BELLEVILLE, BLOOMFIELD AND NEWARK GET BLUFFED AGAIN

For Immediate Release:
Contact: Daniel Beckelman
(201)-446-9889

September 10, 2009
 
Belleville, Bloomfield and Newark Get Bluffed Again
Quadruple-Dipping Backbencher Caputo Can’t Secure Energy Block Grant For His Entire District
 
Belleville-Urban Republican Assembly candidate Andrew Bloschak is pleased that federal money is flowing back to New Jersey to improve energy efficiency, but the electrician and autoworker who is looking to represent working families in Essex County wondered why dual-officeholder Ralph Caputo could not ensure some of this funding for his entire district. (According to a press release on PolitickerNJ, US Senator Robert Menendez has secured funding for energy efficiency improvements in towns throughout New Jersey, but the in the 28th District only Irvington received a grant.)
            “Ralph Caputo is quoted in a video from 2007 saying how he wants to ‘represent the entire district’, yet it always seems only one town, if any, gets the benefits of the funding whenever money is allocated. I am glad Irvington did receive funding but the other three towns need it in order to revive their local economies as well.  Our Assemblyman does not care about energy efficiency, he does not care about getting the most out of our tax dollars and he does not care about working families in our district, and the lack of money for Belleville, Bloomfield and Newark in this program proves it.” Bloschak said.
            Bloschak proposed an alternative vision from how the Democrats are approaching the funding they are giving. “While I applaud any step toward energy efficiency that we can make, I believe a more effective program would be to give tax credits and grants to individuals and businesses to make their facilities more sustainable. It’s time our government realizes that people, not bureaucracies, make the changes that benefit society most. Ralph Caputo and the Democrats do not understand that, but I do,” Bloschak concluded.

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