LIFENET - The time has come to defund America’s abortion giant!
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, killing over 300,000 babies each year, and nearly half of their billion dollar budget comes from our tax dollars.
But now the new 115th Congress is moving to strip Planned Parenthood of that money! On February 11, pro-lifers like you will take to the streets to demand our government stops funding an organization that specializes in killing children.
Protest Planned Parenthood
Join in at the Planned Parenthood facility in your community to protest and pray for an end to Planned Parenthood’s massive government subsidy, and that God would provide us with the perseverance to attain equal rights for babies in the womb in society and in the law.
NEW JERSEY LOCATIONS:
Newton
Newton Green Spring Street and Main Street, Newton, NJ 07860 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. on February 11 Sponsored by Sussex County Right to Life
Freehold
Planned Parenthood - Freehold Health Center 800 W. Main Street, Freehold, NJ 07728 Time: 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. on February 11
Morristown
Planned Parenthood - Morristown Health Center 196 Speedwell Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. on February 11
Plainfield
Planned Parenthood - Plainfield Health Center 123 Park Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07060 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.on February 11
Shrewsbury
Planned Parenthood - Shrewsbury Health Center 69 E Newman Springs Road, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. on February 11
Washington (Warren County)
Planned Parenthood - Washington Health Center 66 E. Washington Avenue, Washington, NJ 07882 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on February 11
The anger-driven, screw-them-all cacophony of the Tea Party is now costing embattled conservative Republican Congressman Scott Garrett votes.
Facebook post:"Didn't Garrett support the gas tax?Really hurts Sussex County residents."
How misinformed!But these are the kinds of conclusions drawn when you are functioning on high-octane hate.Facts don't matter.All that matters is rage and targets for that rage.
Scott Garrett is a Sussex County native who has represented New Jersey’s fifth congressional district since 2003.This year, he’s locked in the most difficult race he's ever faced.Garrett is an unabashed social conservative with an almost perfect conservative voting record.
The American Conservative Union rated him 100 percent last year. His lifetime ACU rating is 99.38.Garrett is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus and has the support of theClub for Growth.
Still, many in the Tea Party find him suspect because he didn't rise from their ranks and his politics predates 2009 -- Year Zero for the Tea Party.Unlike many Tea Party leaders, Congressman Garrett is an old-fashioned conservative gentleman who eschews the kind of foul-language on display from Tea Party Facebook warriors and at Tea Party rallies.He is definitely out of step with the movement's manner of communicating.
This has earned Garrett problems from the Tea Party in the past.He was challenged in a Republican primary by a Tea Party member who will be playing a big part at the October 22nd Rally on Newton Green.Despite his 99.38 lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, that Tea Party leader described Garrett as a far-left liberal.Violence and threats have been directed at the Congressman's office.
In the past, the Tea Party has often let their emotions get the better of them.At times, they behave as if they are disconnected from our shared reality, rejecting fact for feeling.Too often, violence is on their lips.They fail to forgive long time allies and friends, and instead heap the most vicious invective on them.Here is a chilling post, by a Tea Party leader from Sussex County, that expresses the kind of desires that can grow when you fail to keep hold of your humanity, humility, and common decency:
"All 545 sitting in DC right now are guilty of treason. And all those living who have sat over the past 2 decades, since the signing of NAFTA are, too. That is our reality, they should all be indicted, dragged out in chains, the evidence a matter of congressional record and unimpeachable. And all should be subject to all the consequences the law provides up to the firing squad."
What this Tea Party leader is describing is a lynching.Let's hope that's not what happens on the 22nd.People don't need any more reasons to vote for our mutual opponents.
Tomorrow evening the New Jersey Herald will be holding a public debate between the four candidates for Sussex County Freeholder. Voters will get to select two. The candidates are: Jonathan Rose, Republican; Carl Lazzaro, Republican; Harvey Roseff, Independent; and Robert Walsh, Independent. The Sussex County Democrats did not come up with a candidate for Freeholder this year.
The debate is being held at Newton High School. It begins at 6pm and will take about an hour.
Sussex County is in transition. With its tax base shrinking and job hunters moving away, there are a lot of issues that will have to be tackled by the next Freeholder Board. The solar scandal exposed the extent to which cronyism and back room dealing has corrupted the process of government in Sussex County. To address these issues moving forward, we need a county ethics committee, the registration of county lobbyists, and a clear ethics policy that every elected official, employee, and vendor signs off on.
Other issues that need to be discussed include the future of transportation in the county -- both in terms of improved roads and bridges with quicker repair schedules and mass transportation to points outside the county and within. How we address this will determine whether or not we will have the infrastructure to grow and provide jobs for our future.
Solid waste is another. The county has a great asset in its solid waste facility but past Freeholder Boards have wanted to sell it off to politically connected operators at a bargain basement price. We shouldn't allow it to become the next homestead nursing home sale -- with both the asset and the income, and now even the windfall, gone.
Transitional healthcare sounded good but it has to be re-examined to see whether or not it is a good deal for taxpayers. And part of that examination will have to be the relationships between health care corporations and county officials both past and present.
The county's 9-1-1 program has also ended up being less than advertised. We went from a program that worked to one that still works but costs a whole lot more. Some say a million dollars a year more, with half of Sussex County actually paying twice for the service.
Sussex County's solar debacle began as a sole bid contract. Sole bid contracts have become a usual and customary way of doing business in Sussex County. The biding process must be made more open -- both in transparency of process and in advertising bids.
These are just a few of the many issues that you need to ask questions about tomorrow evening. No doubt you have some of your own. Please take an hour out of your week and attend the debate, ask questions, and take back your county.
The rest of this week we will be looking at each of the four candidates for Freeholder, so stay tuned.
If you had occasion to read the New Jersey Herald on Sunday, you were in for a dose of corporate propaganda from Mary Sanchez -- Hillary Clinton cheerleader and sometime racist. That's right, in an infamous column written in 2012, Ms. Sanchez let the world know that she judges people based on the color of their skin, not the content of their hearts. In the world of Mary Sanchez race and ethnicity trump policies. Ideas are secondary to your tribe. That kind of thinking is right out of the Middle Ages.
On Sunday, Mary Sanchez was trying to pull the wool over the eyes of Herald readers by telling them -- in the most snarky way possible (and frankly, she is a bit too old for snark) -- that Planned Parenthood isn't really about abortion, it's about a whole lot of other things relating to women's health. Well, there are two things you need to remember about Planned Parenthood. First, it works very hard to be a corporate monopoly in the business of providing government-funded services to poor and low-income women. Second, it employs a multi-million dollar lobbying operation in Washington, DC, and in the capitals of the 50 states to make certain that they either keep that monopoly or obtain a monopoly in those markets where they don't currently hold one.
Take a look sometime at the legislation Planned Parenthood spends those millions lobbying on and then try to look someone in the eye and seriously argue that it isn't about abortion. If Planned Parenthood had its way, religious charities would be forced to pay for abortions. That's making yourself all about abortion.
Planned Parenthood understands that the taxpayer faucet to fund women's health is going to be turned on at the federal, state, and local levels of government -- and they want to make sure that they get all of it. And we all know what happens when a corporation is allowed to achieve a monopoly: They can raise costs to whatever the market will bear (and the taxpayers will pay).
Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar business with a central corporate office and 59 affiliated corporations across the country. In addition to its corporate lobbying arm, Planned Parenthood has its own federal political action committee and dozens of affiliated state PACs that attempt to legally bribe elected officials to get them to vote their way in exchange for campaign cash.
In her argument on behalf of Planned Parenthood's corporate masters, Ms. Sanchez never addresses the actual content of the half-dozen or more videos that document (in their own words) how top Planned Parenthood officials are entering into the "ethically dubious" trade of harvesting human body parts. For Mary Sanchez, it's an opportunity to show off some teen-snark but it comes across as genuine as a middle-aged mom trying to wear her 14 year-old's clothing.
Big powerful corporations like Planned Parenthood think they're above the law. Along with everyone else in the know, Ms. Sanchez doesn't expect Planned Parenthood to be thoroughly investigated for possibly violating federal laws against the sale of human body parts. That's because they are so powerful and spend so much on Congress. Planned Parenthood is no different than the banking giant HSBC. It was caught laundering nearly a million dollars in sales from illegal narcotics and nobody went to jail for it. As Democrat U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out, this was money from murderous Mexican and Columbian drug lords and the bank didn't do it just once but over and over again. Senator Warren opined that "too big to fail has become too big for trial."
Alternative options for women -- like those independent women's clinics that are not in the business of harvesting human body parts -- do not have the million-dollar lobbying operation or the national brand. They have to fight for funding because they don't have the pro-abortion activists in their corner.
And that is what Mary Sanchez' column is really all about. She is trying to protect the Planned Parenthood brand after its top corporate officials got caught on video (and in whistleblower testimony by former employees). Ms. Sanchez would like you to believe that there is only one option, one company store, and that is Planned Parenthood. That is certainly Planned Parenthood's monopolistic goal, but fortunately for women's health, there are other options and maybe now they will get the funding they deserve.
At least one such option exists in Sussex County. There is a Community Health Center located at 238 Spring Street, Newton. They can be reached by telephone at 973-383-7001. They can be accessed on the Internet at http://www.phcmednet.org/obgyn.htm.
Sussex County Watchdog
