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.

   

Paramus violated election law today with a Record Advertisment featuring the mayor who is a candidate on Tuesday's ballot...

The advertisement is for “Paramus Affordable Housing Offices”.  Mayor LaBarbiera, who is a candidate for re-election in Tuesday's elections, is featured throughout the write up.

Within 90 days of an election, tax dollars cannot be used to feature candidates even if it’s for a borough newsletter or advertisement of services.

This is a clear violation.

I dealt with the subject in 2015 with Lodi.

I forced the Lodi mayor and council to use their campaign funds to pay for a borough newsletter they sent out shortly before their last council election.

Initially they billed the Lodi tax payers for a borough newsletter used to promote themselves before an election.  The cost was $7,052.25.

Some past posts on the subject:

https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/search?q=lodi+update+violation