Bayshore Tea Party co-founder Barbara Gonzalez sent an email to her members this morning accusing MoreMonmouthMusings of basing its coverage of the LD 13 primary based upon who advertises on this site. Gonzalez posted an identical message on two Tea Party facebook groups and then blocked from MMM publisher Art Gallagher from the conversation after he responded.
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What Gonzalez falled to mention, is that MMM offered her candidates, through Gonzalez personally and through Leigh-Ann Bellew, the same advertising rates offered to the Monmouth County GOP candidates who advertise here. Bellew said she wanted advertise here, but has yet to do so. MMM welcomes all advertisers of legal products, services or campaigns.
In 2010 I was a manager in Anna Little’s campaign for Congress. I worked with Leigh Ann Bellew, who was the campaign’s initial manager and then became the campaign’s Chairman. I am a conservative Republican who has been active with the Tea Party.
During that campaign Leigh Ann Bellew led me, as well as and all the rest of us who were working on Anna Little’s campaign, to believe that she was “a lawyer who didn’t practice”. We also got the impression from what she told us that she had studied law and had a degree of some kind in Constitutional studies. None of this has turned out to be true.
Leigh Ann Bellew also misled us about her involvement with national conservatives like Dick Morris, telling us that she had been his “communications director”. This isn’t true either.
I wasn’t aware of her answers to a Project Vote Smart (http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/59968/leigh-ann-bellew/#.UYeWJXzD-M8) questionnaire in 2006, none of us were, but have had the opportunity to read it since. I am concerned by a number of her answers and most concerned by her answers to the questions on the 2nd Amendment and Abortion.
On the 2nd Amendment, if Leigh Ann is a “constitutionalist” as she claims, how is her support for the federal licensing of all firearms in line with the 2ndamendment?
On Abortion she claims to be Pro-Life, but told Vote Smart that an abortion should be legal when the mother’s life is involved. How this fits with her “Pro-Life, Christian” values? You are either for the death of a baby or you are not.
But first, please understand that I thought long and hard about writing this commentary. After all, Bellew is running in a primary in another district than my own and I have my hands full rebuilding our home after Sandy. I would have loved some peace and quiet right now; instead of what I expect will be coming; harsh criticism from some Tea Party people who will attack me as a faux Conservative. I could have simply sat this out. But then, people that know me; know most of all that I am indeed a Conservative and I would feel ill at ease for not doing the right thing. I will let my resume and references speak for themselves should those attacks come.
“We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems, nor do we want it to. But we don’t think the government is to the source of all our problems, either. As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us.”
Bonus points for knowing when and where. No googling or binging.
State Senator Barbara Buono, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, told urban residents that Governor Chris Christie is too focused on rebuilding New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, according to a Star Ledger report.
Christie, she said, had focused too much on rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy, while the cities have been suffering for years under his economic policies.
“There’s a whole other New Jersey that needs to be rebuilt,” Buono told a crowd in Irvington, vowing to reverse many of the Republican governor’s moves.
In a little more than three years in office, Christie’s economic policies are responsible for the condition of our cities? Christie is not working to improve the quality of life in our cities?
The Democratic Mayor of Camden, Dana Redd, seems to disagree:
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Camden Mayor Dana Redd: To our Governor Chris Christie, and you’ve often heard him say this when we’ve stood side-by-side on matters of importance, of education, of Renaissance Schools, public safety and now public education. He’s often talked about, listen, I didn’t get but 28 votes out of Camden but that’s not why I’m doing this.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker brought his 2014 U.S. Senate exploration to Congressman Frank Pallone’s backyard by endorsing‘Forward Asbury Park,‘ the slate of mostly incumbents running in the May 14 municipal election in Asbury Park.
Booker and Pallone both want U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg’s job when he retires at the end of his current term. The seat is up for grabs in the November 2014 election. Booker and Pallone are unofficially competing for the Democratic nomination.
Pallone has so far stayed out of the Asbury Park municipal election. Booker’s endorsement is a boost for the ‘Forward’ team. If they win, it will be a boost for him in his contest against Pallone.
UPDATE: Asbury Park Sun is reporting that the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant on the campaign office of ‘The A Team” this afternoon. The report said that the investigators appeared to be looking for ballots. Read the APS report here.
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MoreMonmouthMusings has confirmed that the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the “A-Team” ticket of Council candidates in upcoming Asbury Park municipal election. That investigation included a visit to the campaign’s Main Street office today.
No arrests have been made.
The ‘A-Team’ consists of five candidates running together for the five council seats, the entire governing body, being contested in the May 14 election. The candidates are former Councilman James Keady, former board of education member Redmond Palmer, Duanne Small, Nora Hyland and Daniel Harris. There are a total of 22 candidates running for the five seats.
Bean cites Local Finance Board’s Decision Against Marlboro Councilwoman Randi Marder To Support His Complaint
Doherty Dismisses Complaint As Politics
Belmar Councilman Jim Bean. Photo credit: Belmar.com
Belmar Councilman Jim Bean, a Republican, has written to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Local Finance Board requesting an investigation into a “potential violation” of New Jersey’s Local Government Ethics Law by Mayor Matt Doherty, a Democrat.
Doherty’s wife, Maggie Moran, a former Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Jon Corzine, worked as a consultant for AshBritt, the Florida company that performed debris removal throughout much of New Jersey after the Superstorm Sandy. Belmar paid $2.67 million to AshBrit and its affiliates, according to Bean’s complaint which can be found here.
Doherty said that Bean is “Belmar’s Bayshore Tea Party….a cancer on the Republican Party.”
“This is the second, politically motivated, baseless complaint Bean has filed against me in the past 8 months, ” Doherty said, “If he didn’t waste his time on this nonsense maybe he could actually do something useful for the people of Belmar.”
The Bayshore Tea Party group is recruiting volunteers to canvass for their candidates in the LD 13 and Monmouth County primary races by offering free personal 2013 tax returns.
In an email with the BTPG logo and a Bellew for Senate paid for disclosure, potential canvassing recruits are offered a tax services if they canvass for the candidates for 10 hours between now and the primary on June 4. The offer is limited to 5 returns and expires on April 15, 2014.
I don’t know how Greg Kelly missed this, but Saturday is the 10th annual World Naked Gardening Day. (hat tip to Chris Fotache) This being The Garden State, well, it could happen.
Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon said he’ll be ready, just in case.
“The Libertarian side of me is willing to talk Conservative principles with anyone, regardless of how they are dressed, or not, on their own property,” said O’Scanlon,
“We need to take ourselves less seriously. That there is a World Naked Gardening Day is hilarious.”
I don’t know how