DONOHUE & McCANN: DEBATE VICTORS, THREE TIMES

(OCEAN CITY, October 15) – First Legislative District GOP Assembly nominees Mike Donohue and John McCann – following on the heels of their debate victories yesterday in three separate encounters with their Corzine Democrat opponents, Nelson Albano and Matt Milam – today issued the following statement:

“Three times yesterday, voters in different parts of the First District got to see me and my running mate Mike Donohue in the same room with our Corzine Democrat opponents, Nelson Albano and Matt Milam,” said McCann. “Granted, Albano and Milam were apparently afraid of us, so they wouldn’t actually engage in what most people would call a ‘debate’ in Somers Point, but we found a way to get the point across – Mike and I stand for lower taxes and less government spending, while Albano and Milam are part of a team that’s given us 115 tax hikes in the last eight years, and continually busted the budget.

“We were able to demonstrate the clear contrasts between the two tickets – on job creation (they want to use more big government spending programs, we want to cut taxes and regulation to incentivize job creation in the private sector); on restructuring the Department of Environmental Protection (we want the DEP radically restructured, they want even more regulation – and they’re scared to change the name because they think it would “waste stationery”), on completing Route 55 (I wondered if there are no frogs or mosquitoes along Exit 60, where’s there’s all sorts of new road construction going on, they’ve been in office for years and have failed to get it done).”

“Nelson Albano and Matt Milam are in a jam,” Donohue added. “They know they can’t run ON their record, so they’re trying to run FROM it. Yesterday, they wouldn’t even appear on the same stage with us in Somers Point. But we were still able to draw the distinctions – they voted with Jon Corzine 95 percent of the time, we voted with Jon Corzine ZERO percent of the time. They voted for nearly a billion dollars in higher taxes, we have taken the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and pledged never to vote for higher taxes.

“Heck, even when I inadvertently misspoke at the League of Women Voters debate last night (I said the Garden State Parkway isn’t a storm evacuation route, when we all know it’s been designated as our storm evacuation route out of Cape May County, because of the Democrats’ continued failure to bring the resources needed to complete Route 55 – what I MEANT to say was, the Garden State Parkway is not an EFFECTIVE evacuation route, because when a storm hits, you want to be evacuating from east to west, not south to north), we still were able to draw contrasts.

“There are less than three weeks to go in this campaign – and that means there are less than three weeks to go until the voters of the First District will be able to cast their ballots for real change in Trenton. Because you cannot change Trenton until you change the people in Trenton.”

Paid for by Donohue McCann 2009