V Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 30 October '85 ^ _3^

Assembly Candidates Clash in Lower 'Debate'

By GREGG LAWSON COLD SPRING - Will the "Road to Nowhere" lead to Trenton for Democratic assembly candidates Peter Amico and Raymond A. Batten? During last Friday's 'debate" before 75 persons at the Consolidated School, the pair criticized Republican Assemblymen Guy Muziani and Joseph Chinnici for failing to speed up the long-promised Route 55 extension to Cape MayCounty . Amico got things rolling by charging the project has gone virtually nowhere. "And this failure (to complete the route) is blamed by these assemblymen for the low per-capita income and high unemployment in the county," she said. "In 1983, they promised it would be completed. They promised the same thing in 1979 and in 1977. I didn't have the energy to go back any further and dig out press clips." Chinnici and Muziani both pointed out that seven < miles have been completed, and said the rest will be finished by 1989. "THESE THINGS are being done; why do you complain that nothing is being done?". Muziani asked. "I want the chance to go back with this government and get more done " "At this rate it will take until the year 2032," Amico said later. "The completion of this route is too important to Cape May County to have it wait any longer." Batten said. "Civilization only moves as fast as its transportation and educational systems." "This year Tom Kean has everything together and will finish it by 1989," Chinnici said, promising not only completion, but a Kean victory on Nov. 5.

Chinnici addressed the crowd first, and cited his 14 years as a New Jersey assemblyman and his stint on the state Appropriations Committee. "IK JOHN DOEcomes to me and needs something. I know who to call." he said. "If it is possible to get it. I will get it for you. "These two (Amico and Batten) have never been in public office, they have no record." he added later. Chinnici also spoke of his tough stance on crime "I was responsible for the death penalty in this state, which 75 percent of the peole in the state want for premeditated murders." he said. "I have been very involved in legislation for crime, for rape." Again, he counted on a Kean victory. "Gov Kean is going to get a majority in the Senate.'' Chinnici predicted. "We are going toget the bills we want through, and we will get them through quickly." AMICO FOLLOWED ti&ting unsolved problems the First Legislative District. "We are first in unemployment, first in crime, .we have the lowest per capita income, we are first in teenage pregnancy and abort ions .-and we have the highest insurance rates in the country," he said. Amico also complained about the three county beach closings in the last 10 years and the failure of the current assemblymen to help migrant to/m workers in Cumberland Countyunionize. "They were not willing to address this issue at all." he said. And he was proud of his three-year lobbying effort to raise the state drinking age from 18-21. "I had more to do with raising the state drinking

age than anyone." Amico said. "I collected over 100.000 signatures in support of that legislation." BATTEN STRESSED environmental and educational issues. He said he would push for legislation to test ev&ry well within one mile of a toxic waste site and a substantial pro gram for shore protection. "We need a state-wide, cohesive engineering program that will look at the entire state." he said. 'Right now. we have places like Sea Isle City and Avalon who trade sand every year." Board of Freeholders Director Gerald Thornton asked Batten how he could question the county's progress on environmental issues, citing a report that listed it first in the state in waste management. "We may have a model system for waste disposal on program, but we should be much further along at this time," Batten said. "There were times when Wildwood dumped rawsewage into the bay. Litigation between Wildwood and the MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority) put the MUA six years behind. We may be number one in the state in waste management, but we could be much further along." BATTEN SAID HE SUPPORTS long-term funding for public schools to enable them to attract better teachers and build better facilities. He also said he would like to see a 200 per cent increase in community college funding. Muziani said he is trying to get shore protection legislation. "There is no alternative but for the state to realize its responsibility for these* beaches." he said He joined the other candidates in opposing a bottle bill, and joins Amico and Chinnici in opposing a ban on leg-hold traps Both, he said, would effect people's jobs. "Before anything else, you must be sensitive to the needs of people." he said. Batten said he is "philosophically opposed" to leg-hold traps.

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Ocean City Blood Stop OCEAN CITY - A Red Cross bloodmobile collection visit to the Ocean City Youth Center. Sixth and Atlantic Avenues, will take place 2-7 p.m. Wednesday. Nov. 13 The session will be sponsored by the Ocean City Colony Club Prospective donors can make appointments by calling the Red Cross at 646-7000 CORRECTION DIAS CREEK - A story in last week's paper reported that Marv and Edward Moore, residents of Cape May Care Center in Swainton. have unpaid bills including taxes on their home. The Moores actually were tenants of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Camp Sr.

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