The $53,500 paid by Schroeder included a $2000 Schroeder check to a Republican website operated by Central Regional School Board member Richard Ciullo who uses the website to smear critics of himself, Gilmore and Berkeley Republican Chairman Carmen Amato, also a member of the Central Regional board.

Palino-Morey Is A Ciullo Smear Target

One of Ciullo's recent smear targets has been Palino-Morey whose supporters have pointed out that Davis has been a member of the Berkeley School Board for eight years and has voted for every spending increase and tax hike.

DiPaola, Amato, Ciullo, Davis, Gilmore
Dispensed GOP School Board Patronage

Ciullo is Vice president of the Berkeley Republican Club, the president of which is Anthony DiPaola, another member of the school board who voted for every spending and tax increase.

Tony DiPaola

Kevin Askew, the Republican Club treasurer, is also a member of the Berkeley School Board, making him the fifth Republican club officer who is also a school board member.

Arrogance And Greed Of GOP School Board
Dynasty Helped Defeat School Budgets

Many Republicans have joined Democrats and independents in charging the "dynasty" of Republican school board domination is unhealthy for the community and the party, and the issue was an important one in the recent school board election where both school budgets were defeated by overwhelming margins and two unknowns were nearly elected to seats on the board.

Davis Raised Taxes And Spending But Says
She Has A Program For "Tax Stabilization"

Davis says she has a program for "tax stabilization," but opponents point out that "she never tried to do anything but increase taxes during her long tenure on the school board."

Davis also says she has a plan for "meaningful ethics reform," but opponents say Davis is a "willing accomplice in Gilmore's patronage distribution network which costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars extra every year to pay for useless jobs for political cronies and no-bid professional appointments."

Does Ethics Reform Mean Getting The
$2 Million Back From Amato And The  Yezzi's?

One of the "useless jobs" they point to is held by Chairman Amato who was recently handed an $85,000 position as Director of Printing & Graphics for the GOP freeholders, even though he knows nothing about printing or graphics.

Davis and GOP club president DiPaola were also instrumental in handing almost $2 million in no-bid Berkeley school board contracts to architect Massimo Yezzi, a Republican district committeeman in Dover Township.

April Yezzi Is GOP Women's Federation President

Ciullo and Amato were instrumental in giving Yezzi's wife, April, another superfluous job as "assistant business administrator" in the Central Regional school system at a cost to the taxpayers of more than $70,000.

April Smiles As Taxpayers Wince

April Yezzi is the president of the Ocean County Women's Federation and was, like her husband's $2 million no-bid contracts, an issue in the recent school board elections.

Don't Forget "Cooperative Governance"

Mrs. Davis, in fliers designed by Ciullo and Amato and mailed to First Ward Republicans, also claims to be in favor of "cooperative governance" and "environmental stewardship."

"Let's Get Back To Traditional Republican
Principles Instead Of Transparent Greed And Self Interest" Say Palino-Morey Supporters

Palino-Morey's followers say they "don't have the vaguest idea what Davis is talking about" and suggest "it's time we start returning to traditional Republican principles like affordable and economical local government instead of the transparent baloney of people who trashed the Republican Party in favor of pervasive greed that corrupted the process in our community."