Residents ordered to pay for bid to remove Gloucester supervisors
Published: June 17, 2009
GLOUCESTER — Forty Gloucester County residents have been ordered to pay the county $2,000 each for a failed effort to remove four elected officials.
The order entered Tuesday by substitute Circuit Court Judge Westbrook Parker formalizes a ruling he issued in December that found the residents abused the judicial system for political purposes.
The residents had petitioned for the removal of four county supervisors who were indicted on charges of illegally meeting in secret. The charges and the petitions were later dismissed.
The residents claim they were exercising their constitutional right to petition the government and they plan to appeal.
Parker’s order also said the county should reimburse the supervisors’ attorneys more than $129,000.
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Time for some civil disobedience in Gloucester. Ignore the order. Citizens need to march on the country offices en masse and remind them who pays the bills as well as ultimately making the decisions. As for this judge, time is past due for an investgation into his interest in this matter. People are tired of being railroaded by arrogant, out-of-touch, unaccountable hacks like him.
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