Self-Interest, Self-Importance, Self-Enrichment, Self-Perpetuation

Eustace took the Lodi Police Department’s “Operation Take Back” and made it about himself.  He took a $245,000 grant in which he had nothing to do in securing and presented it as his own.  Today, in the Record newspaper, he took Lodi’s judgment against the Passaic Valley Water Commission and made it about his personal friend and campaign supporter Marc Schrieks.

So I will save Eustace and Schrieks some time.  I made a new fake replica check for them.  Maybe they can present it at the next council meeting.

 Eustace’s letter in today’s paper:

http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/233801081_The_Record__Letters__Friday__Nov__29.html?c=y&page=5

Out of fairness to the facts, some things need to be corrected in his letter.  Lodi initiated the case against PVWC in 2011, not 2009.  The unconscionable increases occurred in 2009 and 2010 with a 25% and 29% increase respectively.  No action was taken by the borough until years later.

Former Mayor Thomas Desomma was the mayor that initiated the suit and took a leadership role at that time.  Former Mayor Philip Toronto provided the key testimony at trial.  The law firm Archer and Greiner received a large sum of tax dollars to represent Lodi during the appeal.

This judgment was a great victory for Lodi.  It was unnecessary and not productive for Assemblyman Eustace to politicize the issue and center the victory on his personal friend that did not have a leadership role in the matter.