A LETTER TO ALISON HERGET

I have sent Alison Herget, from the Asbury Park Press, a letter I want to share with every Democrat in Middletown. The fact is that the Middletown Democrats are a target, by the Republican Administration and its newspaper. It is not a time to back away from the truth, it is a time to make the truth clear and that is what I am doing, with no bones about it. Here it is:

Miss Herget:

I hope that, with this latest bull you have allowed
Peter Carton to throw on the Middletown Democrats,
that you will ensure this matter gets EQUALLY
publicized when this party and when Patrick Short are
vindicated by ELEC.

Then maybe the Middletown Democrats can get the same
press by being right that Peter Carton got by being
wrong.

This is especially in light of the fact that you have
overlooked absolutely every issue attendant to Peter
Carton and his multiple office holding, the fact that
his executive committee sits on nearly every paid
position in Middletown, the fact that his firm is
bonding this township to death because he is the
political boss of Middletown.

You have overlooked the Banfield Building, which was
supposed to be completed in 2003 and at a price of $5
MILLION. Now the building is still not open and it is
costing Middletown residents $9 MILLION for a building
that does not even have a purpose but is somehow
suppopsed to earn that back.

These are not the stories you have focused on. You
have not looked into Joe Kyrillos's campaign ELEC
problems, and these dwarf anyone's. You have not
looked into ANY Republican's ELEC problems. No -- you
have chosen to go on the allegations of Peter Carton
without even researching this matter or even asking me
for a quote during the first article on the front page
of the Our Town Section.

All I have to say is that if you are going to follow
this story up, I hope you have a lot more than Peter
Carton talking about how Democrats shouldn't be
elected in Middletown, which is what you have so far.
He is throwing around "rule of law" and all that
garbage but there has been nothing from ELEC and EVERY
ELEC complaint he has filed over the years has gone
NOWHERE. But YOU have decided to give him this great
amount of credibility THIS year despite that
performance. Or is it that you are looking to
interfere with the outcome of a political contest and
somehow make your name. Well, Miss, you are making it
alright, as a Republican-biased journalist, and if you
are not going to cover this race in a fair manner then
do not cover it at all because that would at least be
fairer.

I do not intend to sit by and see this party, this
candidate or myself maligned by your newspaper either
directly or through someone else's quotes for the
sport of it. But this is what has happened so far.

Joe Caliendo
Chairman
Middletown Democrats
Cell: (732) 299-6470