GOP candidate slams Holt for backing ACORN funding
By EditorFair Haven Mayor Michael Halfacre bashed U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-Hopewell) for being one of 75 Congressmen to continue support of federal funding for ACORN after staffers for the community organizing group were caught on camera coaching individuals posing as a prostitute and her pimp on how to evade taxes and hide cash.
Halfacre is seeking the Republican nomination to run against Holt next year.
"One again, Rush Holt has shown how out of touch he is with the people of the 12th Congressional District and that his attempts to portray himself as a moderate are just that- a portrayal", said Halfacre. "He was to the left of even his own party on cap and trade; he is to the left of his own party on healthcare reform and now, when 70% of his own party voted against giving any more funding to this controversial group, once again, Rush Holt stood with the far left of his party to continue funding them with taxpayer money. We seem to have a representative who thinks he represents San Francisco and not central New Jersey."
Holt was one of five New Jersey Democrats to vote against the resolution to withdraw federal funding to ACORN. U.S. Reps. John Adler (D-Cherry Hill), Rob Andrews (D-Haddon Heights) and Steven Rothman (D-Fair Lawn) voted with the Republicans.
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Halfacre is a hypocrite
He should be applauding ACORN for promoting Republican values of free enterprise and tax cuts.
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FanovFlorio,
So was that why Holt voted to continue the funding for them? His devotion to Republican values?
Rush Holt is going to need ACORN, or whatever box-O-ballots organization that may rise from the ashes to replace them, in order to get past the next election after that stupid vote!
Hard to imagine what could help him after siding with them! They're toxic. And they should be.
He'll likely get a primary challenge for that one!
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