CANDIDATE STATEMENT CENSORED

FOR MAYOR OF MODESTO

Carmen Sabatino

Occupation: Businessman

When I was Mayor, the People’s business was conducted in open, meaningful debate.

I fought for taxpayers, and voters who rejected the incumbents, and elected me their mayor.

Financial scandals that existed before I took office were exposed, and dealt with, to protect taxpayers from further losses.

Against overwhelming odds I succeeded in preventing borrowing $15 million for the Gallo Center, saving money our fully mortgaged city could not afford.

Today, we still owe as much on Centre Plaza as when it was built!

Upon leaving office I continued a determined fight for citizen participation in government.

I rejected a $4000 fine offered by an overreaching District Attorney’s office and chose to have a jury decide.

I was there to argue successfully against the city and the MID selling our water to San Francisco.

I was there to encourage Wood Colony farmers to defend their land against city expansion.

In 1999 Modesto was in a downward spiral and needed change.

In 2015 Modesto is in another downward spiral, attempting to trick people into sales taxes to pay for unwise spending.

In my second term we will move an informed Modesto forward again.