(OCEAN CITY, July 23) – First District Republican candidates for Assembly Norris Clark and Michael Donohue – concerned over Democratic Assembly candidate Matt Milam's apparent disappearance – today called on Milam to appear and make known whether or not he supports the actions of his running mates, Democratic Assemblymen Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano, in voting to give the Governor a blank check to sell the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway.

"Two weeks ago today," Donohue noted,  "Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano sent out a campaign flier denying their support for the Governor's plan to sell the Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway – despite having voted just a few weeks earlier to appropriate unlimited funds to pay engineering, legal, and financial advisors to prepare to sell the toll roads. Oddly, even though it was a campaign piece, paid for by Democratic campaign committees, Matt Milam and his views were nowhere to be found.

"We have now had two weeks of absolute silence from Matt Milam.  The residents of the First District deserve more from a candidate for State Assembly."  Donohue continued, "Senator Nick Asselta, Norris Clark, and I have been traveling to city council meetings across the First District, encouraging township officials to pass a resolution voicing their opposition to the Democrat's plans to sell our state's toll roads, while Matt Milam has been missing in action.   If Matt supports the Governor's scheme to sell our toll roads, the residents of the First District deserve to know."

Norris Clark added, "In the mailer that the Democratic ticket sent to deliberately mislead residents of the First District two weeks ago, Matt Milam was never mentioned.  Furthermore, the photo they used in the mailer is the same one they have on the front page of their web site, with one small difference - Milam was cut out of it."

Clark concluded, "Today – just as we did one week ago – Michael Donohue and I are calling on Matt Milam to answer one simple question:  If you were in the Assembly on June 21, representing the First District, would you have sided with Trenton Democrats Jeff Van Drew and Nelson Albano in giving the Governor a blank check to begin selling our toll roads, or would you have sided with the residents of the First District, as did Senator Asselta?"

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