“This is neither good government nor ‘Jersey attitude. In Jersey everyone gets a fair shot."
Adding to the growing discontent with Governor Chris Christie’s decision to move the United States Senate special general election to October 16, Mayor Frank Minor today attacked Christie for being a hypocrite while engaging in efforts to suppress voter turnout throughout the state.
“Governor Christie has built a national brand for himself on the premise of good government and ‘Jersey attitude’,” said Mayor Minor. “But those of us actually living in this state know his pumped up national reputation to be smoke and mirrors. Governor Christie moved the special general election date to October 16 with the full knowledge that it would keep voter turnout down in the election for United States Senate and in his election for governor. There is no other reasonable assumption. With 700,000 more registered Democrats, the highest unemployment numbers in the region and an, on average, twenty percent increase on property tax bills across New Jersey during his tenure as governor, Chris Christie is deploying every trick in the book to suppress the vote and keep people home on Election Day. This is neither good government nor ‘Jersey attitude’ because, in our state everyone gets a fair shot."
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