Chiusolo for Essex County Executive

NEWS RELEASE

CHIUSOLO FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE
Call Thom Ammirato

973-403-7836 September 19, 2006

Republican Essex County Executive candidate Joseph Chiusolo

Received the Endorsement Today of the Essex County Police Benevolent Association.

Chiusolo offered the following comments:

I am extremely proud and honored to receive the support of the Essex County PBA. This endorsement means a lot to me – because I am the son of a former Fire Department Captain and the proud brother of a Jersey City Police Officer

I understand better than most the sacrifice our men and women in uniform make and I know the anguish that their families share every time a police officer or firefighter leaves home to go to work.

Since the infamous day of September 11, 2001, America has come to respect more than ever the work done by people in uniform – especially the police officers who protect us from street criminals and terrorists. That respect for police officers of all types, however, is lacking in the Hall of the Record of Essex County government.

Instead of giving the men and women who secure our courthouse, patrol our parks and guard our inmates the equipment and tools they need to keep them safe and effective, our county executive has chosen to shortchange them. He has failed to show them the respect and loyalty they have shown to us.

Our county executive boasts of spending millions on our parks, yet he has failed to invest the manpower and equipment needed to make sure that those parks are safe for the residents who use them.

I promise you as county executive things will be different. Anyone who puts on a uniform in an effort to protect the citizens of Essex County will be shown the respect he or she deserves by my administration. Sheriff’s officers, and corrections officers will be treated fairly and honestly – and politics will not interfere with my decisions regarding our sworn officers.

When I am elected your county executive, one of my first acts will be to commission an outside, independent audit of the county jail to make sure that our jail is properly staffed and that we are providing our corrections officers with the equipment they need to do the job in as safe an environment as we can create.

I promise that I will work with our new sheriff Rich Mastrangelo to provide the funding and manpower necessary to fight gang violence and drive the street gangs out of Essex County. Our streets belong to the people not the gangs.

I also promise that politics will not interfere with my decisions as county executive to manage or supply our uniformed officers.