Guarino upset about Sarlo ENCAP comments
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterIn District 36, Republican State Senate candidate Mike Guarino is demanding an investigation into the issue that inspired him to run in the first place: ENCAP
Guarino and his Assembly running mates, Carmen Pio Costa and Don Diorio, seized on a statement State Sen. Paul Sarlo made over the weekend to accuse him of stymieing an investigation into the controversial and troubled Meadowlands mixed- use development that straddles Lyndhurst, Rutherford and North Arlington. Sarlo told The Bergen Record that there should be hearings on ENCAP, but not until after the upcoming election.
"Sen. Sarlo is afraid an investigation will show that he aided and abetted this boondoggle and he wants to keep voters from knowing the truth before they go to the polls on November 6," said Guarino. "It’s just outrageous that Sen. Codey and Sen. Sarlo are willing to engage in an orchestrated cover-up as part of a desperate attempt to hold on to political power."
But Sarlo spokesman Chris Eilert countered that if anyone should answer for damage to the Meadowlands, it’s Guarino.
“Sen. Sarlo has a record of delivering over $25 million in property tax relief and supporting some of the most stringent campaign finance reforms and some of the toughest environmental regulations in the country. Mike Guarino’s only record is as the person who sold out the Meadowlands by permitting landfills to be created in Lyndhurst and North Arlington when he was Bergen County Health Director.”
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What?
I know it's election season, but what does a health director have to do with landfills operated by a state agency? Eilert's comments have to be one of the dumbest I've heard today. This isn't even remotely believable....
As near as I can tell ...
The legislature is not in session again until after the election, so there could only be hearings if there were a special session.
So is Guarino calling for a special session of the leg to convene to hold hearings into ENCAP, or is he also supporting waiting until after the election? Option one is very expensive for the taxpayers and would pull all his Republican incumbents off the campaign trail, and option two is just what Sarlo said.
This is just like the Beck siliness the other day where they lob accusations of impropriety and corruption with no more evidence than their own fevered imaginations.
And another thing ...
That headline is ridiculous. Guarino isn't "upset" at the comments. Guarino is thrilled because he's in the middle of a losing campaign and had nothing on which to hang his hat. Now he has a thread to grab at, finally, and he's gonna stretch it as far as he can.
Mike Guarino
What a joke. Lifelong democrat Guarino trying to convince voters he"s a republican. How desparate can the republicans be to run hin> Senator Sarlo has done a very fine job of representing his constituents i the 36th. Guarino is going to lose in a landslide and he will try anything. What's next? Trying to blame the Senator for Hurrican Katrina!!
Mike Guarino
What a joke. Lifelong democrat Guarino trying to convince voters he"s a republican. How desparate can the republicans be to run hin> Senator Sarlo has done a very fine job of representing his constituents i the 36th. Guarino is going to lose in a landslide and he will try anything. What's next? Trying to blame the Senator for Hurrican Katrina!!