MEHTA SLAMS LOCAL AND COUNTY REPUBLICAN LEADERS FOR LYING TO VOTERS

Calls on Bucco to join in denouncing the lies

DENVILLE – Democratic candidate for State Senate Rupande Mehta today slammed local and county Republican leaders for repeatedly telling voters there is no in-person voting this year.

Just days before Election Day, Republican organizations in Mine Hill, Randolph, Mendham have all continued to push the same coordinated lie as the Morris County Republican Committee that voters have to vote by mail and do not have the option of voting in-person.

Mehta denounced the Trump-style campaign tactics and called on Republican State Senator Anthony Bucco to join her in demanding Republican leaders to stop lying to voters.

“It is appalling to see local Republican organizations and the Morris County Republican Committee continue to lie to voters,” said Mehta. “Voters deserve better than to be lied to by local and county Republican leaders and I’m asking Senator Bucco to join me in denouncing these Trump-style tactics. The Senator refused to even take President Trump to task for his historically awful response to the coronavirus so I have very low expectations that he will suddenly put his constituents before his politics. But it would be a nice surprise.”

Mehta has continued to slam Bucco for his decade long history of prioritizing partisan politics, citing a voting history that has been consistently devastating to women throughout the district and to small businesses and frontline workers decimated by COVID-19.

In a startling admission, Senator Bucco claimed that “the easiest way to find out if something is a bad piece of legislation is to watch across the aisle and see how those in competitive districts respond.”

This led Mehta to state that she would “determine if a piece of legislation is good or bad by reading it, weighing its consequences and deciding if it is the best decision for those I represent.”