CONGRESSMAN SCOTT GARRETT AND ANNA LITTLE MEET AND GREET AT PETERPANK IN SAYREVILLE, NJ

(HIGHLANDS, October 23)-  Republican Candidate Anna Little AND
Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee
on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
for the House Financial Services Committee will hold a meet and greet
on MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the Peterpank Diner
967 Rout 9 Sayreville, NJ

WHO:           Congressional Candidate Anna Little and Congressman Scott Garrett

WHAT:          Meet and Greet

WHERE:       Peterpank Diner 967 Route 9 Sayreville, NJ 08872

WHEN:         Monday, October 25, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

DONATION:  $25.00
Anna Little for Congress Jane Frotton Treasuer

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The Neptune Nudniks Cop Out In CD-3

By Art Gallagher

If there was any doubt left that the Asbury Park Press’s candidate endorsements are irrelevant to the electorate, the Nudniks made the point themselves today when they published an editorial declining to endorse a candidate in the New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district.  The 3rd district includes Toms River and 22 other Ocean County towns that the APP purports to serve.

The Neptune Nudniks don’t like GOP candidate Jon Runyan because he is a former NFL star who, they say was once rated the second dirtiest player in the league.  They don’t say who rated him that way or why it is relevant to his being elected to Congress.  They say Runyan “seems to have stolen the playbook from the conservative elements of the Republican National Committee and adopted it as his own,” as if that was a bad thing.  For voters in the 3rd district, who prior to sweeping John Adler into office on Barack Obama’s coattails in 2008 had not sent a Democrat to Washington in decades, Runyan’s conservatism will probably be enough to elect him.

As with their lazy and thoughtless endorsements of Frank Pallone and Rush Holt, and their grossly slanted “news” coverage of the 6th district race…they did not cover the debate between Anna Little and Frank Pallone, they barely mentioned Pallone’s corrupt interference into the FDA’s medical device approval process on the behalf on campaign contributor today’s non-endorsement, yet they prominently covered Pallone’s fictitious $400 million to revive the New Jersey fishing industry…today’s non-endorsement in the 3rd district race clearly demonstrates that the APP has joined The Huffington Post, The Daily Kos and The New York Times as members of the left stream media.

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Monmouth University Conducting CD-6 Poll

Joe Schilp at More Middlesex Musings reports that he received an automatic polling call from Monmouth University yesterday afternoon:

I just received an automated phone poll call from the Monmouth University Polling Institute seeking the youngest male voter in the household.  The following are the questions posed as I best remember them:

1) Are you a voter in District 6?  Yes?  No?  Don’t know?
2) Have you voted?  Certain to vote?  Likely to vote?  Not likely to vote?  Uncertain?
3) Are you voting for Frank Pallone?  Anna Little?  Another candidate?
4) What is your opinion of Frank Pallone?  Favorable?  Unfavorable?  No opinion?
5) What is your opinion of the job that Congress is doing?  Favorable? Unfavorable? No opinion?
6) What is your opinion of Barak Obama?  Favorable? Unfavorable? No opinion?
7)  Do you think America is headed in the right direction?  Yes?  No?  No opinion?
8)  Who do you prefer to run Congress?  Democrats?  Republicans?  No preference?

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The Debate at Temple Shalom in Aberdeen

A Public Speaking Student’s Critique

by Roseanne Iurilli, a 19 year old MCC college student

This past Sunday, October 10th, 2010, there was a political debate between incumbent Congressman Frank Pallone and Congressional Candidate Anna Little. This was the first time that I had heard Congressman Pallone speak, and frankly I was shocked at how poorly he spoke. Mr. Pallone has been a member of Congress for twenty-two years, and yet I saw better speakers in the Intro to Public Speaking class that I took at Middlesex County College. In this critique, I cover a few of the main points in a public speaking curriculum.

1. Eye Contact
One of the first things that they teach you in a public speaking class is to look your audience in the eye.  At no point did Mr. Pallone look his audience straight in the eye.  He talked with head tilted slightly back so that he was looking down his nose like Pinocchio.  Mrs. Little looked her audience straight in the eye, and she turned her head to each side in order to address her entire audience.

2. Movement and Posture
Another key thing in public speaking: movement.  Movement is allowed if you are in a lecture setting, standing at the front of an audience with a portable microphone.  In such a case it is okay to walk around the stage a little.  However, this was not the setting of Sunday’s debate.  Mr. Pallone and Mrs. Little were sitting behind a table; in such a setting, it is best to sit straight and still.  Mrs. Little did a very good job with this, she sat still, her hands for the most part stayed folded on her lap except when she was writing notes on the paper in front of her.  Mr. Pallone was forever moving around, he kept leaning back in his chair, then leaning forward, and then leaning back again.  Also, he had his hands on the table one second, on this lap the next, and then back to the table.  At one point during the speech, he was even rubbing his thighs under the table.

3. Vocal Delivery
Perhaps the most important thing that they teach you in a public speaking class is vocal delivery; Projection, Enunciation, and Articulation.

a) Projection
Whether you are using a microphone or not, it is important to know how to project.  When using a microphone, it is important to know how far away to hold the microphone and how loudly to speak into it.  Throughout the speech Mr. Pallonelooked like he was fighting with the microphone; he kept clipping and unclippingit from his tie, holding it up to his mouth and then far away, and was told several times by the audience that they couldn’t hear him.  Mrs. Little held the microphone for her opening statement (and after determining the pickup capability of the microphone), clipped the microphone to her lapel and left it there throughout the remainder of the night, and she kept her voice at an even understandable level.

b) Enunciation and Articulation
Speaking clearly and fluently is very important in public speaking.  Mr. Pallone did not articulate very well, and he mumbled many times throughout the debate.  He also had an ‘umm’ in almost every sentence, and stumbled over his words multiples times.  Mrs. Little articulated very well, she did not ‘umm’ in any of her speaking, and she only stumbled over her words once.

To summarize, in this debate we had a twenty-two year Congressional incumbent debating a woman who had been a mayor and freeholder for only ten.  When you put these two speakers side by side, the difference in their speech mannerisms is amazing.  Even if you were to ignore the content of the speeches, and merely focus on the delivery, Mrs. Anna Little would have won this debate hands down.  Mr. Pallonewould not even have been able to pass an Intro to Public Speaking class at a community college with the speech skills that he possesses.

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LITTLE TO PALLONE: WHERE ARE THE JOBS?!

((HIGHLANDS, October 22) – Republican Congressional challenger Anna Little – responding to the release of New Jersey’s unemployment figures for the month of September, showing that the state lost another 20,200 jobs, and the unemployment rate dipped two-tenths of a percent because so many working-age residents gave up on finding work and decided to leave the labor force – today asked her opponent, 22-year incumbent Frank Pallone, a simple question: “Where are the jobs? 

“Mr. Pallone, today I have just one simple question for you,” said Little. “Where are the jobs?!

“Today’s unemployment figures continue the disturbing trend we’ve seen over the last 20 months – New Jersey continues to lose jobs,” said Little. “In the month of September, New Jersey lost ANOTHER 20,200 jobs.

“That’s the worst jobs report in 18 months,” continued Little. “Not since March of 2009 has a New Jersey jobs report been this bad.

“Since the official end of the recession in June 2009 – well more than a year ago – New Jersey has LOST 62,400 jobs. It’s a sad state of affairs when the government deems a recession officially ‘over,’ but we continue to lose jobs.

“Worse, the unemployment rate in September declined from 9.6 percent to 9.4 percent – not because more people found work, but because more working-age residents have been out of work so long that they GAVE UP on finding work, and removed themselves from the job market,” continued Little.

“That’s a sad, sad commentary on the failure of the Pelosi-Pallone strategy. And it’s not what Frank Pallone and Nancy Pelosi promised when they rammed through their massive trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ package – they promised, if you’ll recall, that unemployment wouldn’t go higher than 8 percent.

“The best thing the government can do is to lower tax rates and reduce regulation, and create an environment in which the entrepreneurs and job-creators in our nation will put their capital to work for all of us,” continued Little. “Instead, for the last 20 months we’ve gone in exactly the opposite direction. Nancy Pelosi and Frank Pallone have made clear their determination to raise taxes on the job-creating class, and have made clear their determination to keep borrowing money to pay for more failed ‘stimulus’ programs.

“It’s time for a change in direction.

“Remember, you cannot change Washington without changing the people we send to Washington!”

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Pallone Goes Negative

By Art Gallagher

In the surest sign yet that Frank Pallone is losing to Anna Little, Phoney Palloney has hit the airwaves with a negative TV ad.

Contrary to the custom with political ads, Pallone’s announcement that he approves the message appears at the beginning of the spot.  This makes it appear that Pallone approves the previous ad shown, i.e., Frank Pallone approving a Scott Sipprelle ad, approving BP’s public relations ads, and Phoney Palloney approving a sleep apnea relief ad.

Complete with scaring music, newspaper headlines and black and white photos, Pallone’s ad says that Little told the Star Ledger that social security and medicare are unconstitutional, that she would end regulations on all corporations, kill the department of education, deny insurance coverage to sick people, and end corporate income taxes while imposing a 23% national sales tax.  “Read the papers, Tea Party Approved Anna Little is too extreme for us” is the ad’s tag line.

When Pallone made these charges during the debate at Temple Shalom last Sunday, the crowd laughed at him.  The ad provoked laughter in the Gallagher household this morning.

Both the Monmouth University poll and the National Research poll of the NJ-6 race indicated that Little’s only weakness (and Pallone’s only hope for reelection) is her low name recognition outside of Monmouth County.  Pallone’s ad helps Little.  I hope he keeps running it.

If anyone finds a video of the ad, please send it here.  I want to post it.

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Pallone Skips Health Care Forum. Little Addresses 200 Live, 500 remotely

Pallone’s other pressing engagement was the Ocean Township Democratic Club’s Monthly Meeting.
Congressman Frank Pallone refused to defend or explain the Health Care Reform Act that he helpped author this evening before the public and the Monmouth County Medical Society, opting instead to visit the Ocean Township Democratic Club’s monthly meeting.

Highlands Mayor Anna Little, Pallone’s opponent in the up coming election, addressed a crowd of approximately 200 at the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank and an additional 500 residents who participated in the forum via live stream through the internet or via teleconference call.  There was roughly 60 people with Pallone in Ocean.

MoreMonmouthMusings was one of the hosts of the live feed.  Video will be posted of the event sometime tomorrow.

If anyone has video of the Ocean Township Democratic Club’s meeting, please let us know and we’ll provide equal time.

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Live Feed of Health Care Forum at Oyster Point. Will Pallone Show Up?

MoreMonmouthMusings will have a live feed of the Monmouth County Medical Society’s Health Care Forum starting a 7PM.

The Little campaign sent a robo call to 40,000 Democrats in the 6th district this afternoon asking them to call Frank Pallone and encourage him to attend the event.   Those same 40,000 will be called again at 7PM for a teleconference whereby they can listen to the forum.

Additionally, News12 told the Little campaign that Pallone wants to debate Anna Little on the station next Friday, the 29th, according to campaign manager Larry Cirignamo.

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Wake Up, America!

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The Neptune Nudniks Drop The Ball Again

By Art Gallagher

If you know anyone who still gets their news from the Asbury Park Press, tell them that the Health Care Forum sponsored by the Monmouth County Medical Society has been moved from Riverview Medical Center to the Oyster Point Hotel.  And tell them that Falsetto Frankie has pulled out.

The Neptune Nudniks posted this story on their website today, Pallone, Little to debate Thursday at Riverview Medical Center.  MMM reported yesterday that the venue had changed to the Oyster Point, and earlier today that that Phoney Palloney pulled out.

The Star Ledger got the facts right, U.S. Rep. Pallone unable to attend public health care forum with challenger Anna Little, even if their headline is a bit Phoney.  Of course Pallone is able to attend.  He just chooses not to. 

MoreMonmouthMusings called Pallone’s office this afternoon to find out what was so pressing that the Congressman could not meet the doctors of the Monmouth County Medical Society and members of the public, along with Mayor Little, to discuss his major acheivement, the ObamaPalloneCare health care reform bill.  No one from the Congressman’s office has called back yet.

Kathleen Maher of the Ocean Township Democratic Club told MoreMonmouthMusings that Pallone’s office told her today that he is planning to attend the club’s monthly meeting tomorrow evening from 7:30-8:30, subject to an unexpected change is scheduling.  The meeting is at the West Park Recreation/Senior Center on West Park Ave between Route 35 and Whale Pond Rd, about a 15 minute drive from the Oyster Point Hotel.

Pallone should do the right thing and attend both events.  He can leave the Oyster Point and still get to the Ocean Township Democratic Club before that meeting ends. Or he could ask Kathleen to have the club members come to the Health Care Forum.

As for the Neptune Nudniks, they should really hire a fact checker to read MMM and NJ.com before they publish anything about politics or government in Monmouth County.

They should also publish their endorsement of Shaun Golden for Monmouth County Sheriff on their website.

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