A Sussex Grandmother on tomorrow's GOP primary

We saw this email and decided to distribute it.  It makes a number of good points.

From: "Andrea Bunny Cocula" <bunny123@warwick.net>

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 13:13:33 -0400

To: 'Andrea Bunny Cocula'<bunny123@warwick.net>

Subject: Vote for Experienced Republicans OROHO-SPACE-WIRTHS

Vote for Experienced Republicans we Respect

Tomorrow's Republican Primary offers a clear choice between those who know how to get things done and who get things done vs. big talk and nothing to show for it.

Senator Steve Oroho has helped thousands of people in Sussex County and District 24. 

He is New Jersey's number one tax cutter and since 2011 has been responsible for billions in tax cuts to help business grow jobs, for senior citizens, for consumers, veterans, family farms, and working families.  He's brought back millions in property tax relief and prevented property tax increases that would have added nearly $600 more onto the average yearly bill.

Assemblyman Parker Space leads the legislature in proposing ways to tackle New Jersey's high property taxes -- with 55 bills that address every aspect of this problem.  Along with Steve and Hal, he supports Senator Mike Doherty's Fair School Funding Reform.  Like Steve and Hal. Parker is a Second Amendment champion and a fighter for the Right to life.

As Labor Commissioner, Hal Wirths cut millions in taxes for business and prevented a business tax increase.  He reformed the state's unemployment trust fund and tracked down and eliminated a billion dollars in benefits fraud.  Hal balanced the books when he was a Sussex County Freeholder, cut spending, and reduced the debt.  He will make a great Assemblyman.

Opposing them is a Trenton bureaucrat who has used regulation to gum up the works of worthy projects here in Sussex County, a young man who has yet to pay a property tax bill, and another candidate who has never voted in a Republican primary.

That's why I support Steve Oroho for Senate, Parker Space and Hal Wirths for Assembly.  Experience matters.  Doing counts for more than big talk.  Thank You ~ Bunny ~

At debate, Orr and Atwood flunk their history lesson

Last evening, the Republican candidates for Assembly held a debate hosted by the New Jersey Herald.  About 40 or so people showed up to the Sussex County Community College to hear Nathan Orr and David Atwood explain why they should be there in the first place. 

Orr, aged 25, has run for office before but has never held office.  He has tried to argue that his experience in student government has prepared him for the rigors of battling and negotiating with the majority Democrats in Trenton. 

Atwood, who used a different name (Wygonski) to vote with as late as November of last year, has never voted in a Republican primary before.  He is an Illinois native whose only other participation in the political process was showing up to vote in the 2012 presidential election.  He couldn't be bothered to vote for his buddy Orr when he was on the ballot in 2015.

Orr flunked his history lesson by comparing himself to Donald Trump.  Orr, like a growing number of egoists with more arrogance than gray matter, said that because Trump won, he can win.  Orr apparently forgets that Donald Trump is worth $3.5 billion -- that's billion, with a "B".  Orr also forgets that at age 25 (the age Orr is now), Donald Trump formally took control of his father's real estate development company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which he would rename the Trump Organization.

Nope Nathan... you're no Donald.

Atwood flunked his history lesson too.  In trying to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, his mistake was in not understanding how Ronald Reagan got to be President Reagan.  Atwood is apparently under the impression that Reagan did not hold political office before entering the White House.  In fact, Ronald Reagan was a twice-elected Governor of the California, the most populous state in America.  Reagan was elected Governor in 1966 and again in 1970.  Reagan was the top politician in the nation's most populated state from 1967 to 1975.  Reagan was heavily involved as a speaker in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, before running for President himself in 1968 and 1976.  Reagan was successful in the 1980 presidential contest and won re-election in 1984.

Sorry Atwood... you're no Reagan.

Tea Party leaders pushing Democrat agenda in Sussex

There is a reason why Hillary Clinton didn't address the Republican National Convention last summer.  If you want to beat somebody and their ideas you don't hold hands and sing kumbaya. 

The two nitwits who invited liberal Democrat Jennifer Hamilton to promote her candidacy with the Skylands Tea Party group don't understand that.  Hamilton, a decidedly left-of-center Democrat lawyer, is running with two other self-proclaimed "progressives" for the New Jersey Legislature against conservative Republicans Steve Oroho, Parker Space, and Hal Wirths.  She addressed the Tea Party group on Wednesday evening.

One of the nitwits who invited her, New York City lawyer Doug Amedeo, spends so much time trying to placate his far-left, Obama-loving law partner, that's he's become conditioned to kissing liberal butt.  How come ALL the campaign donations coming out of his law practice go to left wing Democrats?  Most law firms split it up a little.

Photo Credit: New Jersey HeraldThe other nitwit is Bill Hayden (now that he's trying to clean up his dirtbag image, he wants to be known as William Jefferson Hayden).  Hayden actually allowed himself to be talked into running in the GOP primary to "soften up" conservative Republican Senator Steve Oroho so that liberal Democrat Jennifer Hamilton has the best chance to win.

The person who convinced Hayden was none other than Freeholder George Graham, who has flip-flopped back and forth between Democrat and Republican no less than FIVE times.  Graham is looking to benefit from the money being thrown into Northwest New Jersey by Democrat candidate for Governor Phil Murphy.  Murphy, a rich liberal Wall Streeter (Goldman Sachs), former DNC Finance Chairman, and Obama ambassador, is the favorite to be New Jersey's next Governor.  That will mean jobs and appointments to all loyal Democrats.

Graham ally Dan Perez -- who advised and provided legal advice to both Freeholder Graham and Gail Phoebus -- announced last week that he had switched back to Democrat and is running on a far-left platform with fellow liberal Democrat Jennifer Hamilton and her two running mates for the Legislature. Perez, who was appointed by Graham to a taxpayer-paid patronage position on the SCMUA board, is running for Freeholder in Sussex County. 

Word has it that if Perez is successful, Graham and one other nominal Republican intend to flip to Democrat to swing the board left and to the Democrats.  If this happens, the property tax increases Sussex County has suffered since George Graham came to the Freeholder Board will seem like nothing compared to what awaits taxpayers under a Democrat Graham-Perez dominated board. 

And at the Tea Party meeting on Wednesday night, Gail Phoebus indicated that she too would flip to Democrat and suggested that she would challenge Republicans Parker Space and Hal Wirths in the 2019 Assembly race.  The great Sussex County migration of former Democrats back to the party they came from is on.

At Wednesday night's meeting, liberal Democrat Senate candidate Jennifer Hamilton opened up her discussion with an illusion to a book by Hillary Clinton and told her audience that they had much in common.  Then she used some Obama phraseology about "coming together."  Of course, the platform she is running on contains charming phrases like this one:

"Governor Christie sold out to right-wing special interests in order to further his own political ambitions. He has attacked women’s rights at every step, vetoing efforts to ensure equal pay and cutting funding for Planned Parenthood. Then, he became a lead surrogate for the most misogynistic campaign this country has seen."

We hope those Tea Partiers understand that THEY are those "right-wing special interests" that the Democrats are talking about.  And the campaign of their President -- Donald Trump -- is "the most misogynistic campaign this country has seen."

William Jefferson Hayden opened up the Q & A by throwing a softball question to the liberal Democrat he invited.   She claimed that she supported the Second Amendment for Sussex and Warren Counties, but not for the rest of New Jersey.  As a lawyer, she knows that is a lie, that the laws are the laws for everyone and that the State, when it attempts to maintain or restrict the constitutional rights of its citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America , does so on a statewide level because to attempt to do otherwise would violate the state constitution. 

How can Democrat Hamilton say that the Second Amendment is allowed for someone living in Sussex County, but if that person travels to Essex County it isn't covered there?  Is it because of the racial make-up of Essex County?  Does she believe that the Second Amendment only applies to specific racial or geographic subsets? 

Liberal Hamilton served up a line of crap to the Skylands Tea Party and their leaders Amedeo and Hayden were there to make sure the members lined up as they spoon-fed the muck down their throats.  By her answers it is clear that Jennifer Hamilton has no intention of protecting the Second Amendment for ANYONE living in New Jersey. 

What a damned shame!  The membership of the Tea Party are mostly good people who want to get together to fight what they see as the takeover of their country by the liberal Democrats.  The spend their valuable time and money to support an organization, only to have the leaders of the group cut a deal and turn around and give them the same steaming b.s. that the mainstream media serves up.

Amedeo and Hayden could have made a few bucks by inviting MSNBC to film Wednesday's meeting under the title, "Getting over on the Tea Party" or "Watch as the Tea Party kisses liberal azz."

They could have made even more money by having MSNBC tape their February meeting, when Skylands Vice President William Jefferson Hayden trashed Parker Space, a 13th-generation Sussex County farmer, a businessman, and the most conservative member of the New Jersey Assembly.  On vote after vote, Republican Assemblyman Parker Space has stood tall and fought for conservative values.

And yet William Jefferson Hayden, public employee union member, 20-year career Department of Transportation bureaucrat, wearing a Tea Party hat that he found in a gutter, invited Assemblyman Space and his wife to the February Skylands Tea Party meeting and then subjected them BOTH to a withering stream of insults and attacks in an attempt to humiliate them and their family.  This was a real dirtbag thing for Hayden to do and not something the membership of the Tea Party group asked for or approved of.  And when it was pointed out that Parker Space had a perfect voting record with the NRA, Hayden trashed the NRA.  Real dirtbaggery.

Hayden could not have behaved more differently on Wednesday night.  He all but planted one on the liberal Democrat's behind. 

We need a conservative Tea Party.  This sickness has got to end.

Dems use Graham to run Hayden, Orr, Atwoodski

Left/liberal Democrat Phil Murphy's plans to flip Sussex County from Trump red to Clinton/Obama blue got a major boost when Freeholder George Graham, a nominal member of the GOP, agreed to direct the campaign of Hayden, Orr, and Atwoodski.  The three are running in the GOP primary to "soften up" conservative Republicans Steve Oroho, Parker Space, and Hal Wirths.  It is the same method used last year to take down conservative Republican Congressman Scott Garrett.

Graham, a longtime political consultant to Hudson County Democrats, has an interesting pedigree to say the least.  Back when Graham was a local elected official in Stanhope, he switched from Republican to Democrat in order to vote in the 2008 Democrat presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Graham had been a Democrat before switching to Republican but later switched back to Republican, his current party today.  Just so everyone is straight, Graham went from D to R to D to R.

Graham's political consulting business, York Strategies, worked to elect liberal Democrat legislators like Bayonne mayor Joe Doria.  A committed leftie, Doria is still on the campaign trail with fellow liberal Democrat Jim Florio, only now they campaign for gun control and against the NRA (National Rifle Association).  At a recent gathering the two called for new constraints on the Second Amendment, with Joe Doria calling the NRA "dirty".  Not to be outdone, Florio added that the manufacturers and sellers of guns were, in his words, "Merchants of Death." 

Recently, Dan Perez -- who advised and provided legal advice to both Freeholder Graham and Gail Phoebus -- announced that he had switched back to Democrat and is running on a far-left platform with fellow liberal Democrat Jennifer Hamilton and her two running mates for the state legislature.  Perez, who was appointed by Graham to a taxpayer-paid patronage position on the SCMUA board, is running for Freeholder in Sussex County. 

Word has it that if Perez is successful, Graham and one other nominal Republican intend to flip to Democrat to swing the board left and to the Democrats.  If this happens, the property tax increases Sussex County has suffered since George Graham came to the Freeholder Board will seem like nothing compared to what awaits taxpayers under a Democrat Graham-Perez dominated board.

Why would Perez leave the GOP and Graham consider making it D-R-D-R-D? 

The gubernatorial campaign of Democrat Phil Murphy is one reason.  Murphy is a Goldman Sachs rich guy, former DNC finance chairman, and Obama ambassador who has his heart set on becoming Jon Corzine # 2.  The Sussex County Democrat Committee and its candidates will be funded like never before.  And Murphy is the favorite to win the Governor's race in November.  Which would mean access to jobs and appointments for loyal Democrats in the new administration.  If you are an opportunist who never gave a damn about the GOP platform, the time is right.

Graham's first move has been to pressure the subsidized media -- the print media that gets infusions of money from property taxpayers through mandatory government advertisements -- into serving as a message delivery system until the full weight of the Murphy money arrives.  How this works will shortly be made apparent, but one must always remember the pressure that today's print media is under to stay afloat and keep the presses running.  Graham knows this and knows that one of the first things the Freeholders do at every re-organization is to hand out the subsidy to selected print media -- not every newspaper gets it.  His control of three of the five members of the current board ensures that he will have his way.

This story is developing. . .

The arrogance of young Nathan Orr

Maybe it's his involvement with the Tea Party?  Or maybe it's just the way he's been raised?  Rarely, very rarely, has there been a more bold-faced exposition of smug, youthful arrogance than the letter to the editor, written by Nathan Orr, and published by the New Jersey Herald on November 1st.

But which Nathan Orr is this? 

Is it Nathan Orr the law partner, or Nathan Orr the software engineer, or Nathan Orr the accountant, or Nathan Orr the executive, or even Nathan Orr the 4th Grade school teacher?  No, it is Nathan Orr who graduated from Centenary College in 2013, spent time traveling through Europe courtesy of some family money, and whose first act as an adult appears to have been a campaign for political office. 

This is worth noting, because young Nathan called the Senator who represents him a "career politician."  Well, if he is, then he came to his career a lot later than Nathan Orr has. 

Unlike Nathan Orr, who went straight from undergraduate to political candidate, the man he so casually shits on had other responsibilities after his father died young. He went to work in New York City, met a girl, married, started a family, got involved in the Right-to-Life movement.  He became a Certified Public Accountant and worked for companies like W.R. Grace.  He was a senior financial officer for S&P 500 companies like Young & Rubicam and was sent to Europe to put newly acquired companies back on a healthy financial track.  And all this was before he ever even contemplated running for public office.

Remembering how hard his father had worked and his early death, he retired from corporate life to have more time to spend with his growing family.  He got involved as a coach for a number of youth athletic teams -- most notably as a football coach at Pope John High School.  He got involved in his town's economic development committee, local community organizations and charities, then was elected to borough council where he learned about municipal budgets and the problems local governments have to deal with. 

He ran for Freeholder and together with Hal Wirths and Gary Chiusano, reformed the county's budget process.  The successes of that board -- and later the board chaired by Jeff Parrott -- are looked upon today as the "good old days" of Sussex County government. 

And then, after a lifetime of learning and experience, only then did this so-called "career politician" consider running for the New Jersey Legislature. 

Not so Nathan Orr.  No sooner he was birthed from college he had his petitions to run for the New Jersey Legislature.  No place for humility when you are starting at the top.

Maybe it's the way he's been raised?

A common thread throughout civilizations is respect for age -- which is really just a way of acknowledging experience and the practical learning that comes with it.  Those who give respect, get it in return.  Not so our Nathan Orr. 

This young man casually dismisses the generally acknowledged feat his Senator accomplished by successfully negotiating five tax cuts from a position of weakness, one in which the Democrats controlled both chambers of the Legislature by hefty margins.  And his Senator accomplished this with the Democrats knowing that all they had to do was to run out the clock, wait until November 2017, when they can elect a new Democrat Governor.  Then they could have raised the gas tax as much as they like without any tax cuts.  Against all this, his Senator forged a compromise.

But the Senator's accomplishments are casually shit on by a young man whose most noteworthy negotiation to date has been securing his girlfriend's agreement to be engaged to him.  It is an amazing case of arrogance.

Maybe it's the way he's been raised?

Young Nathan Orr concludes his letter with a threat.  Speaking for his father as well, Nathan Orr writes:  "We accept your offer to meet before we decide whether or not to recall you."

Wow.  Somebody told that young man a story about how great he was and he believed it.

It's nice that Daddy Orr and Nathan Orr will get to spend some personal time to screw with their Senator.  Father and son can bond as they ignore what their Senator has to say, safe in the knowledge that they have all the answers -- even if they can't say how they got them. 

One person who won't be at that meeting is the Senator's son.  He's in public service too.  He's someone Nathan Orr might sneeringly call a "career government worker and son of a career politician." 

No, the Senator's son won't be at that meeting, standing by his old man's side like Daddy Orr will be by Nathan's.  And that's because the Senator's son is a U.S. Army Ranger, deployed in the fight to defeat terrorism.  Yeah, like his old man, he's a doer too.

Public service (whatever others may sneeringly call it) runs deep in some families.

By the way, did you sleep well last night?