Pou rejected the final $14M funding bill for NJ-09 before claiming credit in local press tour
CLIFTON, NJ — Rosie Pino, four-term local elected official and Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 9th District, today called out Rep. Nellie Pou’s political hypocrisy amid reports surfacing that Pou is touting over $14.4 million in local funding that she actually voted to kill in Washington.
“Nellie Pou is trying to have it both ways, but the voters are smarter than she thinks,” said Pino. “She stood on the House floor and voted to kill funding for our district’s pipes, police, and community centers just because she wanted to make a political statement against ICE. Now, she’s back home acting like she’s the one who wrote the check. She rejected the bill in D.C., but she’s posing for cameras in New Jersey,”
The $14.4 million in funding — which includes upgrades for the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, sewer system updates for Hawthorne, stormwater infrastructure for Edgewater, and more — only reached the district thanks to votes from House Republicans and some moderate Democrats. Had the bill failed as Pou intended, NJ-09 towns would have been left with nothing.
“The real credit for this investment in the 9th District belongs to the 196 Republicans and 21 moderate Democrats (not Nellie) who voted for the bill and kept our government running,” Pino continued. “This November, we are going to send a message that North Jersey wants results, not election-time press conferences and big fake prop checks.”
(Pino previously condemned Pou’s ‘NO’ vote earlier this month, warning that the Congresswoman broke with the bipartisan effort to prevent a government shutdown.)