Dana Wefer

 

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WEFER BLASTS MORRIS COUNTY FREEHOLDERS FOR "NEGLIGENT" CELL PHONE POLICY

Morristown, November 1, 2006-

Dana Wefer, Democratic Candidate for Morris County Freeholder, blasted the Freeholder Board Thursday for negligent oversight of county cell phone use. Wefer says she requested information on how many employees have county subsidized cell phones and how many employees have their own cell phones but whose bills are in part subsidized by the county and was shocked to find that there is no hard record of this information.

Contact: Dana Wefer's Campaign For Immediate Release
Phone: (973)610-0491
Email: DanaWefer@gmail.com

WEFER CALLS ON FREEHOLDERS TO PASS A RESOLUTION DISALLOWING FREEHOLDERS FROM TAKING HEALTH BENEFITS

Morristown, November 1, 2006-

Dana Wefer, Morris County Democratic Freeholder Candidate, called on the Freeholder board to pass a resolution disallowing Freeholders from taking health benefits. "Freeholder is a part-time position," Wefer said. "Part-time jobs generally don’t get health benefits in the real world and it shouldn't happen in county government either." Wefer's research revealed that the county paid almost $50,000 for Freeholder health benefits last year. "The worst part is that many of the freeholders accepting health benefits have full time jobs from which they are either are receiving or could receive health benefits," Wefer said.

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WEFER RENEWS CALL FOR A BAN ON PAY-TO-PLAY AMID CONTROVERSY ABOUT CONTRIBUTIONS
Calls on Freeholders to return specific contributions

Morristown, November 1, 2006

- Dana Wefer, Democratic candidate for Morris County Freeholder, called on her opponents to return contributions from Election Graphics, the company that maintains the county voting machines, provides assistance with electronic tallying of the votes and prints the ballots for Morris County. "I don't take issue with the contract or the contributions standing alone," Wefer said Wednesday. "The problem is the contributions followed by a contract."

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WEFER TO FREEHOLDERS: “TIME TO TUNE-UP OVERNIGHT TRIPS POLICY�

Morristown, October 16, 2006- Dana Wefer, Democratic candidate for Morris County Freeholder, called on the Freeholders to "tune up" the county's policy on overnight trips paid for by the county. Wefer's examination of the county's records revealed that since January of 2005, the county has spent at least $153,000 sending county employees on overnight trips.

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Phone: (973)610-0491
Email: DanaWefer@gmail.com

WEFER CALLS ON COUNTY TO SET UP AUDIT COMMITTEE FOR BID CONTRACTS

Morristown, October 16, 2006

- Dana Wefer, Democratic candidate for Morris County Freeholder, called on the Freeholders to institute a policy that would require an independent audit committee to review all contracts awarded that are over $20,000 higher than the lowest bidder. Wefer's proposal comes on the heels of news that the county has awarded a contract that will, over the life of the contract, cost the taxpayers about $1.3 million more than had the contract been awarded to the lowest bidder.

Contact: Dana Wefer's Campaign For Immediate Release
Phone: (973)610-0491
Email: DanaWefer@gmail.com

WEFER SAYS COUNTY “OFFERS EXCUSES AND DENIALS, BUT STILL NO SOLUTIONS�
Calls on freeholders to implement policies to promote geographic diversity on boards

Morristown, October 11, 2006-

Dana Wefer, Morris County candidate for Freeholder, said Wednesday that Morris County officials dodged and avoided all the important points regarding her study of how municipalities are represented on the county’s advisory boards. "The county basically said that Morristown may actually have fewer than 44 representatives because some of those addresses could be in Morris Plains, Hanover, the Township or Parsippany," Wefer said Wednesday. She added, "Yea, well, that's understood and obvious. The point is that none of those 44 actually come from Florham Park, which had zero representatives or Riverdale or Pequannock with had one and two respectively." Wefer’s point, she says, was that the Northeastern part of the county is sorely underrepresented. She points out that no matter how you move those numbers from those 5 towns surrounding the county seat around, none of them are going to end up on the Northeastern part of the county, which has only 11 representatives for 5 towns.

Contact: Dana Wefer's Campaign For Immediate Release
Phone: (973)610-0491
Email: DanaWefer@gmail.com

FREEHOLDER CANDIDATE: MORRIS COUNTY STILL NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH OPRA
Wefer renews calls for open government and beseeches county to comply with law

Morristown, October 1, 2006- Morris County Democratic candidate for Freeholder, Dana Wefer, sent a certified letter to the county on Monday reiterating her request that the county bring itself into compliance with the Open Public Records Act. Previously, Wefer was compelled to institute a lawsuit against the county when the county refused to disclose information regarding appointments to county advisory boards and information on payouts approved by the Freeholder’s Insurance subcommittee.