At the July 21st meeting, Joe Licata voted YES for Lodi to pay his attorney’s bills. At the start of
tonight’s meeting, he tried to change his vote to an abstention as the minutes
from last month were being approved. The
minutes should reflect that he voted YES, period. That is what happened. Lodi should be tired of Licata’s “do overs”
and his blatant ethics violations.
I asked Joe Licata the following question tonight:
“You
spent $5,000 of Lodi tax dollars on an attorney to try to get your ethics complaint
dismissed. Why couldn’t you answer that
ethics complaint on your own?”
Joe Licata smirked and said he had a “statutory right”
to an attorney.
I
told him that Board members throughout the State answer ethics complaints
without using attorneys and without wasting tax dollars. I stated that it was optional and why did he
choose to waste tax dollars?
Licata smirked and said he chose to.
