Rev. Allen Remarks "Letter to The Editor"

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Rev. Allen Remarks "Letter to The Editor"

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Posted by Rev. Edward Allen on April 17, 2003 at 13:16:49:

Rev. Edward Allen
632 Garfield Avenue
Jersey City NJ 07305

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Dear Sir or Madame,

I am a lifelong resident, active in local politics for 30 years, and currently a member of the Jersey City Board of Education. In
all the time that I have been active and involved I have never witnessed the arrogance and abuse of power exercised by our
Congressman, Robert Menendez, D-13.

As a lawmaker, one of Mr. Menendez’ highest duties is to uphold the laws of the land—all of them. We find, sadly, to the
contrary, that Mr. Menendez consistently places himself above the law. We have seen egregious examples recently.

During the past holiday season, he met with a majority and quorum of the Jersey City council without giving prior notice to
the public in open defiance of the Open Meetings Act, the so-called sunshine law. He incited Council members to resist and
obstruct the operation of government in Jersey City, by his control of party purse strings through his agent and long-time
friend and associate, attorney Donald Scarinci. Scarinci is Treasurer of the Hudson County Democratic Organization and
also Treasurer of Menendez for Congress. By tugging on these purse strings, with the aid of Scarinci, Menendez is able to
make our local lawmakers dance like marionettes in a Punch and Judy show.

Half the Jersey City Council has full time, mostly no-show, little work jobs in the government of the County of Hudson, by
appointment through the Hudson County Democratic Organization. This gives Menendez more direct and forceful control
over these local lawmakers and administrators, through their salaries and the power to turn them on and off at will.

Newly enacted election law reforms were put in place exactly to stop abuses like these that have gone on too long. Mr.
Menendez knows the law very well and is able to skirt it, doing violence to the spirit of the law if not the actual letter of it. The
new laws strictly limit funds and the types of funds that can be raised by federal and state candidates and how those funds
may be used. The law is clear on strict limits it places on the ability of a federal office holder like Mr. Menendez using his
position and influence of the federal office he holds to raise money for local elections as Mr. Menendez has been doing.

Menendez uses the power and influence of his federal office to raise money to fund local campaigns at the municipal, and
county level acting by and through the Hudson County Democratic Organization. The Hudson County Democratic
Organization then orchestrates local campaigns implemented with funds raised by Mr. Menendez.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of Mr. Menendez is outrageous when we see him just weeks earlier marching with Civil Rights
leaders symbolically re-crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. Then the Congressman comes home to obstruct and, through
his paid agents on the Jersey City Council, thwart efforts to govern New Jersey’s second largest city by its first African
American Mayor, Glenn Cunningham.

Menendez has now turned his ire on the Governor who did not appoint Menendez’ choice of jurists to the state’s Supreme
Court. Governor McGreevey appointed an exceptionally qualified African American jurist in place of Menendez’ choice of a
Cuban. Menendez constantly hides behind the Hispanic label. Look at the record and you will see that to Mr. Menendez,
Hispanic or Latino means one thing and one thing only: Cuban.

Menendez is an Hispanic who does not respond to the needs of his Puerto Rican constituents, in his definition of Hispanic.
Menendez does not respond to the needs of Dominican constituents in his definition of Hispanic. To Menendez Hispanic and
Latino mean the same thing and they mean one thing only: Cuban. And Cuban does not include African American,
Venezuelan, or a host of other ethnic groups. It means the smallest segment of the Hispanic population.

Menendez is allegedly a party leader uniting Democrats nationally. Instead, he is dividing Democrats locally in his self-serving
strategy of divide and conquer. Menendez is the problem. Menendez is the living example of “Do as I say and not as I do.”
His misuse of power and abuse of the public trust of his office mark him as no leader at all, but as a man without integrity.

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: Rev. Edward Allen
: 632 Garfield Avenue
: Jersey City NJ 07305

: Wednesday, April 16, 2003

: Dear Sir or Madame,

: I am a lifelong resident, active in local politics for 30 years, and currently a member of the Jersey City Board of Education. In
: all the time that I have been active and involved I have never witnessed the arrogance and abuse of power exercised by our
: Congressman, Robert Menendez, D-13.

: As a lawmaker, one of Mr. Menendez’ highest duties is to uphold the laws of the land—all of them. We find, sadly, to the
: contrary, that Mr. Menendez consistently places himself above the law. We have seen egregious examples recently.

: During the past holiday season, he met with a majority and quorum of the Jersey City council without giving prior notice to
: the public in open defiance of the Open Meetings Act, the so-called sunshine law. He incited Council members to resist and
: obstruct the operation of government in Jersey City, by his control of party purse strings through his agent and long-time
: friend and associate, attorney Donald Scarinci. Scarinci is Treasurer of the Hudson County Democratic Organization and
: also Treasurer of Menendez for Congress. By tugging on these purse strings, with the aid of Scarinci, Menendez is able to
: make our local lawmakers dance like marionettes in a Punch and Judy show.

: Half the Jersey City Council has full time, mostly no-show, little work jobs in the government of the County of Hudson, by
: appointment through the Hudson County Democratic Organization. This gives Menendez more direct and forceful control
: over these local lawmakers and administrators, through their salaries and the power to turn them on and off at will.

: Newly enacted election law reforms were put in place exactly to stop abuses like these that have gone on too long. Mr.
: Menendez knows the law very well and is able to skirt it, doing violence to the spirit of the law if not the actual letter of it. The
: new laws strictly limit funds and the types of funds that can be raised by federal and state candidates and how those funds
: may be used. The law is clear on strict limits it places on the ability of a federal office holder like Mr. Menendez using his
: position and influence of the federal office he holds to raise money for local elections as Mr. Menendez has been doing.

: Menendez uses the power and influence of his federal office to raise money to fund local campaigns at the municipal, and
: county level acting by and through the Hudson County Democratic Organization. The Hudson County Democratic
: Organization then orchestrates local campaigns implemented with funds raised by Mr. Menendez.

: The duplicity and hypocrisy of Mr. Menendez is outrageous when we see him just weeks earlier marching with Civil Rights
: leaders symbolically re-crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. Then the Congressman comes home to obstruct and, through
: his paid agents on the Jersey City Council, thwart efforts to govern New Jersey’s second largest city by its first African
: American Mayor, Glenn Cunningham.

: Menendez has now turned his ire on the Governor who did not appoint Menendez’ choice of jurists to the state’s Supreme
: Court. Governor McGreevey appointed an exceptionally qualified African American jurist in place of Menendez’ choice of a
: Cuban. Menendez constantly hides behind the Hispanic label. Look at the record and you will see that to Mr. Menendez,
: Hispanic or Latino means one thing and one thing only: Cuban.

: Menendez is an Hispanic who does not respond to the needs of his Puerto Rican constituents, in his definition of Hispanic.
: Menendez does not respond to the needs of Dominican constituents in his definition of Hispanic. To Menendez Hispanic and
: Latino mean the same thing and they mean one thing only: Cuban. And Cuban does not include African American,
: Venezuelan, or a host of other ethnic groups. It means the smallest segment of the Hispanic population.

: Menendez is allegedly a party leader uniting Democrats nationally. Instead, he is dividing Democrats locally in his self-serving
: strategy of divide and conquer. Menendez is the problem. Menendez is the living example of “Do as I say and not as I do.”
: His misuse of power and abuse of the public trust of his office mark him as no leader at all, but as a man without integrity.

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