REP. WATSON COLEMAN: BOB HUGIN’S HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION WOULD MAKE HIM CAPTAIN OF THE TRUMP POLICY TEAM

EWING – Following the shocking reports on candidate for United States Senate Bob Hugin’s history of fighting for policies that would discriminate against women and the LGBT community, Twelfth Congressional District Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman today released the following statement declaring him captain of the Trump policy team and calling for New Jersey voters to fight against hatred and discrimination.

“Whether it is defending White Supremacists, separating children from their families, posing for photo opportunities with the dictator from North Korea or believing an Enemy of the State like Vladimir Putin over our own intelligence agencies, each and every day brings to light a new reason for Americans and our allies all over the world to be concerned about the direction of our country being dictated out of the White House,” said Watson Coleman. “The fact that Donald Trump has appointed judicial nominees who refuse to even answer whether the decades old decision outlawing segregation in schools was correctly decided means that this movement to take our country back in time to a place in our history where all people were not created equal has the potential to infiltrate the entirety of our government if we are not ferocious in our resistance.  We have spent every day since January 20, 2017 fighting back against Trump and his racist, misogynistic, hateful agenda and the last thing we need is for this president to gain an ally in the United States Senate like Bob Hugin.”

Watson Coleman continued, “The recent revelations that Bob Hugin led the charge to discriminate against women and to discriminate against the LGBT community should be disqualifying as it relates to his candidacy, and perhaps in a different time it would have been.  But in 2018, when civil discourse has nearly evaporated and the floodgates have opened to all manner of hateful rhetoric and deed, Bob Hugin might find himself captain of the Trump policy team in the Senate if he is elected.  Hugin’s attempt to explain away his actions with the excuse of time are particularly offensive when you realize he was a married adult in his late 30’s when he was fighting battles decent minded people thought had long ago been won.  We must fight against hatred and discrimination and push forward towards better days and we cannot allow Bob Hugin to secure himself a seat at Donald Trump’s table with a win in November.”