STARK DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DISTRICT 40 LEGISLATIVE TICKETS

SHOWN AT PCRRO SCREENING COMMITTEE MEETING

(Wayne, NJ ) The District 40 Republican legislative ticket  headed by State Senate candidate Kristin M. Corrado, said its presentation on Saturday at the Passaic County Regular Republican Organization Screening Committee showed the stark difference between the two slates competing in the June 6 Primary Election

Corrado who is running with District 40 Assemblyman Kevin J. Rooney and candidate Christopher DePhillips said  her team demonstrated that they are the new voices needed in Trenton to get New Jersey on the right track, while the competing ticket headed by former Assemblyman Paul DiGaetano showed they are the ticket representing the mistakes of the past.

“Many of the problems New Jersey faces today are the result of the former legislators who spent too much, borrowed too much and started New Jersey on the path to the enormous debt problems it faces today,” said Corrado, the current Passaic County Clerk.

“‘It was very clear at the screening committee that our opponents who boast of legislative experience  are running away from their dubious records in the legislature,” added Corrado.

As an Assemblyman in the 1990’s and early 2000’s DiGaetano, along with his District 40 running-mate, former State Sen. Norman Robertson voted to boost taxpayer funded  public employee pensions  Both are benefitting from that increase by collecting state pensions and health benefits from the system that is now basically insolvent.

While in the legislature DiGaetano also served a councilman in the City of Passaic, pulling down two public salaries and earning pension credits from two public jobs — a practice that has since been outlawed in New Jersey.

Rooney who was appointed to the Assembly in November said the Primary Election “is about sending Republicans to  Trenton who will work to bring tax relief, less government spending and less regulation to New Jersey.

“The other team that spoke before the PCRRO on Saturday  had their shot years ago to make changes in Trenton and they failed; so why do we want to send them back to Trenton?” asked Rooney, a businessman and former mayor of Wyckoff.

 DePhillips, said the opposing ticket offered no solutions for New Jersey taxpayers and no defense of their term in office.  He pointed out that Robertson – a former state senator running for assemblyman, went directly from the state Senate to a six figure salary job at the state Parole Board in 2002 and stayed there until 2016.  He is now eligible for a generous state pension and wants to pad his income with a $49,000 legislative salary, putting his income at well over $100,000 a year.

“Neither Robertson, nor his running mate, Joseph Bubba, Jr., offered any solutions to the affordability crisis in New Jersey, nor to the inequity in state funding of our schools which greatly impacts District 40 taxpayers,” said DePhillips.

 “The opposition ticket  increased spending and taxes, catered to public sector unions at the expense of the taxpayers and took care of themselves.  We already have a legislature full of Democrats doing that, we don’t need to send Republicans to Trenton to do more of it,” said DePhillips, an attorney.

District 40 comprises the following municipalities in Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic counties:   Allendale, Cedar Grove, Franklin Lakes, Ho-Ho-Kus, Little Falls, Midland Park, Pequannock, Pompton Lakes, Ridgewood, Riverdale, Totowa, Waldwick, Wayne, Woodland Park, Wyckoff