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Posted by Homos for Manzo on September 09, 2004 at 07:55:56:
In Reply to: Pondering who to vote for posted by Bob S on September 09, 2004 at 07:32:44:
Enviromentalist? HA! Jersey City is fined by the State and the Jersey City taxpayers have to foot the bill because a guy isn't doing his job and he's a friend of Lou's? .. A friend Lou not only recommended but prevented from being fired because he wasn't doing his job? Why not ask Lou to pay for the fine out of his campaign funds? Funds he's wasting pasting up all over the city as mentioned. Take those funds and paydown the fine! Show some public good, Stop defending this creep, he cared little for the Jersey City's health or welfare and got his job through Lou's Patronage! If Manzo was a man of the people, then he would never have let this go on. He stepped in on numberous occassions to help his guy Pal aka Lover Danny McMahon (not McMann as reported). He's just like the rest. » The Jersey Journal Jersey City Corporation Counsel Hope Blackburn confirmed that state health officials ordered the city to pay the money - the result of $2,000-a-day fines the city compiled beginning March 1, 2002. "I've been talking to state officials about the situation to see what can be done," Blackburn said. Daniel McMann, who works for the Jersey City Health Department, had been tasked with keeping the reports up to date. Jersey City's Health and Human Services Director Sergio Lamboy had apparently taken steps to either replace or discipline McMann after receiving complaints from state officials about the situation, but McMann is still a city employee after Assemblyman Louis Manzo, D-Jersey City, came to McMann's defense. Manzo, who also is a candidate for Jersey City mayor, said he became involved in the issue because McMann was hired on his recommendation in 2001. Lamboy said he attempted to take action against McMann after angry state officials notified the city that after five letters, 11 phone calls, and several meetings between November 2002 and March 2003, the city still wasn't in compliance with state regulations. In February, the city was notified that is was being fined $5,000 for failing to file the reports on five city-owned buildings. The city also faced an additional $2,000-a-day penalty, beginning March 1, for every day the reports were not submitted. Jersey City Director of Health Joe Gestagna said he has hired several additional people to work with McMann to comply with the state's requirements. Manzo contends that Jersey City is being unjustly penalized by the state because the fines were levied against the municipality even though officials in Trenton knew the city had no program in place to comply with the "Right To Know" mandate. "I've talked to people over at the state Department of Health and they told me the fines will probably be dropped," Manzo said.
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