Barratta and Trawinski for Council.
PUTTING FAIR LAWN FIRST!
Contact: Thom Ammirato
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July 18, 2005
Fair Lawn NJ -- Vowing to return Fair Lawn to “financial stability and affordability,” former Mayor Ed Trawinski has agreed to run for borough council this fall replacing Republican candidate Howard Hyde who recently withdrew from the race due to personal and business reasons.
Trawinski who served two years as mayor while on the Fair Lawn Council from 1996 to 1999, was nominated by the Fair Lawn Republican County Committee in a meeting last week. In accepting the nomination , Trawinski said "I look forward to the opportunity to serve the people of Fair Lawn again. They have suffered under an administration that has abused the taxpayers trust and treated residents with an arrogance unseen in the history of Fair Lawn."
“My running mate, Jeanne Baratta, and I will cut unnecessary spending, reduce borrowing and end the corrupting practice known as “pay to play” where campaign donors are rewarded by the mayor and council with fat no-bid public contracts,” said Trawinski. "Make no mistake about it, one reason Fair Lawn taxes have skyrocketed is because our opponents have brought the corrupt “pay to play” system to Fair Lawn in a big way."
Trawinski, a land use and environmental attorney, who served as Assistant Commissioner of Commerce under Gov. Thomas Kean, said "borough taxes have risen to obscene record levels under the control of current mayor David Ganz, who is a key player in the county’s corrupt political system."
Under Trawinski's stewardship as mayor working in a bi-partisan manner with council members Keith, Dobrow , Taplits and Tedeschi, spending was kept under control, tax increases were held to less than the rate of inflation and over $13 million in debt was paid off.
“Fair Lawn derserves that kind of fiscal responsibility again. It has not and will not happen under Ganz and Allan Caan,” said Trawinski.
“They can and will say anything to disguise or distort the facts, but their disgraceful record of runaway taxes, wasteful spending, and outrageous debt speaks to all of us every time we pay our property tax bills.
Trawinski also said he and Baratta will address the ethical lapses that have been rampant in the Ganz administration.
“The time for progressive ethics reform in Fair Lawn is now but the only way that will happen is if we have a change on the town council,” added the 56 year old Trawinski.
Committed to public service, Trawinski has served on numerous commissions and boards, including the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Authority, the League of Municipalities Land Use Committee, the River Road Improvement Corporation, Downtown NJ, and the Fair Lawn Planning Board. Ed is the president and a director of the Morris County Economic Development Corp. He has received the Meritorious Service Award from the NJ Department of Commerce Division for the Development of Small, Women and Minority Owned Businesses.
Admitted to practice in NY, NJ, the US Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court, Ed is a partner in a Morris County Law firm where he has served as the Public Advocate for the Paramus Zoning Board, and has represented applicants, municipalities, citizen groups and environmental groups.
Honorably discharged from the NJ Army National Guard, Ed is a member of the Catholic War Veterans and the American Legion. A member of the Knights of Columbus and long active in St. Anne’s Parish, Ed and his wife, Diane, with their three children have lived in Fair Lawn for 30 years.