COLLETTI FOR SENATE

38th District – Bergen County

BOB GORDON, REPLACING  CONIGLIO

 JUST MORE OF THE SAME 

Elmwood Park NJ -- Replacing disgraced state Sen. Joseph Coniglio, who is the target of a federal investigation, with his running mate Assemblyman Bob Gordon is just a political whitewash, says Republican 38th Senate candidate Robert Colletti. 

“This is just the Democrats’ way of perpetuating their big- spending, corrupt machine,” said the GOP candidate.  “As far as I am concerned Bob Gordon is the same as Coniglio. They are both supported by the same political bosses and the same political organizations that have condoned corruption and raised state and county taxes by billions.” 

Colletti, who runs his own construction firm, said Gordon is the “white wash” applied by the Democratic leadership in an attempt to fool voters into thinking they have made a real change and want reform. 

“If you have a decrepit building and you throw a coat of white paint on it, you still have decrepit building. It just looks a little nicer,” said Colletti. “It’s the same with replacing Coniglio with Gordon. Gordon has a nicer smile, but he comes out of the same organization that gave us Coniglio; he has the same liberal voting record as Coniglio and has inflicted the same pain on taxpayer as Coniglio.” 

Colletti noted that Gordon has been subpoenaed in the federal investigation into how Coniglio’s former employer Hackensack University Medical Center, got millions in taxpayer-funded grants.  When Coniglio was named as a target of a federal investigation into the hospital’s grants, some officials called for Coniglio to leave the race. Not Gordon   

“I’d like to know one thing,” said Colletti, “why did Bob Gordon fail to publicly call for Sen. Coniglio to step down after he was named a target in a federal corruption investigation. Where was his outrage? Where was his courage to stand up for the taxpayer? He was MIA.” 

BRING ON THE DEBATES 

Colletti said he looks forward to debating Gordon and said he is sending him a letter today inviting him to take part in a series of debates. “I think Bob Gordon has to come out from hiding and explain what he did to taxpayers when he voted to increase state spending by billions, add or expand 94 new taxes and increased the income tax,” said Colletti, a former Elmwood Park councilman. 

“Bob Gordon also has to explain his phony position on property rights and why Bergen County taxpayers are sending billions of education dollars to Newark, Paterson and Camden and getting so little education aid from Trenton,” added the GOP candidate