McCullough embraces George W. Bush and His Cash

Sonny shows his true colors; sides with Bush over Atlantic County's working families

Democrats challenge McCullough to return tainted campaign cash

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.

Voters Deserve Clarification 

McCullough Tells Two Contradictory Stories on SJTA Job Deal 

Political Strings were pulled to land Sonny McCullough plum job at State Agency; McCullough made key endorsement in return 

"The endorsement came just two weeks after two LoBiondo confidants met with Phil Angarone, a political aide to Gov. Christie Whitman. Sources told The Press that the subject of that meeting was a $63,000-a-year job for McCullough. And Angarone doesn't deny that he called the SJTA in April and recommended McCullough for the job." (AC Press editorial, 7/26/94).

Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman today announced her support of a group of GOP legislative and local candidates who have been endorsed by the Republican Leadership Council. Whitman co-chairs the group with former U.S. Senator John Danforth and former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, and says the RLC will help the candidates with financial contributions and volunteer activity over the next few weeks.

“New Jerseyans are forced to deal with daily reports of corruption and fraud – if ever there was a time that our state needs the core Republican values of fiscal restraint and local control, now is that time,” said Whitman. “These candidates and incumbents are the kinds of leaders New Jersey needs to get our fiscal house back in order.”

Senator Sonny McCullough: Don't Add Insult To Injury In Atlantic City

        (Atlantic County, NJ) “Bringing in officials from state government to manage the municipal affairs of Atlantic City is like rescuing a drowning man by throwing him both ends of the rope,” Republican State Sen. James “Sonny” McCullough said today.

McCullough, Amodeo,& Polistina Propose Four Point Plan To Address Aid Funding, Tax Relief, & Growth Issues

         (Atlantic County, NJ) Atlantic County’s Republican legislative team today unveiled a four-point plan to assure an adequate and fair distribution of state aid to local education, provide property tax relief, and give special attention to the unique needs of the county’s three growth zone communities.

The campaign sign on a run-down bar in the Chelsea section says Bob Levy, candidate for mayor, will make the streets safe and clean.

Now Levy, two years into office, is suddenly underground, and political operators in city government are appealing to Trenton for guidance about who’s in charge.

Democrats in the District 2 legislative race, meanwhile, today proclaimed a 10-9 round in the inevitable Levy fallout war, and Republicans said not so fast.

Rudy Giuliani now has the support of more than half the Republicans in the New Jersey State Senate.  James "Sonny" McCullough yesterday became the tenth Senator to back Giuliani's bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.  McCullough joins Diane Allen, Nicholas Asselta, Martha Bark, Anthony Bucco, Andrew Cisela, Walter Kavanaugh, Thomas Kean, Jr., Robert Martin and Robert Singer.