By Matt Rooney
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Bob Menendez is making his rival Bob Hugin’s tenure as CEO of Celgene, a biotechnology company that creates and sells cancer-fighting drugs (like Revlimid), the centerpiece of the disgraced Democrat incumbent’s reelection campaign.
We can debate the ins and outs of drug prices for a month. It won’t end with this fall’s election either.
Today, Menendez’s close ally Phil Murphy retweeted the following from Choose New Jersey, a 501(c)(3) designed to help encourage investment in the Garden State, and I think it’s a tweet worth sharing and discussing:
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One of those biotech/pharmaceutical companies is of course Celgene which is headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, boasting assets in excess of $13 billion and employing over 4,000 people.
Celgene and companies like it don’t just help people get healthy; they also create an environment for a healthy economy. They pay a ton of taxes, to.
Murphy apparently thinks that’s a good thing. He retweeted it!
Someone should ask Bob Menendez whether he’d like companies like Celgene to take their jobs (and tax revenues) and head west or south to cheaper states. He and his tax-and-spend buddies certainly vote like that’s what they want.
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