February 13, 2009 - 2:45pm
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LIBERAL SENATE GOP "BOSS" AIDS CHRISTIE CAMPAIGN WHILE ON TAXPAYERS DIME

-- "Campaigning for Christie or ‘working' for NJ?

LIBERAL SENATE GOP "BOSS"

AIDS CHRISTIE CAMPAIGN

WHILE ON TAXPAYERS DIME

 

ORADELL -- Did State Senate Minority Executive Director Jim Harkness use taxpayers' facilities, taxpayers' equipment, and taxpayers' time to prepare and send a political memo to the Christie for Governor campaign?

 

Harkness, in an email to the Christie campaign, argued that gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan will lose his public financing because he did not disclose his affiliation with Americans for Prosperity, an anti-tax organization.

 

"AFP will not reveal their donors. They are obviously conservatives who like 'convenient" transparency,' wrote Harkness a former Chief Counsel to Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, in a memo to the Christie campaign.  "Lonegan will lose his public money."

 

Harkness is a liberal insider who stifled numerous conservative legislative initiatives during his lengthy tenure working with State Senate Republicans.

 

Before Senator Kean Jr. appointed Harkness to run the Senate's Republican Caucus, Harkness was the lobbyist who worked to end the death penalty in New Jersey.  He even was applauded for his efforts on a website devoted to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu -Jamal.  Need we say more?

 

Here is the link to Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal:

 

http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=202

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