College Democrats of New Jersey Call for Bob Hugin to Apologize to Rutgers Graduates

(New Brunswick, NJ) May 14, 2018 – Yesterday, as Rutgers University’s Class of 2018 was celebrating their commencement, United States Senate candidate and former drug company executive Bob Hugin tweeted that the parents of the graduates should “dust off their couch” to make room for their children to move back home and celebrated himself as a “proven job creator” while failing to congratulate the students for reaching this milestone. The College Democrats of New Jersey are calling for Bob Hugin to come up with solutions instead of mocking young people and treating them as a burden on their parents.

It’s graduation day at Rutgers! Parents, time to dust off the couch in the basement. New Jersey has the highest rate of 18-34 year olds living with their parents. As a proven job creator, I will work to bring more jobs back to New Jersey. #NJSen pic.twitter.com/2VRR5fWwmh

— Bob Hugin (@BobHugin) May 13, 2018

“We are profoundly disappointed that Bob Hugin politicized what is supposed to be a joyful time for college graduates and their families and turned it into something negative”, said Megan Coyne, President of the New Jersey College Democrats. “Graduation should be a time to recognize the accomplishment of a lifetime of hard work and the sacrifices that these students and their families have made.”

“Young people do not choose to work multiple part-time jobs or live at home. They are forced to by an economy that has taken advantage of new workers for a decade and a housing market that is unaffordable. Bob Hugin’s lack of understanding of the causes of our problems, or the role that bankers, like him, played in it, is troubling.

“He has failed to offer any real solutions beyond more tax cuts but we already know they won’t help. The Trump tax plan has resulted in hundreds of billions in stock buybacks and scraps for workers.

“Young people are not political props or an inconvenience to their parents. Bob Hugin should apologize to the graduates of the Class of 2018.”