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Valori Seeks to Fail Parsippany Residents Yet Again

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PARSIPPANY – This morning, the Chair of the Parsippany Republican Party, Lou Valori, announced his candidacy for Mayor. As Council President of a 5-0 Republican Council under former Mayor Barberio, Valori has long been complicit in the political favoritism, budget gimmicks, and overdevelopment that had plagued Parsippany for years.

Valori has demonstrated a severe lack of integrity over the course of his political career. In 2013, Valori released a recording of Mayor Barberio offering him a job in exchange for political favoritism, an allegation Valori described as a bribe and reported to the Prosecutor’s Office. Just four years later, Barberio and Valori ran on the same ticket; a ticket the voters resoundingly rejected. If Valori would run with a man he accused of bribery, what would he do for his friends? Perhaps this is why Parsippany voters ousted Valori by over 800 votes in the 2017 election. This marked the most lopsided defeat for an incumbent Republican Councilman in township history.

The former Council President is also remembered for restricting public comments at Township Council meetings. His refusal to allow residents the standard amount of time to speak was reversed when Mayor Soriano took office.

Valori’s failures extend beyond Parsippany government. As Chair of the Parsippany GOP, Valori saw his own Vice Chair, former Freeholder and Councilman John Cesaro, arrested on bribery charges. Although this arrest took place over a year ago, Valori has yet to comment. Valori has also failed to condemn the January 6th riot at our nation's Capitol, after standing shoulder to shoulder with QAnon and Proud Boys members at a Trump rally in Parsippany on September 12.

Even out of office, Valori has continued to advocate dangerous policies for Parsippany residents. For months, Valori has pushed for the development of a children’s park in his home neighborhood of Glenmont Commons. As Council President, he and Mayor Barberio hosted not just one, but two, election year groundbreaking ceremonies on a plot of land planned to become a children’s park. The only problem? The township did not own the land. When Mayor Soriano came into office, his ask to the owner about this former construction staging site was routine: the soil needed to be tested for contaminants before our children could play there. To this day, the property owner, a major Valori donor, has not permitted soil tests. And to this day, with the full facts known, Valori continues to push for the township to acquire this land and construct a children’s park, without environmental testing.

That, in a nutshell, is the type of leadership Parsippany can expect from a Valori administration.

Parsippany voters had the good sense to reject Valori once. The decision to do so again is an easy one. A vote for Valori is a vote for political favoritism, budget gimmicks, overdevelopment, dishonesty, and putting Parsippany families in jeopardy.

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Learn more about our candidates:

Mayor Michael Soriano: Mayor Soriano was a career electrician before running for Mayor, his first run for public office, in 2017. Born on an Army base, Mayor Soriano has served as a foreman and superintendent on numerous construction jobs, including the Freedom Tower. Since becoming Mayor of Parsippany, he has worked to stabilize the township’s long-broken finances, protect our natural environment and open spaces, increase community engagement in local government, and hold the line against overdevelopment.

Cori Herbig is a resident of Lake Hiawatha. With over two decades of government affairs experience, Cori currently works as the Director of State Public Policy at Mars, Inc, focusing primarily on issues of sustainability and animal health and welfare. Prior to joining the Mars team, Cori worked at Everytown for Gun Safety (which includes Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America) for five years, where she worked to pass lifesaving gun violence prevention policies and preserve public safety laws throughout the country. Earlier in her career, she spent 13 years advocating for animal welfare at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where she fought at the state and federal levels to keep animals safe from abuse and neglect. Before joining the ASPCA, Cori practiced housing law at Westchester/Putnam Legal Services, where she advocated to keep struggling families safe from unlawful eviction. She grew up in Chester and moved to Lake Hiawatha in 2013, where she now lives with her husband and two children.

Judy Hernandez is a 21-year resident of Parsippany living in Glacier Hills with her husband and two children. Her professional experience is as a civil and environmental engineer and environmental advocate. Judy has worked on projects from the proposal, contract, and planning stages to design and construction. She has also sat on the Open Space Committee. Currently, she serves as Vice Chair on the Parsippany Environmental Advisory Committee, a member of the Parsippany Green Team, and as the Mayor’s designee on the Planning Board. Judy is also involved in her neighborhood association on the civic committee. Her goal is to engage the community and bring attention to pressing issues. Whether the issue is public health, environmental justice, fair-share housing, pollution, water security, development, or economic and impacted ecosystems, Judy believes that all of these issues intersect and must be approached through communication, education, and sharing ideas.









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