Byram politicos push anti-Rights Brady resolution

In Byram Township, the political elite can at times be a tad weird.  No shit. 

Not so very long ago Byram had a town councilman named Rick Meltz.  The current Mayor spoke very highly of him and was rather shocked when Meltz got caught a few summers ago of planning to lure a woman and her daughter to a location so that he could... "snuff" them.

The Byram Councilman was part of a band of cannibal/rapists/murderers who conspired over a two-year period to "carry out the plots against potential victims, including infants."  A 23-page indictment outlined the charges against them.

Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara called the accusations a "bone-chilling … chronicle of sadism and depravity that includes … very real steps to carry out … plans to kidnap, torture, rape, and kill the women and children they targeted". (Rueters, March 12, 2013)

"You want to hang the 9-year old," Meltz wrote in an email. "I would rather manually choke her but hanging is nice also."

Meltz served several terms as a councilman in Byram Township, was a Sussex County undersheriff until 1996 and ran unsuccessfully for sheriff in 1998... (Star-Ledger, April 6, 2013)

Meltz was real popular with the political class in Byram.  It was said that Meltz possessed a great deal of what goes for "common sense" leadership in Byram.

Now for the latest "common sense" idea coming out of Byram:  Let's come out swinging against the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.

That's right -- a month after a sex predator gets caught doing a home invasion that involves the sexual assault of two girls, let's try to make it tougher for the people of Sussex County to defend themselves and their families.

Why would you want to take away the ability to defend yourself when you have elected officials who get recorded by the FBI saying shit like this?

Meltz, according to the criminal complaint, touted his past experience killing women.

"As we said, murder is easy, getting away with it is not," he said in a phone conversation, according to the complaint. "The excitement and the adrenaline rush is incredible when you’re hunting some prey and they have no idea or concept that they’re being followed. They’re just in their own little nitwit world. They have no concept that within minutes or seconds they could be fighting a futile fight for their life." (Star-Ledger, April 6, 2013)

Heck, Byram is like the town of the walking dead -- guns are a must. 

So, whose bidding is being done by the Byram Township Council?  Well, it appears that the text of the resolution being considered this evening comes directly from the files of the leftwing Brady Campaign. 

You know the Brady people -- well intentioned, but lacking in practical application.  They want to see a world where gun ownership is limited -- like illegal narcotics are.  In practice this means that the law abiding won't have self-protection while the criminal class will have as much access to illegal firearms as they do illegal drugs today.

And this isn't good for places like Byram.  Because, heck, if the town's vetting process is so poor that the councilman and undersheriff is a madman intent on murdering your wife and eating your children -- you'll need a gun.

Candidate David Gray manipulates Byram councilwoman

Last evening you may have received an email from "Watchdog" that contained a personal message from Byram Councilwoman Nisha Kash, complaining about the Watchdog website.  To further add to the confusion, the Byram Councilwoman used an address in New Hope, Pennsylvania. 

Of course, last night's email wasn't from Watchdog -- it was from the campaign of Freeholder candidates David Gray and Kathleen Gorman.  Once again, they lied and pretended to be this website.

Of course, Byram Councilwoman Kash won't be found cuddling in New Hope, Pennsylvania, because if she actually lived there she would have to resign as a councilwoman in Byram, New Jersey.  Another lie, courtesy of the Gray-Gorman duo.

Unfortunately, the Gray-Gorman campaign used Councilwoman Kash to make an accusation against Freeholder George Graham that everyone -- including the New Jersey Herald -- thought frivolous and silly.  Kash has fallen under the power of a lobbyist and political operative who goes by the name of "Big Bottom."  And it's not that Big Bottom loves Gray-Gorman as much as Big Bottom hates George Graham.

Unfortunately, the Gray-Gorman campaign caused details of the Councilwoman's public record to be revealed when they posted her address -- the address she uses as a public official -- on their email.  They did so again on last night's email.  Now, because of David Gray and his antics, Councilwoman Kash claims concern for the privacy of her family.

She's not the first woman to be victimized by David Gray.  Freeholder candidate David Gray is being sued under New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act. The plaintiff, Juliette Bresnahan, is a single-mother of three who worked full-time as the office manager of David Gray's law firm.   Here's what the lawsuit alleges: 

". . . around mid-October 2015, Gray informed Bresnahan that he received a tax bill for around $62,000.  Gray indicated that he was unsure how he would pay this bill. . .

. . . Gray's directive was aimed at intentionally falsifying and fraudulently increasing the bills to generate more revenue to the firm to extricate it from its current financial predicament."

Read the entire complaint against Gray here.

Councilwoman Kash complains that Sussex County politics is becoming more like that of Hudson and Essex Counties.  We disagree.  Sussex County politics approximates that of a largish junior high -- with Big Bottom trying to swing the role of Big Butt on Campus.  Even serious subjects are reduced to prepubescent blather when Big Bottom joins the conversation.  About the most intelligent comment it ever made was a lightly suppressed burp.  That said, Big Bottom is always on the make for some taxpayers' money -- always hawking some useless scam to some local government that's been bullied into signing something if only to get the smell out of the room.  

Finally, to clear up any misperception about what is public information concerning a public official in New Jersey, we have mailed a copy of the Local Government Ethics Act to the Byram Police Department  and have included a copy of the Personal Financial Disclosure Statement the Councilwoman is required to file under the  Local Government Ethics Act.