Caroline Casagrande

Republicans in the 12th district said they tried to get Democratic Assemblyman Michael Panter and his running mate Amy Mallett to sit down in the studios of News 12 New Jersey for a debate Tuesday. 

It's not going to happen.

"We have a scheduling conflict," confirmed Democratic campaign spokesperson Tali Israeli.

Republicans Declan O'Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande wanted some nose-to-nose time with Panter and Mallett on air following a scheduled taping of Karcher v. Beck.

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Red Bank, NJ- The Beck for Senate and O’Scanlon and Casagrande for Assembly campaign released the following clarification regarding a story in today’s Asbury Park Press in which Assemblyman Michael Panter claimed they were “grossly misleading the residents they want to  represent”:

12th District Republican legislative candidates Jennifer Beck, Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande, speaking today in front of the Covered Bridge adult community in Manalapan, asked their opponents, Ellen Karcher and Mike Panter, to correct blatantly false statements made by Panter in a Septemer 18, 2007 Asbury Park Press article in which Panter claimed he and Karcher “have opposed every tax increase”. 

12th District Republican legislative candidates Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande today criticized Mike Panter for admitting in a recent news release that this year’s fortuitously timed tax rebate checks were unsustainable past this year, after twice calling them sustainable in an impassioned plea for the bill which enacted the cuts on January 29th 2007.

12th District Republican Legislative candidates Jennifer Beck, Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande expressed amazement today at the claim of Assemblyman Mike Panter that he and his running mate, Ellen Karcher “have opposed every tax increase”, saying the Democrat incumbents have supported numerous tax increases, and voted for pork laden budgets which increased spending and brought little state aid home to 12th District schools, causing property taxes to rise.

12th District Republican Legislative candidates Jennifer Beck, Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande today called on Senate President Richard Codey to demand the resignations of indicted Senators Sharpe James and Wayne Bryant, saying their presence in office while under indictment for corruption called into question the Trenton Democrats supposed commitment to ethics reform.