O’Scanlon Slams Rand Paul For Baseless Attack On Christie
By Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon
Yesterday Senator Rand Paul attacked NJ Governor Christie suggesting that the Governor’s landslide victory last week was the result of the federal aid package sent to NJ following superstorm Sandy.
I occupy the unique combination of positions of Republican Assembly Budget Officer, long term fiscal conservative who has warned of New Jersey’s irresponsible spending polices for years, long-term advocate for reforms like pension benefit and collective bargaining reforms – and my District (13) covers the area of the bayshore hardest hit by the storm.
Unlike Senator Paul, I can state unequivocally – and based on first hand experience – that Governor Christie’s popularity wasn’t purchased with federal aid. It was earned by tireless, extraordinary leadership on multiple crisis fronts from the moment Christie won election in 2009. He inherited a state on the verge of insolvency, requiring reform solutions – pension and benefit, arbitration, property tax, budgetary – that no governor in the history of the state ever dreamed of tackling.
Governor Christie assembled an almost impossible bipartisan coalition of legislators and tackled every major issue we faced. His popularity was earned with those successes. Earned even before the storm by a guy who could marshal bipartisan support for dramatic reforms that ignited a trend that swept the nation.
The storm did enhance Christie’s popularity – but not due to the federal aid. It again came back to rock-steady leadership in a time of crisis. It came from an ability to instill confidence in leadership at a devastating time of turmoil when Americans are used to expecting less from typical politicians. Christie’s popularity wasn’t purchased with federal dollars – it was earned with guts and sweat and determination and honesty and integrity and genuine achievement.
The attack, while being total, erroneous garbage against Christie , does say something about Senator Paul. We now know without question that he is a man willing to gratuitously attack another based on wholly fabricated charges about issues he, Senator Paul, knows nothing about.
So let’s recap – Christie is a tireless worker who can win over hearts, tell the truth – good or bad – to his constituents, inspire bi-partisan cooperation and support in a deeply divided legislature to solve heretofore intractable problems decades in the making. Oh, and as a bonus, he can step up in times of extreme tragedy and instill confidence and optimism on the part of those in dire need of both. Sounds to me like just the type of guy this country could use as President. Just sayin’.
Declan O’Scanlon is a New Jersey State Assemblyman from the 13th Legislative District/ Monmouth County
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Lets see. Christie ran an illegal Special Election. Had Director Giles violate and make up election laws in the process, then have 21 county clerks do the same thing, violating election laws in a federal election. Then because it was illegal, he basically wasted $24000000 dollars on the election because there is a petition in the Senate to remove Booker from his seat till 2014. His removing
Booker was of course needed to make sure Booker didn’t pull any votes from Barbara. Regardless of it being wrong or right, the fact that the Hatch act was violated numerous times is enough reason not to vote for a politician that doesn’t follow laws we as people must follow. Horrible but true.
Funny how the guy from the state that receives $1,75 in federal spending for ever tax dollar paid has the nerve to even mention anything about federal spending in NJ which ranks near the bottom on federal $$ received versus $$ tax dollars paid. Oh well, maybe people will read Ron Paul’s lastest nonsense and forget that he was plagiarizing his speeches as well as his half ass apology for doing so.
Is where Rand Paul loses people.
JCG
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/07/americans-favor-tea-party-principles-over-progressive-ideas-by-2-to-1-margin/
So, BOTH wings of the Republican Party need to get their feet out of their mouths, get with the program and try to find ways to work together FOR the American people, instead of fighting amongst themselves like children.
Got that Governor Christie & Senator Paul?
Signed,
Silence Dogood, Redux
Oh, and Scott Neuman?
Your argument is irrelevant at this point.
Move on.
Breaking News!! RINO defends RINO!!
The Country Club RINOs are circling their golf carts to defend themselves from being held accountable to the American taxpayers.
We need more patriots like Rand Paul and fewer RINO hacks like Declan O’Scanlon.
People like you ARE the problem with the Tea Party. What you folks want is a 100% pure Conservative in office. Well Mr. “understudy,” there is no perfection in the world, and 100% Conservative candidates rarely get elected in N.J.
You all want Rome built overnight. Well, we didn’t get here overnight, the country is divided and it’s going to take a long time to fix things. Meanwhile, you burn your bridges wherever and whenever you can, making yourselves look silly.
You are so full of your own hyperbole that you attack a good Conservative like Declan. I’ll take a patriot like Declan anyday. And he isn’t even in my own district.
You, Barbara Gonzolez, Helene & Political Pony need to get over yourselves and your high minded elitism.
This is the kind of nuttiness and bull crap that pushes people away. Or haven’t you learned that yet?
BTW, you all can stop with this “Student Of The Constitution” label that I saw elsewhere on this blog, one that you wear on your lapel like you are better than all of us.
Jim Granelli
O’Scanlon admirably defends the Christie record in NJ.
O’Scanlon writes “…Christie’s popularity wasn’t purchased with federal dollars – it was earned with guts and sweat and determination and honesty and integrity and genuine achievement…”
Fair enough.
Yet no one in NJ can deny Christie has made a career of broadening his support by going after Rs (often in overkill mode) . Now it is push back time.
His media glorified attacks on the only branch the Rs control, the House, particularly in the Sandy pork-fest have not made many R friends. There will be payback.
After Romney rejected Christie as VP, his public (and despicable) embrace of Obama for a photo op….will never be forgotten. That embrace will be played millions of times in advertisements to rock-ribbed Rs throughout the land.
After being reelected, the first thing he does is try to knock off Senator Kean?
Christie has a “trust issue” which he needs to mend.
Out-of-state distractions will stall the progress made in our beloved NJ.
Focus on us – Christie and O’Scanlon. We elected you.
O’Scanlon admirably defends the Christie record in NJ.
O’Scanlon writes “…Christie’s popularity wasn’t purchased with federal dollars – it was earned with guts and sweat and determination and honesty and integrity and genuine achievement…”
Fair enough.
Yet no one in NJ can deny Christie has made a career of broadening his support by going after Rs (often in overkill mode) . Now it is push back time.
His media glorified attacks on the only branch the Rs control, the House, particularly in the Sandy pork-fest have not made many R friends. There will be payback.
After Romney rejected Christie as VP, his public (and despicable) embrace of Obama for a photo op….will never be forgotten. That embrace will be played millions of times in advertisements to rock-ribbed Rs throughout the land.
After being reelected, the first thing he does is try to knock off Senator Kean?
Christie has a “trust issue” which he needs to mend.
Out-of-state distractions will stall the progress made in our beloved NJ.
Focus on us – Christie and O’Scanlon. We elected you.
If you don’t think O’Scanlon is focused on us with his record, I don’t know what is.
Declan O’Scanlon is the best…I am very supportive. He might make a good Gov.
I am thrilled with the past 4 years performance but concerned about our future. No matter how the progress is touted, NJ is in trouble.
One new Florio in office can undue all the great work.
800,000 lost insurance, property taxes are insane, cities are drug plagued and crumbling….
I am just hoping the Gov/Declan continue to focus on NJ and not get sucked into Rand Paul’s answers to media questions designed to divide us up.
and his name is Sweeney: with DeBlasio over the River in NYC, and that guy here in a couple of years, will the last one out of Blue,UnionJersey please shut off the “energy saver” lights?