Friday, October 10, 2008

Pascrell not for the working people and not right for NJ

Bill Pascrell claims to be a labor-lunchpail Democrat, but its pretty obvious that as Mayor of Paterson he was no help to his city's working people.

  • In 1990, during a recession when Pascrell took over for Frank Graves, the city unemployment rate was 9.5%.
  • After two years of Pascrell "leadership," unemployment was at a stratospheric 18.4%, two and half times the national average!
  • Even in 1996, as unemployment dipped to 5% nationally, unemployment was nearly 13% in Paterson, the highest in New Jersey and higher than when Pascrell entered office in a recession.
This is the man setting economic policy and who wants to be our governor????

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