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<font face=arial size=2>: Political pay raises - fact or fiction?</font> <font face=arial size=2>: County executive race may rest on spin</font> <font face=arial size=2>: </font> <font face=arial size=2>: Al Sullivan, Hudson Reporter, 06/02/02</font> <font face=arial size=2>: Tom DeGise and Bernard Hartnett face off on raises and other issues in the upcoming June 4 Democratic primary for county executive.</font> <font face=arial size=2>: </font> <font face=arial size=2>: Were pay raises issued to county employees political? </font> <font face=arial size=2>: In a war of words that has caused the political race for county executive to take over operations of government, preoccupying the legal staff for the county freeholders and becoming the dominating subject of county meeting after county meeting, the answer still depends upon whom you ask. </font> <font face=arial size=2>: County Executive Bernard Hartnett, who is running for re-election with the backing of Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham, flatly refused to appear before the Hudson County Freeholders on May 23 when they called him to testify about the raises he gave, but agreed to answer any questions they might put to him in writing. </font> <font face=arial size=2>: Hartnett said he believed his memo issued to the freeholders had explained the situation. </font> <font face=arial size=2>: Freeholders are threatening to rescind the raises. </font> <font face=arial size=2>: ...</font> <font face=arial size=2>: For the complete article, see the Link.</font> <font face=arial size=2>: </font>

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