PRESS RELEASE: CCGOP Freeholder Candidates Ask Why County Residents Pay For Two Police Departments But Are Served By One

Cybulski And Gustafson Ask Why County Residents Pay For Two Police Departments But Are Served By One

Republican Freeholder candidates say county police department should serve the entire county

CHERRY HILL – Republican candidates for Camden County Freeholder, Keith Cybulski and Claire Gustafson said today that a Ferris wheel that broke down with at least six children on it at the Camden County Fair over the weekend raises some questions.

According to published reports the Ferris wheel left some riders stranded 40 feet in the air. The Blackwood Fire Department and Gloucester Township Police Departments responded and performed flawlessly.

“I spent over 10 years as a member of the fire department in my hometown, I know the difficulties that come with the job, as such Claire and I want to congratulate the Blackwood Fire Department on a job well done,” Keith Cybulski said. “While the fire and police departments performed well, one has to wonder where the Camden County Police Department was, county taxpayers pay for the county police and the County Fair was held on county property.”

Claire Gustafson added, “It only makes sense that a county police department should be handling issues on county property, leaving local police to patrol their local neighborhoods. We had a great county parks police department that would have handled police duties at the weekend’s incident before the Democrats messed things up with the creation of the county police department that patrols only Camden city.”

Cybulski asked, “Is it fair county taxpayers pay for their local police departments and a county department that only patrols Camden? Is it fair to force local departments to do the job that should be done by the county police department?”

“It’s terrible that it took a broken Ferris wheel to show taxpayers how unfairly they’re treated by county government,” said Gustafson. “Every taxpayer not living in the city of Camden is paying for two police departments but only being served by one. At least when we had a parks police department we were served by two departments.”

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PRESS RELEASE: Camco GOP Candidates Respond To Lampitt

Camden County GOP Candidates Respond To Lampitt And So-Called South Jersey ‘Leaders’

Why were these so-called leaders silent during the Barclay incident

CHERRY HILL – Responding to a statement released by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt and “other South Jersey women leaders” Camden County Republican Party candidates for Assembly and Freeholder asked where the outrage was after former Assemblyman Arthur Barclay was arrested after a domestic violence incident, an incident he admitted happened.

Lampitt, according to a published news release, was joined by Assemblywoman Patricia Egan Jones and Camden County Freeholders Carmen Rodriguez and Susan Shin-Angulo. The purpose of their statement was to make negative remarks about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump and U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin.

Republican candidate for Assembly in the fifth district, Nick Kush, said. “I’m a candidate for assembly because former Assemblyman Barclay resigned after admitting to a domestic violence incident. Not one of these women stood up against Barclay’s admitted act of domestic violence. One of the reasons I’m running is that I’m tired of the double standards of our elected officials, and this is a huge double standard.”

GOP freeholder candidate Keith Cybulski asked, “Where were Assemblywomen Lampitt and Egan Jones during the Barclay incident? Where were Freeholders Rodriguez and Shin-Angulo? Why have they never called out Bob Menendez for helping to get young women Visas to come into the country for Salomon Melgen?”

“I’ll tell you where they were,” Cybulski said. “They were waiting to be told what to say by their political bosses.”

“As a woman I am deeply offended these ‘South Jersey women leaders’ would use the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh to score cheap political points,” Republican Freeholder candidate Claire Gustafson said. “They refused to stand up for women after the Barclay arrest and, at the very least were complicit in helping those who tried to hide the fact Barclay had been arrested by keeping silent on the issue. It’s time for new leadership in Camden County, leadership that is willing to speak for all county residents and not just speak when a political boss says to.”

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PRESS RELEASE: Cumberland Republicans ask Democrat opponents why they're hiding from Bob Menendez

Kilby And Spatola Ask Why Incumbents Are Afraid To Campaign With Menendez

Are Democrats afraid campaigning with Menendez will remind voters of their own ethical challenges?

VINELAND – Republican candidates for Cumberland County Freeholder, Arvene Kilby and Frank Spatola asked today why freeholders Jim Quinn and Joe Derella haven’t been seen with U.S. Senator Bob Menendez.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin has made several campaign stops in Cumberland County with Kilby and Spatola. The Republican candidates believe the reason for ethically challenged Menendez’s absence from Cumberland County is the Democrat incumbents don’t want voters to be reminded of their own prior ethical challenges.

“We can joke all day long about Senator Menendez not being able to find Cumberland County with GPS,” said Arvene Kilby. “But the fact of the matter is the incumbents have to have a reason they don’t want to be seen with the top of their ticket. Could that reason be freeholders Quinn and Derella don’t want voters to be reminded of their own past issues with ethics complaints?”

While serving as a City Commissioner in Millville Jim Quinn was fined $250 to settle a state ethics violation levied against him that said he cast public votes on issues involving companies he did hundreds of dollars of monthly private business with. Joe Derella, in November 2017, had a 22-count complaint filed against him by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC).

“We are all well aware of the fact Senator Menendez was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee over his relationship with his close friend, political donor and now convicted felon Salomon Melgen, so it’s understandable Quinn and Derella would want Menendez to stay away from Cumberland County,” Frank Spatola said. “Unlike our opponents Arvene and I are proud to stand with the top or our ticket. We are running as a team to bring more transparency to county government, because when light is shed on how business is done ethical challenges have a tendency to disappear.”

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