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Younity Team Calls for Stack's Goon To Be Fired
Official Abused City Worker - History of Violence
YOUNITY FOR UNION CITY
People Caring About Their Community
P.O. Box 3 Union City, NJ 07087
April 4, 2006
STACK’S GOONS ON THE LOOSE AGAIN
Younity Ticket Vows to End Intimidation
Union City, NJ – Mayor Brian Stack should immediately fire Deputy Public Works Director Phil Iacovelli for his latest attempt to brutalize a city employee, says Younity slate leader Frank Scarafile.
Iacovelli is accused of assaulting parks department employee Christopher Colditz on March 24 because Colditz did refused to open a door for Iacovelli and his party. Iacovelli, who served as Stacks’ campaign manager in 1998, has had numerous complaints leveled against him for abusive conduct and was involved in a brawl at a city council meeting last year.
“Iacovelli is part of the Stack goon squad that is assigned to intimidate employees and opponents to the Stack regime. He should be fired immediately,� said Scarafile, whose Younity slate will be running for the five commission seats that will be contested in the May 9th election.
Ernestine “Tina� Yandolino, a former city commissioner running on the Younity ticket says Iacovelli’s actions are symptoms of a pattern of abuse and intimidation that Stack has sanctioned. “Brian Stack has infused the city with a culture of fear that never existed before,� said Yandolino. “ People are afraid to say no to the waste and fraud that occurs every day in this city, so it just continues.�
Younity candidate Julio Fernandez, a UPS worker, said that Stack’s actions are frightening to many Hispanic residents who came to America seeking to escape government oppression. “For many people in the Hispanic community, Stack is dictator and people like Iacovelli are no different than the government enforcers they have encountered their whole lives. The people want change. They want to be able to freely speak their minds. That’s why we are running.�
Scarafile, whose Younity team’s campaign kickoff last month was interrupted by three police squad cars sent by Stack, says if his slate is elected in May: “We will get rid of the goons like Iacovelli. City workers and residents will not have to be afraid of city hall.�
“In our administration people will be treated with respect, Officials will listen, there will be debate -- and no one will ever have to be afraid for a moment,� added Scarafile, a school superintendent in Bergen County and former Union City school principal
Rounding out the Younity slate is Frank Alfonso a retail store manager and Dierdre Vetter Barry, a business woman.
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