Anyone can buy votes with other people's money. Not everyone can govern.

In 2007, Bruce Masopust spent a whopping $142,504.09 to get elected to a council seat in Lodi, NJ.  Not one penny was his own.  Nothing good can come from that type of outside money.  

Bruce continues to award all NO BID contracts to those that bought his votes.  The Lodi taxpayers are overpaying hundreds of thousands of dollars each year because of it.

Sensing that the people of Lodi are not happy with this administration and the job they have done, Bruce entered panic mode this week.  He is about to unleash the money again in a desperate attempt to keep any INDEPENDENTS from joining the council.


Bruce Masopust does not want anyone watching his administration.  Bruce Masopust is not open to any new ideas. 

Bruce Masopust spends the majority of the council meetings naming the pancake breakfasts he attended.  He doesn't want that to be overshadowed by INDEPENDENTS speaking about reforms.


Tell Bruce to stop buying votes with other people's money.  Tell Bruce to agree to a debate.

Patti Licata brought her home to work with her…

The following took place AFTER Patti Licata joined the council four years ago:

Patti Licata’s son, Patrick, was hired FULL-TIME in the DPW.  The position was never advertised.  The hiring was never mentioned at any council meeting.  It never appeared on any meeting minutes.

Patti Licata voted to create a new “Building and Grounds” department.  Then she made her son its first employee.  Tony Luna said that Pat Licata handles the whole department.

Patti Licata supported the layoffs of two DPW employees that each had four years of seniority over her son.

Patti Licata voted “YES” on the new Building and Grounds contract where her son signed his name as the “Shop Steward”.

Patti Licata allowed her son to take the town’s Ford Expedition home, taking away another parking spot on North Woodside.  

Records showed that Patti’s son was the only “Building and Grounds” employee having his i-phone paid for by the taxpayers of Lodi.

Patti’s son, Joseph (the president of the Lodi Board of Education), has been paid thousands of dollars in “consulting fees” with Lodi Drug Alliance money.  During the last four years, Patti has been unable to explain what he has actually done for that money. She refused to produce any of his supposed work even after it was requested through the Open Public Records Act.   She gets angry and argumentative when questioned.

After Patti Licata began paying the Lodi Boys Club $60,000 a year with Lodi tax dollars, her son Joseph received a substantial pay increase at the club.  Patti refused to disclose her son’s compensation at the club as she was voting “YES” on the payments.  Employees of the club were laid off as Joe Licata received his substantial pay increase.

After Patti Licata began paying the Lodi Boys Club $60,000 a year with Lodi tax dollars, her daughter began working at the club.

Patti Licata voted “Yes” on all of  the appointments to the Lodi Housing Authority where a third son is employed.

Patti voted “YES” on numerous bills for a business that employed two of her sons.

Patti Licata received a new position in the Lodi schools.  She was chosen over teachers with more education and more years of service.

In the last four years, Patti Licata has not offered one idea at any council meeting. Why is she running again?

Patti Licata will not debate me.

As I continue to lay out specific reforms regarding ethics, transparency, and tax relief, the Licata family continues talking about goats.

It's time to turn the page on the Licatas and the their viciousness.

Platform: Ethics

Ethics Reform:

1)      Pay-to-Play Ordinance:  I plan on introducing the State’s toughest pay-to-play ordinance. The Borough will not purchase any goods or services from anyone that made any campaign contribution for that term.  Vendors currently doing business with the Borough will be prohibited from making any campaign contributions.   There will be no exceptions.  The “fair and open” loophole currently used by Lodi will be eliminated.

2)      Anti-Nepotism Ordinance:  No immediate family member of the mayor or council can be hired or promoted by the Borough during their term.   No immediate family member can do any business with the Borough.  No immediate family member can appear on the monthly bills for “consulting fees” or a professional service.

3)      Ordinance Barring Health Benefits for Part-Time Elected Officials: This administration has refused to pass an ordinance prohibiting health benefits for part-time elected officials.  Lodi currently uses the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP).  This program allows part-time elected officials to be grand-fathered in for taxpayer funded health benefits.  Even if someone is not grandfathered-in and is receiving benefits, SHBP looks the other way.  Lodi needs its own ordinance to end this practice once and for all.

4)      Ordinance Prohibiting any Council Person from Receiving a Borough Job or Contract within a Year of Leaving the Council:  Council members will no longer be able to resign or not run again and immediately receive a job or contract.  They would have to wait at least a year after leaving office.

5)      Establish a Borough Code of Ethics:  Members of this current administration have been voting “YES” on resolutions that benefit themselves financially.  They have been voting “YES” on labor agreements for immediate family members. They have received food and gifts from those doing business with the Borough. All of this must stop. 

Borough Manager accepts 14 karat gold gift.

"I am an Italian American. I will not be told that my contribution is any less nor my role not as worthy as any other American,"–Tony Luna

Who ever said that Tony Luna’s “contribution” is less and not as worthy because he is an Italian American?  Many would say his “contribution” is less and not as worthy because of how he abused his power in Lodi, at Passaic Valley, and every other public entity he has been part of. 

Bruce Masopust’s comments are just over the top. 

Don’t let this Community News article get you sick:

http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/borough-manager-honored-as-man-of-the-year-1.1295704