Bruce Castor Jr. has a message for his fellow Montgomery County commissioners, the hapless Jim Matthews and the hopeless Joe Hoeffel: "I won't back down."
In other words, if Castor sees taxpayer dollars being wasted or political hacks being hired to lucrative county jobs, he'll go public with his objections.
That's the gist of a story by Margaret Gibbons in today's edition of The Mercury.
Castor was the top vote-getter in last November's election for three open seats on the Board of Commissioners and headed a Republican ticket with Jim Matthews. But as soon as the commissioners were sworn in to four-year terms in January, Matthews entered into a power-sharing deal with Democrat Joe Hoeffel.
Almost every vote taken by the commissioners so far this year has been 2-1, with Matthews/Hoeffel getting their way on a host of questionable patronage hirings and awarding of no-bid contracts.
And let's not forget that we're just four months into the four-year terms of this group of commissioners. Maybe Bob Kerns, the soon-to-be chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party, can talk some sense into Matthews. If not, he might as well hand him a voter registration form and ask Matthews to leave the Republican Party.
Read "Castor immersed in battle with fellow commissioners" here.
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