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06/13/04 - Posted from the Daily Record newsroom Christ Church supporter glad he 'struck a chord'
By Rob Jennings, Daily Record ..50-year-old onetime mayoral candidate relishes his contentious persona.....
..Doty, among the few in the township to publicly embrace Montclair-based Christ Church's proposed 3,000-seat sanctuary and private K-5 school on Green Pond Road, isn't shy about dishing it out as well
..For one involved in so many public spats, Doty has a decidedly non-combative job, working as a greeter at the Lowe's home improvement warehouse in Mount Olive.
"I was the guy who said, 'No, you can't afford this.' Now I can stand at a door and someone will pay me to say 'hi' to people. It's fun," Doty said.
Doty was involved in one of his first skirmishes in 1997. Shortly after winning a school board seat by campaigning against a $17 million school bond referendum, Doty was censured over a disagreement with a board employee.
Doty ran for mayor as a Democrat in 1999, losing to John Inglesino in a campaign marked by the challenger's admission to having once written newspaper letters critical of Inglesino under a false name.
Five years later, Inglesino still was not amused by the letter-writing tactic, which Doty whimsically defended by noting that the author of "Tom Sawyer" used a pseudonym.
"He tried throwing as much mud as he could, hoping something would stick," Inglesino recalled. "He really lacked any kind of credibility."
Doty's next confrontation was in 2002, when he filed ethics complaints against four school board members after failing to win back his old seat. The complaint, which alleged improper influence by the teacher's union, was dismissed a year later