“Our guiding principle in moving Aberdeen Forward has been to prevent the destruction of our remaining woodlands and farmlands. Keeping their campaign promises, the Aberdeen Forward Team prevented a 1,000-unit development and preserved 250+ acres of woodlands to create the Freneau Woods County Park off Monastery Lane.” source www.aberdeenforward.com.
The comments above are on the Aberdeen Democrat’s Aberdeen Forward Website.
Sounds Great! Now the rest of the story…
In a nutshell, this claim is completely dishonest, let me tell you why.
1] The 100% Democrat-Controlled Town Council of Aberdeen actually pushed the development of the woods until they were served with a lawsuit by local residents.
2] Doing this caused an election challenge by a newly formed Aberdeen Green Party made up of some of the same residents.
3] Ultimately due to the efforts of the Green Party, Environmental Groups, Residents with the lawsuit, the REPUBLICAN Freeholders, and State Senator Joe Kyrillos. The land was preserved as a Monmouth County Park.
The Moral of the Story.
The Aberdeen Democrats attempt to TAKE CREDIT for anything good that happens in town. I get that, they are professional politicians. They do this all the time for NJ State DMV and Monmouth County shredding services, even though they don’t pay for it.
The narrative they have tried to promulgate about Freneau Park is disgusting, they were ALL IN for the development of this land. I guess they figure that sufficient time has gone by and there are enough new people in town that they can rewrite history?
There is a record and enough people left that remember the meetings and the contempt that town residents were shown by both the council and some of the professionals serving them.
Time to vote this old, stale, and dishonest Democrat team out of office on Nov 7th.
Aberdeen Resident 