{"id":105,"date":"2016-11-30T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-11-30T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:35:10","slug":"seaside-park-sign-protester-wants-to-set-up-in-toms-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/11\/seaside-park-sign-protester-wants-to-set-up-in-toms-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Park Sign Protester Wants to Set Up in Toms River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A sign posted by David A. Miller, a former Seaside Park resident. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sand, surf, suds and those big, black-and-white signs you may have stared at while driving home from Island Beach State Park have always been marks of a summer\u00a0day\u00a0in Seaside Park. The latter, however, is no longer there.<\/p>\n

For years, self-proclaimed \u201cwhistleblower\u201d\u00a0David A.\u00a0Miller created controversy by publicly railing against what he saw as judicial, political and media corruption in\u00a0the Shore area. A registered nurse, Miller\u2019s quest to reach the public began after a\u00a0series of judicial decisions<\/a>\u00a0went against him in the late 1990s and\u00a0early 2000s. Ever since, judges, politicians, law enforcement figures and others have found themselves\u00a0on the receiving end of his roadside derision outside his home along Route 35 north.<\/p>\n

But this season, the signs went away. Miller, who last was in the news in 2014 for an arrest stemming from a\u00a0slow-speed police chase<\/a>\u00a0through Seaside Park, had disappeared from the scene.<\/p>\n

He resurfaced recently at a meeting of the Toms River township council, telling elected officials there that he had moved to the Holiday City senior community on the mainland. He asked the council to waive parking fees so he could park his truck, with his signature signs attached, outside the Ocean County courthouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to have a venue where I could display my signs on my truck in Seaside Park, but in Holiday City, there\u2019s no such venue anymore,\u201d Miller told the council.<\/p>\n

The signs, he said, \u201cillustrate and expose corruption in the courthouse and prosecutor\u2019s office,\u201d but a recent increase\u00a0in parking fees in downtown Toms River have silenced his cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like you to resolve to make it possible for me to park there all day long,\u201d Miller requested, adding that he would drive his pickup truck to Hooper Avenue in the county seat, then ride a bike home so the truck\u2019s signage could remain on display during the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, you cannot waive parking fees for one person, because it\u2019s discriminatory,\u201d said Toms River Township Attorney Ken Fitzsimmons. \u201cEveryone is subject to those fees. We don\u2019t waive those fees, we regulate the imposition of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller then asked if he could set up his signs outside of town hall in Toms River.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really isn\u2019t appropriate for this body to counsel you on how you exercise your protest against some other agency,\u201d Fitzsimmons said, ending the discussion.<\/p>\n

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Sand, surf, suds and those big, black-and-white signs you may have stared at while driving home from Island Beach State Park have always been marks of a summer\u00a0day\u00a0in Seaside Park. The latter, however, is no longer there. For years, self-proclaimed \u201cwhistleblower\u201d\u00a0David A.\u00a0Miller created controversy by publicly railing against what he saw as judicial, political and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[15,16,11],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-life","tag-hooper-avenue","tag-ocean-county-courthouse","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ssp_sign.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}