Jay Won’t Pay
October 31st, 2008 | by BGuzzardi |
House District 70 Matt Bradford Challenging one term incumbent Jay Moyer
From the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee on behalf of Matt Bradford Campaign
Friends:
I am forwarding to you a mailing just sent out in the highly competitive 70th State House District in central Montgomery County. Based on these revelations, Moyer is a goner.
The mailing calls out incumbent Republican Jay Moyer for habitually failing to pay his debts. In fact, on numerous occasions, Moyer was hauled in to court by his creditors to force him to pay his bills.
The mailer includes the docket numbers of all the collection procedures initiated against Moyer–including numerous judgments and liens.
Additionally, the mailer points out that Moyer is so blatantly irresponsible that after he ran his family business into the ground, a lien was placed on Moyer’s property for failure to pay his business taxes.
Moyer, on numerous occasions, and in previous mailers, had vehementlydenied he had ever failed to pay his taxes and/or bills and even shamelessly tried to hide behind his wife and family–while attacking his Democratic opponent and stating he was “lying”. Now, the court documents make it apparent for all to see, Moyer is the one that has been lying–Moyer is–in fact–a deadbeat.
Furthermore, most damning, is that at least one of Moyer’s longstanding debts was not made good upon until the eve of Moyer’s entry into his race for State Representative.
All of the documents are available online at a new website, Jay Won’t Pay, or readers can call the court directly at 610-584-4732 and ask to review the relevant dockets for themselves.
This is all quite ironic, considering that Moyer has spent tens of thousands of dollars on campaign mailers denying these claims, even shamelessly and falsely attacking his Democratic rival.
This revelation is likely the end of life on the public dime for Moyer, a former official in the Bush administration–as Bradford has run an aggressive campaign, knocking on over 10,000 doors, raising over $400,000 and, more recently, new voter registrations gave Democrats a 450-voter edge in the swing Montgomery County district.
To put these numbers in context, 2 years ago, Moyer’s underfunded Democratic challenger lost by just 103 votes when the Republicans maintained a 5,500 registration advantage in the District.