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McCullough,Amodeo,& Polistina: Pleasantville Corruption Warrants Re-Examination of Current School Aid Funding

(Atlantic County, NJ) Atlantic County’s Republican legislative team said today the “extensive corruption in the Pleasantville Board of Education should serve as a catalyst for the state to re-examine how it funds local education and whether the so-called Abbott district policy which provides additional funding to certain school districts should be substantially amended.”

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McCullough,Amodeo,& Polistina: Whelan is Savior of Corrupt Pensioners

(Atlantic County, NJ) Republican State Sen. James “Sonny” McCullough today described as “deceitful and hypocritical” the demand by his opponent, Assemblyman Jim Whelan, that the public officials arrested yesterday forfeit their pensions upon conviction since Whelan voted to preserve pension rights for corrupt public officials under certain circumstances.

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McCullough,Amodeo,& Polistina: Culture of Corruption Continues with Whelan's Allies

(Atlantic County, NJ) Atlantic County’s Republican legislative candidates said this past week that the arrest of five current or former board of education members in Pleasantville “reveals the shocking extent of the culture of corruption and betrayal of the public trust which has punished the citizens and taxpayers of the community.”

Jim Whelan's campaign says that the arrests of five current or former Pleasantville Board of Education members today helps his campaign, but GOP State Senator James "Sonny" McCullough disagrees. Among the eleven arrested was Maurice "Pete" Callaway, the brother of jailed ex-Atlantic City Councilman Craig Callaway.

"Whelan’s been fighting these Callaway factions," said Raiyan Syed, spokesman for Whelan, a Democratic Assemblyman and former Atlantic City Mayor who is running for the Senate. "Craig Callaway’s locked up in jail and Jim Whelan’s going to be the next state senator."

McCullough says that the Callaway organization has worked on behalf of Whelan and the local Democratic Party.

Is Shirley Turner really in trouble, or did someone just spin Joe Donohue? In a review of competitive State Senate races for the upcoming mid-term elections, The Star-Ledger listed the 15th district as one of the in-play seats that the GOP needs to win to take control of the Senate.

Republican newcomer Robert Martin is self-financing his race against Turner, and Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance has become infatuated with his candidacy. Martin has done some early mail and cable TV ads, and GOP insiders say he plans to spend a few hundred thousand dollars.

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Democrats are spending money in four districts where they have a reasonable shot at picking up seats: against GOP incumbents Nicholas Asselta in district 1, Sonny McCullough in district 2, and Gerald Cardinale in the 39th; for open seats in District 8 (where Republican-turned-Democrat Assemblyman Francis Bodine faces Burlington County Clerk Philip Haines for the seat being vacated by retiring Senator Martha Bark.

Atlantic County’s Republican legislative candidates today sharply criticized the Democrat Administration and Legislature for “their total failure to provide stable, long term property tax relief while continuing to run up record debt and spending.”

The need to assure the safety of bridges throughout New Jersey and the estimate of the cost of doing so “gives added urgency” to the recommendation by Atlantic County’s Republican legislative candidates that the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority direct a greater share of its revenues to infrastructure projects in the county with special attention paid to bridges and overpasses.