Best ad of the season so far

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The real Mitt Romney

During a campaign stop in Iowa yesterday GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney shared a story about how he and Ann mistakenly crashed a Christmas party where he met one of the Ex-Seals who was killed in Benghazi on September 11.

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The attack on the Middle Class

The duplicity of Bob Menendez and the creation of Middle Class ghettos

During Bob Menendez’s first year in the U.S. Senate, 2006, there was a health care bill before the Senate designed to make insurance premiums more affordable for small businesses.  The bill would have allowed small businesses to join together as larger groups in order to enjoy the economies of scale in their insurance purchases that large corporations enjoy.  Chambers of commerce and other business associations would have been allowed to form groups to decrease the cost of health insurance so that more of the members could afford to insure the health of more of the employees and families.

At the time, I was a leader of the Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce and a member of the National Federation of Independent Business.  The company I owned was paying 100% of the insurance premiums of its employees.  Premiums were raising at about 13% per year.  It was getting difficult to continue to provide health insurance.  Potential hires who did not need insurance because their spouse’s employer provided it became the most attractive candidates to employ.  Increasing insurance premiums consumed what would have been raises to loyal employees.

NFIB was lobbying hard for the bill.  It had already passed the Republican House and President Bush had indicated he would sign the bill if it passed in the Senate.  The Republican Senate majority support for the bill but the Democrats were filibustering.  NFIP worked its members to contact their Democratic Senators asking that they stop the filibuster and allow the bill to be voted on.

I wrote Mendendez and Senator Frank Lautenberg asking that they support the bill.   As I expected, they didn’t and the bill never made it to the Senate floor vote. Lautenberg wrote back thanking me for contacting him.  Menendez wrote back telling me why he supported the bill that he voted to defeat.

Menendez’s reelection campaign is just as duplicitous as his letter to me in June of 2006.

The theme of our junior senator’s campaign is The Middle Class Is Under Attack.   He says he’s fighting for the Middle Class and wants to rebuild the economy from the “middle out.”

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Obama Llama Ding Dong

MMM welcomes back our master writer of song parodies, Lightshines:

It turns out the Edsels are actually big supporters of the Democrats

this year. Of course, it’s been a long time since they’ve actually

earned any money writing songs, but they wrote this one, which sounds a

little familiar.

Oh Oh Oh Oh

I got a thing for Obama Llama, Obama Llama Ding Dong

They’re everything to me

Obama Llama, Obama Llama Ding Dong

Cause everything is free.

It’s mine, all mine.

Oh oh oh oh

I got a thing for Obama Llama, Obama Llama Ding Dong

They’re fine to me

Obama Lama, Obama Llama Ding Dong

You don’t believe that it’s mine, all mine

I love them,

Love them, love them so

I hope they never, never go

Whatever’s yours is mine, all mine

It’s mine all of the time.

Oh I got a thing for Obama Llama, Obama Llama Ding Dong

They’re everything to me

Obama Llama Obama Llama Ding Dong

Cause everything is free

It’s mine, all mine

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Romney ad featuring students who voted for Obama in 2008, voting for Mitt in 2012

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Obama Out of Time

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ObamaCare Summed Up In One Sentence

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U.S. Senate Debate Tonight

Joe Kyrillos and Bob Menendez will face off tonight in a U.S. Senatorial debate at Montclair State University.   The event will be broadcast on NJTV and live streamed on njtvonline.org at 8PM.

Menendez, the incumbent Democrat is seeking his second term term in the Senate.  He was appointed by Governor Jon Corzine in 2006 to fill the seat that Corzine vacated when he was elected governor.  Menendez defeated State Senator Tom Kean, JR in 2006 to earn his own term.  Prior to his appointment to the U.S. Senate, Menendez represented Hudson County in the House of Representatives for 13 years.  He served four years in the State Assembly and one year in the State Senate before being elected to Congress.  Menendez was also Mayor of Union City while serving in the Assembly.

Kyrillos has represented Monmouth County in the State Legislature for since 1988.  He served as GOP State Chairman in the early 2000’s, was Mitt Romney’s 2008 New Jersey campaign chair and Governor Christie’s campaign chairman in 2009.

Despite their long careers in public service, neither Menendez or Kyrillos are well known statewide.

30% of registered voters, including 25% of Democrats, did not know enough about Menendez to express an opinion about him in September 25 Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll.   That is a horrible statistic for an incumbent U.S. Senator that indicates he was not been engaged with his constituents. The campaign has not boosted Menendez’s name recognition much.  In February, the Senator was unknown to 33% of the electorate in a Monmouth/APP poll.

Kyrillos has done a much better job increasing his name ID with voters this year.  In February, 80% hadn’t heard of him and 14% heard of him but did not know enough about him to express an opinion. In the September 25 poll, 48% of likely voters had no opinion of Kyrillos and 12% had never heard of him. Of the 39% of likely voters who know of Kyrillos, 27% view him favorably.

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