Partisan politician John Hogan is leading a voter registration drive at Lodi High School to coincide with Lodi's May Municipal Election
Voter registration initiatives taking place in schools
are supposed to be NONPARTISAN. So why is a PARTISAN career politician
running the voter registration assembly?
Here are some concerns regarding the arrangement:
1) From
Northvale mayor, to Ferriero Freeholder, and now as County Clerk, John Hogan
has always been a PARTISAN
politician on every ballot he ever appeared.
2) John Hogan
is using his public office to meet young students and register them to
vote. This gives Hogan a clear advantage
over any political opponent in the next clerk’s race. The students that Hogan registers likely will
recognize his name the next time it appears on the ballot.
3) John Hogan is
currently raising money for his next election where he will be a partisan
candidate once again.
4) If say Kim
Guadagno went from school to school, met students, and registered them to vote
while she was Lieutenant Governor and planning to run for governor, would
anyone view that as NONPARTISAN or fair? People shouldn’t have double standards.
5) John Hogan
is promoting himself in our schools while on the taxpayers’ dime. He is paid a big six figure salary to run the
Clerk’s office. Instead of showing up to
work, he is hanging out in our schools.
6) John Hogan’s
assembly coincides with the May Municipal Election. When was the last time a voter registration
assembly at Lodi High School took place in April?
7) Emil Carafa
and Scott Luna are too close to John Hogan for people not to suspect
coordination based on the timing.
8) John Hogan
has meddled in too many local elections in Bergen County, often giving wrong
legal advice and advantages to one party over another.
9) John Hogan
was knocked out of office in 2010 after all the Ferriero and Coniglio
scandals. Being a career politician, he
didn’t go away. He came back to power after
the democrat money machine rebuilt itself.
10) John Hogan
is not going to electrify the room of students.
He put me to sleep when he gave a presentation about archiving at a Lodi
council meeting.
11) Like the
Lodi politicians, John Hogan is a shameless self-promoter. He uses your tax dollars to promote
himself. Below is a letter to the editor
I wrote in 2013:
The Record: Letters, March 21, 2013
Bergen clerk sets a bad example
Regarding "Bergen freeholder
irate over $60,000 cost of county clerk's calendars" (Page L-1, March 14):
Twenty-one photos of the county clerk
were 20 photos too many. At some point, the $60,000 calendar expenditure went
beyond official business and into the campaign-expense category. It should have
been treated as such.
Clerk John Hogan should have used
his own money or campaign contributions if he wanted to use the calendar as a
personal advertisement for himself. His actions set a bad example for the rest
of the county and especially for impressionable local politicians looking to
self-promote.
At a council meeting a few months
ago, I questioned Lodi Mayor Marc Schrieks about what I felt was
excessive spending of tax dollars on gifts, printing, signage and parties used
to promote himself rather than the borough. He responded by saying that a county
official had done something similar with the gifts. All should stop.
I commend Freeholder Maura DeNicola
for continuing to speak out against government waste. The board could use more
members like her.
Ryan Curioni
Lodi, March 18
