Candidate Joe Hoeffel blasted the Republican-led Montgomery County Commissioners in 2007 for patronage and sweetheart deals to lobbyists and lawyers who were associated with the Republican Party.So what does Commissioner Joe Hoeffel do when he take office in 2008?
One of Hoeffel's first acts is to hire two close friends to county jobs.
On Thursday, Hoeffel, a Democrat, and Republican Commissioners' Chairman Jim Matthews, voted to hire former Hoeffel campaign co-chairman James R. Maza as a county deputy chief operating officer and former Hoeffel campaign aide Jeffrey Albert as a first assistant deputy county solicitor.
Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? How about c-r-o-n-y-i-s-m?
Republican Bruce Castor opposed awarding the patronage jobs to the Hoeffel campaign workers. The two positions were never advertised nor were other candidates interviewed for the jobs. Hoeffel proclaimed Maza and Albert were the best people in Montgomery County for the jobs.
Maza will collect $90,066 a year for the part-time job. (The commissioners themselves are paid $84,822 a year.)
Read the full story in today's edition of The Mercury.
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