PRESS RELEASE: Disgraced Former Assemblyman Gets A New Job And A Raise; Camden Dems still silent on Barclay

Camden County Republican Chairman Rich Ambrosino called out the Camden County Democrats over former Assemblyman Arthur Barclay, who resigned last year after being arrested, getting a pay raise and a new county job. The organization’s press release follows:

HADDON HEIGHTS – “Here we go again with the Arthur Barclay saga,” Camden County Republican Chairman Rich Ambrosino said after reading a report that the former assemblyman is still employed by Camden County.

“It’s simply amazing the same party that dispatched a group of elected women officials, including Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, to complain about Brett Kavanaugh in September of last year still have not spoken one word about Arthur Barclay,” Rich Ambrosino said. “In fact, in a press release on September 24th of last year we challenged Lampitt and her fellow ‘South Jersey women leaders’ to break their silence on the Barclay issue. After this most recent report, Lampitt and her fellow ‘leaders’ are still silent.”

Ambrosino explained, “Back in July 2018, after we learned Barclay still had his $60,000-a-year job with the county and a spokesman said there would be an investigation we asked, ‘Is this just another case of Camden County machine politics where they sweep their problems under the rug?’”

“Apparently, that’s exactly what happened,” Ambrosino remarked. “The Camden county Democrats chose to just sweep the problem under the rug, not announce the results of their ‘promised’ investigation, give Barclay a raise and move him into a different job at the Division of Senior and Disabled Services.”

“Only in Camden County can a guy who admitted to punching his girlfriend in the face be given a new job and a pay raise,” Ambrosino said. “Frankly, it’s offensive that a year ago Camden County machine Democrats marched elected women officials out to complain about accusations against a Supreme Court nominee, but these same women remain silent on a guy who admitted to punching his girlfriend. The entire situation is just one more example proving the machine Democrats of Camden County care about nothing more than staying in power. #MeToo, #BelieveWomen, social justice and equality are nothing more than good campaign rhetoric to these people.”

PRESS RELEASE: Flanagan Welcomes Another ‘Democrat-Lite’ Candidate To The Race

Yesterday attorney Stuart Meissner announced he has formed an exploratory committee to consider getting into the 2020 U.S. Senate GOP primary. Today, Tricia Flanagan responded. Her press release follows:

LAWRENCEVILLE – After learning an attorney, Stuart Meissner, announced he has formed an exploratory committee to consider getting into the 2020 U.S. Senate GOP primary announced Republican Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan said, “It looks like you can take the man out of the Democrat party, but you can’t take the Democrat out of the man.”

“While it’s been reported that Stuart Meissner became a Republican in 2016 after contributing $16 to President Donald Trump, one has to wonder exactly how conservative Mr. Meissner is,” Tricia Flanagan said. “As recently as July 5th Meissner took to Twitter to congratulate Melinda Katz on an apparent win in the Queens, NY District Attorney Democratic Primary. Katz, it was reported, ran as a progressive and had the backing of the Democratic Party machine politicians.”

“Unlike Meissner, you can be sure you won’t find me congratulating a Democrat running as a progressive on winning a primary,” Flanagan quipped.

“Unfortunately, if Meissner officially gets into this race he won’t be the only Democrat-lite candidate.” Flanagan explained, “Hirsh Singh comes with his own Democrat-lite credentials going back to June 4, 2009 when he declared his love for Barack Obama in a tweet, ‘Obama’s Cairo Speech was simply beautiful…simply beautiful.’ More recently, Singh showed how he lines up with Phil Murphy. As a candidate for governor Singh sent a tweet, ‘…Really thought you’d love my pro-marijuana legalization and criminal justice reform,’ and during his 2018 congressional campaign he lined up with Murphy on the PSEG bailout, the same PSEG that tried to give $55,000 to a dark money group to South Jersey Democratic party powerbroker George Norcross.”

“I can guarantee you won’t find me doing like Singh and praising Obama or aligning myself with Murphy or Norcross,” Flanagan remarked.

“Their own actions show both, Meissner and Singh, are Democrat-lite candidates. I’m proud to be the only pro-Trump candidate working to build a MAGA majority for our President in this race and look forward to carrying the Republican Party’s banner into the 2020 general election,” Flanagan said.

PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman Sends Strong Message To Congressman Tom Malinowski

NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt slammed Congressman Malinowski for comments the Congressman made about mowing “our beautiful lawns.” The NJGOP press release follows:

Trenton, NJ - Following reports and video footage of Congressman Malinowski stating that we need illegal immigrants to “mow our beautiful lawns” and laughing at the idea of his educated audience mowing lawns, NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt had the following strong message for the Congressman:

"Plenty of legal New Jersey residents landscape for a living or cut their own grass. They would all be mortified by your limousine liberal, elitist comments. You drawing a parallel between one's intellectual capacity and their willingness to do manual labor just shows how out of touch you are with your constituents. We are all coming to understand what it means to have a Congressman who rents in New Jersey and lives in Washington, and we don't like it. Apologize for your offensive comments if you want, but we all see you now Congressman."