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Former
Central Regional Board Member Richard Elliott Says First Ward
Candidate Karen Davis, Eight Years On Berkeley School Board,
"repeatedly Sold Us Out To Republican Pay-To-Play Politics
Davis A
Ringleader Approving Nearly $2 Million
In No-Bid Contracts For GOP Architect Yezzi
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Karen Davis |
Editor's note: Richard Elliott's statement was sent to local media
shortly after the Ward I GOP primary election where party line
candidate Karen Davis, an eight-year Berkeley School board member,
narrowly defeated former township committee member Janet Palino-Morey
by 36 votes.
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Central School Board
Member, CyberCreep Richard Ciullo |
Mrs. Davis' primary campaign was managed by Republican Chairman Carmen
Amato, Central School board President and Berkeley Ward II Council
candidate; and Richard Ciullo, also a Central Regional school board
member, Vice President of the Berkeley Republican Club and operator of
two websites removed from the internet after publishing offensive
personal material which included false statements about critics of
Berkeley GOP propaganda.
Mr. Elliott's letter
follows:
As a former school board member, I
can’t help but wonder if the Karen Davis who was on the party line
with the super-rich county Republican organization but nearly lost the
Republican council primary in Ward I, is the same Karen Davis who was
a member of the Berkeley School Board for the past eight years.
Davis Promised To "Eliminate
Wasteful
Spending" After Handing Yezzi Nearly
$2 Million From Berkeley Schools
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Was Yezzi's $2
Million "the most wasteful spending in Berkeley history?" |
After the primary election, she said
she wanted to be a council member so she could “eliminate wasteful
spending,” but as a Berkeley School Board member, she was one of the
ringleaders approving nearly $2 million in no-bid contracts for
architect Massimo Yezzi, representing the most wasteful spending in
the history of Berkeley Township.
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Carmen Amato: Was Central Regional Board President And "Poster Boy For
Political Payoff System" |
The same Karen Davis takes direction
from Republican Chairman Carmen Amato, the Central Regional School
Board President who is a poster boy for the political payoff system
with his useless county job as “Director of Printing & Graphics” that
costs the taxpayers $85,000 a year.
Davis Employed By
"Largest
Pay-To-Play Accounting Firm
The same Karen Davis who works for the
biggest pay-to-play accounting firm in Ocean County, the same
accounting firm appointed auditor for the Berkeley School Board. Is
this a conflict?
Davis And Amato
Approved Appointment Of GOP
Attorney Who Gets Millions From GOP Freeholders
The same Karen Davis who appointed Jack
Sahradnik attorney for the Berkeley School Board, the same Republican
lawyer who bills the county more than $700,000 a year and approved
Amato’s useless $85,000 county job. Is this another conflict?
Karen Davis had eight years to
“eliminate wasteful spending” in the school system, but she blew the
chance and wasted more money instead of less.
Despite Party Line,
Nearly 50% Of First
Ward Republicans voted Against Davis
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Close First Ward Primary Despite Gilmore Blessing |
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Janet Palino-Morey
Lost GOP Primary By 36 Votes |
That’s why nearly 50% of First Ward
Republicans voted against her in the primary election, despite her
ballot position on the Republican party line.
Now the Republican bosses want to
inflict candidates Davis (Ward I) and Amato (Ward II) on the taxpayers
of Berkeley with a platform of misrepresentations and outright
falsehoods.
Elliott: "I don't think the taxpayers will buy it again" After Davis
And Amato Sold Out To pay-To-Play Politics
This is
the same crew that repeatedly sold us out to Republican pay-to-play
politics in the schools and the county. I don’t think the taxpayers
will buy it again.
Richard Elliott - Bayville
Click
here to reprise June 4th article - Gilmore-Ciullo propaganda Special:
"Smear Campaign Launched From Gilmore's Office To Cover Up $110
Million Greed Tax
This article prepared for publication 7/07/05.
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