FREEHOLDER CANDIDATE CALLS FOR RETENTION OF FT. MONMOUTH PATTERSON VETERANS CLINIC

- Local Veterans Deserve Continued Access to the Quality Healthcare this Facility Provides - -

Freehold, NJ – Monmouth County Republican Freeholder Candidate Jeff Cantor issued the following statement regarding the importance of keeping the Patterson clinic for veteran’s at Fort Monmouth open after the base closes in 2011.
“My fellow veterans have been greatly served by the V.A. facility located right here in Monmouth County at Fort Monmouth,” said Freeholder Candidate Jeff Cantor. “Taking away the Paterson clinic from our veterans would be comparable to taking away a soldier’s weapon in combat. It is unthinkable”
“This V.A. facility needs to be protected to ensure that all of the veterans in Monmouth County and those in surrounding counties have continued close and convenient access to quality health care. Today I am calling on the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority to fight and keep the Patterson clinic open when the base closes in 2011. I will work hard to advocate keeping this clinic open when I am elected freeholder.”
“All of Monmouth County’s veterans deserve continued access to the close, quality healthcare that this facility provides,” said Freeholder Candidate Jeff Cantor. “With the number of veterans using V.A. facilities expected to rise in the future this facility should remain open to serve our current and future veteran’s needs.”
“I want to thank Freeholder Lillian Burry for being the first leader to raise public awareness that this clinic needs to stay open and for her hard work on the Fort Monmouth Commission to ensure that the future use of the base, along with its V.A. clinic, will continue to serve the residents of Monmouth County. I look forward to working with her to keep this important facility open for our veterans,” concluded Cantor.
Jeff Cantor is currently a Major in the United States Army Reserves and part of the 353rd Civil Affairs Command. He was the Civil Affairs Commander in Iraq for the At-Tamim province and Kirkuk from 2003-2004. He lives in Marlboro Township, where he serves as council president, with his wife Ava and two daughters.

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