1) Last election, Donald Scorzetti reported
only one campaign contribution of $3,461 from Lodi’s Mayor and Council. He didn’t report the rest of his
contributions. He didn’t list one
expenditure.
2) This is not a typical case of an individual
that is using his/her own money and forgot to fill out a report. This is a case where a corrupt political machine
purposely concealed its campaign contributors and its campaign cash.
3) The “machine” thrives off pay-to-play
abuses. There is a pay-to-play law that
governs Boards of Education. The Board
has awarded many questionable NO BID contracts.
I have no way to know if the Board is violating the State’s pay-to-play
law.
4) With all the controversy surrounding the $7.5M
administration building, reasonable people suspect that money could have been
funneled into the campaign of those in support of the scam.
5) The “machine” has a long history of
accepting large campaign contributions from very shady characters. I am being very generous with that term. You can review past filings on the ELEC
website to see what I am talking about. Did
those characters contribute to the two police officers last year?
5) Machine Treasurer Jerry Manzetti and Machine
Manager Nancy Cardone have run many council elections and Board elections. They are aware of what they are required to
report.
6) Two police officers should know better than
to violate election law.
7) Campaign contributions should not corrupt a school
system. A political machine should not
corrupt a school system.
8) Because of the reasons listed above, I
submitted the following complaint last March.
The State is backed up. When it comes around to it, it will see that
there is overwhelming evidence that Lodi’s corrupt machine (aka “Children First”)
violated election law.
9) Click on the link below to view the request
for investigation submitted to ELEC in March:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rsibgv_9q_Wk45NUlDLUVZalk/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rsibgv_9q_Wk45NUlDLUVZalk/view?usp=sharing
