8/2/11 - Menendez out of the mainstream, out of touch, out of control
Demonstrating once again how out of touch Senator Robert Menendez is by continuing to follow his out of control, left wing, tax and spend agenda, he announced yesterday that he will vote against legislation today to lift the debt ceiling and begin cutting Washington spending that is saddling future generations.
Menendez is so liberal that he is now at odds with the majority of Democrats in New Jersey’s congressional delegation. Democratic Congressman Rob Andrews voted in favor of the debt ceiling bill along with Congressmen Bill Pascrell and others. Even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support this legislation, but not Bob Menendez. He is that far out there to the left.
Who is Senator Menendez answering to? New Jersey voters or MoveOn.org?
Earlier this year, Governor Christie showed the nation how to reign in government spending in a bipartisan way. Thanks to bipartisan leadership in Washington, after today we will be on a path toward fiscal sanity. But with Bob Menendez it’s more of the same out of control spending. He’s part of the problem, it’s time for a change.
7/7/11 - They just don't get it.
They just don’t get it.
That’s why I’m taking the unprecedented step of posting a Democrat press release on our Republican webpage today. Because Jim Whelan, Alisa Cooper & Damon Tyner just don’t understand that we cannot spend our way into prosperity with your tax dollars. We tried that with Jon Corzine and Jim Whelan and it has been an abject failure.
Senator Whelan has a lot of nerve criticizing line-item vetoes on a state budget that he helped craft. He voted for a politically-charged, unbalanced budget that had almost $1 billion in additional spending that is unconstitutional under New Jersey law.
Worse yet, he voted for this $1 billion as part of a ploy to score political points, knowing full well it wouldn’t pass. The voters should be outraged that Whelan would pander for votes in November by supporting an election year budget that manipulates the issues.
We can’t afford Whelan’s free-wheeling ways any longer.
If Whelan is so concerned about access to health care, then why did he strongly support a measure which would have prohibited New Jerseyans from traveling to Philadelphia for their health care needs? Why did he advocate denying parents the ability to take their kids to Children’s Hospital or block seniors from going to University of Pennsylvania or Jefferson for a heart procedure?
We are in a new era of politics in New Jersey and this press release --- which is a cookie-cutter job running in every Democrat's race throughout the state --- clearly shows that Jim Whelan and the Democrats just don’t get it.
We need to stop the spending, we need to stop the high taxes that Whelan has voted for time and time again and we need to build an economy that will create new jobs in the private, not the public, sector.
4/1/11 - Kyrillos coming to Atlantic County
A good friend, Senator Joe Kyrillos, is coming to speak to our Atlantic County Chamber of Commerce on May 4. Details are here.
The is a unique opportunity to meet one of our party's leaders.
3/8/11 - Spicuzzo turns himself in; Balles turned Sheriff's office upside down
In Middlesex County yesterday, a former Democratic county sheriff, Joseph Spicuzzo, turned himself in to authorities following charges of bribery and official misconduct. According to the Attorney General's Office, Spicuzzo allegedly took "cash tributes" from recruits to the Middlesex County Sheriff's Office in exchange for hiring them as "special investigators".
Here in Atlantic County, Sheriff Frank Balles eliminated so-called "special investigators" as one of his first acts because it serves no real law enforcement purpose and is a haven of political patronage. Thanks to elected officials like Frank Balles, Atlantic County has been able to preserve its reputation as having the most honest county government in the state.
We take for granted the honest public officials we have in our county. We shouldn't. Look at the alternative in Middlesex County.
3/5/11 - It's time for McGettigan to start telling the truth
It's time for County Clerk Ed McGettigan to fess up on election-related directives he provided to staff to work on his personal political campaign at taxpayers’ expense.
When County Clerk McGettigan announced his reelection campaign, he did so from a county email account, through a press release written by his Deputy Clerk, sent from his public office at 10:43 in the morning on a workday. When asked by the Press of Atlantic City about his wrongful use of public resources for his campaign, McGettigan responded that the subject press release --- on official County Clerk letterhead --- was "inadvertently attached to the wrong email address".
That email, obtained by the Atlantic County Republican Committee, however, demonstrates that McGettigan’s excuse is a complete lie. The email from Deputy Clerk Arthur Lucchesi to the Press states: “Attached is the Press Release Ed called about. Any questions please call me”, then goes on to list Mr. Lucchesi’s phone number at the County Clerk’s office.
There wasn’t anything inadvertent about this email. And even if McGettigan’s Deputy Clerk made a mistake in sending out the email from his county email account instead of his private email account, why was he doing anything related to McGettigan’s political campaign in the County Clerk’s office at 10:43 a.m. on a Monday?
It is clear that from the documents we have obtained that McGettigan has one of his known campaign operatives working in the County Clerk’s office on the taxpayer’s dime. McGettigan needs to immediately clean up the County Clerk’s office from any political influence whatsoever.
It is embarrassing that McGettigan’s Atlantic County Clerk’s office is known in every corner of the state as the most politicized out of the 21 county offices. It’s time for McGettigan to clean up his office from any influence of politics.
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