Family feud in Phoebusville

It can't be fun living in Phoebusville these days.  While Assemblywoman Gail Phoebus claims to find the Hank Williams Jr. band banner "disgusting" she gained a dissenting opinion from a member of her very immediate family, who apparently approved of a photo of Jill and Parker Space standing next to it at a Hank Williams Jr. concert enough to "Like" it on Facebook.

The outgoing Assemblywoman is apparently conducting her own "revenge tour" this week.  First she trashed her former running mate (Parker Space) and her former campaign treasurer (Jill Space), then she sat down to dictate a full-length blog attack on the Space family and her one-time love object, Wee Willy.  It's a very small world indeed. 

Jill and Parker Space are only the latest to suffer from the bad-karma that surrounds Phoebus' political projects.  Her first running mate lost a race she was expected to win (but Phoebus won), her first campaign treasurer's son married her daughter and it ended badly, she helped start this blog and the editor promptly died, everyone she served with on the Freeholder Board have seen their careers destroyed, and Sussex County's most experienced civil servants quit after serving under her for less than one term.  An insatiable gossip she dimed friends on the SCCC board and ruined their careers and falsely accused staff of wrongdoing.  She left the Freeholder board in the midst of a huge crisis which is still unresolved and joined the Legislature where she promptly gossiped her way out of office -- while accomplishing nothing while a member.  Bad karma all around.  And now she is about to risk her business in an upcoming legal battle.

A big part of the blog post was a lecture by Phoebus on the dangers of alcohol.  To anyone who knows her, this is nothing new.  Gail Phoebus always lectures people about alcohol or, more often, gossips about people and their supposed "addictions."  Of course, she holds no medical or psychological training with which to base such claims.  It's just gossip.  Fun.

Phoebus has claimed that, having been "clean and sober" for some years now herself, she "knows the signs."  We think it's just an excuse for what is, in our opinion, her current addiction: Gossip.

In politics, Gail Phoebus has been a ruinous storm belching clouds of noxious gossip.  It is best for all involved that she be allowed to retire gracefully into the West, instead of staying stuck in the law courts out East.

"Dishonest Kate" Matteson attacks Sparta grandmom

Wealthy liberal Kate "Dishonest Kate" Matteson continued her malicious campaign of unadulterated horse manure yesterday, when she personally attacked senior citizen Ailish Hambel of Sparta.  Hambel, who emigrated from Ireland, raised a family in Sussex County, and built a well-regarded business in Sparta, has spent her life in service to the people of her home town.  Hambel has worked with charities throughout Sussex County.

After reading a false attack made by "Dishonest Kate" Matteson, Hambel responded with a letter sent to the same newspapers in which Matteson's attack appeared.  Matteson angrily responded with another attack -- only this time, she targeted Hambel personally.

In her response to Hambel, "Dishonest Kate" Matteson misleads the public by claiming that her Republican opponents "applied" for the endorsement of the NJEA.  In fact, they simply filled out a questionnaire -- a courtesy that they afford to groups, even when they disagree with them on the issues.  Unlike Matteson, a "faux revolutionary" and wannabe "social justice warrior," her Republican opponents don't hate people just because they disagree with them.  Take Parker Space, for example.  He doesn't show up to a fire asking if the burning building is owned by a Democrat or a Republican, he puts it out!  Same way when someone needs help.  Political ideology doesn't enter into it.  Human beings are more important than politics.

The fact is that the NJEA has never endorsed the Republican legislators in Sussex County.  They wouldn't even endorse them when nobody was running against them.  They would rather endorse dead air than the Sussex GOP. 

And that's because the Republican legislators in Sussex County oppose higher property taxes and know that the NJEA's position in favor of removing the 2 percent property tax cap on local government will cause a huge leap in property taxes.  The facts show this:  Under the administrations of Democrats Jim McGreevey and Jon Corzine, property taxes rose an average of 6.1 percent a year -- triple the rate of inflation.  Since the cap, property taxes have gone up an average of just 2.1 percent a year.

"Dishonest Kate" Matteson wants you to believe that the NJEA hands out its endorsement to people who oppose them.  Sure  they do... 

No, they don't.  The NJEA endorses those who line up and kiss its ring.  Period.  If you are endorsed by the NJEA, then you are on-board for their agenda -- and a big part of that agenda is getting rid of the 2-percent cap that has been keeping property tax increases to a barely tolerable minimal.  Removing it will be a very painful experience for Sussex County taxpayers.

"Dishonest Kate" Matteson has a decision to make:  Stand with the working people who pay property taxes... or stand with the NJEA.

Get back to us when you've made up your mind.

Nathan Orr & David Atwood issue a put-down to voters

Recently, the Far-Left, America-hating, George Soros-backed Daily Kos website has been trashing the hill country of Northwest New Jersey, specifically Sussex County and Sussex County's own Parker Space. 

We all know Parker Space.  We know his family.  Parker is a farmer.  Of hay and livestock and manure.  Parker's hands speak of a lifetime of hard work.  In cold weather and hot humidity.  Beasts must be fed, must be cared for, no matter. 

Parker is the kind of man who can birth a lamb, deal with a rattlesnake, balance a budget, grow a business, maintain employees, and watch a community grow. 

If your house catches fire, Parker Space and his son show up to put the fire out.  It used to be Parker Space and his dad showed up -- and before that, his dad and grandad -- you get the picture.  If someone in the community is going through a rough patch, it is Parker who shows up with a turkey at Thanksgiving -- no government program necessary.  And after all this, he still found time to serve as a local mayor, a county freeholder, and now, a member of the state legislature.

The Far-Left fashionistas at the millionaire-owned Daily Kos look down on the hard work that people in Sussex County do.  Unfortunately, two candidates for public office -- Nathan Orr and David Atwood -- have joined the Daily Kos in their putdowns of Sussex County.  The two candidates piled on by sending out a Facebook post that mocked the education levels of Sussex County leaders. 

The fact that they did this the day after the liberal billionaire-owned Advance Media put out an attack on Sussex County and Parker Space for wanting to get tough on drug traffickers , was thoughtless.  One bigoted liberal commenting on the Advance Media story actually wrote this:

"Space needs to go the way of Scott Garrett!! Send him back to the pig farm! Idiot Republican traitors and dictators."

Another, apparently radical Leftist, demanded action that is, frankly, illegal:

"We need to get him out of office. Close polling places in areas that go heavily for Space. Whatever it takes."

So now the Left wants to take away your right to vote!

Nathan Orr and David Atwood have made common cause with these leftists.  Why?

Perhaps they feel they are better than most who live in Sussex County?  Let's hope these two straighten up and in a hurry.

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.