Gee whiz, batman -- two 11th District R releases!

(And again, I'll post any releases e-mailed to me by any Bayshore area candidate. My e-mail is jcorley @ gmail . com)

Here you go:

For Immediate Release
September 7, 2005
Steven J. Corodemus (732) 744 - 1998
Sean T. Kean (732) 241 - 9718
Info@CorodemusKean.com

IF DOHERTY & REILLY SUPPORTS A HIGHER STANDARD OF ETHICS, WHY DID HE TAKE $500 FROM A McGREEVEY APPOINTEE WHO VIOLATED CURRENT ETHICAL STANDARDS?

Atlantic Highlands & Wall Township, NJ: Eleventh District Democrat Assembly candidate Matt Doherty took a $500 campaign contribution from NJ’s Secretary of State less than a month before she was found to have violated state ethics rules for failure to disclose her involvement in a political consulting firm that reportedly collected hundreds-of-thousands of dollars from the 2004 Kerry Edwards campaign.

NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) reports show that on May 13, 2005, Doherty accepted $500 from Regina Thomas.

On June 8, 2005, NJ’s Executive Commission on Ethical Standards found that Thomas violated ethics rules by not disclosing her interest in IEM Message Management, a Democrat campaign consulting group.

The Secretary of State is a constitutional officer who is banned from active involvement in partisan politics. As a cabinet officer, Thomas is also required to file an annual report detailing her assets and business interests. She failed to report her ties to IEM.

“Mr. Doherty says he’s a reformer pledged to bring a higher standard of ethics to Trenton. He says Trenton is broken and he’ll fix it. That’s talk. What Doherty does is take campaign money from a Trenton insider who was formally reprimanded for violating state ethics rules,” Assemblyman Steve Corodemus said.

Corodemus emphasized that Doherty took the campaign cash when he knew, or should have known, that Thomas was under investigation for ethics violations.

“Mr. Doherty had a chance to refuse the money and prove he’s for change and higher ethical standards, but he took the cash from a Trenton Democrat insider who practices lower standards. He must be judged by what he does, not what he says,” concluded Assemblyman Sean Kean.

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For Immediate Release
September 7, 2005
Steven J. Corodemus (732) 744 - 1998
Sean T. Kean (732) 241 - 9718
Info@CorodemusKean.com

A SIMPLE QUESTION FOR JIM REILLY AND MATT DOHERTY: DO YOU BELIEVE NEW JERSEY HAS A PROPERTY TAX PROBLEM?

REILLY AND DOHERTY STAY SILENT ABOUT DEMOCRAT FAILURE ON PROPERTY TAXES WHILE OPPOSING REAL REFORM EFFORTS

Atlantic Highlands & Wall Township, NJ: While maintaining their vow of silence regarding their own party’s failure to address the property tax issue, Democrats Matt Doherty and Jim Reilly are now refusing to support a constitutionally guaranteed 30 percent cut in property taxes.

Meanwhile, Republican Assembly candidates Steve Corodemus and Sean Kean have been fighting to convince the Democrat leadership in Trenton to hold a special session to consider this 30% in 3 property tax relief proposal.

Corodemus and Kean challenged their opponents to answer a simple question: Is there a property tax crisis in New Jersey and has the current Democrat leadership in Trenton contributed to that problem?

The first step to correcting any problem is acknowledging that the problem exists and identifying the cause, Corodemus said. Unfortunately, because of their support from the Democrat bosses in Trenton, our opponents can’t even get past step one.

Steve and I know the answer to that question, Kean said. There is a property tax crisis and it has been fueled by Democrat policies that have frozen state aid to our school districts and slashed property tax rebates.

When it comes to the Democrat Party’s record of increasing property taxes by more than 20 percent in the past four years, our opponents are oddly silent, Corodemus said. Yet ironically, they also refuse to support a realistic, comprehensive plan to cut property taxes by 30 percent in three years.

As the handpicked candidates of Assembly Democrat bosses like Albio Sires and Joe Roberts, Matt Doherty and Jim Reilly have refused to acknowledge that Democrats in Trenton have failed miserably on the property tax issue.

They even recently sent out a mailer saying they support a special session to address the issue, but when Corodemus, Kean and the Assembly Republican caucus showed up in Trenton in August for just such a session, Doherty and Reilly’s Democrat bosses refused to allow the session to take place. Where were they when the taxpayers of Monmouth County needed them?

While our opponents try to sidestep giving an answer to that very simple question, Steve and I will keep fighting for property tax relief and reform, Kean said. We have identified the problem and have a plan on the table that will provide a comprehensive long-term solution. Only the Democrat leaders who appointed Doherty and Reilly stand in the way.

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