Lonegan Calls Booker to Task over Crime
August 28,2013
“Mayor Booker has failed to control the crime epidemic that has plagued his city. Violent crime continues to surge in Newark, as illustrated by three more fatal shootings between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the mayor attempts to shift the focus away from his failed record with his news conference today.”
METUCHEN, NJ – Mayor Steve Lonegan, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, today blasted his Democrat opponent, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, for attempting to shift the focus away from his failed record on crime.
“Mayor Booker has failed to control the crime epidemic that has plagued his city,” Lonegan said. “Violent crime continues to surge in Newark, as illustrated by three more fatal shootings between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the mayor attempts to shift the focus away from his failed record with his news conference today.”
“Since becoming mayor, violent crime is up, and that trend will continue with the Mayor’s decision to make Newark the only city in New Jersey where illegal alien criminals will be given sanctuary status and kept from deportation,” Lonegan said. “Mayor Booker’s policy of classifying vandalism, shoplifting and other personal property crimes as ‘minor’ shows exactly why he has been unable to reduce crime.”
Lonegan served as Bogota Mayor for twelve years, winning three times in a town that gave Barack Obama 67.5 percent of the vote in 2012. He served for seven years as state director of Americans for Prosperity New Jersey, where he helped defeat liberal attempts to expand big government. Steve Lonegan is the conservative Republican candidate in the New Jersey special election for the United States Senate. Lonegan stands firmly on the bedrock conservative values of small government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.