Michael Donohue

(VINELAND, October 25) – First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Mike Donohue today called on New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram immediately to investigate a series of suspect campaign finance transactions funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Camden County Democratic Committee through the Cape May County Democratic Committee to the election fund of Democrats Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano in clear violation of several New Jersey campaign finance laws.

Anne Milgram is going to be busy in the first district.

Just before state Senator Nicholas Asselta and his Assembly running mates were scheduled to hold a press conference asking the Attorney General to investigate Democratic wheeling of campaign funds in the first district in 2005, Assembly Speaker Pro-Tempore Wilfredo Caraballo called on Milgram to investigate whether first district Republicans transferred money between their own campaign accounts to circumvent contribution limits.

The Republicans seized on a Tuesday investigative report from the Press of Atlantic City that showed the Camden County Democratic Committee circumventing campaign contribution caps two years ago by donating $400,000 to the Cape May Democratic Organization, which then went directly to an ad blitz in the Philadelphia television market on behalf of the Assembly campaigns of Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano.

(OCEAN CITY, October 23) – First District Republican Assembly candidates Norris Clark and Mike Donohue today slammed their Democratic opponent, Nelson Albano, for statements Albano made at last night’s League of Women Voters debate, in which Albano declared his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants.

(VINELAND, October 12) – First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue today echoed Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce’s request for a full investigation by the New Jersey Attorney General into potential violations of New Jersey law and the privacy rights of First District constituents who responded to a campaign mail piece sent out by the Democratic State Committee on behalf of Assemblymen Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano.

(VINELAND, October 11) - First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue today called on their opponents to explain why a political campaign mailer, featuring candidate Matt Milam (who is not currently a member of the legislature), directed responses to their taxpayer funded district office.

(VINELAND, October 11) – Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue – responding to a report by Rutgers University documenting massive population outflows since Democrats took control in Trenton in 2002 – today reiterated their call for fiscal discipline in state government, and took their Democratic opponents to task for voting for the higher spending and taxes that are forcing New Jerseyans to flee the state.

(VINELAND, October 8) -- First District Republican Assembly candidates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue -- responding to comments by Democratic Assemblyman Nelson Albano and his running mate Matt Milam in Saturday’s Press of Atlantic City, in which Albano and Milam denied responsibility for false and misleading charges made in campaign advertising against Clark and Donohue, saying that they haven’t seen or approved advertising produced by the New Jersey Democratic State Committee on their behalf -- today said that if their Democratic opponents are letting the party bosses control them in this campaign, there is no question who will be controlling their votes in Trenton.

(OCEAN CITY, September 14) – First District Republican Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue, will host a Tribute to First District Firefighters to thank them for their hard work and dedication to public safety.  This event is held in conjunction with the Annual New Jersey Fire Expo in Wildwood, NJ.  This event will be free and open to the public.

(OCEAN VIEW SERVICE AREA, Garden State Parkway, September 5) -- Senate Republican Leader Leonard Lance, Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce, Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue -- addressing the media at a press conference at the Ocean View service area off the Garden State Parkway -- today declared the clear difference between Republicans and Democrats over the increasingly critical issue posed by the Democrats’ plan to monetize New Jersey’s toll roads: the Republican leaders vowed to kill the scheme by refusing to post the enabling legislation for a vote, should New Jersey’s voters return Republicans to majority control of either the Senate or the Assembly.

The first district Republicans have seized on a new report from a Wall Street lawyer that says monetization could increase tolls by 150 percent.

The analysis by New York-based attorney Peter Humphreys, reported by the Associated Press this morning, said that issuing bonds to bring about a cash infusion would increase tolls in the long run. Although the details of the plan have not been made public by Gov. Corzine, Humphreys said that the average commuter on the Turnpike could wind up paying $2,400 a year in tolls.