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September 10, 2009                                                                                          (609) 350-8769

DONOHUE AND McCANN CHALLENGE DEMS TO MORE DEBATES

GOP nominees speak to Millville First civic group, note absence of Dem opponents

(OCEAN CITY, September 10) – First Legislative District GOP Assembly nominees Mike Donohue and John McCann last night spoke to a gathering organized by the civic group Millville First, and challenged their Democrat opponents, Nelson Albano and Matt Milam, to join them for more debates.

“Judge Porreca and the Millville First organization are working hard to inform themselves and their neighbors about the important issues on the table in this election, and last night’s candidates’ forum was an excellent opportunity for John and me to get together with them and share our ideas on how we can get Trenton moving in the right direction again,” said Donohue. “You can’t change Trenton without changing the people in Trenton, and the members of Millville First get that.

“It would have been better, of course, if our Corzine Democrat opponents, Nelson Albano and Matt Milam, had attended the meeting, too, so that we could have an honest and open exchange of opinions,” Donohue continued. “But they apparently decided they had more important things to do.

“Frankly, given the stakes in this election – with property taxes the highest in the nation, with hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans forced to flee the state, with unemployment at its highest rate in decades – we should be having MORE debate and discussion, not less. The non-debate debate we had last night could have been SO much more educational.”

“The Millville residents Mike and I met last night at the candidates’ night were a great group of people – they were informed, they were interested, they were committed to doing something to make their communities better,” said McCann.

“I just wish they would have had the opportunity to hear from our Democrat opponents. Perhaps they could have explained why is it that since Democrats took power in Trenton in 2002, they’ve raised taxes 115 times? And maybe they could have explained why is it that we’ve got the highest property taxes in the nation, despite repeated Democrat promises over the years to get property taxes under control?

“Nelson Albano and Matt Milam have agreed to appear at just one debate – the League of Women Voters debate, on October 14. With due respect, that’s ridiculous,” McCann continued. “It’s disrespectful to the voters, and it’s not right. Mike and I will meet them anywhere, any time. And then, let the people decide.”

According to a report in the Bridgeton News, Albano missed last night’s candidates’ forum because he was visiting his son in Texas, while Milam was at an undisclosed location in West Virginia.

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