(Marlboro, NJ , Jan. 29) Marlboro Republican Party Municipal Chairman Renzo Kolenovic is demanding to know if the attempted county government condemnation of the Monmouth Executive Airport in Wall Township is connected to construction of a massive movie studio by Netflix Inc. in Fort Monmouth.
Kolenovic said a recent article in the NJ Monitor indicated that the reason the county commissioners are attempting to take the 740-acre privately owned airport property is to facilitate transportation for executives and actors working for Netflix.

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Kolenovic opposes the county government’s taking of the airport and its surround property saying that “real Republicans are supposed to help businesses prosper, not abuse their power and take business away from their rightful owners.”

Kolenovic said none of the Republican County Commissioners have come forward to deny a link between the condemnation of the airport and Netflix. “If the county commissioners want to take the airport to help Netflix executives, they should say so and stop the speculation about why the county wants to own an airport,” he said.

“If the commissioners have another reason to spend hundreds-of-millions of taxpayer dollars on an airport, they must come forward and tell the people why.” he added.

Either way, says the dissident Marlboro Republican; “The county commissioners’ actions regarding the airport send a terrible message to Monmouth County voters and damages Republican chances of winning elections this year.”

Kolenovic added; “The county Republican Chairman must realize that the abuse of government power by the commissioners is hurting the Republican Party. The chairman can stop this if he wants to.”

Alan Antaki, the owner of the 340-acre airport and 400 acres surrounding it, said that after battling the county’s efforts to seize his property under eminent domain law for 14 months, he still has no idea why the county wants his property or if the Netflix studio construction is a factor.

Antaki’s attorney Matthew Dolan said in the article: “It certainly is an interesting coincidence that all of a sudden, right after Netflix commits to spend a billion dollars in New Jersey, the commissioners have an interest in taking over this regional airport that they never had an interest in taking over before,”

Antaki’s spokesman added: “The county has given us no reason to think their condemnation plans are not tied to the Netflix project.”