The Bergen County Clerk website shows that Joseph Lagana lost Paramus to his Republican Challenger Richard Garcia. Garcia received 4,381 votes to Lagana’s 3,916.
Joseph Lagana was the incumbent. He had hundreds of thousands of dollars in
campaign contributions from special interest groups including the NJEA. He used his taxpayer funded office and taxpayer
purchased stationary to promote himself and his running mates leading up to
Election Day. He had politicians like
Scott Luna and Marc Schrieks staging photo ops for him. With all those advantages, Joseph Lagana
still lost his hometown of Paramus and would have lost District 38 handedly if
the Bergen County Democratic Organization didn’t play games with vote by mail
ballots.
More and more people are learning that
Joseph Lagana is a self-serving phony that uses public office to enrich himself,
his family, and close personal friend Joseph Garcia
(Lodi Board of Education Attorney). Joseph
Lagana has to carry Joseph Garcia from one political firm to the next where
they rip off taxpayers and offer inferior legal services. You can’t even call it legal services. It’s nothing more than political consulting (the most unethical and expensive form of political consulting).
How can a State Senator purchase public contracts this
way?
How can a State Senator take over one million dollars of public funds intended for small businesses hurt by covid shutdowns when his politician run
firm was setting record profits?
How can a State Senator have his wife appointed as a
Commissioner on the Board of Elections in the county in which he runs for
office?
Joseph Lagana represents everything wrong with New Jersey
government. I am glad more voters in his
hometown recognized that.
