Morristown

Two of New Jerseys most prominent election law experts, Angelo Genova and John Carbone, will face off in a Morristown courtroom on January 8 to decide the November 2005 race for Mayor of Parsippany. Republican Rosemarie Agostini, who lost to Democrat Michael Luther by 39 votes, alleges that as many as 124 voters were either illegally turned away from the polls or voted improperly.

The expedited trial was scheduled after a state appellate panel overturned a Superior Court Judge's denial of Agostini's challenge. Genova, Luther's attorney, has asked the state Supreme Court to issue a stay of the appellate decision. Genova is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that permits elections to be challenged. In that effort, he will be opposed by state Attorney General Stuart Rabner.

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

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. Read More >

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. Read More >

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

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." Read More >

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

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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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. Read More >

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.

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

WEFER BRINGS THE FIGHT FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT TO THE COURTS
Morris Freeholders still in violation of the law

Morristown, September 12, 2006- Dana Wefer, Morris County Democratic Candidate for Freeholder, filed suit against the Freeholder Board Tuesday to compel production of documents the county has illegally refused to disclose.

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

DEMOCRATIC FREEHOLDER CANDIDATE WEFER TAKES ON MORRIS FREEHOLDERS ON THEIR TURF
Wefer Presents Resolution to Board Requiring Accountability in Capital Surplus Expenditures

Morristown, August 24, 2006- Dana Wefer, the 24 year old Democratic candidate for Morris County Freeholder took the Freeholders to task on their turf last night at the Freeholder meeting. Wefer has been sparring with the Freeholders for several weeks over what she has leveled are “lavish� and “wasteful� expenditures resulting from broad ordinances allocating money from the capital surplus fund for maintenance of county facilities.

The expenditure that prompted the original salvo being launched was $50,000 the county allocated from the capital surplus fund to be used to replace furniture in their conference room. The freeholders have not commented on the expenditure, but county administrator John Bonnani has maintained the though the resolution described the expenditure as being for conference room furniture, it actually was intended for other non-specified items as well.

That explanation resulted in last night’s proposed resolution, in which Wefer implored the Freeholder board to adopt a policy of listing in a line item fashion all expenditures exceeding $5,000 and all expenditures under and over $5,000 should the number of capital surplus expenditures under $5,000 exceed 20 in a single fiscal year. Wefer maintains that the resolution, if adopted, would result in tighter controls over where taxpayer money is allocated, would force the freeholders to determine whether the amount of money allocated for a particular project is reasonable and would empower Morris County citizens to determine whether the amount of money allocated for a particular project is reasonable.

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

DEMOCRATIC FREEHOLDER CANDIDATE WEFER CALLS ON FREEHOLDERS TO UPGRADE RESOLUTION STANDARDS

Morristown, 15, 2006- One day after condemning the Freeholders’ authorization of spending $50,000 for conference room furniture, Democratic Freeholder candidate Dana Wefer called on the Freeholder Board to set standards for specificity in their resolutions.

The text of the ordinance the Freeholders passed stated that $50,000 was to be allocated from the capital surplus fund to buy new furniture for their conference room. County Administrator John Bonanni said that it was actually for furniture at various county facilities and was just written broadly. This explanation is what prompted Wefer to call on the Freeholders to adopt standards that require more specificity in their resolution and allocation of money.

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