Request for Investigation: Violation of 90-day rule

Tony Luna and his “United for Lodi” ticket clearly violated election law when they used Lodi tax dollars to mail their “Lodi Update” 13 days before a municipal election.

No bid Neglia gave “United for Lodi” another $7500 campaign contribution.  No bid Maser gave another $5000.  Campaign contributions poured in days within the election from other no bidders cashing in from Lodi.

Masopust and Luna could easily have used the no bidders’ cash to pay back the Lodi taxpayers.  But at Tuesday’s council meeting, they were defiant and arrogant.  They backtracked prior statements they made to the Record newspaper.  They won’t even look into the matter unless a complaint is filed.

While campaigning, many voters asked me to recoup the tax dollars spent on the “Lodi Update”.  I will.

The following request has been mailed out (click on link below):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266449169/Request-for-Investigation-Lodi-Update

Lodi Update: one week after I filed a “request for investigation”…

On May 24th, I put up the following post:

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2015/05/request-for-investigation-violation-of.html

On June 2nd, the "United" campaign cut a check (#118) to Alpha Dog Solutions.  Tony Luna stated at the May council meeting that he directed Alpha to mail out the “Lodi Update” on behalf of the Borough.

At the May council meeting, Luna, Masopust, and Spiniello refused to reimburse the Lodi taxpayers or even look into the matter unless a complaint was filed. (Conveniently for them, the minutes for that meeting never went up on the Borough website.)

I called their bluff.  A week after I submitted a complaint, it looks like they folded.

They abuse their public office and misappropriate Lodi tax dollars.

Their campaign report shows that they collected and dispersed $38,550.  I kept my campaign within $1,000 and refused all campaign contributions from others.  Were they so desperate and scared that they had to use Lodi tax dollars on their campaign flier, the “Lodi Update”?   

They had no accomplishments to run on and any campaign flier of theirs would be laughed at.  So they used an official Borough header and mailing label to lend credibility to their self-promotion.

Link to the "United" June 30, 2015 report that went up on-line today:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/270353678/United-Report-June-30-2015

The Lodi politicians can no longer plead their ignorance of the law in future elections.

   

Email just sent to Tony Luna, regarding Election Law violation.

To: aluna@lodi-nj.org

Dear Mr. Luna,

Your "Lodi Update" that was mailed out today was a clear violation of Election Law, specifically the "90 day" rule.  You used taxpayer dollars to list supposed achievements of council members running for election in less than two weeks.  You used the Borough header to lend credibility to claims not supported by reality or facts.  This is prohibited by law.

If the Lodi taxpayers are not reimbursed immediately for your campaign propaganda, I will be filing a complaint with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission.

Please notify me of whatever decision you make.  Please make available all printing costs and mailing costs associated with the "Lodi Update".  Please explain how the newsletter came about and name everyone involved in it's production.

Thank you.

Ryan Curioni