Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for NJ Governor Interview

Jack Ciattarelli speaks with Mendte in the Morning about recent polls that show a close race and the  controversy over Mikie Sherrill's military records.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good to be with you on a Friday morning.
Beautiful sunshine today. Hi's eighty two degrees and if you
are the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, you
see beautiful sunshine today. Probably saw it yesterday. With a
new poll out showing that Jack Chittarelli and Mikey Cheryl
are now neck in neck in the Emerson poll, which
is forty three to forty three percent. And he's joining

(00:22):
us on the phone right now. Jack Chitarelli, Republican candidate
for New Jersey Governor.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, Hey, good morning Ken. Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Great to have you on. And I'm a New Jersey constituent,
so i want to put that out there so you know,
I've been following the campaign and when you have the
poll results that you had earlier in the week, it
was an internal poll and it showed that you were
beating Mikey Cheryl by one point for the first time
since the campaign started. A lot of people on the

(00:50):
left said, oh, you know, it's only it's an outlier poll.
But now you got two polls back to back showing
basically the same thing. So how did you guys react?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
This is only re reaffirming what we already know in
the community. Each and every day I'm out there, I
got to take can people want change? When you see
Democratic mayors in Dorsey Mike candidacy for governor, that says
something and her camp has it as a dead heat too.
So we're right where we need to be with thirty
nine days to go. In thirty nine days, we'll plot
a victory here for New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
And the main thing to remember is for those who
don't realize, New Jersey has eight hundred and sixty thousand
more registered Democrats than Republicans, and in spite of that,
you are neck and neck or beating her by a
point depending on which pole you look at, which for
the Democrats that has to have them freaking out.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, Ken, you're pointing out something else here that's easy
to overlook. Traditionally, historically Republicans under poll in polls because
of that difference you just mentioned. And so hey, listen,
some of these poles had be down by twelve points
with two weeks ago. Last time around. We knew that
wasn't right. We know these poles are correct, and we're

(01:57):
right where we need to be.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And of course, the biggest issues right now now impacting
New Jersey. Everyone's talking about property taxes and energy, and
I was so glad to hear you pointing out the
big deal. Somebody saying on the left, Oh, the reason
energy costs went up so much is the grid? The grid,
the grid nothing. When you force shutting down six power plants,
it's called supply and demand. Why is it that the

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left still doesn't recognize that reality.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, because they know they're guilty. They broke it, they
own it.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
And what they're trying to do is exploit people by
lying to them, blaming the grid, blaming our utility companies,
which hundreds of thousands of middle class New Jersey's work
for blaming the president pill Murphy shut down six different
electricity generation plants. He did not expand nuclear, He put
a moratorium unnatural gas, fire electricity generation, didn't accelerate solar

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on all the rooftops of all the warehousings across the state.
He betted all on wind, Ken bet it all on wind.
And here we are seven years and almost eleven months later,
and now we're an electricity importer, export electricity. That's how
much we used to produce, And so we'll change all
that on day one when I'm governor.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Seven to ten wo R the Voice of New York,
Ken Rosotto win for Larry Meanty on a Friday with
Jack Chiarelli, Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, and Jack,
we have to ask you also about one of the
issues that came up during the debate on New Jersey,
which is the other place I work, and that was
the taxes. Now, of course the question was posed to
Mikey Cheryl, she would not lock in and say that

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she would not raise taxes. You are saying that, well,
let me not put words in your mouth. Where do
you come down on that?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Listen, this points out, I think a real flaw in
her character. She's got to add out there latly line
that I'm going to raise the sales tax to ten percent.
And I made that clear the debate that we're not
raising the sales tax period, we're lowering property taxes and
income taxes. Then they asked her the same question and
she said, I'm not going to rule that anything. I'm

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not going to commit to anything. So let me see
if I get this. You're lying about me raising the
sales tax. But then when you're asked why not you
to raise the sales tax. You say, I'm not going
to commit to anything.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
We have to ask you about the obvious red herring,
pink elephant, whatever you want to call it. The big
issue from yesterday, of course, the information that came out
from the foyer, the Freedom of Information Act about Mikey
Cheryl's military records. Can you tell us when you found
out about this information, when it was presented to you,
and what you've heard from Cheryl's camp, because of course

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they're apoplectic that a lot of what should have been
redacted information was released.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Ken you speak to any veteran, you speak to any
graduate of a military academy, and they will tell you
that not being allowed to walk, not being allowed to
participate in the graduation ceremony is a big deal. She
has violated the honor code for the Navy, and obviously
she was punished.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think she needs to come clean.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
All she needs to do is approve the release of
her disciplinary records to find out of what she's saying
is the truth. But even if what she is saying
is the truth, the fact that she didn't want to
turn in classmates that she knew or cheating, what is
she going to do when she's governor and she finds
out that there's people that are gaining the system in
the administration or anywhere in this fifty nine billion dollar
state budget that Phil Murphy's blown out.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, and that is that is clearly a big deal.
But again, if you could talk to the share Old
camp right now, of course they're clearly upset about the
release of her social Security number, personal address, et cetera.
But this is not something that you sought out directly
or you know. That's what the accusation is that somehow
on the right there was some help given in that
information may have been deliberately given away.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
What would you.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Say, Ken, They are trying to obfuscate what she did,
and she needs to come clean on it.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
A citizen at large put in an.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Open Public Records Act request and the Archives provide the information.
The Archives is already apologized for screwing up as for
what I've read that they should have redacted some information.
They didn't. They've oologize for their wrongdoing, but nobody else
did anything wrong. They're trying to obfuscate this, they're trying
to circle the wagons. They're trying to save her candidcy.

(06:08):
She needs to come clean. But we're seeing a trend
here Ken. So now we know that she wasn't allowed
to graduate and she was punished at the Naval cad.
While in the Congress, she broke federal law and had
to pay fines for stock reporting and stock trades. The
New York Times reports the while she's sitting on the
House Armed Services Committee, she's trading defense stocks, and her

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entire campaign for governor is built on a stack of
lies about me.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I think there's a question of character here.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, I spent twenty five years in mainstream media
as a TV news anchor in New York, and my
question to my colleagues is why did none of them
put out a FOYA to find out this information? When
you consider Mikey Cheryl made her military career the center
point of her campaign, Yet nobody on the left or
in mainstream media decided that that was something worth investigating.

(06:57):
It took a private citizen to do that. That's my question.
And I'm pointing the finger at my mainstream media friends
who I know are listening right now.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And Ken at the debate, she made this statement. Check
the videotape. No candidate's era been as transparent as I. Okay,
if you're that transparent, come clean. Approve the release of
the records. Let us take a look at your disciplinary records.
You're the only person to do that. If what you're
saying is true, release the records.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, well, listen. We also invite Mikey Cheryl to
come on. We'd love to hear from her as well.
You are welcome back anytime you want as well. Jack Chiarelli,
Republican candidate for New Jersey Governor, thank you so much
for taking the time and talking to us today.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Ken, thank you, looking forward next time.