GOP candidate questions Weinberg funding of OPRA request
By Wally EdgeClara Nibot, Republican candidate for State Senate in the 37th district is trying to make an issue of opposition research from her opponent, incumbent Loretta Weinberg. What makes this interesting is that Weinberg is looking for information on Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero, not Nibot.
The GOP candidate has asked the state Election Law Enforcement Commission to investigate why Real Bergen Democrats, a political action committee closely aligned with Weinberg, was paying for public documents under an OPRA request after the Democratic Senator's own campaign account was frozen when she agreed to accept public financing. Weinberg says the request was made before she qualified to participate in the Clean Elections program last July. Nibot suggests that Weinberg is trying to have it both ways: have taxpayers pay for her re-election campaign while using her PAC to fund her political side projects.
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You Can't have it both ways
I think Clara Nibot is making a good point. She
knows well how Democrats try to beat the system.
I think Weinberg have no clue of who she is facing.
This lady is not a "complementary" candidate in
district 37th. In her release she mentions other
violations made after Weinberg declared herself
"Clean". To raise money and then take the money
of the taxpayers is a fraud Senator. You can
fool averyone and I think you just found you
"David" in Nibot. I'm happy to see the 37th
alive and kicking again.
Huh?
Taking clean elections money is about the election you are running in. If you have other irons in the fire why shouldn't your PAC pay for them? As the thing says, it is a "side project" and not related to the election at all.