Montville residents elected Joe Pennacchio to state senate to protect their interests. Instead, he is working with Gov. Phil Murphy and other liberals to force the town to host a horrendous, high-density housing project that will snarl traffic and increase property taxes, says Republican senate Primary Election candidate Tom Mastrangelo, a Montville resident.
A 350 unit, 4-story project – including nearly 50 low-income housing units – is going up in Montville at the end of Old Bloomfield Avenue, on land that was home to a contaminated automotive junkyard — G.I. Auto.

The massive housing project along Route 46 West, was forced on the township thanks to New Jersey’s atrocious Low Income Housing Law that is used as a weapon by the Fair Share Housing Center – a notorious liberal group that is financially supported by Gov. Murphy’s charity – THE PHILIP AND TAMMY MURPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION, headquartered in New York. The Murphy Foundations says it finances charitable work. But FSH is not a charity.

Gov. Murphy’s determination to use FSH to implement the liberal goal of overdeveloping suburban towns in the name of affordable housing went a step further when the governor issued federal Covid 19 funds to FSH, according to the group’s website.
“The granting of taxpayer funds to a group whose chief activity is litigation was overlooked by Sen. Pennacchio, who failed to even question why a liberal group that exists to force Republican municipalities to overdevelop should receive Covid funds,” said Mastrangelo.

“It looks like Joe Pennacchio, who says he is fighting for us, apparently fell asleep on the job, again,” said Mastrangelo, who is serving his fifth term as a Morris County Commissioner.
More intriguing said Mastrangelo, is that Pennacchio received over $20,600 in campaign donations from family members that owned the contaminated junk yard – and an associate – before it was sold to developer Avalon Bay – a major builder of high-density housing in the state.

“Rather than help Montville fight the state’s burdensome low-income housing rules, Sen. Pennacchio found a way to benefit from them by taking donations from the family that sold its property to Avalon Bay,” said Mastrangelo.