4th District Assembly Candidates Lawrence and DiCicco
Call on Democrats to Stand Up for Taxpayers
and Oppose Corzine's Budget

Lawrence and DiCicco say budget full of one-shot gimmicks
and unacceptable cuts in property tax relief

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP -- Eugene Lawrence and Domenick DiCicco, candidates for the General Assembly in the 4th Legislative District, called on Democrats to oppose Governor Corzine's $28.6 billion budget.

"Jon Corzine's budget is an embarrassment to New Jersey and is nothing more than a shell game, trying to fool the public in an election year," said DiCicco, a resident of Franklin Township. "To present a budget that guts property tax rebates for nearly all New Jerseyans, after pledging to expand those very same rebates, represents the absolute worst kind of politics. New Jersey deserves better than representatives who promise one thing during campaign season and then do the opposite once they are elected."

"Voters must ask themselves if they really want four more years of this nonsense from the Governor and an Assembly that supports him," DiCicco added.

The Corzine budget also raises taxes on some consumer goods as well as an income tax hike on New Jerseyans who are already paying some of the highest taxes anywhere in the United States.

"This budget hurts regular people," added Lawrence, a resident of Gloucester Township and a former Democratic councilman. "Under Jon Corzine, the average property tax bill in Gloucester Township has gone up almost 9 percent. In Washington Township, taxes are up almost 20 percent, and in Franklin Township, taxes are up almost 27 percent. Regular people are being taxed straight out of New Jersey, and this budget is just more of the same."

Corzine's budget represents no fundamental change from previous budgets, relying on ineffective, one-shot gimmicks to try to fill massive budget holes left by poor fiscal management and repressive taxation.

"Voters need to decide whether they want more of the same or if they want real change," Lawrence said. "We represent real change."

"High taxes and out of control spending are what got us into this mess," DiCicco concluded. "More high taxes and more out of control spending are not going to get us out of it. What New Jersey needs is fiscal responsibility in Trenton, and South Jersey deserves Assemblymen in Trenton who will do the right thing and vote against bloated budgets like this one."

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