MURPHY: DON’T LIKE HIGH TAXES? LEAVE NJ
AMOROSO & WOOLLEY: “TAXPAYERS OUTRAGED”
DOWNEY & HOUGHTALING: …SILENCE

OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Alongside thousands of NJ taxpayers, Assembly candidates Mike
Amoroso and Matt Woolley were stunned and outraged by Governor Phil Murphy’s recent
comments.

Murphy was reported by KYW Newsradio to have said, “If you’re a one issue voter and tax rate
is your issue, if that’s the only basis upon which you’re going to make a decision, we’re
probably not your State.

“I’m a small business owner, I have a family, I have 3 kids, and New Jersey is hard to afford as it
is. I’m outraged and my neighbors are outraged that Murphy—a billionaire—apparently just
doesn’t care if we can afford to live here or not,” Amoroso commented. “At least he’s finally
being honest. Neither he nor any of his minions in the Assembly have any intention of actually
cutting taxes, the effects on middle class families be damned.”

“It’s sad. I realize that Eric and Joann are probably still waiting for their talking points to be sent
over from Trenton, but this is a time when they should be standing up for the people of their district,
and they’re not doing it,” said Woolley. “If they cared more about voters than they do their own
political careers, they’d stand up. But they’re just silent. This is why we’re running. It’s a deficit
of leadership.”

As of 1:00PM today, Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling and Assemblywoman Joann Downey had
not addressed Murphy’s comments on their website, in the press or on any social media outlet