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“I hope the freeholder don’t try to skip out on the debate and cheat the public out of the opportunity to question them,” said Republican freeholder candidate Paul Duggan. 

“David Ganz doesn’t even know what he is voting for,” said Calabrese. “Maybe he should read the spending resolutions more thoroughly before he votes on them especially since he is the liaison to the county open space board. He’s in too much of hurry to spend taxpayer money  to realize what he’s spending it on.

If  freeholders Ganz and McPherson did knuckle under to such pressure from Joe Ferriero then shame on them --  they don’t deserve to be freeholders because they put their party boss ahead of the taxpayers.  

“The BCIA is nothing more than a conduit for campaign donations to the Democrat Party in Bergen County and I have written to Freeholder Ganz twice asking him to release the fees the BCIA paid over the last three years,”

Since April the freeholders have borrowed $113.8 million, pushing the county debt to more than $700 million. Currently, financing the debt costs taxpayers $46 million.

"If Barack Obama is taking economic advice from Gov. Corzine, then voters throughout the nation should be very scared,”

“The Democrats want to turn small towns into large inefficient, wasteful cities that will become patronage pits for putting more people on the public payroll,

“The prudent thing to do would be to delay some of the spending. I am sure that it is not critical to the operation of the county to spend $84 million between May and July,” said Calabrese. “Yet, the freeholder keep piling up the debt and saddling taxpayers with a huge debt fee.”

“It’s obscene that the county didn’t have the money this year to purchase development rights to a 23 acre farm in Franklin Lakes, but it has the money to pay for artificial turf fields and swing sets for municipalities,” said Calabrese. “Shouldn’t those local improvements be paid for by the municipalities

“Bergen County will play a key role in deciding the fortunes John McCain and Dick Zimmer in New Jersey and I want to demonstrate to the state that the Bergen Republican Party is energized and ready to work for candidates from the top of the ballot down to the municipal level."