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Hackensack NJ, Bergen County officials are refusing to release important tax information to the Bergen County Republicans, thereby preventing tax information from getting to the public and hindering the fall 2025 GOP commissioners’ campaign, say representatives of the Republican candidates Jay Costa, John Dinice and Andrea Slowikowski.
“The county’s refusal to provide our team with public records on the tax levies for all 70 Bergen municipalities is a brazen attempt to stop the taxpayers from learning how they have been taxed by county government over the past 5 years,” says Costa, a River Vale resident. “What are the Democrats afraid we will find out and share with the public?”
“The fact that the Democrat Administration is trying to hide their record on taxing and spending highlights one of the major reasons we are running for office; we want to bring fiscal restraint to county government, but we cannot do that if Democrats are hiding information from the public,” said Dinice, a Mahwah resident, and member of the local school board.
On July 24, using the state’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA) law – the Republican candidates asked the county to produce documents delineating the amount of county taxes paid by each municipality in the county from 2020 through 2025. The campaign also asked for an accounting of the amount each Bergen municipality paid in the so-called Open Space Trust Fund for the same time period.
The county’s Custodian of Records at first said the records did not exist. When the GOP campaign pushed back, saying “it is incomprehensible that the county does not keep records of how much tax money it collects from each municipality,” the Custodian directed the GOP representative to the treasurer’s page on the county website, that did not have the information the Republicans requested.
The link the custodian referenced does not detail tax payments by municipalities: https://
Slowikowski, a Demarest Borough Council member, said the Democrats are acting foolishly to thwart information from getting to the voters before Election Day.
“For a month our campaign has asked for basic information that the county – or any governing body – should have at its fingertips. The Democrats look very bad trying to pretend they do not have the information that any member of the public is legally entitled under state law,” said Slowikowski.
“One way or another we will get the tax information from other sources and we will let the taxpayers know how the Bergen Democrats are taxing them,” added Slowikowski.
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Classic liberal dodge ball.
No matter ….your all gone come midterms.
There is plenty of published data available to calculate the amount by town.
Build an excel spreadsheet and figure it out.
The fact none of these three candidates couldn’t figure that out is as disappointing as the County not having done that already.
the people vote the Democrats in each term the tax and spend people
so no one should complain about higher taxes