Sodon shouldn't be town vendor and elected official
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Publication
October 3, 2006
POC: Joe Caliendo, Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Tel: (732) 299-6470/Email: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com and
Web site: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com.
CALIENDO CALLS SODON ON TOWNSHIP WORK
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): The chairman of the Middletown Democratic Party, Joe Caliendo, is criticizing the fact that the Republican candidate for Committee this year, Tim Sodon, is a municipal contractor.
“In Middletown, it has become a practice for vendors here, people whose businesses make money from the town, to hold office as elected officials,” Caliendo said. “This is despite the fact that this practice is inherently flawed and dangerous to the taxpayers.”
Sodon Electric, whose owner is Tim Sodon, does municipal work not only at the Banfield Cultural Arts Center, but also works for the township’s Roads Department.
“No candidate and no elected official in this township should own a firm that does business with this township,” Caliendo said. “The practice of electing and appointing vendors to office has left Middletown with a party boss, Peter Carton, who is in-charge of bond work for his company and that company has the bond work in Middletown. Mr. Carton also sits on the Sewer Authority, drawing pay and benefits (including retirement benefits), and he selects the Republican candidates for office and they become the committee people. As if this wasn’t bad enough, Mr. Carton even has one of the lawyers at his law firm, Brian Nelson, sitting on the Sewer Authority.”
Caliendo said, “How far is this going to go? Mr. Sodon will not debate in public. He has not said he will give up the township work. At what point will the Republican Party here in Middletown stop playing the ‘Good Ol’ Boys’ game?”
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For Immediate Publication
October 3, 2006
POC: Joe Caliendo, Chairman, Middletown Democrats
Tel: (732) 299-6470/Email: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com and
Web site: www.democratscalling.blogspot.com.
CALIENDO CALLS SODON ON TOWNSHIP WORK
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): The chairman of the Middletown Democratic Party, Joe Caliendo, is criticizing the fact that the Republican candidate for Committee this year, Tim Sodon, is a municipal contractor.
“In Middletown, it has become a practice for vendors here, people whose businesses make money from the town, to hold office as elected officials,” Caliendo said. “This is despite the fact that this practice is inherently flawed and dangerous to the taxpayers.”
Sodon Electric, whose owner is Tim Sodon, does municipal work not only at the Banfield Cultural Arts Center, but also works for the township’s Roads Department.
“No candidate and no elected official in this township should own a firm that does business with this township,” Caliendo said. “The practice of electing and appointing vendors to office has left Middletown with a party boss, Peter Carton, who is in-charge of bond work for his company and that company has the bond work in Middletown. Mr. Carton also sits on the Sewer Authority, drawing pay and benefits (including retirement benefits), and he selects the Republican candidates for office and they become the committee people. As if this wasn’t bad enough, Mr. Carton even has one of the lawyers at his law firm, Brian Nelson, sitting on the Sewer Authority.”
Caliendo said, “How far is this going to go? Mr. Sodon will not debate in public. He has not said he will give up the township work. At what point will the Republican Party here in Middletown stop playing the ‘Good Ol’ Boys’ game?”
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