DeAngelo gets ready for a challenge
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterAssemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Hamilton) knows that Republicans have him in their sights for next year, but says that this time is different: he’s a known commodity.
“Being in District 14 and in Hamilton Township where politics is very much independent minded individuals, I expect all races to be close,” he said.
Close, but not like last year, when DeAngelo edged out Republican Tom Goodwin by about 700 votes, while his entrenched running mate, Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro), ran 3,000 votes ahead of him.
DeAngelo, a labor leader, said that voters in his district will appreciate his prime sponsorship of the Paid Family Leave Act, which plays well in this blue collar district, and that they’ll also recognize him for his vote against pension reform.
“My speculation on why the race was a little bit closer last time, I’d have to say it was an open seat, I had no history and neither did any of the candidates,” he said.
Republicans will likely use DeAngelo’s vote in favor of the new Council on Affordable Housing regulations against him, which could hurt him in his native Hamilton and take some votes from some of the more Democratic districts. But DeAngelo thinks that working class voters will identify with it.
"We need, at all levels of employment, to be able to live near where we work. It’s just as important to someone who works in a bakery, an electrician, teacher, police officer to be able to afford in the town that they work in, and right now sometimes that’s not happening,” he said. “People are moving across the river to Pennsylvania.”
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Wayne the reason people are moving out of New Jersey is that the costs of construction and doing business are so high.Business owners have to pay a electrician like the ones wayne represents 100 thousand a year so they can kick back their dues so wayne and his cronies can get 5 figure salaries to do nothing.The rest of us working people have to foot the bill on lesser salaries unless your a relative or family friend of a union boss.
DeAngelo does not care about district 14
He voted for Assembly Speaker Roberts affordable housing legislation which in the end hurts every town in his district. You then ask why did he vote for the affordable housing legislation? Because he votes party line just like the other member of the Assembly from district 14 Linda Greenstein. Then to defend his vote DeAngelo uses the canned Roberts sound bite....
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"We need, at all levels of employment, to be able to live near where we work. It’s just as important to someone who works in a bakery, an electrician, teacher, police officer to be able to afford in the town that they work in, and right now sometimes that’s not happening,” he said. “People are moving across the river to Pennsylvania.”"
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The statement above is an out and out lie. There is not any preference given to anyone who lives in a certain town. What happens is that anyone and everyone is a COAH district can apply for affordable housing in a town. The affordable housing is then given out via a lottery. So in the end the odds of someone getting affordable housing near their job is about the same odds as winning the mega millions.