October 14, 2009 - 11:09am
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Smoke em' if you got em'

For Release:         Immediate                               

Contact:  Benjamin Feldman
Date:    October 14th, 2009                              

Tel:908-447-2628

HACKENSACK – They say you can tell a lot about a man by what he does for a living. If that’s the case then what does Driscoll’s job as a
salesman for Lorillard Tobacco say about him? Lorillard, a Greensboro, NC based company that is presently the 3rd largest tobacco manufacturer in the US, has joined with RJ Reynolds tobacco in suing the Obama Administration and the federal government for granting the Food and Drug Administration oversight over tobacco.

“We all need to make a living but there must be moral limits to what we’re willing to do for a dollar,” said Freeholder Julie O’Brien.
“Selling the very products which claim the lives of more than 435,000 Americans every year is more than I could stomach.”

In their suit, the manufacturers claim that the restrictions placed
upon the companies’ ability to hock their cancer-causing products to
the public violate their “First Amendment protections for free
speech...” The companies go beyond the pale however with their
assertion that the limitations on their notoriously deceptive
advertising practices limits “their ability to disseminate truthful
information about tobacco products…”

“As a member of the clergy I have seen first hand the ill effects
tobacco use has had on the health of my parishioners,” said Freeholder Vernon Walton, who is also a Senior Clergyman. “The products John Driscoll sells have left a legacy of pain in our community. I believe he has a duty to acknowledge that to voters before he asks for their trust.”

DEMOCRATIC COMM... can be reached via email at bergendemocrats@gmail.com.

Comments

This is disgusting and insensitive


Jobs are hard to find right now and the Ferrierocrats are bashing Mr. Driscoll for trying to make a living! Unbelievable!

10/14/09 12:23 pm

Ms O Brien


is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Dont blame her, blame the Ferriero wanna bees who are running a desperate campaign

10/14/09 1:04 pm

obrien


and " Lynn the whorewitz" perfect together
Both will reap what they sow

10/14/09 1:13 pm

No Wonder Our County is Broke


Julnes n Vern, and poor misguided Ben Feldman too, you must really be seeing the writing on the wall with regards to your politcal futures. Attacking a man for making a living by selling a perfectly legal product is beyond reproach by any standards. Have you no shame? Well, the answer to that question has been evident in your dismal record of taxing and spending our county into the ground. The only smoke I have a problem with in this election is the type you two keep blowing up the rears of the voters of Bergen. It is time for change.

10/14/09 1:31 pm

Public servants


when public servants in the USA do not understand the concepts of Freedom of legal employment, they should stick to their day job ie " DOMESTIC SERVANTS"

10/14/09 3:14 pm

This is why the Democrats must and will go


at the County level. Mr. Driscoll is a good man one who works hard to feed his family. He sells a legal a product and the government loves that he sells them too. If they did not like the revenue so much they would ban them. They wont't do that though because they love to raise taxes on them just to collect more money for them to spend. As a church going person I have seen families too who can no longer afford their homes due to the increases in taxes from our County government. How come that has yet to offend Ms. O'Brien and Mr. Walton. I guess it is not so offensive when your the ones passing the bills. What a disgrace this Freeholder Board has become. Going to be nice to see some new faces on that Board.

As for the other comments being made about Ms. O'Brien I do not believe anyone should be making the types of comments that are coming from Humble or Garfield. Why go to the gutter where the Dems are coming from? They are desperate. Driscoll and Hermansen have them seeing something they have not seen in a very long time a loss at the Freeholder county level. Keep your heads high Republicans, 20 days and counting. There will be more of this not less over the next 20 days. Time for the Republicans to work that much harder to get these people out of Hackensack. Tick, Tick, Tick goes the clock.

10/14/09 4:27 pm