PRESS RELEASE: Nance, Moore And Scheets Say No To $50 Million Trail

Camden County Republicans running for freeholders, Nicole Nance, Jennifer Moore and Johanna Scheets say the all Democrat County Freeholder Board should be worrying about helping people deal with hardships caused by COVID-19 rather than building a trail system through the county. Their press release on the matter follows:

Camden County Republican candidates for freeholder, Nicole Nance, Jennifer Moore and Johanna Scheets, said today that now is not the time to spend $50 million to build a multi-use trail designed for bicyclists, walkers and joggers through the county.

The final virtual session held by county government for residents to view the plans was held last night.

“Spending $50 million, no matter where the money comes from, during a global pandemic for a trail to ride bikes and walk or jog on is the last thing county government should be considering,” Nicole Nance said. “If the Freeholders are serious about getting grants, perhaps a better idea would be to look for grants to help people recover from this pandemic.”

“Before getting into a discussion of the poor timing of pushing this pet project, I have to wonder if the Freeholder Board listens to any comments they don’t want to hear,” Jennifer Moore commented. “When I served on Haddon Heights Council residents voiced concerns over potential parking issues along Atlantic Avenue, which serves the town’s Station Avenue Business District. Residents were also concerned about potential crime. One need only look at the Pinellas Trail in Florida that led to increases in crime and additional expense to communities that had to install surveillance cameras. This is a bad idea at the wrong time.”

“There was a time Camden County Republicans complained about the $25 million price tag for this pet project. Only two years later and the price tag is $50 million and Freeholder Jeff Nash is on record saying that number could change as plans evolve,” Johanna Scheets said. “Sure, they say they’re going to use grant money. Guess what – grant money comes from tax dollars, maybe not county tax dollars, but we all pay taxes, so we’re still all paying for this project one way or another. It’s not fair to ram something like this through in a county that according to tax-rates.org is ranked 23rd of 3,143 counties across the nation in order of median property taxes. If the Freeholders really want to go after grant money, let’s get grant money to help people through the financial hardships caused by this pandemic, not building a pet project.”

Camden County Clerk Makes Voters’ Choice On Vote-By-Mail Applications By Pre-Checking All Future Elections

Here’s one from the “it can only happen in the land of the Norcross machine department.” Every voter in Camden County was recently sent a vote-by-mail application from the office of the Camden County Clerk. Voters didn’t request an application, the applications arrived in a very official looking envelope marked “2020 Presidential Vote By Mail Information Enclosed.”

I live in Gloucester County, so how do I know voters didn’t request the vote-by-mail application? The answer to that is simple. My father got one, he’s never voted by mail in his life.

My father never bothered to open his because my stepmother got one too. She opened it and discovered the Clerk’s office already decided that even though she has never, ever voted by mail in her entire life that she now wants to vote in ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS by mail

Republican candidates for Surrogate and Freeholder in Camden County issued a press release on the matter the other day. In their release Surrogate candidate Kimberley Stuart and candidates for Freeholders Nicole Nance, Jennifer Moore and Johanna Scheets asked if the Camden County Clerk’s office mailing of pre-checked vote-by-mail applications was a way to stuff the ballot boxes come November.

It's a fair question. Unfortunately, it appears, with the exception of Gloucester City News, mainstream media doesn’t care.

One would think mainstream media would care about something like Camden County government attempting to force every single voter in the county to ALWAYS vote-by-mail. It makes sense the machine Democrats would want this to happen, on voter registration advantage alone it works out in their favor. It’s worth the risk to them for a few more Republican votes to come in.

The media likes to talk about how Camden County Republicans are merely token opposition to the Democrats. Unfortunately, when the same media ignores Camco Republicans who actually take the fight to the machine Democrats it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Stuart, Nance, Moore and Scheets are right to question the motives of the Camden County Clerk’s office. It does appear that forcing voters to vote-by-mail in all future elections makes it easier for Camden County Democrats to stuff ballot boxes in the future.

Mainstream media should do it’s job and stop the ballot box stuffing before it begins. Kudos to Stuart, Nance, Moore and Scheets for raising he issue. Keep taking the fight to the machine!

PRESS RELEASE: Is The Camden County Machine Preparing To Stuff November Ballot Boxes

The Camden County Clerk’s office have sent out Vote-by-Mail applications with “ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS” pre-marked with a red check. Republican candidates for Surrogate and Freeholders ask if this is an attempt at stuffing the November ballot boxes by Camco Democrats. Their press release on the matter follows:

Camden County Republican candidate for Surrogate, Kimberley Stuart and candidates for Freeholders Nicole Nance, Jennifer Moore and Johanna Scheets asked if the Camden County Clerk’s office mailing of pre-checked vote-by-mail applications was a way to stuff the ballot boxes come November.

At issue is the County Clerk’s office mailed applications for vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters in Camden County with “ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS, until I request otherwise in writing” marked with a red check mark.

Camden County Republican county-wide candidates, Stuart, Nance, Moore and Scheets explained, “CCGOP has received numerous calls from voters who received pre-marked VBM applications who are okay with voting by mail for this primary only because of COVID-19, but are definitely not willing to vote-by-mail for all future elections.”

“Voters are confused and don’t know what to do with pre-checked VBM applications,” the candidates said. “It’s as if the clerk’s office is trying to force all voters to vote in all future elections by mail. Of course, for the machine Democrats, given their voter registration advantage, it makes sense to force all voters to vote-by-mail; it’s easier for them to stuff the ballot boxes.”

“If Camden County’s machine Democrats truly care about fair elections they should immediately rectify the problem and confusion they’ve caused with pre-checked VBM applications. The remedy to the problem is re-sending unchecked applications to every voter who returned the pre-checked applications, allowing individual voters to decide in which elections they wish to vote-by-mail,” the Republican candidates said.