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Gloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey renews call for Lee Lucas to drop out of Assembly race
By Gloucester County Republican Executive CommitteeGloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey
renews call for Lee Lucas to drop out of Assembly race
Gloucester County Republican Executive Committee will not support Lucas candidacy.
Woodbury, NJ (July 9, 2009) - Gloucester County Republican Executive Committee (GCREC) Chairman Bill Fey called on Third District Assembly candidate Lee Lucas to drop out of the race again today.
Chairman Fey pointed out in a June 20, 2009 letter to the editor of The Gloucester County Times that members of his leadership team called on Lee Lucas to get out of the Assembly race three times prior to the Primary Election. One of these letters asked that former GCREC Chairwoman Loran Oglesby renounce Lucas and that she withdraw her endorsement of his candidacy, she refused and sent a letter to the editor asking voters to support Lucas. Another letter denounced Lucas and Oglesby, but Lucas remains on the ballot.
"Our leadership team has called on Lucas to drop out of the race, I have met with him and explained that the Gloucester County Republican Executive Committee will not support his candidacy and asked him to drop out of the race," Chairman Fey said. "His insensitive remarks about the poor and single mothers will not be tolerated by our Party and I am again asking that Mr. Lucas drop out of the race immediately before he causes any more embarrassment to himself, his family and our county."
"I do understand it is an unusual step to ask a member of your own party to drop out of a race but Mr. Lucas presents an unusual set of circumstances," Fey continued. "His shameful statements were enough for our entire leadership team to call on Lucas to drop out of this race. Additional information has recently been brought to my attention that makes it impossible for us to support Mr. Lucas being anywhere on the ballot under any party's banner."
"I hope the Gloucester County Democratic Party might put politics aside for a moment and join us in our effort to save Gloucester County further embarrassment and call for Mr. Lucas to get out of this race," Fey said.
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