accomplishments." Kelly concluded.
According to The Central Record (March 19, 2008) "the Medford council passed a resolution authorizing a local school tax deferment increase of $3,195,000 as a way to help offset a tax increase this year. Since the school district operates on a fiscal year budget and the township operates under a calendar year budget, the township, which collects the taxes, can realize revenue in its budget by deferring tax payments to the school district. Under state law a municipality can defer up to 50 percent of school tax payments and must make up the deferment in the next budget year or again decide to defer it for another year. This brings the township's total school tax deferred amount to $12,071,796."
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