SODON SHOULD CHOOSE EITHER BEING A CONTRACTOR OR PUBLIC OFFICIAL
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Publication
POC: JOE CALIENDO
Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Cell: (732) 299-6470/EMAIL: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com
Web site: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com
SODON SHOULD CHOOSE EITHER BEING A CONTRACTOR OR PUBLIC OFFICIAL
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Sodon Electric, the Middletown company primarily owned by Township Republican Candidate Tim Sodon, made $92,077.26 from the town last year, according to Joe Caliendo, Chairman of the Middletown Democrats.
“So now what?” Caliendo asked. “Mr. Sodon owns an electrical company doing business with Middletown and he is going to become yet another vendor who wants to be elected in this town?”
Caliendo said, “This practice is not right and is not ethical no matter how many times this Township Committee or this Republican leadership says it is. Ethically and morally this practice flies in the face of any common sense where it regards someone putting himself up for elected position.”
Whether it is bond work for the township being done by the Newark law firm of the Middletown Republican Boss, Peter Carton (who also sits on the Sewer Authority) or the same law firm who employs Brian Nelson (an attorney for the bond firm who also sits as an appointed member of the Sewer Authority), this practice is not something that in any way helps or is in the interests of the taxpayers in Middletown, Caliendo said.
“How many hundreds of thousands of dollars from Middletown taxpayers every year are being wasted on pensions and benefits on people who either should only be making some minimal figure or volunteering their time?” Caliendo said. “The Republican Administration is actively working to get their top appointments a living off of the backs of Middletown taxpayers.”
According to Caliendo, the appointed positions on the Sewer Authority, Planning Board and other posts should not be garnering pensions and health benefits. The attorneys and other professionals employed by the township should not be making a pension from Middletown, as Township Attorney Bernie Reilly will (because of special arrangements made by this all-Republican Township Committee), Caliendo said. And the number of attorneys, Caliendo said, is too many.
The veteran Middletown Democratic chairman said the only alternative to corruption in Middletown this year is the election of Democrat for Middletown Committee Patrick Short, who will end the free ride for partisan professionals and begin the process of finally relieving taxpayers in this township of excessive and unnecessary burdens.
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For Immediate Publication
POC: JOE CALIENDO
Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Cell: (732) 299-6470/EMAIL: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com
Web site: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com
SODON SHOULD CHOOSE EITHER BEING A CONTRACTOR OR PUBLIC OFFICIAL
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Sodon Electric, the Middletown company primarily owned by Township Republican Candidate Tim Sodon, made $92,077.26 from the town last year, according to Joe Caliendo, Chairman of the Middletown Democrats.
“So now what?” Caliendo asked. “Mr. Sodon owns an electrical company doing business with Middletown and he is going to become yet another vendor who wants to be elected in this town?”
Caliendo said, “This practice is not right and is not ethical no matter how many times this Township Committee or this Republican leadership says it is. Ethically and morally this practice flies in the face of any common sense where it regards someone putting himself up for elected position.”
Whether it is bond work for the township being done by the Newark law firm of the Middletown Republican Boss, Peter Carton (who also sits on the Sewer Authority) or the same law firm who employs Brian Nelson (an attorney for the bond firm who also sits as an appointed member of the Sewer Authority), this practice is not something that in any way helps or is in the interests of the taxpayers in Middletown, Caliendo said.
“How many hundreds of thousands of dollars from Middletown taxpayers every year are being wasted on pensions and benefits on people who either should only be making some minimal figure or volunteering their time?” Caliendo said. “The Republican Administration is actively working to get their top appointments a living off of the backs of Middletown taxpayers.”
According to Caliendo, the appointed positions on the Sewer Authority, Planning Board and other posts should not be garnering pensions and health benefits. The attorneys and other professionals employed by the township should not be making a pension from Middletown, as Township Attorney Bernie Reilly will (because of special arrangements made by this all-Republican Township Committee), Caliendo said. And the number of attorneys, Caliendo said, is too many.
The veteran Middletown Democratic chairman said the only alternative to corruption in Middletown this year is the election of Democrat for Middletown Committee Patrick Short, who will end the free ride for partisan professionals and begin the process of finally relieving taxpayers in this township of excessive and unnecessary burdens.
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