MIDDLETOWN COMMITTEE MAJORITY NEEDS TO GET OVER SHORT'S ELECTION

By jcaliendo

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Publication

August 3, 2007

POC: Joe Caliendo
Chairman,

Middletown Democrats
8 Daniel Drive, Middletown, NJ 07748
Tel: 732-299-6470/Email: joe_caliendo@yahoo.com

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ):

There have been published reports about the Republican Majority on the Middletown Committee being exasperated with Committeeman Patrick Short, a Democrat, according to Democratic Chairman Joe Caliendo.

“I read a news article recently where Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger said he was tired and frustrated with Patrick Short and all of his criticism about the way Middletown spends money,” Caliendo said. “I have a news bulletin for Mayor Scharfenberger and the Committee, the voters put Patrick into office because they do not like the way this Governing Body is spending money and if he is there, it’s not a matter of what the Republican Party likes or does not like. Patrick is there because he is trying to cut taxes in Middletown. Well, if he’s trying to cut taxes and the Committee is having a hard time with him, then what are they trying to do about taxes.”

Caliendo said voters in the Township would not have elected a Democrat after 25 years of all-Republican control if people liked everything the Republican Party was doing in office. “The voter is tired of tax increases, pension padding, pay to play, no show jobs, secrecy in government and wasting tax dollars and I think the public is looking for something new,”
Caliendo said.

Caliendo said Scharfenberger has not been truthful with the public about the amount of waste going on in Town Hall, “which is why the Republican Line was broken last year and why it will be broken again this year.”

JCALIENDO can be reached via email at joe_caliendo@yahoo.com.