Meet David Stahl

David Stahl

Meet the Candidates Series Continues for Week of October 20, 2013

By Nicole Sanders | The Save Jersey Blog

David Stahl

As part of my ongoing effort to introduce candidates to the voting public, Save Jerseyans, I started a weekly column calledMeet the Candidates. In essence, it is a past day stump speech updated for the virtual world.

Election Day is right around the corner and we only have a few more interviews left for the 2013 series. For this week’s column, I am pleased to introduce to you to David Stahl who is running for State Assembly in the 18th Legislative District.

Save Jersey is committed to a taxpayer victory in LD18 this year. We previously interview Mayor Stahl and his running mates, Rob Bengivenga and Lisa Goldhamer back in March. We also spoke with Candidate Bengivenga one-on-one earlier in October.

Mayor Stahl has been a resident of East Brunswick for over thirty years. He attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a business degree and he went on to George Washington University where he obtained a degree in law. Currently, David is a successful solo practicing attorney and he owns a hardware store. His political experience includes serving six years on East Brunswick Council and being elected to Mayor in 2008.

My interview with Senate Candidate David Stahl is below the fold:

Sanders: You were formally a registered Democrat but you decided to become a Republican earlier on this year. What prompted you to change parties?

Stahl: The Middlesex County Democrats have drifted far away from the party of John F. Kennedy who provided our nation with sweeping tax cuts or the party of Bill Clinton who worked with Republicans in Congress to provide us with the largest era of economic growth since World War II. The Party of Peter Barnes is more worried about protecting politically appointed, taxpayer funded jobs than provide jobs for the middle-class residents who call Middlesex County home.

To me, it doesn’t matter what letter appears in the parenthesis next to your name. What matters is your ability to work with people you don’t agree with towards the common good. That’s why I brought both parties together in East Brunswick to reduce spending three years in a row, lower property taxes and make our town small business friendly. Trenton Politicians like Peter Barnes are incapable of working with folks across the aisle, as evidenced by his failure to work with Governor Christie to pass a bipartisan proposal to lower property taxes by 10%.

Sanders: How do you plan on stopping politicians from having multiple jobs paid for by the taxpayers? Some politicians are elected officials in their town and also on the state level. Do you think this is fair?

Stahl: I will sponsor legislation that will ban politicians from seeking government contracts and work to limit elected officials to one government job. I will also fight to end retirement and health care benefits for elected officials. I do not think it is fair that we still have members of the legislature collecting paychecks from two elected positions and would put an end to dual office holding once and for all.

Sanders: As a small business owner you know how high taxes and over-regulating gets in the way of creating jobs. What do you plan to do if elected to reduce taxes and stop the government from suppressing small businesses?

Stahl: I would replicate what we did in East Brunswick and work with small business owners to identify bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of economic growth and work to lift regulatory restrictions that get in the way of growing jobs. New Jersey has a unique strategic advantage in the world market place relative to our access to major ports and proximity to major cities. We should be an economic powerhouse, but the decade-long barrage of tax increases that came from Trenton politicians like Peter Barnes sent many businesses out of our state. Barnes used small businesses as ATMs for out of control state spending. I will work with them as partners to create jobs. We need to fix our business tax environment and ensure that we are competitive with neighboring states to grow our economy and create good-paying jobs.

Sanders: What makes you a more viable candidate in comparison to your challenger?

Stahl: I practice what I preach and have a proven record of forcing both parties to work together to produce results. Peter Barnes talks about property tax relief, but when he was on the Edison Council, property taxes shot up 168%. He talks about bipartisanship, but blocks Governor Christie’s proposal to lower property taxes by 10%. He says he is for the middle-class, but votes for them to pay higher taxes for healthcare, mortgage payments and utility bills while he collects over $1 million from five taxpayer funded jobs.

When I say I will lower property taxes, I do so with the record of bi-partisan property tax relief here at home. When I propose reforms to jump-start our economy, I do so with the track record of lowering business vacancy rates in East Brunswick three years in a row. I reduced local spending three years in a row, negotiated a salary freeze, increased employee contributions to healthcare, cut my own pay and eliminated perks for political appointees. I am ready to cut wasteful spending in Trenton and stop politicians from accumulating multiple public jobs while many of our residents are struggling to find one.

Sanders: If your constituents wanted to reach out to you and ask you questions about your positions or how to volunteer on your campaign who can they reach out to?

Stahl: You can visit our website at www.bipartisanreformers.com or email us at team@bipartisanreformers.com.

If you are a candidate or with a campaign and you’re interested in being featured in my weekly Meet the Candidates article, Save Jerseyans, then email me at nikisands3@hotmail.com.

Nicole Sanders
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Nicole Sanders is a thirty one year old entrepreneur, CEO, Somerset County Committeewomen, Director of Marketing and Development at KHartConsulting, LLC. She still finds time to be on the Dean’s List, two Honor Societies as a full time political science major and business minor student at Ashford University. Her campaign experience includes a former role as President of Democrats for Chris Christie, Communications Director for Rickards for Senate, Executive Director for Cullari for US Congress and Co-founder of the Garden State Liberty PAC. In her pursuit of a law degree, Nicole is an avid fact checker and brings a business owner’s approach to current political events happening in New Jersey.

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