Joe Wilkins

Amodeo & Polistina To Campaign With Assemblyman Jon Bramnick In Margate

         (Atlantic County, NJ) Republican Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick of Union County, a leader in the effort to reform government and save taxpayers’ money, will campaign with the Second District Republican Assembly candidates on Sunday in Margate.

McCULLOUGH, AMODEO AND POLISTINA OUTRAGED BY WHALEN’S APPARENT ABUSE OF STATE RESOURCES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES 

(Atlantic County, NJ) Republican 2nd District legislative candidates Senator Sonny McCullough, Vince Polistina and John Amodeo today expressed their outrage that Assemblyman Jim Whalen apparently used his district office as a clearinghouse for responses to campaign mail pieces featuring his non-incumbent running-mates.

Amodeo to Spellman: Explain Your History of NOT Paying Property Taxes

          (Atlantic County, NJ) John Amodeo, Republican candidate for Assembly from Atlantic County, today challenged his opponent, Democrat Blondell Spellman, to explain her failure to pay her local property taxes on three different occasions leading to tax liens being filed against her.

The District 2 Democratic Assembly candidates today challenged their Republican opponents to a minimum of five debates before Election Day.

Joe Wilkins and Blondell Spellman proposed 45 minute, one-on-one debates in front of an audience of voters, with questions posed by moderators, the audience, and the candidates themselves. They said the forums must be hosted by a non-biased, independent organization or media outlet, suggesting as possibilities the Press of Atlantic City, the League of Women Voters, Richard Stockton State College, New Jersey Network, or Pinky's Corner.

2nd District Assembly Candidate Vince Polistina: "Whelan and Wilkins Should Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is"

           (Atlantic County, NJ) -Vince Polistina, Republican candidate for Assembly from Atlantic County, today called on his opponent to pro rate his salary as an Assistant commissioner of Labor and return that portion he received when the state forced the shutdown of the casino industry and threw some 45,000 people out of work last year. 

Atlantic County Republican chairman Keith A. Davis today accused the county Democrat party leadership and its candidates of “remarkable insensitivity if not outright hypocrisy” in ignoring a labor union picket line established at a Linwood office complex in which the Democrat headquarters are located.

The presence of labor leader Joe Wilkins on the District 2 Democratic ticket prompted Team Whelan to march out of their huddle at party headquarters in Linwood Friday with an eye-of-the-tiger demeanor not lost on some of the charged-up labor reps in the room.

But over in Egg Harbor Township, engineer Vince Polistina was hardly impressed with news about the candidacy of a former assistant commissioner of labor who resigned his post last week to run for the Assembly. Polistina, a Republican candidate for the Assembly in District 2, said, "We need new faces in Trenton. We keep sending the same old people back there. We’re one of two states in the nation that are in the red. We need to put controls on spending and rein in the culture of corruption in Trenton."

The Democrats in District 2 beefed up their union cred today with the addition of labor leader Joe Wilkins, a move that can’t help but have nose-to-nose implications when considering that one of the men lining up on the other side of the grid is a rank-and-file crane operator turned lead engineer, former Linwood City Councilman John Amodeo.

A man who began his union career in 1956 as an apprentice with the plumbers and steamfitters local 121, Wilkins of Galloway Township joined the ticket as a replacement candidate today in a packed room at party headquarters in Linwood and vowed to help make life here more affordable for working families - which is just what Amodeo says he wants to do, incidentally.

DEMOCRATS AND LABOR LEADERS JOIN FORCES TO ENDORSE JOE WILKINS FOR