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Taxes Going Up & People Losing Jobs …Greenstein & DeAngelo At Odds
By Calabro & Harvey for AssemblyTaxes Going Up & People Losing Jobs
...Greenstein & DeAngelo At Odds Over Next Speaker
Career politicians choose sides Dem leadership fight, ignore issues
For Immediate Release Contact: Rick Rosenberg
Hamilton, September 26, 2009 - Just days after refusing to denounce Middlesex County Democrat Chairman Joe Spicuzzo public praise of convicted felon and former Democrat political boss John Lynch, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein is playing politics again, this time ignoring the serious problems facing New Jersey property taxpayers to immerse herself in an intra-party leadership squabble pitting her against her own running mate and half the Democrats in the district she represents, said GOP challengers Rob Calabro and Bill Harvey.
Earlier this week, Greenstein came down with an acute case of political laryngitis when she refused to speak out against her political boss' praise of former Senator John Lynch. Yesterday, she towed the party line again, this time breaking with DeAngelo and Mercer Democrats, who make up half of her legislative district, to back Spicuzzo's horse in the race for Speaker against Mercer County's own Bonnie Watson-Coleman.
"We pay the highest property taxes in the nation and have the worst unemployment in the region, but Linda Greenstein and Wayne DeAngelo are too busy lining up on opposite sides of an intra-party leadership fight to do anything about it," said Calabro.
Harvey called the Dems brewing a benefit to the Republican campaign effort.
"These two political geniuses have fired the first shots in what promises to a nasty political civil war just over a month before Election Day - this is another great day for the Calabro-Harvey campaign," said Harvey. "The feud over who will be the next speaker impresses upon voters that Linda and Wayne are Trenton political insiders who don't really care about the problems people are facing in the real world. The jokes going to be on them when we win on Election Day and their whole ridiculous food fight becomes irrelevant."
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