Assemblyman Sean Kean will appear on My9/WWOR

Assemblyman Sean Kean will appear on My9/WWOR’s New Jersey Now where he will discuss how the planned terrorist attack on Fort Dix illustrates the need for a merit-based system of distributing state homeland security dollars.

Kean has been leading the effort over the past three years to put a stop to the practice under past administrations through which more than $20 million of homeland security funds meant for local police, fire, and first aid officials was handed out based purely on politics.

From 2002 through 2005, $21.3 million of the $22.9 million in grants. 93 percent of the total went to towns in Democrat-controlled legislative districts. Police chiefs and public safety directors in towns throughout the state were encouraged to submit applications for the funds, but those applications were discarded without serious consideration by officials who put politics ahead of public safety.

Fort Dix is located in the 8th and 30th Legislative Districts, and adjacent to the 9th Legislative District. Those districts were largely ignored in the funding process presumably due to their Republican representation in the Legislature. There are reports the terrorists were also looking at Fort Monmouth as a potential target.

The interview with My9 News at 10 Correspondent Megan Vega can be seen at 12pm on Sunday, May 20 on My9/WWOR TV (Channel 9 in most of the region).

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