Two dark money groups playing in South Jersey used same Baltimore printer

In what might be just a coincidence, two different dark money political organizations making independent expenditures in South Jersey legislative races on behalf of different candidates used the same union printer in Baltimore.

A mailer from American Representatives Majority, which has direct ties to South Jersey Democrats, displays a union label from Allied Printing Trades Council #51, assigned to Creative Print Group.

The same union bug appears on a mailer from Jersey Freedom, a tax-exempt political committee formed last month that uses a post office box in Jamaica, Queens.

American Representative Majority sent mailers slamming Del Borrello for ties to his family business in the primary and general elections.

The same issues against Del Borrello were raised in a Jersey Freedom mailer sent to Republicans, which instead sought to direct votes to a phantom candidate, Giuseppe Costanzo, who is running under a Conservative banner.   One of the circulators of Costanzo’s nominating petitions was Angela McGeehan, a Democrat whose father, Frank Cianci, is a former Washington Township Democratic municipal chairman.

The Baltimore-based Creative Print Group has received payment from nearly 2,000 federal campaign accounts – most of them Democratic campaigns – according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

According to reports filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, American Representative Majority paid $28,720 to Creative Print Group to send mailers opposing Del Borrello in the Republican primary.   The group was attempting to help Gloucester County Commissioner Nick DeSilvio win the GOP Senate nomination.

Costanzo has been contacted by the New Jersey Globe multiple times over the last six days in an attempt to learn more about his candidacy but has not been reachable.

McGeehan, who spent six years working for the Gloucester County Clerk, is now a clerical employee at Washington Township High School.  She has also declined to say why she circulated petitions to get two phantom candidates on the ballot.

“I don’t have a comment at this time,” she told the New Jersey Globe multiple times during a two-minute phone call today.