Subject: It’s about time!!! Larry, I work in the health care field and just wanted to point out to your readers the fact as reported in yesterday’s press (Sun. Sept. 24th) a key reason why I as a registered Republican will be voting for Robert Menendez and not Tom Kean Jr. We in New Jersey are the only State that does not allow clean needle exchange as a proven effective weapon in the prevention of the spread of hepatitis, HIV and several other diseases that our spread by the sharing of needles among drug users. As noted in the article the effects of our legislator’s pig headedness has resulted in a horrible price being paid by non drug using loved ones especially women and children of needle drug users. I see on a daily bases the effect of this political cowardliness. And now I learn that not only would the candidate who I would tend to lean toward supporting, Tom Kean Jr. have voted to send us to war in Iraq, even knowing what a disaster that has turned out to be, but he voted against a very weak Needle Exchange Bill, there is simply no way he will get my vote in November. I will be voting for Robert Menenedez and I strongly urge your readers to do the same. Disenchanted Republican