We the undersigned, candidates and community leaders within in the GOP, of races and ethnicities across the spectrum and of both sexes, do state that Governor Phil Murphy’s counterfactual attack video is an insult not only to the voters of NJ but to minority communities across the state.
In his ill-thought-out attack, Murphy makes the deplorable argument that Republican Gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is a white supremacist. This advert is aimed squarely at frightening New Jersey’s minority communities. Moreover, recently Murphy has attempted to paint Ciattarelli as a culture warrior because the people of Texas, including many Democrats, elected to roll back the anytime-abortion-on-demand extremism that even many pro-choice Texans thought was a bridge too far.
While Ciattarelli has offered policy proposals to grow back jobs for the working and middle class and protect the children of NJ by providing them the quality education that so many of those in the urban centers lack, Murphy has resorted to all but making a cartoon of Ciattarelli in a white hooded sheet.
Whereas Ciattarelli has a running mate known for putting women’s rights and equality on the front burner and a history of breaking glass ceilings in sports, media, and politics; Murphy must run away halfway across the country to the decisions of the people of another state to try (and fail at) making Ciattarelli look like a culture war crusader.
The reality is that the Black, female, Brown, immigrant, Jewish and other minority communities of our state are sick and tired of Democrats telling us we must vote for them because they falsely assert Republicans are a variation of white nationalists, supremacists, Confederates, or Nazi’s.
Just like Ciattarelli, in our campaigns and GOP party building efforts, each one of us has talked at depth on how to rebuild our economy for the working women and men of NJ of all races and ethnicities.
We and the GOP have put forward policy proposals on how to revitalize education in failed districts.
We have addressed head on how to make NJ affordable again so that we stop hemorrhaging young families just starting out and so that our elders can afford to retire here.
We have put forward reforms so that public policy isn’t continuing to drive the rising cost of living which makes working and middle class NJ families choose between getting all their groceries or saving up to move into a safer neighborhood.
Phil Murphy and the Democrat Party, on the other hand, have a record of ignoring children in inner cities, leaving behind the working women and men of NJ, and making life more expensive and unsafe for New Jerseyans of every ethnicity. That Murphy and his Democrats seek to deflect from this is as unsurprising as his methodology for doing so is disgusting. By pretending Jack Ciattarelli and the GOP are white supremacists Murphy seeks to quiet minority communities across our state and is telling them to get back into line behind him.
This cannot stand.
Phil Murphy must apologize to the minority communities of NJ and all New Jerseyans for his bigoted attempt at ducking the real issues facing our state.
David Sypher
GOP Assembly candidate NJ LG 22 & President of NJ Black Republican Club
Marianna Jodice
Editor of JerseyConservative.org
Herminio Mendoza
President of the Hispanic Republicans of North Jersey
Barbara Holstein
Montague Board of Education Trustee
Ramon Hernandez
Grassroots GOP volunteer leader
Joshua Sotomayor Einstein
Hudson County Young Republicans Executive Board Member
Matthew Castaneda
Co-Founder of The Hispanic Conservative Caucus
