For Immediate ReleaseContact Steve M oran (609) 618-1752Steve_lbi@yahoo.comhttp://visotckyrueassembly.com  Ocean County Republicans Snub Election Debate InvitationLD9 GOP Candidates Have No Response to Face Off With Visotcky and Rue An invitation to hold a live radio debate on the issues between Democratic and Republican office seekers in Ocean County later this month has been withdrawn after the county’s GOP leadership failed to respond, even after promising to do so last week.  In an e-mail message to Ocean County Democratic Headquarters on Monday, Tom Mongelli, Shore News Bureau Chief of Millennium Radio New Jersey said that due to a “lack of response from the Ocean County Republican Party” he was withdrawing the invitation to host the live debates on radio station WOBM, which broadcasts in AM and FM throughout the Ocean County area.   The invitation was accepted by the Ocean County Democratic Party last week on behalf of all office seekers at the state and county level, including 9th District Assembly candidates Richard Visotcky and Robert Rue, who are running against the GOP incumbent, Brian Rumpf and Diane Gove, who replaced former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt after he resigned in July following his arrest on Federal bribery charges. “Is this kind of behavior people should accept from their elected leaders, first corruption and then to be ignored?” said Visotcky and Rue in a joint statement.  Mongelli also said in the e-mail message that last Friday morning GOP leaders had assured him by phone “that I would have an answer that day,” even though the deadline to respond had passed the day before. “However, here is it Monday morning, four days past deadline, and I've been given no indication.” the e-mail message went on to state. Visotcky and Rue said they were looking forward to the debate and had been preparing by fine tuning their already stated policies on the economy, job creation through green energy projects, the growth of tourism and added support and protection for seniors and veterans, among other priorities, which they have posted to their Web site and extolled in an extensive door-to-door campaign covering the 9th District. The Democratic pair also said that this is “business as usual for the Ocean County Republican machine, and apparently they feel that that business is none of the voters.”  “We have yet to hear anything from our Republican opponents on any important issues. All we’ve heard from them is “NO.” No to the tax amnesty that saved many of the homestead rebates by generating $700 million dollars for property tax relief; no to the stimulus dollars that are saving and creating middle class jobs, and paying in part for the needed repairs to the LBI Causeway and other infrastructure projects, and now we get no response to a chance to openly debate the issues on the air.”  Visotcky and Rue added that these are all good indications of how their opponents might carry on in the Assembly by “failing to respond or backing away from issues that are important to the 9th District's constituents.”