Senator Gerald Cardinale, a Republican on the State House Commission, said that Governor Corzine has opened the door to corruption with his plan to sell the Camden State Prison property under a no-bid contract.

TRENTON – Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) today asked the state Treasurer’s office for additional information regarding the closing and proposed demolition of Riverfront State Prison in Camden.

Riverfront, a medium-security facility that was opened in 1985, is the state’s third-newest prison. Scutari questioned the wisdom of closing the facility and demolishing it to make way for development along the Camden waterfront.

Senators Steven Oroho and Marcia Karrow, Republican members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, expressed dismay that Governor Jon Corzine's Local Finance Board decided to award $5 million to Jersey City this morning under the "Special Municipal Aid" program.

With today’s decision by the Local Finance Board to grant special municipal aid assistance to Bridgeton, Camden, and Paterson, Assemblymen John Amodeo and Vincent Polistina, both R-Atlantic, said that it defies logic how cities that are unable to run themselves continue to receive bailouts from the state, while those that are run efficiently are told to tighten their purse strings and do without.  Unlike state employees and many who work in municipalities throughout New Jersey who will be facing furloughs, no such requirement was placed on the three cities.

Glading to Tour City of Camden
With Influential Latino Group

Congressional candidate reaching out
across lines to build a coalition for change

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey's 1st District, will be touring the city of Camden with an influential Latino group, the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ. Led by Angel Cordero, Glading and several community leaders from Camden will walk a section of Camden on Thursday, August 21.

"We are going to see first hand what 40 years of one-party Democrat rule has done to the city of Camden," Glading said. "For far too long, the Democrats have taken Camden and its residents for granted. As a result, this once proud city is now America's poorest and third most dangerous community. If there is one place in New Jersey most in need of positive change, it is Camden."

Glading's background as the founder of the nation's largest athletic prison ministry gives him a special insight into the difficulties of urban life, as the vast majority of the individuals he ministers to in prisons across America are young, minority men from the inner city.

"I have dedicated the past 21 years of my life to restoring people who have made poor choices to their God, to their families, and to their communities," Glading said. "We have to work harder to give people in places like Camden better educational and economic opportunities so they can be productive members of society, not turn to a life of crime."

"I will never take the city of Camden for granted nor ignore its citizens' cries for help," Glading concluded. "After all, my mother grew up in Fairview and my father in Cramer Hill. I am coming to Camden to meet its residents, to listen to their concerns, and to offer my help. Some say that a Republican can't go into Camden and connect with the people there, but I aim to prove them wrong."

Members of the media are invited to join Glading and community activists as they walk through the city. For more information, please contact Tim Saler at (856) 361-8989. A media advisory will be released on Wednesday with a specific time and starting location.

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Paid for by Dale Glading for Congress.

Lautenberg, Menendez Announce $1.2 Million to Clean Up Sites in Newark, Jersey City and Camden

Bill Clinton and Bob Menendez in 2006. Hillary Clinton's National Finance Co-Chairman thinks Menendez should run for VP
Former President Bill Clinton will appear in South Jersey tomorrow to campaign for his wife.

Clinton will attend a rally at the Papiano Gymnasium at Camden County College in Blackwood. The rally is scheduled from 10:15am to 12:15pm

The campaign stop comes less than a week Hillary Clinton attended two rallies and a fundraiser in northern New Jersey last week, and two and a half months after Bill Clinton headlined a fundraiser in New Brunswick.

When the sponsors of "clean elections" made their pitch to the Legislature, they averred that same would drive the polluting influence of "special interest" influence from campaigns.  Having now completed two "clean elections" cycles, the results prove the system to be a costly failure meriting its expeditious consignment to the ash heap of history.

MCCULLOUGH FOR SENATE

POLISTINA AND AMODEO FOR ASSEMBLY

McCullough,Amodeo,& Polistina: Indicted Bryant Safe from Whelan's Resignation Demands 

           (Atlantic County, NJ) When Assemblyman Jim Whelan was mayor of Atlantic City, his Administration awarded more than $400,000 in no-bid contracts to the Camden law firm of State Sen. Wayne Bryant, “a plausible explanation for why Whelan has failed to call for the indicted Sen. Bryant to resign from the Senate,” the Atlantic County Republican legislative team said today.

MAYER URGES NJ COMMUTERS TO VOICE CONCERNS AT RUTGERS-CAMDEN HEARING ON NJ TRANSIT FARE HIKES

(GLOUCESTER) - Assemblyman David R. Mayer today urged bus and rail riders in the greater Camden and Gloucester areas to let themselves be heard at a February 28 public hearing New Jersey Transit has scheduled at Rutgers-Camden to field commuter reaction to the agency's proposed 10 percent fare hike.