YUDIN ISSUES STATEMENT ON JIM CARROLL’S ATTACK ON CHRIS CHRISTIE

“The only jobs Jim Carroll has created and is trying to create are the government jobs he created for himself and his family at the BCUA.

Freeholder Carroll has excelled only at using taxpayer money to give big paydays to his political supporters, such as PMK Associates – which so far has been paid $6.7 million for the Overpeck Park boondoggle that is now costing taxpayers more than $70 million and counting. 

If Mr. Carroll is so interested in job creation, perhaps he can explain what happened to the 20,000 jobs that were supposed to be created at Xanadu and the $100 million in yearly sales tax revenue that was supposed to be generated by the mega-mall that Mr. Carroll and the all-Democratic Bergen County Freeholder Board strongly backed.   

So far Xanadu has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and all they have to show for it is an empty building and a taxpayer subsidized train service for an empty mall. 

Mr. Carroll is the same freeholder who has been silent about the EnCap boondoggle in the Meadowlands that is now under federal investigation, because the state refused to investigate the failings of its own project. 

And let’s not forget Mr. Carroll’s record on taxes: In just the past two years he voted to raise county taxes by $45 million.  And when it came time to stand up and fight for Bergen County residents against Gov. Corzine’s economic plans, Freeholder Carroll was silent as Gov. Corzine cut $3.2 million in state aid from Bergen County this year.  

If anyone is looking for reason why taxes are on the increase in Bergen County and why jobs are disappearing it is because of Corzine’s supporters in Bergen County who have raised county taxes and sat silently as Corzine’s administration increased state mandates and decreased state aid."