Yet Another Anonymous Mailer Arrives Just Before Election Day

Just a day before Election Day and yet has appeared in Dormont mailboxes.

This one shouts in bold on the front: "Martinoville, Costanzoville, Hodsonville. Don't let a few families run Dormont into the ground."

The flip side takes direct shots at Democratic candidates Valerie Martino and Yvonne Costanzo, as well as Republican candidate James Hodson.

"I find it humorous," Martino said, when contacted Monday afternoon. "It's nonsense. I don't really pay attention to that stuff."

The flyer notes that Martino is demoted former police ' sister-in-law, a fact that Martino has been up front about during her campaign, then goes on to claim she is running to help Ross get "more overtime and promotions." It also points out police salaries of select officers, including Ross, for the last three years.

Martino pointed out that she would not be able to vote on any issues related to Ross since they are related by marriage.

"It's all lies," Costanzo said. "If that's all they have to grasp at, go for it."

She thinks that some council members and/or members of the borough administration are behind the mailings.

For Costanzo, the mailer actually discusses her husband, former council President Joe Costanzo, who no longer serves on council, more than it does her. It accuses him of almost doubling property taxes, allowing police overtime costs to get out of control and states he wants to be borough manager.

Costanzo said her husband already has a good job.

"I would never have my husband as manager," Costanzo said Monday afternoon. "It's not ethical."

Costanzo claims that in a conversation she had earlier this year with council President Kim Lusardi, a Republican candidate running on Tuesday's ticket, she had teased about making her husband, Joe Costanzo, borough manager. Lusardi could not be reached for comment.

"It was a joke," Costanzo said, upset that something she said in jest is now being used for such political mudslinging.

The mailer says Hodson and his wife Joan, a current council member, "want to control the Borough."

"My husband will laugh when he sees this," Joan Hodson said. "My first reaction is there had been rumblings where I was behind the last one (anonymous mailing)."

The flyer also said that Martino's nephew was on the summer street crew and had 35 tickets fixed by Phil Ross. Joan Hodson said that "nephew" is Phil Ross' son, who had been told to park at that location, yet received tickets for doing so.

Costanzo remembers the days when people "got along" in . 

"I can't take this fighting, bickering and hating. We're all here for one reason—the common good of our borough."