By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is on the air in New Jersey. Virginia won’t get all of the love this year.
Titled “Barbara Buono: Taking New Jersey Backwards,” the roughly 30-second televised spot is a damning summary of the Democrat state senator’s abysmal voting history.
The narrator also (fairly) accuses Buono of being the architect of Jon Corzine’s budgets. Earlier this year, the RGA attempted to pull the rug out from under the N.J. Democrats’ presumptive nominee by pointing out that she was their back up selection after Cory Booker bowed out.
Governor Christie released his own new TV ad on Thursday which also seeks to provide voters with a clear contrast to the pre-Christie years but without mentioning Buono by name.
Christie is the former RGA Vice Chair and he’s raised plenty for the organization and its candidates since taking office in January 2010. Unlike last time around (when Jon Corzine outspent him by nearly 3 to 1), the advertising balance is likely to favor the incumbent straight through November.
I’ve posted the commercial and it’s full script below the fold, Save Jerseyans…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_c3LQp1UP8
SCRIPT
Barbara Buono by the numbers:
As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times.
Under her, property taxes up 70 percent.
Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase.
Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all.
Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt.
Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.
She is toast and she knows it.
"A Detailed History of How Democrat Governors (and Their Legislative Allies) Destroyed New Jersey’s Fiscal Health" . . . https://savejersey.com/2013/05/buonos-hypocrisy-by…
It is sad that so much is being done during primary season to go after a presumptive nominee (with no chance of winning) instead of promoting legislative races that need the exposure. The 5 vote swing we need in the State Senate is a much harder battle to fight, and nothing so far has been about the down ticket races that will enable the Governor's agenda. He can't claim any more of a mandate in the 2nd term no matter how big the spread.