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VOTE FOR WOJCIECH SIEMASZKIEWICZ FOR ASSEMBLY IN DISTRICT 37 ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2009

Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz
Republican candidate for Assembly in District 37

District 37 includes: Bergenfield, Bogota, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Hackensack, Leonia, Maywood, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park, Rochelle Park, Teaneck and Tenafly.

No Central Jersey legislative district screams out more loudly for a change in representation than the 17th.

Democratic incumbents Upendra Chivukula and Joseph Egan have been holding down their Assembly posts together since 2002. Both have worked their way into leadership positions of a sort — Chivukula as deputy speaker, Egan as deputy majority leader — and yet have made little mark that would resonate with the public. Egan remains a dual officeholder as he continues to serve as a New Brunswick city councilman, and has never acknowledged any potential conflicts of interest. Chivukula himself held onto a second seat as a Franklin councilman for a time before bowing to public backlash.

Chivukula’s attention to the possibilities of technological advances benefiting the state is laudable, and he’s had some minor legislative successes. We can credit Egan for at least tossing out some more radical ideas, including an overhaul of school funding that would tie it to the income tax, and a mandate for schools to merge into 21 countywide districts.

PolitickerNJ.com – “We strongly believe that school choice is the way out. Many of these ministers have advocated the same thing, and ultimately you’ve seen the damaging impacts of Corzine’s money,” said Barry Funt, a Republican running for assembly in District 27 who has organized a group of mostly Republican Assembly challengers called “Citizens for Assembly.”

Funt was joined by two black Assembly candidates – Herbert Glenn, a Republican running in District 28; and Rev. Clenard Childress, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent who is running in District 34. Districts 28 and 34 are heavily Democratic.

PolitickerNJ.com – In the third district, which has been largely ignored by state Republicans after their preferred candidates were defeated in the GOP primary, two daily newspapers have endorsed Republican challenger Dr. Robert Villare for State Assembly over the newly-elected incumbent, Celeste Riley (D-Bridgeton).

The Gloucester County Times and the Courier-Post today endorsed Villare, a surgeon, over Riley, who won a special election convention earlier this year after Douglas Fisher resigned his Assembly seat to become state Secretary of Agriculture.

Herbert Glenn, a Newark Republican who is running for the State Assembly in the predominately Democratic 28th district, predicts that three Black ministers will gain financially by their endorsements of Gov. Jon Corzine.

“I am deeply concerned to investigate the understanding how religious leaders can compromise their spiritual convictions for their own personal political empowerment,” Glenn said in a statement released today. “This is a typical scenario of the pulpit pimp v. Christian crusader syndrome. Money talks.”

Elisheva Greenberg, Mushky Meer, Liba Weiss and Rina Ahuva Hendrie, 11-year-olds from Morristown, visited the recording studio of Radio 970 The Apple to record the opening of a radio spot to run round the clock on this popular radio talk station. The ad is addressed to voters who seek to take back government on behalf of the people, including the right of parents to raise and educate their children with minimum interference. The children open the ad with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The ad is read by leading school choice advocate former mayor of Jersey City Bret Schundler and asks voters to support the 42 New Jersey Assembly candidates committed to school choice.

Barry Funt, candidate for New Jersey Assembly from District 27, said, “Citizens for Assembly,” comprised of 42 Assembly challengers—one more than an Assembly majority—is committed to school choice. “Free enterprise and competition is precisely what is needed to greatly improve our educational system and reduce costs.

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — In less than a month, Mike and Victoria Malinics, two lifelong Mercer County residents, will move across the river to Pennsylvania to pay half the property taxes on a bigger house.

“We couldn’t sustain the cost of living and provide for (our children)” said Mike Malinics, 37, adding that New Jersey “has become a case of overwhelming taxation without representation.”

Wife Victoria, 34, said she feels state legislators have ignored middle class residents like her and her husband, forcing them to make the difficult decision to move across state lines.

New Jersey continues to have the highest property taxes in the nation, according to a recent analysis by The Tax Foundation. After analyzing census figures, the foundation found the median property tax bill was $6,320, with 7 percent of the state homeowners’ paychecks going toward property taxes.

Voters Demand Change to State Government leadership
For Immediate Release
October 13, 2009 Contact: H. Glenn herbertdglenn @ yahoo.com / 862.755.1444

Newark – Bloodshed has escalated to an alarming level in the urban communities across the nation and New Jersey is no exception to the turmoil. According to records in Essex County Jail,” more than 35% of the inmates held for detention are residents of the 28^th Assembly district,” complained Herbert D. Glenn, Republican candidate for Assembly. “It is horrible what is happening in the jail. It is over-crowded with people being deprived of their civil right to vote. Many are being held on errors made by an antiquated data system. A growing number of the inmates are being detained because they are unable to pay fines imposed for crimes that were resolved in their past. The system is ridiculous.”

Population in the state prison is at maximum capacity with little movement being given to the county jail causing inhumane conditions. Most of the inmates are sleeping on floors in overcrowded cells while waiting to be arraigned or released on bail. Family members waiting to visit are waiting in long lines, often unable to have visits because of disciplinary actions imposed on irate detainees. Immigrant inmates being held at the correctional facility on Doremus Avenue in Newark along with federal prisoners are causing unstable conditions that will continue to occur under the current state leadership.

KOTHARI & PIATKOWSKI CALL ON WISNIEWSKI TO RETURN THE CASH

Woodbridge, NJ- Peter Kothari and Richard Piatkowski, the Republican reform team running in the 19^th Legislative District, today challenged Assemblyman John Wisniewski to reconcile his rhetoric on ethics reform and clean elections with his decision to keep thousands of dollars in tainted contributions from legislators who were found guilty of corruption or resigned in disgrace after being charged with criminal misconduct.

“How someone can boast that he sponsored ethics reform legislation, as watered down as it was, and then keep money from convicted felons reeks of hypocrisy,” said Kothari.

“As one Democratic ally after another was sent to prison for graft and corruption, not once did Wisniewski consider returning any of the thousands of dollars he took from them over the years,” added Piatkowski.

“How can you pretend to be a crusader for clean government and keep dirty money from corrupt politicians?” Piatkowski asked.

According to records on file with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), Wisniewski accepted at least $5,500 from legislators who were subsequently charged and/or found guilty of a criminal wrongdoing.

“Every dime should be returned or given to charity,” said Kothari. “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”

ELEC records show Wisniewski took:

$2,500 from former state Senator Wayne Bryant of Camden County who was sentenced in July to four years in prison following his conviction on corruption charges.

$500 from former, and recently deceased, Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto of Hudson County who was forced to resign, fined $10,000 and placed on five years’ probation after pleading guilty to using campaign funds for income taxes, a daughter’s wedding and sports memorabilia.

$2,000 from New Directions, a political action committee controlled by former state Senator John Lynch of Middlesex County who was released from a federal prison in June and returned to New Jersey to serve the remainder of his corruption sentence in a halfway house. Lynch was sentenced in 2006 to 39 months in prison for kickbacks and mail fraud.

$500 from former Assemblyman Neil Cohen of Union County who was indicted last year for official misconduct, reproduction of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.

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