Vito Perillo; WWII vet wins mayoral election
Andrew sends us a link to the story of Vito Perillo who ran for mayor in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
The 93-year-old Navy veteran of the Pacific War against Japan was tired of the current administration of the town and particularly a whistleblower lawsuit against the chief of police that cost the taxpayers more than a million dollars.
Perillo says that he wore out two pairs of shoes going door-to-door to meet voters and it paid off for him. He beat the incumbent mayor, Gerald M. Turning, with 53% to 46% of the vote.
Category: Politics
BZ, sir.
I love this story! BZ indeed good sir! I hope you live many more years!!
Good for Perillo.
Something that’s unclear in the latest news story is that Perillo ran against an incumbent mayor who was chief of police during the police whistleblower scandal. The backstory is that a sergeant with the department had been caught using a meter bypass device to steal water for his house. Such a theft might have been a minor affair except that the department apparently tried to cover it up. Members of the department, including the police chief’s son, were also accused of retaliation against a couple of cops who tried to publicly reveal what was going on.
Depending on how you view available facts, there’s a fairly strong argument that not only did Tinton Falls pay for a needless $1.1 million lawsuit settlement, but also that some corrupt members of law enforcement should probably have gone to jail.
Saw a similar case in which a drunken druggie daughter of a Masshole judge offered the arresting cop oral sex as a bribe, and told him her father was a judge and would kill her. The cop refused, arrested her, entered her statements in his arrest report – next thing you know he got called in by senior cop management and told to change his report to remove any family or judge connections. Lawsuits pending…
Give ’em hell, Vito!
Congrats! Another victory!
Too bad it wasn’t that assclown Spodofora that was on the losing end.