LD4 GOP Challengers Condemn Democrat Assemblyman Paul Moriarty’s Wind Farm Bailout Vote

Del Borrello, Walker & Esposito say NJ ratepayers should not be forced to subsidize a foreign corporation; Call on Moriarty and running mates to explain their indefensible position

Fourth Legislative District, July 17, 2023 – Republican legislative challengers Chris Del Borrello, Matt Walker and Amanda Esposito today slammed Democrat Assemblyman and State Senate candidate Paul Moriarty today for voting to bail out Danish corporation, Orsted, at the expense of NJ ratepayers.

Del Borrello, Walker and Esposito said Moriarty’s decision to vote for a law that takes $1 billion in money that was supposed to provide New Jersey ratepayer relief, and instead turn it in to corporate welfare for a foreign company, with a largely foreign workforce, that is potentially killing whales and dolphins in record numbers – is offensive on every level.

“This is a classic ‘Robinhood in Reverse’ scheme that screws local ratepayers to bail out a multi-billion-dollar company,” said Del Borrello, a local small businessman.  “The fact that it’s a foreign company who is under scrutiny for a record number of whale and dolphin deaths up and down our coast only makes it worse.  What was Paul Moriarty thinking?  Or better yet, follow the money.”

According to reports, Brian Lipman, director of the state’s Division of Rate Counsel, wrote “there should be no doubt that this bill will increase the amount the developer earns on this project and will result in higher … prices being paid by ratepayers.”

“I see a lot of American tax dollars – New Jersey tax dollars – going to this foreign company, but the reports I am hearing are that the workers on these jobs are foreign workers.  That just adds insult to injury,” said Walker, a member of Local 825 Operating Engineers.  “Assemblyman Moriarty’s vote is a betrayal, and the silence of his running mates is unacceptable.”

Predictably, news reports said another corporation now wants their time to feed at the taxpayer trough with a bailout of their own.  Atlantic Shores said this week that it, too, wants government assistance to build its own wind farm off the southern New Jersey coast, warning that the project is “at risk” without additional financial assistance from the government.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this is going – Governor Murphy, Assemblyman Moriarty and the Democrats are so obsessed with their far-left ideological agenda on energy policy that they are willing to force taxpayers to underwrite it, no matter how badly it fails,” said Esposito, a schoolteacher in Pitman.  “South Jersey taxpayers are sick and tired of being a piggy bank for wealthy insiders and giant corporations.  Paul Moriarty and his running mates are go-along, get-along tools of the corporate elites who are sticking it to the average man and woman in South Jersey.  We’re running because we’ve had enough and believe South Jersey taxpayers have to.”