Kyrillos says he’d be a better fir for N.J. than Menendez in Senate
U.S. Senate candidate Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr. says the economic maladies facing the nation arrived in New Jersey first — and contends that since he’s helped Gov. Chris Christie grapple with similar issues at home, he’s equipped to repeat that task in Washington.
Kyrillos, a longtime Republican state senator from Monmouth County, said in a visit with Gannett newspapers’ editorial board members at the Asbury Park Press that “the country’s failing” but U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez won’t deliver a needed new economic direction.
“All the challenges that affected New Jersey — people leaving the state, companies not expanding here, not growing here, choosing to set up shop in California or New England or abroad, they’re all affecting the country now,” Kyrillos said. “We saw it in New Jersey already. You wrote about it for the last decade. All these same challenges now affect the country as a whole. We’re seeing in essence the New Jersey-ization of the country. And we’ve seen the movie, so we’ve got to get competitive.” (Symons, Asbury Park Press)