Matteson & Trish get their head stuck up Max's bum

Journalism ain't what it used to be.  Now they just make shit up.

  On Wednesday, Republican Senator Steve Oroho issued a statement that politely asked Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy to let voters know where he stands on the corruption case against United States Senator Bob Menendez (Democrat/NJ).  Senator Oroho made his request after an Observer.com report that Murphy was remaining silent on the corruption trial of Senator Menendez, the Observer's Christian Hetrick quoting Murphy that "he hasn't thought about whether a convicted Senator should leave office."

Max Pizarro, formerly of the Observer group but now quarter-backing his own InsiderNJ blog, proceeded to take that story and insert Assemblyman Parker Space into it.  Even though his name doesn't appear anywhere in Senator Oroho's statement.

But it gets weirder. 

The two ANITFA twins -- "Dishonest Kate" Matteson and Gina "pussycat hat" Trish -- jumped at the chance to (in Pizarro's words) put a hook up someone's ass (like they did at Gettysburg or some shit like that).  While acknowledging that their opponent, Parker Space, has done nothing illegal, they still want him to face the same penalties as if he had committed some heinous crime.  Do the ANTIFA twins constitute their own lynch mob?  Good thing these two aren't using their ad-hoc judicial process to hand out death penalties  "We feel you've done something wrong, therefore you must suffer."

And speaking of suffering, check out the ANTIFA-inspired effort that their campaign is conducting against Space Farms and the Space family.  The Democrats are attempting to destroy a 90-year-old Sussex County institution with bad on-line reviews. harassing telephone calls, threats, liable, slander, and an organized boycott.  As is usual for the Democrats, instead of creating jobs they are trying to destroy them.

 

Now the kicker is that ANTIFA twin #1 and ANTIFA twin #2 puffed themselves up enough to call on Senator Oroho to "do something about corruption" in New Jersey.  Where have they been, you ask?  Well, you have to take into account that ANTIFA twin #1 only started voting in 2016 and ANTIFA twin #2 ain't much better. 

So we'll excuse them for not knowing that it is their party -- the Democrat Party -- that has held up reform in New Jersey.  That's why their running mate -- Jennifer Hamilton -- doesn't join them when they go ANTIFA.  Hamilton is the thinking Democrat.  The twins... not so much.

Take just this one example.  There are dozens more.  This year, on three separate occasions, the Democrats have blocked efforts by Senator Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth) to force a vote on legislation (S-1557) to forfeit the pensions of corrupt public officials.  “Time and again, Senate Democrats have voted to protect the pensions of corrupt public officials,” said Beck. “It’s inexplicable that they would continue to choose convicted officials over the taxpayers they represent.”

An investigation by the Asbury Park Press last year found at least 40 convicted criminals collecting state pension checks of up to $83,000 per year.

“The APP found a million dollars of taxpayer money going to corrupt public employees, including some found guilty on federal corruption charges,” added Beck. “Those are just the people they found, there are probably dozens more. If you violate the public trust, you don’t deserve a cushy retirement at taxpayer expense. Why is that so hard for Democrats to understand?”

Why indeed?

Democrat candidates attack local community leader

Today Sussex County Democrats released an attack, on behalf of their legislative candidates, written by Democrat Party operative Fred Cook, of Blairstown.  You may remember that Mr. Cook was the guy who claimed that Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose was guilty of "treason" for opposing President Obama's policies. 

In doing so, Mr. Cook was channeling the crazy views of others on this subject:

“All 545 sitting in DC right now are guilty of treason... 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.  This goes for many members and governors in the 50 state capitals, as well.  Treason. “

Now what do you say to that kind of crazy?

In his most recent attack, Fred "Duane" Cook took aim at Sussex County businessman Andy Mulvihill -- a supporter of numerous community charities in Northwest New Jersey.  Mr. Cook doesn't like Mr. Mulvihill because Mr. Mulvihill is as wealthy as Ms. Kate Matteson, one of Mr. Cook's Democrat candidates for the Legislature, who bragged last year about her "high tax bracket".  Apparently being a Democrat one-percenter is good, but being a Republican one-percenter is bad.  Thanks for the double-standard Duane, errr... Fred.

Duane, sorry, Fred Cook also doesn't like the fact that Mr. Mulvihill is involved in a bank that was formed by a number of Sussex County leaders, in response to the problems that local business people faced in getting credit to finance new businesses or to expand existing businesses.  Many of the larger lenders simply didn't care about increasing opportunities for employment in Sussex County,  so the bank was created so that, neighbor-to-neighbor, people could get the financing they needed to foster economic growth and create jobs in Northwest New Jersey.  The Sussex Democrats think that a bad thing because it's Republicans doing it.  Just because they are spiteful.

Of course, the Sussex Democrats loved mega-one-percenter Jon Corzine, a super-rich Wall Street banker who spent over $100 million to buy elected office.  Yep, go check it out for yourself on Wikipedia -- $100 million.  And these Democrats say they oppose "big money" -- LOL, they are Big Money!

Now the Sussex Democrats, including Duane Cook and the whole Matteson-Trish-Hamilton team are backing another mega-super-dooper-rich one-percenter (a one-percenter of the one-percent) by the name of Phil "I wrecked the economy" Murphy. Yeah, he's another one of those Wall Street bankers -- only this one shares in some of the responsibility for what happened in the run-up to the Great Recession of 2008.  Even his fellow Democrats call him out for being a phony:

"Democrats running in the primary for New Jersey governor on Thursday attacked front-runner Phil Murphy, saying he is using his wealth to buy political support and questioning his progressive stances... the personal cash he's poured into the campaign and his time as an executive at Goldman Sachs.

'We have a candidate who has made the system awash in money. It's obscene the amount of money,' Wisniewski said. 'It's pay-to-play at its worst.'

Murphy, who has put $15 million of his own money into the race so far, denied he bought the backing of New Jersey's 21 influential Democratic county party chairmen, who exercise discretion over ballot positioning.

...Wisniewski also said that Murphy had backed fracking during a speech in Germany, where he served as ambassador for former President Barack Obama, ...Murphy also came under attack for investing in corporations opposed by environmental groups that have backed Murphy. Murphy promised to put his holdings into a blind trust if elected.

Johnson seized on the point, though, telling Murphy that his current progressive stances were contradicted by his investments and previous comments.

'What is it in your time at Goldman Sachs that should give anyone any assurance that the progressive values you're talking about today are progressive values you've acted on at Goldman Sachs,' Johnson asked." (Associated Press, May 12, 2017)

So let's get this straight... a Sussex County community leader who always puts his hand in his pocket to help local charities is no good for starting a bank to help grow businesses and create jobs here in Northwest New Jersey.  Why?  Because he's a Republican.

But a mega-rich Wall Streeter who helped wreck our economy as a top guy at the bank that helped trigger the Great Recession.  He is great!  Why?  Because he's a Democrat.

Got it.

Sounds nuts.

Duane.

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. . .

Why is a Tea Party group promoting liberal Democrats?

Last Thursday evening, the Sussex County Democrats endorsed a solidly liberal ticket for the Legislature -- a Senate candidate and two Assembly candidates.  One of the Assembly candidates took the microphone to express their ideology and purpose in no uncertain terms:

(Assembly candidate Gina) Trish received a huge applause prior to the vote when she told the gathered crowd of roughly 100 Democrats that the current 24th District legislators had something in common with former Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett, who lost his reelection bid in November to U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist.

"It's clear that our current local leadership is just right in alignment with this right-wing, pro-corporate agenda," she said. "All the local leadership is voting just like Scott Garrett did. There's one more thing they have in common with Scott Garrett and that is that their time in our district is limited."

The Democrat followed that up with this interesting observation:

"...we actually have more than just the Democratic party behind us. We have unaffiliated voters, we have Republicans who have pledged their support for us as well."

And sure enough, within 48 hours, those "anti-right wing" Democrat candidates had an invitation to speak before the Skylands Tea Party group.  Yep.  No kidding.

Douglas Amedeo is a New York City lawyer and the President of the Skylands Tea Party group.  The political contributions that come out of Amedeo's two-attorney law firm all go to Left/Liberal Democrats, beginning with Barack Obama.  Here is the list from the Federal Elections Commission website:

So it should come as no surprise that Douglas Amedeo is inviting liberal Democrats to speak somewhere -- but at a Tea Party meeting?  And how did this joker get to be President?

After they took over the Tea Party in Sussex County, Amedeo and a character named Bill Hayden were the administrators of something called the "Draft Gail Phoebus for NJ Senate" committee:

According to sources, the funds to set-up this group, create a website to attack the Sussex County GOP and its candidates, and to infiltrate and takeover the Skylands Tea Party largely came from Democrat candidate Phil Murphy, a Goldman Sachs multi-millionaire and former Democrat National Committee (DNC) finance chairman, who got an ambassador appointment from President Barack Obama.  This follows the pattern that Murphy has used to get involved in GOP internal politics in Passaic ad Bergen counties.

Pheobus' political attorney and sometime consultant, Dan Perez, announced that he had switched back to Democrat and he joined the ticket with Senate candidate Jennifer Hamilton that same day -- last Thursday -- as the Democrat candidate for Sussex County Freeholder.  The same day.

What!!!  We know what you are thinking -- is this the same Dan Perez who Freeholder George Graham appointed to the SCMUA board?  The same guy who professed his Republican bonafides when seeking appointment after appointment from the Sussex County GOP?  Yep.  That's him.  The mask is off because the Democrats  -- fueled by Phil Murphy's money -- think they have an opportunity to flip the GOP out of power in Northwest New Jersey.    

They know that it won't be easy, but last year they defeated the Republican Congressman who represented Northwest New Jersey -- Scott Garrett -- and how they did so is instructive.  This is what the Democrats are basing their hopes on.

In 2010 and 2012 and 2014, the Democrats were able to find a disgruntled "conservative" to run against Scott Garrett.  Despite Garrett's 99.38% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, these challengers would scream about how Garrett wasn't conservative enough.  Sometimes, the challenger, as in the case of Mark D. Quick, would go so far as to endorse a Democrat in the race just to damage Garrett.

The point was to make Garrett defend himself with Republicans and spend valuable resources that he needed for the campaign against the liberal Democrat.  To soften Garrett up for his 2016 takedown, they found two Tea Party candidates (both with connections to Amedeo's group) to damage Garrett in the primary and suppress his base vote in the General Election.  They claimed that Garrett wasn't conservative enough and look at the result.  Look at the votes those Tea Partiers cost conservative Scott Garrett:

They turned-off nearly one-in-five Republican primary voters.  Garrett lost to a Clinton Democrat last November on a swing of a few thousand votes. 

Curiously, the same people who told us that Scott Garrett wasn't conservative enough have been silent or have even defended Garrett's replacement, liberal Clinton Democrat Josh Gottheimer.  During his career, Scott Garrett had a lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union of 99.38%.  The next highest Republican in New Jersey has a rating of 69% and the lowest Republican 46%.  The best New Jersey Democrat was 10.42% and the worst has 0%.  Now there is a liberal Clinton Democrat were once there was Scott Garrett.  Way to go Tea Party!  Way to go!

And here is the latest.

Leftist Phil Murphy-backed Jennifer Hamilton and her running mates are seeking to defeat conservatives Steve Oroho, Parker Space, and Hal Wirths.  At the same time they were inviting Hamilton to their Tea Party meeting, the Skylands Tea Party found someone to run in the primary to "soften up" Oroho (they already recruited candidates to go after Space and Wirths) for November. 

Bill Hayden is the Vice President of the Skylands Tea Party group, who got involved with Dan Perez and others.  He is a state worker and part of the CWA public employees union.  In a revealing moment, Hayden "liked' the Tea Party inviting Democrat Hamilton to speak, despite the fact that it makes as much sense as inviting Hillary Clinton to address a Pro-Life meeting.

Or it should. 

Why are some Tea Party groups climbing into bed with the far left?  Why are they facilitating the campaigns of Democrats over those of Republicans?

Part of it is need.  The Left/Liberal Democrats are smart when they target and recruit Tea Party candidates to disrupt the GOP.  A quick search on PACER, the federal court database, reveals a pattern of financial issues and bankruptcy.  Some of these candidates are so hard up that we can imagine they will take a helping hand wherever they can find it. 

The other part of it is the politics of personality. 

Once upon a time, the Tea Party supported conservative Republicans.  Just like AFP did.  Everybody knew that.

Now AFP and other groups funded by the Koch brothers are fighting the agenda of President Trump at every turn.  You've read the stories in the newspapers -- the Kochs stopped the reform of ObamaCare so now we are left with. . . ObamaCare for the foreseeable future.  Now AFP and other Koch groups are fighting Trump on illegal immigration and the border wall. 

America has a Republican President, Senate, and House of Representatives -- so why isn't anything getting done?

What we are watching is the great morphing of groups that were once "conservative" into groups that serve a particular "personality."  Traditionally, these groups looked without for their inspiration -- to the American constitution, a party platform, a political ideology.  Now they are looking within -- to the private worldview of the personalities who fund or lead them. 

We should have seen this coming.

Just yesterday -- or the day before yesterday -- we lived in a world of men and women/ boys and girls.  Then suddenly, we are in a world where Facebook offers 71 gender "options". 

It's the same in politics.  The binary world of conservative and liberal is over.  Of course, it doesn't have to be.  Just as it is pretty darn plain 99 percent of the time who is a she and who is a he, we have a rich body of work by which to distinguish a conservative from a liberal.  We have our party platforms, we have the actions of conservative leaders, and their writings -- as well as the academic work of our ideological brethren. 

But people like Bill Hayden and those many, many like him -- they don't read.  What they do is feel.  And if they "feel" like a girl.  Then that makes them a girl.

So we have all these people bloviating on Facebook about how much they hate this one or that one and how this is "conservative" and that isn't. . . and they don't know a damned thing about it.  Because they don't read.  They feel.

And that is why some Tea Party folks have now gone to the Democrats.  They "feel" so it must be so.  It makes for easy infiltration by the Left/Liberal Democrats.    

We could sure use a real Tea Party.  A conservative Tea Party.  Maybe someone will start one?  Soon?  Do Sussex County first and then branch out.

The Far-Left makes its move on Sussex County

Just five months ago, money from the DCCC and other Left/Liberal interest groups flowed into Sussex County.  It did its job and took out the most conservative Republican congressman in New Jersey -- Scott Garrett.

Anyone who knows history knows that the Left isn't a straightforward opponent, but one that comes at you from within and without.  One of the big coups of the Garrett-Gottheimer race was when the Left/Liberals got the Republican mayor of Sussex County's largest municipality to jump ship and endorse Democrat Gottheimer over Republican Garrett. 

The Democrats were smart too in stirring up trouble for Garrett in his primary, making Garrett defend himself with Republicans and spend valuable resources that he needed for the campaign against the Clinton Democrats.  To this end, the Left/Liberals worked through groups like the Tea Party (in most cases, without the group's knowledge) to make the claim that Congressman Garrett wasn't conservative enough.  Look at the result.  Look at the votes those Tea Partiers cost conservative Scott Garrett:

Then they recruited a third-party candidate to finish the job: 

Working from within the Republican Party, the Left/Liberals got 9,136 Republican base voters to reject Scott Garrett -- nearly 20 percent of his base vote.  Then they split another 7,424 away in the General Election.  That's 16,560 lost votes for Garrett, who ended up losing to Gottheimer by 14,897.

And what did those Tea Partiers accomplish?  They swapped a Sussex County conservative  for a Clintonista liberal Democrat.  Brilliant!

During his career, Scott Garrett had a lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union of 99.38%.  The next highest Republican in New Jersey has a rating of 69% and the lowest Republican 46%.  The best New Jersey Democrat was 10.42% and the worst has 0%.  Now there is a liberal Clinton Democrat were once there was Scott Garrett.  Way to go Mark Quick, Michael Cino, Peter Vallorosi, Bill Hayden!  Way to go!

Last year, Sussex County was a bright spot for the Clinton Democrats.  Last year the Left/Liberals got their way in Sussex County, so why not try for this year?  And that is what's happening.

No sooner did Assemblywoman Gail Phoebus call-off her primary challenge to Republican Senator Steve Oroho -- than the mask came off!  GOP-imposter Dan Perez -- Phoebus' political attorney and sometime consultant, the same guy who Freeholder George Graham appointed to the SCMUA board -- declared that he was again a Democrat and that he would be running for the Sussex County Freeholder Board. 

Money poured into the pockets of Sussex County Democrats from that Democrat candidate for Governor Phil Murphy, the former DNC finance chairman and Goldman Sachs rich guy who bought an ambassadorship and now (Jon Corzine NUMBER TWO?) wants to buy the Governor's office.  The Democrats have a full-slate of legislative candidates for the first time in years and they are going to try to do to Steve Oroho, Parker Space, and Hal Wirths this year, what they did to Scott Garrett last year.

That's the without part.  But the Left/Liberals wouldn't be the Left/Liberals without the within part -- the Fifth Column. 

Before tearing off his GOP mask and revealing himself as the true Democrat he is, Dan Perez, George Graham, Bill Hayden, and others were all involved in the same effort trying to promote Gail Phoebus' candidacy.  That was the cover.  The real mission was to recruit "Tea Party" candidates to run in the Republican primary to "soften up" Oroho, Space, and Wirths for a Clinton Democrat take-down this November.

They talked two candidates into running for the Assembly -- and when no one else would do it, one of their organizers (Bill Hayden) jumped into the Senate race on the same day that Perez announced that he was again a Democrat!

So the stage is set.

The Democrats have their anchor for the 2017 Sussex County elections in the form of Dan Perez (SCMUA commissioner, courtesy of 3 GOP freeholders), their three legislative candidates, and their three GOP shills to do damage in the Republican primary.

How can you tell someone is a shill?  Many have never even voted before being recruited as a shill and then suddenly they show up, have a big mouth, and are assuming a "leadership role" in a group unknowingly being used to promote the shill (in this case, the Tea Party).  Doubt us?  Take a look at Bill Hayden's voting record.  He hasn't bothered to vote since 2010.

Another sign is a disdain for traditional conservative organizations like the National Rifle Association (NRA).  Bill Hayden attacks the NRA on Facebook and craps on the group's leadership.  Shills always do that because they aren't really conservative but they do have big egos.  That is how the Left/Liberals recruit them, they play to their egos.  A guy like Perez whispers into Hayden's ear that "you too can be a big man" but the reality is that Hayden is there simply to damage a conservative Republican enough in the primary so that Perez and company can elect a liberal Democrat in November.

So groups like the Tea Party and their followers have a decision to make.  Do they want to be active participants in making Phil Murphy's dream come true of total Democrat hegemony in heretofore Republican northwest New Jersey?  Or do they want to defend traditional conservative Republican values? 

Your choice.