PRESS RELEASE: Camden City Residents Should Have The Right To Elect Their School Board

Republican candidate for Assembly in the 5th District, Nick Kush, came out in support of the voters in Camden who want the right to elect their own school board this morning. The press release follows:

Camden City Residents Should Have The Right To Elect Their School Board

Kush: “I side with the parents who want to take an active role in the education of their children.”

RUNNEMEDE – Republican candidate for Assembly in the 5th District, Nick Kush, weighed in on a ballot question in the City of Camden today.

The ballot question, “Shall the Camden City Board of Education remain a Type 1 school district with the Board of Education members appointed by the Mayor of the City of Camden,” has become a contentious issue with many city residents. A “yes” vote “will result in members of the Camden City Board of Education being appointed by the Mayor, as is the current practice.”

“When I agreed to put my name on the ballot I was told winning is a long shot, but you can’t win without trying, so I’ve been meeting voters everywhere, including Camden,” Nick Kush said. “I was talking with one lady and she explained to me the mayor sent a letter to voters asking them to vote to allow him to keep appointing members of their school board.”

“As a father who has had five kids go through public schools, a grandson go through public school and several other grandchildren currently attending public schools, I know and understand the importance of having parents involved in the education of our kids.” Kush continued, “Having one person choose who serves on the school board is nuts. Electing your school board is the first step in parental involvement in education, it gives people who otherwise wouldn’t be interested a reason to be interested.”

“I stand with the parents in Camden who are fighting for the right to elect their school board and applaud them for wanting to take an active role in the education of their kids,” Kush said. “It’s a pretty safe bet the other guy running for Assembly is siding with the mayor on this, they’re in the same party and served on Camden’s council together. Me, I side with the parents who want to take an active role in the education of their children, something I’ll always do if I’m fortunate enough to be elected.”

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Menendez’s Lawyers Argued It Isn’t A Federal Crime To Leave The Country For Sex With Under Aged Hookers. Does He Agree?

Bob Menendez

The mainstream press that covers New Jersey politics – the same press that has continued to let Governor Phil Murphy off the hook for the horrible treatment of the women on his soccer team – the same press that hasn’t written a word about a guy running for sheriff who allegedly once beat up an inmate (I found the inmate’s phone number, I’m sure they could too) keeps writing about Republican candidate for Senate Bob Hugin’s ads referencing Bob Menendez’s alleged involvement with under aged prostitutes with the word “unproven.”

I am sick of it! Almost as sick of hearing the idiots who believe Menendez was found to be not guilty. A hung jury does not make him innocent.

Maybe Menendez’s alleged involvement with under aged prostitutes is “unproven,” but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

In court papers Menendez’s own lawyers argued messing around with underaged hookers in the Dominican Republic “would hardly be a federal crime even had it been true.”

Copied and pasted directly from the court papers:

The defendants present their case as exceptional because the allegations of underage prostitution are “such easily disprovable allegations about something that would hardly be a federal crime even had it been true.”

“Would hardly be a federal crime even had it been true.”  It is a federal crime to leave the country to have sex with under aged hookers, no matter what Menendez’s lawyers argued.

Menendez has never once said publicly if he agrees with the argument of his lawyers.

And let’s not forget “The Independent,” a British online newspaper once wrote:

The Daily Caller suggested last night that the Washington Post had erred because the prostitute now denying having had sex with the senator was not the prostitute in its original report last year. The Post stood by its reporting.

It appears the Menendez camp couldn’t even find the right hooker to recant the original story.

While it may be accurate for the press to continue to refer to Menendez’s alleged involvement with under aged prostitutes with the word “unproven,” based on his own lawyers’ argument and the reporting of The Independent it is possible the allegations were true.

So, “unproven” or not it appears Menendez still has some explaining to do. He should at least tell voters if he agrees with his lawyers that it is okay to travel to a foreign land to have sex with under aged prostitutes.

PRESS RELEASE: Kilby Hays And Spatola, Jr. Say Issues At The County Jail Fall On The Freeholder Board

Cumberland County GOP freeholder candidates Arvene Kilby Hays and Frank Spatola, Jr. weighed in on the issues at the county jail this morning. Their press release on the matter follows:

Kilby Hays And Spatola, Jr. Say Issues At The County Jail Fall On The Freeholder Board

Maybe it’s time to let the sheriff run the jail

VINELAND – Republican candidates for Cumberland County Freeholder, Arvene Kilby Hays and Frank Spatola, Jr, said today concerns about “labor issues” at the county jail fall on the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

At issue is a recently published report “claiming the jail administration is not honoring the negotiated contract and using unfair labor practices.”

“There’s an obvious solution to any real or perceived problems at the county jail,” Arvene Kilby Hays said. “Let the sheriff run the jail, just like they do in Cape May County and Salem County. Generally speaking, except for election time, it takes the politics out of the jail.”

“It seems to us the fact the health department, the civil service commission and the Department of Justice have all been to the jail that indicates the calls for an ‘independent’ investigation will not yield any new information,” Frank Spatola, Jr. explained. “Independent investigation or not. you don’t see all those agencies parading in and out of the jails in Cape May County or Salem County.”

Spatola. Jr. asked, “What’s different at the jails in those two counties?”

“Obviously, it’s that the sheriffs oversee those jails, not the freeholders,” Spatola said. “Maybe it’s time to follow the lead of Cape May County and Salem County and let the sheriff oversee our jail.”

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