Dave Mayer:
Let's Model Gloucester Township
After Cherry Hill

After taxes went up $2 billion under his watch,
Mayer wants to follow Cherry Hill's example,
with their 17% property tax increase this year alone

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP -- Dave Mayer, who worked with Jon Corzine to raise our taxes by nearly $2 billion during his time in Trenton, isn't finished yet. As a candidate for Mayor, Dave Mayer has finally found another town that has the kind of excessive spending and outrageous taxes that he wants to bring to Gloucester Township: Cherry Hill.

Cherry Hill, a town with complete Democrat control of Council and a Democrat Mayor, instituted a 10 percent spending hike and a 17 percent tax increase this year alone!

It's no surprise that Dave Mayer takes his cues from Cherry Hill, with the Norcross machine bankrolling his campaign and forcing him to run in the first place. If Dave Mayer and the Democrats have their way, Gloucester Township will soon see 17% annual tax increases just like their model town, Cherry Hill.

"We have worked hard to make Gloucester Township an affordable place to live," said Councilwoman Shelley Lovett. "Now Dave Mayer and the Democrats want to throw it all away. They want to make Gloucester Township as unaffordable as Cherry Hill. Maybe Dave Mayer -- lawyer, lobbyist, and career politician -- can afford to live in a town with 17 percent tax increases, but the rest of us can't."

"Our team has shown leadership for years, taking on the tough fights to reduce our township's dependence on nonrenewable energy," said former Councilwoman Maureen McLaughlin. "When Mayor Rau-Hatton and Councilman Eugene Lawrence fought to have Gloucester Township take advantage of renewable solar energy, the Norcross machine Democrats blocked them all the way. If the Corzine-Mayer Democrats have to choose between doing the right thing and doing what benefits them politically, they will choose politics over what's best for our town every single time."

Camille Andrews’ Scandalous Spending

Inactive, non-responsive campaign spends
almost $43,000 with no public appearances

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, criticized the placeholder campaign of Camille Andrews and her party boss, George Norcross III, for their big-spending ways.

“Camille Andrews has been invited on numerous occasions to appear with me in a public debate,” Glading said. “She has not had the courtesy to even respond to these invitations, much less appear, and now we find that she is raising nearly twice what the median household in our district earns in a year. This is the very model of what is wrong with politics today.”

Andrews reported raising just over $72,000 in her most recent FEC report, filed for July 15. She spent almost $43,000 of it on consultants and miscellaneous expenditures.

“To our knowledge, Andrews has made no public appearances, and we have not seen a single yard sign or piece of campaign literature bearing her name,” said Tim Saler, Glading’s campaign manager. “She has refused to appear before the voters, and yet somehow she has managed to spend almost as much on consultants – in three months – as the median household in our district earns in an entire year.”

“It’s just another example of how out of touch the machine politicians are,” Saler added. “Camille Andrews and Boss Norcross have spent more in three months on a fake candidate’s fake campaign than most people in the district make in a year. The people of our district are struggling to make ends meet; they can’t afford to write $2,300 checks to win Boss Norcross’ favor.”

“Being a part of the Norcross money machine is nice work, if you can get it,” Saler concluded. “But the rest of us need a Congressman too. That’s why Dale Glading is running, and that’s why he’s going to win.”

Glading Announces Campaign Theme:
The People’s House is Not For Sale

Independent, unbossed congressional candidate
announces three-point pledge

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, announced today his campaign theme for the general election race: “The People’s House is Not For Sale.” A three-point pledge accompanied Glading’s new campaign theme, outlined below.

“For too long, the career politicians and the Norcross machine have been selling the 1st District seat in Congress to the highest bidder,” Glading said. “It’s time to put a stop to pay-to-play politics, where party bosses trade campaign contributions for access to power.”

The three points of Glading’s reform pledge are:

(1) End pay-to-play and quid pro quo politics
It is time to put a stop to the corrupt earmark system in Congress. Career politicians trade federal handouts – in other words, our taxpayer dollars – to big corporations in exchange for huge campaign contributions. Dale Glading pledges not to request any federal earmarks in Congress. We cannot justify allowing career politicians to use our money to sell their office to big corporate donors.

(2) Reform the campaign finance system
The Norcross machine has sold the 1st Congressional District seat to the highest bidder. Financiers who wish to get in the good graces of Boss Norcross write big campaign checks to his candidates in order to win his favor. Dale Glading pledges to support federal campaign spending limits, indexed to inflation, that limit the ability of party bosses and financiers to trade campaign contributions for access to power.

(3) Implement congressional term limits
The Founding Fathers never intended for service in Congress to be a career. New Jersey is represented by a senator who has spent 24 years in Washington, and the 1st Congressional District’s most recent representative has spent 19 years there – and we, the taxpayers, have paid their salaries. Dale Glading pledges to serve no more than six terms (12 years) in Congress.

“I am running for Congress to represent the people of the 1st District, not the party bosses or the big-money financiers,” Glading concluded. “I will never sell out to the big corporations or the special interest lobbyists. It's time the 1st District had a congressman who is unbossed and unbought.”

Boss Norcross Celebrates 100 Days
of Disenfranchising Democrats

Rob Andrews declared for Senate 100 days ago;
Boss Norcross’s machine yet to coronate candidate

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, issued a statement today criticizing George Norcross and his political machine for 100 days of delay, obstruction, and undemocratic conduct.

“It's been 100 days since Rob Andrews declared his intentions to run against Frank Lautenberg for the U.S. Senate,” Glading began. “That’s more than enough time to select a replacement candidate, which is exactly what Democrats were supposed to have done in the primary on June 3.”

“However, Camille Andrews says she takes her marching orders from Boss Norcross and not from the people she supposedly wants to represent,” Glading continued. “That means Democrats have been disenfranchised, and the entire election process has been defrauded.”

“It’s about time that someone reminded the career politicians and their pay-to-play party bosses that the 1st Congressional District doesn't belong to them, it belongs to the people,” Glading added. “I am running to serve the people of the district. My opponent du jour puts her political party above the people and their best interests.”

“Enough is enough,” Glading concluded. “The people of our district deserve to be treated better instead of being taken for granted by arrogant bureaucrats and lifelong politicians.”