FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2023

Newton, N.J. – Steve Lonegan replies to the attacks on conservatives dreamed up by Jack Ciattarelli’s media consultant:

“Is Parker Space a caricature thought up by leftists to taint the GOP brand?

His brand of Confederate-meme ‘conservatism’ will taint not only the good people of the 24th Legislative District, but the entire Republican brand in New Jersey. North of the Mason-Dixon line, does anyone know of another elected Republican who wants the title ‘Senator’ who wraps himself in the Confederate flag the way Parker does? That kind of nonsense doesn’t fly anymore South of the Mason-Dixon line.

Parker Space never lost anything because he’s never fought a battle worth losing. Can anyone imagine Parker Space stepping up to take on Cory Booker? He doesn’t pack the gear.
Parker has occupied a safe-space in politics, voting with the pack, saddling the taxpayers of Sussex County with a solar scandal that cost them tens of millions and will continue to cost them, their children, and their grandchildren millions – year after year.

Parker pretends to know what American conservatism and the conservative movement is all about. I’ve written a book about it. That’s one more than Parker read. The last congressional candidate he supported was liberal Democrat Josh Gottheimer – and he’ll answer for that before the Sussex County GOP Committee on March 9th.

Parker Space attacks me for taking on seven tough fights and for coming up short. That’s funny coming from a man who has lost thousands of votes in Trenton. In fact, he loses most every time he bothers to show up in Trenton. I’ve won bigger battles as a citizen activist than he’s won as a legislator. What does that tell you about him?

Instead of attacking me, Parker Space needs to take a breath and figure out a message that his team can run on. His woke running mates are wrapping themselves in the LGBTQ Pride flag while he literally wears the Confederate flag on his body every day of his life. Talk about conflicted!

And finally, while we’re on his ‘team’, before he starts calling my wife and I ‘carpetbaggers’, he needs to check with his teammates to see which one lives out of state as much as in. When we moved to Sussex County, my wife and I were welcomed as neighbors by Senator Steve Oroho and his wife. That’s good enough for me. Maybe Parker and his wife should live up to that example.”
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