Lou Magazzu

Magazzu's apparent gag order on the Cumberland County Democrat's treasurer

Will Magazzu allow the Cumberland County Democrat’s treasurer to release loan documents and cancelled checks?

GOP freeholder candidates want Magazzu to stop spinning and tell the truth

GOP freeholder candidates: “Magazzu or Corzine need to come clean with the circumstances around the $5,000 contribution to Magazzu for NACo.”

GOP freeholder candidates: “$5,000 given to a non-reporting entity headed by a political party boss would raise red flags in 49 other states.”

Republicans are continuing their assault on Cumberland County Freeholder Director Lou Magazzu over the way he funded his unsuccessful candidacy for a leadership position in the National Association of Counties (NACo).  

The latest Republican release questions Magazzu’s loan of $10,000 from the Cumberland County Democratic Party, which he runs.  Magazzu today released the date on which he paid it back: August 28th.  Republicans let loose a host of questions, including what the term of the loans were and whether there was any interest paid.  GOP freeholder Sam Fiocchi questioned why it was made two days after the party filed its ELEC report.

“I talked to the campaign manager, the Millville chair, Brendan Kavanagh, and let him know I was doing it. I said listen Brendan, it will be paid back in a month, and he said ok,” said Magazzu, who added that the donation will show up on the October ELEC report, when more people are paying attention. 

GOP candidates to Magazzu: Where are the documents pertaining to the loan?

Cumberland County Freeholder Director Lou Magazzu today said that speculation he will drop his reelection bid is “fiction.”  

“The answer is hell no,” said Magazzu, who is also the Cumberland County Democratic chairman.  “Let’s review the facts: I have been the top vote-getter four out of four times, by a lot. Our polling and other polling shows that I am the most well-known of al of the 12 or 13 candidates, by a lot.”  

An Inside Edge item this morning held that some South Jersey Democrats, concerned about political fallout from Magazzu’s unsuccessful campaign for a leadership post in the National Association of Counties (NACo), are talking about the prospect of him switching out for another candidate.  

Magazzu and his two Democratic running mates are competing against a slate of three independent former Democratic freeholders and a slate of three Republicans.  

"This is just fiction from the Republicans and the renegades, as is this so-called NACo scandal,” said Magazzu. “There is no NACo scandal – no newspaper reporters have called me about it except in response the press release by the two teams.”

With some of the details of Lou Magazzu’s NACo slush fund now public, a disturbing question has arisen

Magazzu’s choices: answer the questions or be forced to answer by a higher authority