CALIENDO CRITICIZES SODON FOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
October 14, 2006
POC: Joe Caliendo
Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Tel: (732) 299-6470
Email: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com
Blog: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com
CALIENDO CALLS SODON'S SEAT ON REC ADVISORY COMMITTEE A CONFLICT
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Middletown Democrat Chairman Joe Caliendo says that the fact that Middletown Township Republican Committee Candidate Tim Sodon sits on the Recreation Committee's Advisory Council, influencing the Recreation Department in town in its financial decisions, is a conflict of interest given the fact that Mr. Sodon's company is paid for work it does in township parks.
"There is no way for this Republican Township Administration to make the case that someone who sits on this advisory committee for Recreation, and then turns around and his company does the work on township recreation sites, is not conflicted," Caliendo said. "On top of everything else, the person who is conflicted, Tim Sodon, is then made a candidate for Township Committee by the Republicans and presents even more of a conflict of interest."
Caliendo said that there is no way to say that the best person for the job of Township Committee is someone who is already a contractor for the township, who sits on a committee already that indirectly influences the work his company receives from the township he works for, and profits from government. "Well, it's plain to see that Sodon Electric is making a pretty good dollar off of the taxpayers in Middletown already and this idea of Tim Sodon being a committeeman is another 'Good Old Boys' special from the Middletown GOP," Caliendo said.
The veteran Middletown Democratic chairman said that "nepotism, political patronage and political favoritism runs Middletown right now and it is time for this nonsense to stop," Caliendo said. "This is taxpayer money we're talking about here and the budget isn't supposed to be a slush fund for Republican friends and supporters, even though that's what it's starting to look like right now."
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FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
October 14, 2006
POC: Joe Caliendo
Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Tel: (732) 299-6470
Email: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com
Blog: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com
CALIENDO CALLS SODON'S SEAT ON REC ADVISORY COMMITTEE A CONFLICT
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Middletown Democrat Chairman Joe Caliendo says that the fact that Middletown Township Republican Committee Candidate Tim Sodon sits on the Recreation Committee's Advisory Council, influencing the Recreation Department in town in its financial decisions, is a conflict of interest given the fact that Mr. Sodon's company is paid for work it does in township parks.
"There is no way for this Republican Township Administration to make the case that someone who sits on this advisory committee for Recreation, and then turns around and his company does the work on township recreation sites, is not conflicted," Caliendo said. "On top of everything else, the person who is conflicted, Tim Sodon, is then made a candidate for Township Committee by the Republicans and presents even more of a conflict of interest."
Caliendo said that there is no way to say that the best person for the job of Township Committee is someone who is already a contractor for the township, who sits on a committee already that indirectly influences the work his company receives from the township he works for, and profits from government. "Well, it's plain to see that Sodon Electric is making a pretty good dollar off of the taxpayers in Middletown already and this idea of Tim Sodon being a committeeman is another 'Good Old Boys' special from the Middletown GOP," Caliendo said.
The veteran Middletown Democratic chairman said that "nepotism, political patronage and political favoritism runs Middletown right now and it is time for this nonsense to stop," Caliendo said. "This is taxpayer money we're talking about here and the budget isn't supposed to be a slush fund for Republican friends and supporters, even though that's what it's starting to look like right now."
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