Adler got money from account GOP calls a 'slush fund'
By Wally EdgeJohn Adler's campaign seems to be avoiding what appears to be a simple question: did the Democratic State Senator from Camden County ever direct any funds from the controversial Property Tax Assistance and Community Development grant program? That's no surprise, since sources with knowledge of the budget process say that Adler had three pieces of that pie -- including one to Cherry Hill.
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Wally, your last sentence is incomplete..what about stender?
Henceforth Adler shall now be known as John "Slush Fund" Adler.
It's not shocking at all that a Camden Norcross Dem got slush fund money though. The real question is who else and if any Rpeublicans got this too.
With a Stender tag
and no commentary, is Wally in the bag for Lance?
Codey Lying
Codey told Bergen Record secretive grant program existed before he came to Trenton. That is a lie. The slush fund manner of giving out dollars in a backroom instead of open line items in a publicly debated budget was created by McGreevey and Codey. That foul way of giving out taxpayer money is why Bryant and Coniglio have been indicted. $128 million was given out this way over two years and so far we know $12 million was controlled by Codey and $8 million was controlled by two other senators. Who controlled the other $108 million? Start answering Codey. You owe a full explanation.
We're talking slush fund?
Same old trouble with the R's in NJ. Their message always gets lost in a numbers game. How many corrupt Pols are there in NJ? At last count, at least 130; does anyone remember them all?
It’s time they to paint Adler as the ultra-liberal pussycat that he is. The following text should be read over images of terrorist attacks from around the world and headlines of the Ft. Dix Five.
“Adler led the fight to make sure that cop-killers and violent pedophiles that kill children will never face ultimate justice in NJ. Now Adler wants to take that ideology to Washington to make sure that terrorists who kill civilians and military personnel won’t be executed for their crimes against the U.S. – prosecutor’s could not even seek the death penalty for Osama Bin Laden for killing thousand of innocent people in the cowardly attacks of 9-11 and other terrorist bombing around the world!”
In the last three weeks running up to the election, such an ad would be running while the Ft. Dix Five trial gets underway. Paint him as a terrorist sympathizer.
Adler would use the same reasoning for his position as he did when it was passed; The State Supreme Court just won’t enforce the law so why waste the money. “Well John, you were the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - one of two people - the Gov be the other - who could have done something about the activist court.” Adler made one of three choices; A) - When faced with a choice of fighting the good fight or taking the easy way out, John chose the easy way out; B) As a lawyer, Adler chose for selfish professional reasons not to make the Judges mad; or C) The real reason, Adler is an radical ultra-liberal just like Obama, with his connections to radicals, extremist and, in fact, even a terrorist.
In the third Dictrict - this would be point, set, match.