News from the
Atlantic County Republicans
RELEASE: Immediate,
CONTACT: Atlantic
County
April 7,
2009
Republican Hdqs.
609-677-0707
JOHN DEVLIN TO TAXPAYERS –
“DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”
Atlantic City, NJ
– In response to a recent request by Atlantic City
School Board member John Devlin for greater budget
transparency,
Keith Davis, Atlantic County Republican Party Leader,
issued a challenge of
his own to Devlin: don’t issue bold statements when you
have a record of inaction and playing politics on your
own school board.
“The most important job for any elected official is
their vote - either a Yes or a No. But when it was time
to vote for the most recent Atlantic City school budget
which increases tuition by 25% on downbeach residents,
John Devlin was too cowardly to take a stand,” said
Davis. “As reported by the Press of Atlantic City,
‘Member John Devlin abstained from the vote in protest
of the increase, but his abstention preserved the
six-vote majority for approval.’ Devlin didn’t do his
job for the taxpayers.”
“Atlantic County government has been a model of
efficiency under the leadership of Freeholders Frank
Giordano and Jim Curcio,” said
Davis.
“How does their record on the Freeholder Board compare
with Devlin’s on the Atlantic City School Board? The
cost per pupil in Atlantic City is now a whopping
$18,700 --- a 20% increase over the past three years
that Devlin has served on the Board.”
“Apparently, Devlin couldn’t comprehend his own budget
and the impact it will have on the taxpayers he now
wants to represent as a freeholder,” Davis said. “If he
stood up for his future constituents in Atlantic City,
Ventnor, Margate and Longport who will get walloped by
the tax increase in his budget by voting ‘no’ he could
have stopped it. But instead he played politics and
tried to have it both ways by abstaining.”
Davis
also took note of Devlin’s recent comments made during
his campaign announcement. Devlin said: “I am
committed to working on behalf of Atlantic County's
hard-working families, who deserve representatives who
put forth real solutions for community problems, not
just sound bytes to win political points."
“Talk about double-talk,“ Davis
said. “Devlin’s so-called ‘protest vote’ in abstaining
on his own school budget is just the type of sound byte
he claims he’s against. If he was really protesting his
own budget, he should have had the guts to vote ‘no’.”
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