Bret Schundler Endorses Murphy In 3rd District

Former Jersey City Mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Brett Schundler has endorsed Traditional Republican candidate Justin Murphy for the 3rd District Congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Jim Saxton.

Schundler said Murphy was “by far the best qualified person for the job” in a video that voters can link to at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aaCKAfjA9k

In another development, Traditional Republicans of Ocean County, also supporting Murphy for Saxton’s seat, said today that “neither of the political machine candidates running against Murphy, John Kelly of Ocean County, or Christopher Myers of Burlington, are fit to serve in Congress.”

TROOC spokesman Joseph Haelig noted that “both Kelly and Myers have disgraced traditional Republicans with their conflicts of interest, their bizarre commitment to greedy special interests and their determination to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers.”

Haelig noted Myers has acknowledged that “his employer, government contractor Lockheed Martin, gets 84% of its revenues from the federal government, a portion that would mean $294,000 of $350,000 he was paid last year was recycled taxpayers money.”

“This is a serious conflict of interest, and when you also consider that Myers has admitted he contacts members of congress as part of his job, we have a de facto lobbyist running against the interests of the taxpayers,” Haelig said.

Haelig said Kelly’s situation was even worse, with a fraudulent “job” at the Atlantic City Airport described by the man who hired him as “pure patronage” and the “disclosure that there are no records at the South Jersey Transportation Authority that show he did any work” as an “airport analyst.”

“The only records that are available are those that show Kelly grabbed more than $71,000 in double-dip health benefit kickbacks even as he was getting $25,000 in “free” health benefits from his freeholder job,” Haelig noted.

Haelig said Freeholder Kelly “is becoming a joke in Ocean County because he is still claiming to be a conservative Republican despite budgets that show sixteen consecutive tax increases in sixteen years and a slavish attachment to the financial interests of County GOP Boss Gilmore, the attorney for the South Jersey Transportation Authority who obtained the airport job for Kelly.”