Adler and Myers go head-to-head in 3rd District debate
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
MOUNT HOLLY - The debate is underway here in the 3rd Congressional District between Medford Mayor Chris Myers and state Sen. John Adler (D-Camden), and military issues and the economy dominate the dialogue early in the auditorium of Rancocas Valley Regional High School.
No surprise, given this district, which is home to Fort Dix, and given the hosts of this debate - Veterans for Education, a group of military veterans who attend Rutgers-Camden.
Myers, a Republican, and Adler, his Democratic counterpart, are vying to replace veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton (R-Burlington), who is retiring at the end of this term.
Taking the first question, Adler says he would be able to better represent veterans returning from the warzone of Iraq and Afghanistan because of his background. His father died when he was young. He knows how to listen.
Myers, a combat veteran, says he can relate to the troops. He's created jobs as an executive at Lockheed Martin. Adler, he points out, never sponsored any veteran-benefiting legislation until he decided to run for Congress.
The crowd applauds Myers.
Adler, in the next question, goes after Bush.
"We all know the Bush administration has not implemented exisitng programs that aren't being funded for our brave men and women in uniform," says Adler.
The applause is just as loud on the other side.
Myers stays on Adler's state voting record, trying to depict his opponent as a tax and spend Trenton insider.
"Our mantras in New Jersey are mandate and tax," says Myers. "We're ranked 49th in business friendly. ...The senator hasn't walked the walk in New Jersey. How do we expect him to walk the walk in New Jersey?"
Adler punches back.
"He's never cut a tax in his life," he says. "You've raised taxes year after year after year."
Gaining another applause line, Adler acts like Myers feigns astonishment that Myers would bash New Jersey by suggesting that the economic climate here is dire.
"Thousands of people are moving here and want to live here," says Adler.
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Adler has his numbers wrong
10's of thousands moving out of NJ!
About 150 Obama campaigners moving here but dont want to live here and will leave after november. ( :
Oh Brother!
Adler knows how to listen? What an assinine comment.
I am sure he listens to his party boesses really well.
Myers will and has won over the vets. Adler for the first time in his pitiful career FINALLY went up to Fort Fix - how disgraceful he is now pandering to the vets and our brave men and women.
There you go again...
There you go again pablos. Because you know all every time John Adler has been to Ft. Dix.
Yes, being a good listener is a good characteristic of being a good elected official. Because hey you work for the people. Myers doesn't listen, because if he did he'd know that the people in the 3rd district don't believe that "the economy is basically strong." Maybe he should start listening instead of towing the Bush-McCain bull that the economy is strong.
pablos...
Myers hasn't even won the VFW's endorsement.
Poor Jersey Fresh
Once again your desperate come back shows ignorance. I feel sorry for you, but yes I will repeat for your remedial self.
Yes, this is the first time this year that Adler has been to Dix and taken the time to actually observe the whole base and what it does. But why should anyone believe you when they can believe others who actually spend time on the base like Sam Podeitz?
Dosent matter, Adler is a joke anyways and the more the truth comes out about him being the tax and spend pol trenton boy he is, the more people will not support him.
Oh and by the way - get a grip, Bush is not running again!
Neither has Adler
lolol you guys are funny; getting nervous?
Nervousness
I think Myers, the veteran, should be worried that the only veterans group that endorses candidates has failed to endorse him.
You know one guy
I can't count the number of times you mention Sam Podeitz. One guy in a sea of thousand of veterans in this district who are constantly at Ft. Dix, which include the other majority of members of Podeitz's vet post that serve on John Adler's vet committee. Seriously man, you gotta drop this, you're arguments are terrible.
I'm sure the men in and women in Iraq really appreciate the Myers stance. Hey just go make it look like we've won. You're a joke pablos, you and your candidate.
Ok
Jersey Fresh, prove me wrong, you are braying that I am wrong and that you have information that Adler has been at Dix many many times, then please tell me and this forum when he was there? What did he do? How many times?
Go ahead, the floor is yours. I mean heck, you seem to know everythng - you seem to know it all, so go ahead, I am waiting for the entertainment
He doesn't have to
You never told us how in the first place you know Adler's been there once.
Ummm Andy
scroll up, I did ! lololol
But I backed it up hearing a vet say it publically, when and where does Jersey Fresh have his/her info?
Why, are you another know it all too? Or a Johnny jump thru hoops like Adler?
Sam Podeitz?!
No, I meant an actual reason. With all due respect to Mr. Podeitz, he has no idea how Mr. Adler spends his time.
Andy
I believe what he says over jump thru hoops johnny. Can you prove otherwise?
Let me explain
I'm not casting aspersions on Mr. Podeitz unlike you with Sen. Adler. I'm merely questioning how Mr. Podeitz could know something like Sen. Adler never being to Fort Dix in his 16 years as a member of the NJ State Senate. If someone with no personal connection to Sen. Adler tells me something definite like that, I don't know that I would have reason without evidence to assume that to be true.
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