ATLANTIC COUNTY GOP LAUNCHES
COUNTDOWN CLOCK TO BUDGET
DEADLINE
Atlantic County Republican
Chairman Keith Davis
announced today that the
party’s website ---
www.acrepublicans.org
--- has launched a countdown
clock to the deadline for
the Democrat State
Legislature and Governor to
enact a state budget.
“I fear the only way to get
these Democrats to act is to
shame them into it,” Davis
said. “First, the Democrats
said they would have a
spending plan in place by
early June. Then it was by
June 16. Now its June 19.
The date keeps moving
further and further back to
the point where we are
getting dangerously close to
another disastrous
government closure.
“In Atlantic County we
remember all to well when
the Governor Corzine, then
Assemblymen Whelan and Van
Drew and their colleagues in
the legislature failed to
exercise their
constitutional obligation to
enact a state budget on time
in the summer of 2006,”
Davis recalled. “What
happened? 37,000 casino
workers were thrown off the
job and the gaming industry
was shut down in the midst
of Fourth of July weekend.
It was a complete
embarrassment that received
national headlines --- not
the kind of attention we
needed.”
“This was government at its
most incompetent and it may
very well happen again this
year,” said Davis.
“South Jersey’s two Democrat
Senators – Jim Whelan and
Jeff Van Drew – have had two
years since that time to
author and enact into law
measures which would prevent
another casino shutdown in
the event that the budget is
not adopted on time again,”
said Davis. “But they have
done nothing legislatively
to protect the casino
industry that our regional
economy depends upon in the
event of another government
shutdown.”
“So we Republicans are
sending a clear message to
the Governor and Senators
Whelan and Van Drew that
they’d better get their act
together this year and get
this budget done on time,”
Davis said. “That’s what
they were elected to do.”
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Paid for by Atlantic County
Republican Committee.
Michael Goloff, CPA,
Treasurer.
