Little Camp Translates Asbury Park Press Endorsement

Oct. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Contact:
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LITTLE CAMP TRANSLATES ASBURY PARK PRESS ENDORSEMENT

(HIGHLANDS, October 21) - The campaign of Republican Congressional challenger Anna Little - responding to the decision by the editorial board of the Asbury Park Press to endorse 22-year incumbent Frank Pallone - today released a translation of selected excerpts of the endorsement editorial.

APP: "Veteran Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has been a tireless advocate for issues important to the people he has represented in his 6th Congressional District for the past two decades."

Translation: Frank Pallone is a 22-year incumbent. The year he was elected, the national debt was $2.6 trillion. Today, it stands at $13.7 trillion. Frank Pallone has been tireless, all right - tirelessly voting for more spending and more debt!

APP: "As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, he helped craft the health care reform package."

Translation: As Pallone himself says, "This isn't Obama's bill. This isn't Nancy Pelosi's bill. This is MY bill." If you're not happy with the government takeover of healthcare, you don't have to look too far to find its author - he's our incumbent, Frank Pallone! Blame it on him!

APP: "If re-elected, Pallone says he will concentrate on food and drug safety ..."

Translation: If re-elected, Pallone will likely continue activities that lead us to wonder if he regularly swaps official influence for campaign cash, or if it was just a one-time thing? See this New York Times story from last week: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/health/policy/15fda.htm...

APP: "Republican opponent Anna Little, a former Monmouth County freeholder and current mayor of Highlands, won the GOP primary as a Tea Party candidate."

Translation: As chardonnay-sipping, Brie-munching liberal elitists, we have no idea what is going on with this whole "Tea Party" thing. And because we've never had a Tea Party member to one of our cocktail parties, that concerns us.

APP: "Faced with the choice between Pallone and Little, voters in the district, which includes all or parts of 28 municipalities in Monmouth County, 10 in Middlesex County and one each in Somerset and Union counties, should opt for the thoughtful, considered positions of Pallone instead of the often strident protestations of Little."

Translation: We'd rather have an arrogant, out-of-touch, milquetoast liberal elitist representing us than send a fighter to Washington.

What is more interesting than the standard liberal-editorial-board-endorses-liberal-incumbent-for-reelection, dog-bites-man story is the Readers' Comments appended to the editorial endorsement. We commend to your reading the 78 comments that were posted within the first 24 hours of the endorsement publication, available here: http://www.app.com/comments/article/20101020/OPINION01/10...

"Remember," said Little, "you cannot change Washington without changing the people we send to Washington!"

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Anna is a wife, mother of three and the Mayor of Highlands, New Jersey. Spurred by enthusiastic grass roots support, Anna scored an upset primary victory to win the GOP nomination and is challenging Frank Pallone for Congress in NJ's 6th district.