FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
Date: September 27, 2006
Contact: Annie Mayol
(202) 445-8266 cell

Paterson, NJ Today, State Senator Tom Kean, Jr., candidate for U.S. Senate, and Jose Sandoval, candidate for U.S Congress (NJ-08), visited the offices of ACE Reprographic Service, Inc in Paterson, New Jersey where they spoke to employees about their plan to reduce taxes and help make New Jersey more affordable to its residents and, especially to small business owners.

New Jersey has become unaffordable. Last year, 57,000 more people left our Garden State because they couldn’t afford to own a home, raise a family or start a new business, said Kean. New Jersey is tied with three other states for the highest state sales tax. We have the fastest rate of tax increases and the highest property taxes in the nation. That’s unacceptable and it’s getting worse.

According to the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research group, New Jersey is having the second worst tax climate in the nation for business.

As a small business owner, I know how difficult it is to do business in New Jersey, said Sandoval. The voters want someone in Washington that will fight to reduce the tax burden and find ways to help improve our economy so no more people have to leave the state. Sandoval added, When Tom Kean and I win this November 7th, we will make sure to make tax reform our first priority.

Kean added, Contrary to our opponents, Jose and I will support making the tax cuts permanent and we will vote in favor of eliminating the Death Tax, added Kean. New Jersey can no longer afford Bob Menendez and Bill Pascrell.

Ace Reprographic Services is a family owned business that has been operating since 1933, providing high quality blueprints to the architects, engineers, builders and contractors of the New York/New Jersey area. Now, in the digital age, Ace is not only keeping up with serving the fast paced world of computer generated architecture and design, but they are leading the industry in digital blueprinting, plotting, large and small document scanning and duplicating, and web-based file management softwares.

Jose Sandoval is running for New Jersey’s Eight Congressional District. Jose is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, and immigrated to the United States in the early 1970s, where he has been a resident of New Jersey ever since. Jose has a BA in Economics and Finance from Rutgers University, and a law degree from Cleveland State University. He owns an urban real estate company in Passaic, New Jersey.

Jose and his wife, Amy, have four children.

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