Monday, April 7, 2025

In the Last 5 Years, State Aid for the Lodi Schools Has Increased from 20,787,810 to $43,199,877. Lodi Taxes Should Have Significantly Been Lowered. Instead, Nancy Cardone’s BOE Members Voted to Raise Taxes.

The numbers in my title were taken from the State Department of Education link below:

User-Friendly Budgets

Michael Rinderknecht and Nancy Cardone should explain to the public how much Lodi school taxes would have increased in the last 5 years if Lodi's aid remained flat while they increased their budget by $26,677,379 or 43% (61,582,255 to $88,259,634).

Phil Murphy took millions of dollars in aid away from towns that voted against him and transferred it to towns like Lodi.  Phil Murphy will be out of office next January.  If the Lodi BOE is raising taxes while receiving millions more in additional aid each year, what do you think is going to happen next year?

It is so insulting when people like Nancy Cardone and members of her political group tell others that their bloated budgets and tax increases are “for the children”.  Nobody has enriched themself and family more than Nancy Cardone. 

Nancy Cardone may say "it's for the children", but she has also spent your tax dollars quite lavishly on administrators that took care of her family.

She had no problem giving Doug Petty a $27,000 raise before his contract was up:

Lodi By The Numbers: Search results for doug petty pay raise

She had no problem giving Michael Rinderknecht a 36,670.08 raise:

Lodi By The Numbers: The Lodi Board of Education and its Business Administrator Have Not Been Honest or Transparent About the Business Administator’s Compensation…

These greedy, self-serving hypocrites can spare the lectures about who is for the children.  Because it clearly is not them.






Sunday, April 6, 2025

Nancy Cardone, Laura Cima, and John Cannizzaro All Voted to Raise Lodi Taxes a Few Weeks Ago Even Though Millions More in State Aid Has Been Pouring into Lodi. All Three Are Around the Same Age. They Should Disclose to the Taxpayers of Lodi if Any of Them Are Enrolled in the Property Tax Freeze for Seniors. Did They Unnecessarily Raise Taxes on Others Knowing that They Would Not Be Affected?

 





Nancy Cardone is Listed as the Chairperson for the Cannizzaro Team. ELEC is Showing No Filings for Their Campaign Contributors, Contributions, and Expenditures.

After spending thousands of Lodi tax dollars on an attorney for herself, Nancy Cardone was still found guilty of ethics violations for her involvement in contract negotiations for her son.  

Lodi By The Numbers: The Lodi Board of Education Can Never Operate Honestly and Efficiently With Nancy Cardone as Its President. She Has the Worst Conflicts of Interest in the State of New Jersey.

Nancy Cardone should be extremely happy with just an ethics violation because things have taken place that appear criminal in nature.

Nancy Cardone is an extremely unethical person who has used our school system as a personal employment agency for herself and family.  

I received a mailer this week from the campaign chaired by Nancy Cardone.  ELEC is showing that Nancy Cardone has not listed any contributions, contributors, or expenditures.  The mailer didn’t pay for itself.

Nancy Cardone clearly thinks that she can skirt the law because she has gotten away with so much for 8 decades. Nancy Cardone has always taken money from people with business before the Board and she has always voted with conflicts of interest.  Since Nancy Cardone is not reporting (required by law), I will list some her political groups’ big donors in recent years in case anyone forgot.

A Partner in Matthew Giacobbe’s Firm

William Nunno

NJEA

Campaign Account of the Lodi Mayor and Council

The Lodi voters should be aware that when Nancy Cardone disclosed her contributors, the public was able to see the clear pay-to-play abuses, the conflicts of interest, and the ethics violations.  And that is why Nancy Cardone chooses to violate the law and not be open and transparent.  

Link to email sent to Laura Cima about the subject last year (no response was given):

Lodi By The Numbers: Email Just Submitted to Lodi Board of Education Vice President, Laura Cima: "Failure to Report Campaign Contributions/Expenditures; Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest"

Maybe Seton Hall should teach its PhDs how to file a campaign finance report.  Maybe Seton Hall should require its PhDs take a class on Ethics.  Maybe Seton Hall should teach its PhDs to be something more than a bump on a log.  It's very scary that someone that wants to be called "Dr." is led around by someone called Nepotism Nancy.



 

 

 



Friday, April 4, 2025

I Think Karen Viscana Wanted Me to Post about the Candidates that It Speaks for...

 

Past posts for “Cima”:

Lodi By The Numbers: Search results for cima

Past posts for “Cannizzaro”:

Lodi By The Numbers: Search results for cannizzaro








Recently, I Posted Factual Information About the Lodi BOE's Reckless Spending, Lavish Raises for Some, and Nancy Cardone (along her Board Puppets) Raising Taxes. I Also Called Low Life Karen Viscana Too "Toxic" for the Lodi Library Board. So, Karen Viscana Found Some Dummy to Call Me "Toxic" and Lie About Me.

Karen

I probably shouldn't even address Karen Viscana's stupidity and her dummy of the campaign, but I will point out their libelous statements about me:

1)  I was NEVER barred from holding any public office for "ethics violations".  I was successful in defending myself for 3 years against frivolous complaints against my blog.  I saved the Lodi taxpayers $15,000 dollars by refusing to use an attorney for the frivolous complaints against my blog.  Your welcome.
  
People can read what happened as I was leaving the Board:


2) I never "lost" a teaching job.  I didn't realize that I had to teach 5 sessions of the same Algebra Class each day for 40 years or Karen Viscana would make up lies about me if I ever decided to run for any Lodi office or expose waste and abuse on this blog.

To Karen Viscana and her dummy of the campaign, you are lazy and ignorant.  Smart people can bash people that they oppose politically, but they can base their attacks on some truth.