Mike Panter

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”:

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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.

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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.

PANTER: HOMEOWNERS' DREAM OF 20 PERCENT TAX CUTS A REALITY
Assemblyman Urges Support for Constitutional Amendment
To Ensure Sustainability of Relief

(Shrewsbury) – With the mailing today of the first of roughly one million property tax relief checks to Garden State homeowners, Assemblyman Mike Panter said residents now have proof that the promised record-setting amounts of property tax relief have become reality. Read More >

12th District Republican Legislative candidates Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande again today called on their opponents to join their call for the Legislature to convene in a special session to address pending ethics legislation, in light of last weeks arrest of two sitting Assemblymen and the news that State Senator Joseph Coniglio, who is under criminal federal investigation, had dropped  his bid for re-election.

Today's arrests could be the first real test of Assemblyman Michael Panter's legislation (A-20), which requires mandatory prison sentences and pension forfeiture for any public officials convicted of corruption.  Governor Jon "Hold Me Accountable" Corzine signed the bill on March 16th of this year and it took effect on April 15th.  Criminal complaints filed today by the U.S. Attorney could mean that Assemblymen Alfred Steele and Mims Hackett, Passaic Mayor Sammy Rivera, Passaic Councilman Marcellus Jackson, and Keith Reid, the Chief of Staff to the Newark City Council President, would lose their pensions if convicted of bribery.

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Only about 30 senior citizens showed up to meet the Democratic Assembly candidates at the Applewood Estates, an assisted living complex in Freehold. But 30 votes may be enough to decide who wins the election in district 12.

The district, which is dominated by Monmouth County, is one of the most competitive in the state this year, as it was in 2005, when Democrat Mike Panter barely edged out his Republican opponent, Declan O’Scanlon, by 65 votes. While Republican Assembly candidate Jennifer Beck got about 1,000 more votes than anyone else, the three other major party candidates were separated by fewer than 250 votes.

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District 12 Republicans want 12 debates against their Democratic opponents, but they’re not likely to get all of them.

Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck and her running mates Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande sent a letter last week to their Democratic opponents challenging them to debates in 12 different parts of the district. After not receiving a response from their opponents’ campaign, they followed up with another press release today.

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PANTER:  SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKES VOICE OF SPECIAL INTERESTS OVERPOWERING

Reopening 'Issue Ad' Loophole Will Only Harm Public Discourse

(SHREWSBURY) - Assemblyman Mike Panter today warned that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing issue advertising timed to influence elections will adversely affect the way campaigns are run nationwide to the public's detriment.

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