Do LD24 Democrats hate traditional religious values?

Two ideological idiots running for the Democrat nomination for Assembly posted this:

Kate Matteson & Gina Trish for Assembly

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We were surprised to see that Senator Steve Oroho's top 3 platform responses include "preserving the sanctity of traditional marriage." Since this is an issue settled by the Supreme Court and supported by a large majority of Americans, we find it disturbing that Senator Oroho clearly would prefer his personal religious convictions be injected into our government. We believe that his views are not representative of the majority of our district.

Perhaps they forgot that only a very short time ago the woman they worship had this to say about same-sex marriage...

Or how about this guy...

While sucking up everything that these two politicians do and say and spewing it out as if it came from within, Kate Matteson and Gina Trish want to pick a fight with someone simply because he is consistent? 

Steve Oroho is informed by his religious beliefs.  Is there anything wrong with applying the Judeo-Christian ideology as the roadmap to one's private life and one's public actions?  Matteson and Trish seem to think so.  If they had their way, they would sweep Judeo-Christianity out of the public square, ban it as "hate speech," and make it illegal. 

It's not just Kate Matteson and Gina Trish doing it.  There is a lot of this neo-fascist thinking being pushed these days.  In some places, it went so far that people started to push back.  Take a look at the video below:

We don't mind it if Kate Matteson and Gina Trish wish to follow the ideology of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.  That is their business.  And in embracing it, we would expect them to apply that ideology in both their private and public realms.

As for "same-sex marriage" being "an issue settled by the Supreme Court and supported by a large majority of Americans" ...well, no.  Leftists like Kate Matteson and Gina Trish prevented the American people from having their say in the same-sex marriage debate.  The Left opposed a fair and honest vote on same-sex marriage by the electorate -- and they worked furiously to overturn every vote that rejected same-sex marriage, state by state.

In fact, Kate Matteson and Gina Trish sound like a couple of throwback Southern Democrats with their talk about "an issue settled by the Supreme Court" and enjoying "majority" support.  Then, the issue was slavery.  Settled by the Supreme Court in its Dred Scott decision. 

Happily, religion wasn't so frowned upon in those days, for the anti-slavery movement was a religious movement, informed by a fervent religious ideology that believed in man's redemption.  Those who opposed slavery proselytized openly in opposition to it and used religious argument to sway public opinion. 

Would Kate Matteson and Gina Trish have used Dred Scott (the Court's "settled" opinion) to keep fellow human beings in chains?  Or would they have found religion? 

What do Democrat women think of Tea Party sex talk?

We all remember the outrage last October when the Clinton campaign released a tape recording of a conversation between Donald Trump and media celebrity Billy Bush.   The tape had been made years before and without Trump's knowledge, but he was attacked over and over again for merely saying the words that he had never intended the public to hear.

Of course, there are those juvenile elements among our citizenry who -- when they hear trash talk -- can't help themselves and make it their own.  New Jersey Department of Transportation employee Bill Hayden, a CWA public employee union member and the Vice President of the Skylands Tea Party group, heard the phrase Trump used and couldn't stop himself from saying it and posting it and celebrating it.  He went nuts! 

Now Hayden is running in the Republican primary to "soften up" conservative Republican Senator Steve Oroho so that liberal Democrat Senate candidate Jennifer Hamilton has a better chance of winning the election in November.  It is the same tag team approach employed by Hayden-supporter and Tea Party member Peter Vallorosi when he beat up conservative Republican Congressman Scott Garrett on behalf of liberal Democrat Josh Gottheimer.  It worked in 2016 so maybe it will work again.

Tonight, Bill Hayden and the Skylands Tea Party will be promoting the candidacy of Democrat Jennifer Hamilton.  The liberal has been invited to address the Tea Party group and Hayden, who trashed conservative Republican Assemblyman Parker Space at the Tea Party's February meeting, will be on hand as the group's Vice President.

The one question we have for Jennifer Hamilton and her two Democrat Assembly running mates is this:  How did you feel or do you feel about Donald Trump's comments to Billy Bush?  And how do you feel about Bill Hayden's use of them?

Here are just a few examples:

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.

Fake letters-to-editor attack Trump and the GOP

A campaign of fake letters-to-the-editor is being waged against President Donald Trump and prominent elected officials within the national and  state Republican Parties.  The letters are being shopped around by a number of Far-Left lobby groups, including those linked to leftist gay-rights campaigner and Clinton loyalist David Brock.

Last month, the national media broke a story about a private meeting organized by Brock and his George Soros-funded Media Matters group.  Brock "huddled with more than 100 donors at the swanky Turnberry Isle Resort in Aventura, Florida, to map out how Democrats will 'kick Donald Trump's ass'."  A national publication that attended and obtained a copy of the confidential memo

circulated at the meeting wrote that it "outlines Brock's four-year agenda to attack Trump and Republicans using Media Matters, American Bridge, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Shareblue."

As one of only two states in America with both gubernatorial and legislative elections this year, New Jersey is a top target state.  Brock acolyte Susan McCue's General Majority PAC is handling the disinformation efforts in New Jersey.  For more on how this group operates, read this column from New Jersey Right-to-Life:  http://njrtl.org/tag/general-majority-pac/

Here in Sussex County, we have already seen their work first hand in some of the outlandishly false information put out by the Sussex County Democrats -- particularly about President Donald Trump.  Then there is the false letter-writing campaign going on.  Recently a letter was sent to a county agency making accusations against a local appointed Republican.  Upon further investigation, the letter turned out to have been sent by someone falsely posing as the sender, and the accusations and substance of the letter turned out to be utterly false. 

Today, the New Jersey Herald ran a letter-to-the-editor, one in a series of almost identical letters, from someone using a false name. Once again, the letter is attacking the local Republican Party, urging voters to make angry calls to the county GOP, and attacking local elected Republicans -- for the benefit of Democrats on the ballot in November.  It all bears the unmistakable hallmark of the leftist General Majority PAC.

Will "Dick" Eskilson get away with it?

Sussex County might have more trees than people, but that doesn't mean fresh air in the political sense.  When it comes to politics it resembles the filth and corruption you find in any old urban hell hole made that way by an entrenched machine.

Case in point:  The taxpayer-funded Sussex County Community College and its Board of Trustees.  The Board already has plenty of people with political connections on it.  There is a vacancy.   Maybe time for someone with a background in education (it being the Board of a C-O-L-L-E-G-E)?  

No way.  Because this isn't about the students or the taxpayers.  It is about who gets what contract, and the way to ensure that the "right" people get to trouser the taxpayer's money is to appoint the "right" people to the Board.  

So a "search committee" was hand-picked by county boss John Eskilson.  This was before he got into trouble over the solar bailout and then watched as voters threw out a sitting Freeholder who backed him on the bailout. 

So who'd the "search committee" pick?  Eskilson, of course, and a former mayor who was also defeated at the polls.  So the choice is between two political players who have been firmly rejected by the voters.

You'll remember that Boss Eskilson resigned, somewhat prematurely, from his position as County Administrator in the middle of last year.  Now the man Eskilson took from corrupt Essex County and groomed to be his successor will choose between the two.

You couldn't come up with a more corrupt, self-dealing process if you tried.  It is along the lines of what Dick Cheney did when he put together the "search committee" to find a Vice Presidential running mate for George W. Bush.  Cheney was in charge of the "vetting process" and the process picked him.  So now we have "Dick" Eskilson. 

Really?  Now they don't even try to hide their scumbag behavior?   At the next meeting of the Freeholder Board, Freeholder Director Phil Crabb might just as well stand up and give the audience a middle-finger salute.  "This is for all you taxpayers... Here in Sussex County we do what we please and you don't get to know squat."  To which Freeholder Vohden could add, "Just remember to pay your property taxes on time."

The press has been doing its job.  The New Jersey Herald's Rob Jennings caught them red handed in a column titled "Artful dodge by college's trustee search committee."http://www.njherald.com/article/20151220/ARTICLE/312209963

We blame the Sussex County Democrats who have failed and failed again -- for over a decade -- to provide any scrutiny or opposition to anything at the county level.  It's like they think county government is too unimportant for them and that kitchen table issues like property taxes and job creation are not worth their time.  Instead they want to ban meat and spend their time on international issues like the war in Syria.  They could be a valuable check and balance to the people of Sussex County and instead all they want to do is support the extermination of unborn children and adopt bears.  Come on, pull your heads out of your butts.

As a comedian once asked of the hapless Tory Party in Great Britain:  "Is it match-fixing?  Is someone bribing them to be terrible at politics?"