This could be just a coincidence, but ever since Joe Hoeffel, the big-time, tax-and-spend liberal, joined the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, the county has been experience financial difficulties.
Before Hoeffel took over control of county government, Montgomery County was one of the best-run counties around. Things were going so well that Montgomery County actually cut taxes in the past two years.
Now, the county is facing a fiscal crisis.
The county's spending for the first six months of the year is about $10 million more than last year and about $4.9 million (1 percent) over the 50-percent level of this year's county operating budget of $483.8 million, says reporter Margaret Gibbons.
Could all the patronage jobs Hoeffel handed out to political cronies have something to do with the county's financial woes?
Read "Montco suffers from money woes" in The Mercury.
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