OCEAN CITY — First Legislative District GOP Assembly nominees Mike Donohue and John McCann, in a release, responded to news from the New Jersey Department of Labor indicating that New Jersey’s unemployment rate has risen another four-tenths of a percent, to 9.7 percent.
On Sept. 16, they called on their Democrat opponents, Assemblymen Nelson Albano and Matt Milam, to join them in demanding the convening of a special session of the legislature, dedicated to rolling back tax increases that have killed job growth.
“Today’s news on the unemployment front confirms our fears, New Jersey continues to move backward, rather than forward,” said Donohue. “At 9.7 percent, our state unemployment rate is the highest it’s been since Jimmy Carter was first sworn in. That’s what happens when a governor spends the first three years of his term squeezing businesses dry with tax hike after tax hike. Businesses fold, entrepreneurs find other places to set up shop, jobs evaporate, and families are destroyed.
“We can no longer wait for the election results in seven weeks,” Donohue continued. “We need action now. Nelson Albano and Matt Milam need to call on their Democratic colleagues – they are, after all, members of the Democratic majority in Trenton – to see to it that the legislature convenes in special session to enact tax rollbacks aimed at helping small businesses and stimulating job creation.”
“A special session could immediately lower taxes and help create a better environment for job growth,” said McCann. “Especially here in the First Legislative District, where so much of our annual economy is tied to the summer tourist season, and we are entering the tough months of fall and winter, anything Trenton could do to help businesses lower their tax burden and create sustainable growth would be much appreciated.
“Nelson Albano and Matt Milam have acted as enablers to the Corzine disaster,” McCann continued. “They have voted in virtual lockstep with him – 95 percent of the time, they’ve voted the way Jon Corzine wanted them to. That’s not representative of the way the residents of the First Legislative District would want them to vote. And while calling for a special session – and then voting to reverse themselves, and vote to cut taxes instead of raising them – will be helpful, it still won’t make up for the tens of thousands of jobs lost over the last four years.
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