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DISTRICT 38 GOP CANDIDATES SAY WAGNER & VOSS SHOULD URGE SUAREZ TO RESIGN
By horatioRIDGEFIELD, July 28, 2009 -- District 38 Republican Assembly candidates Nicholas Lonzisero and Judith Fisher, say the district’s incumbent Democrat Assembly women should demand that Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez resign from office following his arrest on corruption charges last week.
Lonzisero and Fisher say Democratic Assemblywomen Connie Wagner and Joan Voss are out of step with the electorate in the central and eastern Bergen district and members of their own party in failing to pressure Suarez to resign.
“Gov. Corzine has said those arrested in last week’s federal roundup of corrupt officials should step down. The Democratic Party Chairman of Bergen County has called on Suarez to step down. Why haven’t Connie Wagner and Joan Voss demanded Suarez’s resignation?” asked Fischer, of Fort Lee.
“By refusing to demand that Mayor Suarez step down, Wagner and Voss are showing their tolerance for corruption,” said Lonziesero, a Ridgefield councilman, who asked Suarez to resign at this week’s borough council meeting.
“With the plague of corruption hitting this state Wagner and Voss have shown they are unwilling to change the political culture of their party.”
Fischer noted the irony of Suarez serving on the Fort Lee ethics panel, and now facing federal corruption charges. “Something like this can only happen in New Jersey,” she said. “Having Mayor Suarez continue to serve Fort Lee as an expert on ethical behavior is outrageous.”
Suarez and co-defendant Vincent Tabbachino, owner of a tax preparation business in Guttenberg was arrested and charged with illegally taking campaign funds. Suarez, according to the federal investigators, accepted $10,000 from the cooperating witness through Tabbachino as a middleman, for Suarez's promised assistance in getting approvals to develop properties in Ridgefield.
Lonzisero said the arrest and the charges “are an embarrassment to the community and the honest people who live here.”
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