NIBOT FOR SENATE  

NIBOT ASKS ELEC TO LOOK INTO WEINBERG’S USE OF CLEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDS

Senator is Conducting Massive Research Into Entities Controlled by Democrats 

BERGENFIELD NJ -- State Senate Candidate Clara S. Nibot is asking the state’s Election Law Enforcement Commission to investigate a possible misuse of Clean Election campaign funds by her opponent Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-37).  

In a letter sent to ELEC today, Nibot says she recently learned that Sen. Weinberg is using campaign funds to conduct exhaustive research into the Bergen County Improvement Authority, The Bergen County Utilities Authority, Bergen County Government and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Authority. 

She notes that cost of obtaining the documents she requested have, in some cases, exceeded $500. In one case, Weinberg paid the PVSC $184 from the Election Fund for Weinberg for Senate and in another case she paid $584 to the PVSC from the Real Bergen Democrats Association.  In another instance the BCUA spent considerable time to prepare the documents and billed Sen. Weinberg $581, but she has declined to pay the bill or pick up the information she requested.

Nibot said that she is concerned that Weinberg may be using Clean Elections money, commingled with her re-election fund, to conduct research into officials from her own party with whom she has been feuding. 

Nibot said that while she agrees those agencies and the county government should be investigated, they shouldn’t be investigated with Clean Elections money.  

“I am concerned that Sen. Weinberg is co-mingling Clean Election campaign funds with other money at her disposal to essentially carry out a political vendetta,” added Nibot.

“Since neither I, nor my running mates have any association with any of these entities, and since three of these agencies are controlled by her own party I can only assume that Sen. Weinberg is investigating members of the Democratic Party,” wrote Nibot in her letter to ELEC. 

The GOP candidate added that “the spirit of the Clean Election campaign law is to use public money to run positive, issue oriented campaigns, not to pay for background research on political opponents who are not on the ballot.”