Writers praise or criticize various candidates.
Smears against Assemblyman Fiocchi ring false
To the Editor:
I am sure everyone has seen the television commercials against First District Republican Assemblyman Sam Fiocchi. Well, they are a smear.
Assemblyman Sam Fiocchi (R-1st district) Fiocchi is one of the most decent, hard-working and honest men to ever do business in South Jersey, and certainly to represent us in Trenton.
To call Fiocchi a tax cheat by highlighting late real-estate tax payments is downright offensive. In fact, in the last decade alone, he has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes in South Jersey. That a special interest PAC from North Jersey would attack him for being a couple days late on a few payments over 10 years is why people hate politics and politicians so much.
Moreover, the two Democratic Assembly candidates, incumbent Bob Andrzejczak and Bruce Land, should be ashamed of themselves. No wonder they rejected most debates with Fiocchi and his Republican running mate, Jim Sauro, another small businessman. Fiocchi and Sauro can mop the floor with them.
I hope South Jersey voters are smarter than North Jersey special interests believe. I am for Fiocchi and Sauro 100 percent. Dirty smears against them only make me want to vote for them more.
Brian F. Giannascoli
Vineland
Which job does GOP's Kevin Murphy want to do?
To the Editor:
Kevin Murphy, the Gloucester County Republican Party chairman, and the athletic director at Washington Township High School, is a Fourth District GOP Assembly candidate.
One of my concerns as a fellow Republican is that, until recently, the regional Republican Party condemned those politicians who are "double dipping" in publicly funded salaries and pensions.
Murphy is already receiving a public salary, and he is entitled to a pension partly supported by taxpayers. If he is elected to the Assembly, he'll be doing exactly what the party that he chairs condemns.
Also, Murphy has not addressed how he would be able to fulfill the responsibilities of two taxpayer-funded jobs at the same time. If he is successful in Tuesday's election, and does not intend to step down from his school position, the taxpayers would not receive all of the services they would be paying for. In order not to become a hypocrite and double dipper, Murphy has an obligation to let us know which job he intends to do.
Giancarlo D'Orazio
Washington Township
Note: D'Orazio is a former township councilman who still serves as a local Republican Party committeeman.
Disregard West Deptford Democrats' 'October Surprise'
To the Editor:
The accusations in Nancy Barna's recent letter ("Wicked Witch mayor's photo a women's violence issue?") went beyond the pale in extrapolating guilt by association in castigating Ray Chintall, the Republican candidate for the West Deptford Township Committee.
(Chintall was a recipient of e-mails and texts from a township phone portraying Democratic Mayor Denice DiCarlo as a wicked witch, with blacked-out teeth and blackened eyes. DiCarlo and and Chintall are opposing candidates Tuesday for one township committee seat.)
West Deptford Democrats always conjure up an October Surprise right before Halloween. When you have no positive agenda, you obfuscate your failures with innuendo. And so, Democrat political ads and letters like Barna's use voter ignorance and apathy to mask the truth: West Deptford is a community in decline.
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Numerous financial analysts have Atlantic City on bankruptcy watch with its $100 million debt. Where does that put West Deptford, which has debt in the same range? Right into the hands of the county and state Democratic Party and its grubby paws.
DiCarlo has thrown West Deptford into the claws of outsiders (the township's new economic development partnership with the Gloucester County Improvement Authority) to right the mishandling of the township-owned RiverWinds complex. One only needs to visit National Harbor, Md., on the Potomac River, or search for it online, to see what could be the answer for RiverWinds. National Harbor has the shops, marinas, restaurants and tourist attractions that West Deptford Democrats promised, but never delivered.
As DiCarlo's failures in office get ignored, township voters deserve better than October Surprises and Halloween tricks. Vote for Chintall.
Bob Waller
West Deptford Township
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