Bashaw Quits Jersey Shore Alliance
featured in Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers #24
It looks as though political pressure finally was applied. As we pointed out in this piece last month, the patronage that this job held was too much to ask taxpayers. It appears others agreed.Stephen Nagiewicz, the new head of the Jersey Shore Alliance says that Bashaw “was aware of the ethics restrictions placed on certain New Jersey officials when they leave state governmen,” as reported by the Courier Post on Saturday. Nagiewicz said:
you can’t work some place and approve funding for an organization and then step in unless you have gotten approval from a lot of people. I think he was just looking at the interest of the (nonprofit) organization. I think that he was probably smart enough to check with the state ethics panel. When it comes to being fined for something like that, you certainly have to sit up and take notice.
So, only when the state Executive Commission on Ethical Standards indicated he could be fined that Bashaw saw the problem this position caused. Not once during Bashaw’s tenure at CRDA did he think that the non-profit he established with $600,000 of money he controlled that he decided he would head was problematic. This is the type of leadership the state has had at the helm for too long.
This is the knd of outrage the Jon Corzine-Carla Katz dealings inspire.
Also blogged on this date . . .
- eCache Endorsement - 2008
- We Don't Need No Education - 2008
- A Liberal Arts Education - 2006
- Leadership? - 2005
- On Beards, Politics & Vows - 2005
- Katz Speaks - 2005
- Next Oar - 2005
- Dead in Philly - 1988
- James Taylor - 1987
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