When reading a recent quote by Brick Township Democrat Councilwoman Kim Casten, I had to chuckle.
Running under the Scarpelli Team banner has apparently given them the ability to deceive the public by quoting figures that just don’t make sense! For Casten to state that "the 1,100 acres (preserved) .. prevented 1,900 children from going to Brick schools," is a mockery of the intelligence of Brick Township’s electorate.
If I use traditional math logic, taking the roughly 26 square miles of Brick and multiplying it by 640 acres per mile, I get 16,640, OK? That much is irrefutable. Now, let’s throw in the Democratic theorem of mathematics and take that sum and multiply it by 1.727 (1,900 children divided by 1,100 acres, derived from the 1,900 acres that apparently prevented 1,100 children from attending our schools) .. wow! We have 28,737 children enrolled in Brick’s school system. That’s incredible! How do they manage all those children?
I believe that trust is the most important virtue of any elected official. However, without honesty, there can be no trust. By the way, there are approximately 11,500 children in Brick’s school system.
Dan Toth
Brick