Ciattarelli team blasts opponent over ‘slanderous’ claim he profited from opioid deaths

With the final days closing in on an especially messy New Jersey gubernatorial voting process Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli s campaign slammed his Democratic opponent Rep Mikie Sherrill for pushing a narrative that he killed tens of thousands of people Sherrill accused Ciattarelli of being responsible for printing propaganda via the healthcare publishing company he founded that downplayed the dangers of opioids and of designing an app to help people access dangerous drugs She made the alleges during a gubernatorial debate on Oct and doubled down during a press conference on opioid addiction on Monday Jack made millions the opioid companies made billions and thousands of New Jerseyans were dying Sherrill explained at the press conference GETTING DESPERATE GOVERNOR DEBATE GETS PERSONAL AFTER DEMOCRAT IS MOCKED FOR CHEATING SCANDALChris Russell a Ciattarelli campaign strategist recounted Fox News that if Sherrill had any decency she would retract her slanderous comments and apologize Whether it's tripling her net worth in Congress and hiding details of her stock trades or concealing the true extent of her role in the Naval Academy cheating shame Mikie Sherrill is a proven liar and lawbreaker whose desperation is showing commented Russell Her reckless and defamatory claim that Jack 'killed tens of thousands of people including children ' has been roundly criticized by members of the press legal scholars and people in both parties he added The truth is that Jack Ciattarelli's healthcare publishing company helped to create an online tool which allowed a small group of chronic pain sufferers to educate themselves on cure options and better advocate for their own healthcare choices when meeting with their curative professionals explained Russell NJ REPUBLICAN CIATTARELLI THREATENS TO SUE SHERRILL OVER OPIOID CLAIMIn response Sean Higgins a campaign spokesperson for Sherrill narrated Fox News Digital that after years of hiding his role fueling the opioid epidemic Jack Ciattarelli is ultimately admitting to being paid by an opioid company to create an app to coach patients to get a Hydrocodone prescription all at a time when the opioid predicament was raging and killing New Jerseyans He made millions off of New Jerseyans' pain and suffering and clearly cannot be trusted as governor explained Higgins Ciattarelli has threatened to sue Sherrill for defamation if she does not stop raising these accusations Despite this Sherrill was adamant about the accusations on Monday She pushed back on the threat of lawsuits over the accusations saying I'm dumbfounded that this perennial candidate who has run now for three elections saying that he's a small businessman the minute we start to talk about that small business he wants to shut it He wants his lawyers to shut it down I mean that's ridiculous to me I think we've laid out the occurrence that Jack is in league with these opioid companies disclosed Sherrill NJ DEM MIKIE SHERRILL DOUBLES DOWN ON CLAIM THAT CIATTARELLI COMPLICIT IN OPIOID DEATHS OF THOUSANDSPressed to clarify whether she was asserting that Ciattarelli killed tens of thousands of New Jerseyans Sherrill answered Yes Look I think he is right there with the people that again paid billions of dollars So I think that the line is pretty clear For his part Ciattarelli shot back against Sherrill at a campaign rally on Monday saying her entire campaign is based on a stack of lies about me and her disdain for the president He revealed that for the remainder of the campaign he will be pivoting to discussing his day one plan as governor saying he will directly issue an executive order banning sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal immigrants bringing state workers back to work in-person appointing a state attorney general who supports both police and parents fixing the society mentoring system and eliminating green capacity initiatives in New Jersey