ROTTINO, CARUSO WANT SHOWDOWN WITH RUMANA, RUSSO TONIGHT; Want To Confront Rumana’s Lies

WAYNE NJ, MAY 26, 2009  – District 40 Assembly candidates Anthony Rottino and Joseph Caruso are challenging incumbents Scott Rumana and David Russo to debate TONIGHT,  in front of the Ringwood Republican Club. 

Rumana has been ducking debates with his challengers and on May 13 failed to show up at a meeting of the Bergen County Young Republican Club to face Rottino and Caruso.
 

Rottino and Caruso say they will be waiting tonight for Rumana and Russo and force them to answer  for the lies they have been disseminating in their literature.

Last week a Superior Court Judge took the unprecedented step of forcing Rumana to stop disseminating erroneous campaign material about Rottino and his companies.  The judge issued a temporary restraining order on Rumana and Russo and has scheduled a  hearing on Rumana’s blatantly misleading literature for Thursday.

“I want to meet Scott Rumana face to face and have him make the accusations he’s made against me in print,” said Rottino. 

“Scott Rumana is a desperate politician who will say or do anything to get elected. But it is precisely the desperate politics of deception that must end in New Jersey,” said Rottino.

Caruso said Rumana has mischaracterized himself and his opponents. “Rumana’s campaign literature is almost laughable,” said Caruso. “He continually takes credit for things he didn’t do.  He never opposed the state’s Low Income Housing Mandates and never offered a tax cutting plan."  

Caruso added that Rumana has lied about his opponent’s economic recovery plan. “I doubt Mr. Rumana has ever read our economic plan,  but he should; he could probably learn something about the  way economic recovery is supposed to work. 

“The fact remains, Anthony and I are businessmen who risked capital and created companies and jobs. Scott Rumana is a lawyer who never created a job for anyone except his political cronies.

“I want Mr. Rumana to explain tonight why he gave his campaign manager a $96,000 a year part time job, with a pension and benefits as Wayne’s Township Attorney,”  said Caruso.