A REAL OCTOBER SURPRISE:
REPUBLICANS ATTACKING REPUBLICANS
Asselta, Allen, Malone, Cardinale – Even Lance and DeCroce – Among Victims
Of GOP-Financed Assault Against Whitman Budgets

With an unprecedented attack against his own party's past fiscal practices, Burlington County Republican Boss Glenn Paulsen has essentially admitted that the GOP's decade of State House control was punctuated by irresponsible spending habits that exacerbated state debt.

(CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, September 26) -- Senator Nick Asselta -- responding to Democrat Jeff Van Drew’s stunning admission in yesterday’s Press of Atlantic City that Van Drew believes Asselta did not, in fact, intend to support the leasing of state highways when he voted for the 1999 Structured Financing Act, despite Van Drew campaign mail pieces declaring otherwise -- today held a press conference in front of Van Drew’s campaign headquarters and asked why anyone should believe anything the Van Drew campaign says.

VAN DREW CALLS ON ASSELTA TO SPONSOR LEGISLATION TO REPEAL 1999 LAW WHICH ALLOWS STATE ASSETS TO BE LEASED 

            (CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ)--  Today, Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew called on Senator Nick Asselta to sponsor legislation to repeal the law he voted for in 1999 which gave liberal authority to the State Treasurer to lease a broad range of state

(VINELAND August 30) – First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates, Norris Clark and Michael Donohue – responding to an analysis of the Governor’s proposal to monetize New Jersey’s toll roads that indicates that tolls on the average motorist would have to rise by 150 percent to pay back the bonds issued by a new state agency – today declared the prospect of such a massive toll hike a “non-starter,” and urged the Governor and his Democratic allies to scrap their plan.

ASSELTA SHOULD HIRE TRACKER TO KEEP TRACK OF HIS CAMPAIGN 

            In a continuing pattern of inaccuracy, distortion, and half-truths Senator Nick Asselta’s professional tracker misinformed the Gannet Vineland Daily Journal of his recent activities.

(VINELAND, August 10) – First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue – following up on their statements of earlier this week, and furthering the outlines of their proposals to address social strains caused by illegal immigration here in New Jersey – today called on Trenton Democrats to address the stresses caused by an estimated 450,000 illegal immigrants here in New Jersey, and to put the needs of New Jersey's citizens back in their rightful place above the desires of those whose first act in our nation was to violate our laws.

(VINELAND, August 7) – First District Senator Nick Asselta – responding to Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew’s blatant attempt last week on a radio call-in show once again to mislead the residents of the First District regarding his 2003 vote in favor of then-Governor Jim McGreevey’s tax-increasing budget, and Van Drew’s characterization of the question itself as “mean-spirited” – today called on Van Drew to acknowledge his misstatement and apologize to the residents of the First District.

(VINELAND, August 7) – First District Senator Nick Asselta and his Assembly running mates Norris Clark and Michael Donohue – responding to yesterday’s announcement by the Governor of the formation of a new 27-member commission to study how the State can handle problems posed by illegal immigration, with the commission to report back to him in 15 months – today said the problems posed by the estimated 450,000 illegal immigrants in New Jersey cannot wait 15 months for an answer, and offered instead their own plan: enforce the law.

ASSELTA BRINGS A NEW LEVEL OF NEGATIVE TO 1st DISTRICT RACE