Meanwhile, the APP ( All Phoney Palloney?) read Patrick Murray’s poll and wrote a headline claiming that Pallone is leading Little “by nearly 2-1.” 2-1? Murray said Pallone has a 12% lead. 2-1 would be a 33% lead. 12% is not nearly 33%.
Even my own analysis on Murray’s poll has been bothering me:
Murray classifies a likely voter as someone who has voted in 2 of the last four general elections. Of the 333,519 registered voters in CD-6, 60,053 voted in 2 of the four last general elections; 23,750 (40%) Democrats, 27,791 (46%) Independents and 8,512 (14%) Republicans, according to GOP records of voter activity.
CD-6 has 333,544 registered voters. In the last five elections, an average of 157,000 people voted. The average is 144,000 if you don’t count the 2008 presidential election (254,543 voters) and the 2007 state legislative election(96,950 voters). Yet, only 60,053 people voted in 2 of the last four elections, the criteria Murray used to select “likely voters.” Granted, Murray used a different list than I did to measure who voted in 2 of the last 4 elections. If there is a wide disparity between the two, my analysis of his poll is as flawed as the APP headline. I think I’ll ask him about his list.
Incidentally, Real Clear Politics also rates the CD-3 race between Jon Runyan and John Adler as a toss up. RCP rates Scott Sipprelle’s race against Rush Holt as “Leans Dem.” I find the CD-12 rating hard to believe. I’m not on the ground in CD-12 as much as I like to be, but I wake up every morning to “I’m Scott Sipprelle and I approved this message.”
This past weekend saw a proud spectacle of American democracy in action throughout the towns of CD-12. Americans of every race, creed, and age group walked door-to-door, handed out literature on sidewalks, made phone calls, and waved signs…all motivated by a sincere and patriotic desire to get America moving again. I am proud to be representing this extraordinary collection of volunteers, most of whom have never worked on a political campaign before. Thank you all, and a special thanks to our amazing group of municipal captains!
Mark Your Calendar for the Great Debates
Thursday October 14:
11:45am (doors open at 11:15am) at Yvonne Theatre of Rider University. This debate has been moved to a larger venue. Ben Dworkin will moderate.
Monday October 18:
7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm) at Young Israel of East Brunswick, 193 Dunham’s Corner Road. Eric Scott of 101.5 will moderate.
We will have a limited number of passes to allocate to both events. Otherwise, these are first-come, first served, open to the public events with no tickets. Please contact our Princeton headquarters if you would like to attend either event.
No signs, literature, or campaigning inside either venue.
T-shirts, pins, or stickers, are fine.
Phone Banks
Team Sipprelle now has phone banking operations in three counties! This means you can meet our ten hour individual goal (or however much you can do) at a location convenient to you, seven days a week from now until Election Day:
South Brunswick Square Mall: 4095 Route 1 South
Monmouth Republican HQ: 16 West Main Street, Freehold
Sipprelle HQ: 220 Alexander Street, Princeton
Countdown
Please do not wake up on November 3, kicking yourself for not having delivered your best effort to ensure our electoral success. Be part of history! There are less than 30 days remaining.
I Reject Mr. Holt’s Politics of (add) Negative Attack
Some of you might have read the Trenton Times Op-Ed piece this week, a twisted attack ad filled with distorted fabrications. Below is a link to an article which tells the true story of what I stand for: a roadmap for restoring American prosperity and excellence.
On September 27, the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rush Holt to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Muhammad Yunus in recognition of his developing the concept of microcredit, or the extension of small loans to the poor. Due to the vision of Dr. Yunus, the World Bank estimates that microfinance institutions now serve 160 million people in developing countries.These loans have enabled impoverished people in developing countries to start businesses, achieve independence, hire employees, bring new products and technologies to remote markets, foster accountability and give borrowers the pride of running a business. For this, Dr. Yunus is deserving of praise.
Well, Rush Holt doesn’t have to go all the way to Bangladesh to find lenders willing to risk their capital to spur economic development. Despite the monstrously vindictive 2,000 page financial reform bill that Holt voted for but didn’t read, hundreds of Holt’s constituents do the same thing everyday. One of these constituents is responsible for extending loans to hundreds of local businesses through his interests in the Bank of Princeton. Loans extended by the Bank of Princeton have enabled entrepreneurs to open businesses and existing businesses to continue to meet payroll despite being under vicious assault by Holt.
If Rush Holt finds it fitting to honor a man whose vision has spurred lending in almost every place outside of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional district, then the application of logic requires Holt to honor one of his own constituents who is risking his own capital when making loans to spur economic development in central New Jersey.
The local resident that Holt should honor is Scott Sipprelle. If Holt declines to honor Sipprelle, then Holt will prove his hypocrisy.
Incumbent Congressman Frank Pallone and Rush Holt today provided the crucial votes to support Speaker Pelosi’s attempt to adjourn Congress before holding a vote to block the largest tax hikes in our history this coming January 1.
Had either of these professional politicians chosen to vote, as every Republican and 39 Democrat congressman did, in a true bi-partisan effort to prevent this massive tax hike, American workers and American businesses would have had certainty relating to the tax rates for next year. Uncertainty in these economic times is a nail in the coffin of economic recovery.
Make no mistake, Frank Pallone and Rush Holt voted today, not to lower your taxes, but to raise taxes on everyone.
The simple and sad truth is that both Pallone and Holt voted to support the ultra liberal “progressive” agenda of Nancy Pelosi, as they have consistently done in the past.
As one Republican Congressional candidate, Anna Little said, “Fifteen million Americans are looking for work, and they were looking to the Congress to block a massive tax hike scheduled to go into effect on New Year’s Day. Our unemployed friends and neighbors are smart enough to know that raising taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs is the wrong thing to do when it comes to creating the conditions for economic growth.”
Anna Little is opposing Congressman Pallone. Republican Scott Sipprelle is opposing Congressman Holt.
In 34 days we, the people, will have the chance to send these professional politicians, Pallone and Holt, a loud and clear message. In the words of Donald Trump, “You’re Fired”.
On November 2nd, vote like your jobs, your businesses and your children’s future depends on it. Because they do!
There is something different and uplifting in the air. I can sense it in the conversations I am having on the trail. I can see it when folks who might have once just walked by without stopping are now pausing to listen and to talk. Something momentous is happening. We have arrived at a turning point, a resetting of our values as Americans. Citizens are in the process of reclaiming their ownership of government, and I am pleased to be a part of this unique piece of history.
Debates!
Thanks, in part, to your pressure, we have been able to confirm a schedule of two debates with Mr. Holt. The first will be on October 14 at midday at Rider University and the second will be on October 18 in the evening in East Brunswick. The first event will only have tickets available for an overflow room with TV monitor. The second debate will have a large amount of public seating. Stand by for details.
Super Saturday
This coming Saturday, October 2, will represent one month until Election Day. This will be the moment when I will be asking each of you to recommit, with a heightened intensity, to support our campaign to Make America Work Again. Each one of our municipal captains in the 44 towns of CD-12 will be organizing special events to reach out to voters. Please check the “Events” tab on our web site this week to find a nearby event where you can lend a hand for an hour or two. Please help show the strength and breadth of our campaign to renew the American Dream.
Can You Help on Election Day?
If you can volunteer your time on Election Day, please contact our headquarters. We are recruiting official “Challengers” to watch polls, and no previous experience is required. We will also be running large Get-Out-the-Vote and canvassing operations and would like to have as many volunteers as possible. Don’t miss your chance to play a vital role in electoral history!
I Reject Mr. Holt’s Politics of Deception
My opponent has, unsurprisingly, stooped to a new low. In a desperate attempt to deflect the focus from his voting record, he is now trying to scare seniors into believing that I am intent on destroying their Social Security benefits. Last week at a seniors meeting, supported by a local mayor and an imported Congresswoman, my opponent railed against me and manufactured a brand new claim that I wanted to “Privatize Social Security.” This is an amazingly cheeky statement from a politician who supported: 1) a healthcare bill that cut $500 billion from Medicare and, 2) presided over the systematic looting of the Social Security Trust Fund. The famous “lock-box,” intended to safeguard the retirement security of seniors was cracked open by Congress and the money spent. What now stands in its place is a simple IOU from a desperately deficit-ridden government.
The Heat is On; the Choice is Clear!
My opponent will spend $125,000 this week (!) on TV advertisements. These negative attacks are largely financed by PACs and special interests that will require payback in next year’s budget cycle. Is there any more powerful argument for joining our cause?
Thank you for your continued demonstration of passion and purpose in our campaign for America’s future.
National Republicans issued their platform for restoring liberty and revitalizing our economy, their Pledge To America. You can read it here:GOP Pledge to America
The United States Army has attacked MoreMonmouthMusings!
Joining the Army in the attempted annihilation of MMM is another agent of the federal government, GM franchisee, Freehold Buick Pontiac GMC on Route 9.
The threats are real, only if you believe the convoluted logic of former Greater Media editor Greg Bean who awakened out of his semi-retirement to write a scathing column about me, this blog, our anonymous contributor Abram N. Spangel, and GOP 12th district congressional candidate Scott Sipprelle.
I don’t know what it is with those Greater Media has beens, but Greg Bean and Kathy Baratta sure are obsessed with this blog.
Even though Greater Media didn’t link MMM in Bean’s column, I’m happy to link Bean’s the column for my readers to save you the trouble of looking for it. Click here.
Bean says he was offended by Spangel’s piece, Rush Holt Champions Infanticide . He told me, “I am truly disgusted by it, and by you. Until today, I had some respect for your views, but that’s completely out the window. This is lower than daTruth Squad’s nutty bullshit, and that’s saying something.”
Bean also said he’s convinced that I am actually Spangel because he used to write anonymously as “Booze Macaldoon” when he was embarrassed by what he was writing, and because his all time favorite columnist, Mike Royko ,wrote as “Slats Grobnik” and other fictitious voices.
I’m not Spangel. I haven’t written anonymously since I retired William H Seward and the Seward Authority in 2007. I tried to go back to writing anonymously the last time I was attacked by a weekly shopper, but it didn’t work.
What does this have to do with MMM being attacked by the U.S. Army and Government Motors’s agent, Freehold Buick, Ponitac, GMC?
Bean says that because he saw a Scott Sipprelle ad above the the Rush Holt Champions Infantcide post, that Sipprelle has endorsed that view. He believes this blog is conspiring with Sipprelle to employ “dirty tricks” against Rush Holt.
Given Bean’s logic, the Army and Government Motors franchisee Freehold Buick, Pontiac , GMC, must be attacking MoreMonmouthMusings because their ads appear above and within Bean’s rant.
Reading Bean’s column I’m not sure what offends him more; Spangel’s assertion that Rush Holt champions infanticide or the logic and examples that Abram uses to support his argument. Bean says:
The logic behind the recent posting strains credulity and requires a greater suspension of disbelief than those popular “Twilight” movies about teenage vampires. But here it is in a nutshell, according to Spangel:
According to this nonsense, Holt — who taught at Princeton for years before entering politics— accepted a $2,400 donation from Laurance Spencer Rockefeller of New York. Rockefeller, another Princeton benefactor, supports the professorship of Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton. Singer has some admittedly controversial views — including his support of physician-assisted suicide for terminal patients and the morality of euthanizing some of what he calls “defective” infants. Therefore, because Holt accepted the donation from Rockefeller, who supports a controversial professor at one of the most prestigious learning institutions in the nation, Holt “champions infanticide,” according to the post.
That logic is so tenuous and twisted it makes my brainpan ache, and it would be laughable if these guys weren’t serious.
Notice Bean didn’t condemn Singer. He said his views are controversial. Notice Bean didn’t say that Rush Holt doesn’t champion infanticide. He said the logic that Spangel used makes his brainpan ache. (Brainpan is a fancy word for skull)
In an gesture to numb Bean’s brainpan, I’ll concede that Spangel could have made a stronger and more logical argument. Like the one I will make now.
Rush Holt does champion infanticide. Not because the Rockefellers donated to Holt’s campaign and not because the Rockefellers endowed Peter Singer’s faculty position at Princeton. I say Rush Holt champions infanticide because of his voting record as a representative of the people of the 12th congressional district of the State of New Jersey.
Rush Holt voted NO on banning partial birth abortion except to save mother’s life. Reference: Bill sponsored by Santorum, R-PA; Bill S.3 ; vote number 2003-530on Oct 2, 2003 , Reference: Bill sponsored by Canady, R-FL; Bill HR 3660 ; vote number 2000-104 on Apr 5, 2000
If you think partial birth abortion in not infanticide, click here . Before you do, be warned the link will take you to a graphic and upsetting photo.
Rush Holt voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. Reference: Unborn Victims of Violence Act; Bill HR 1997 ; vote number 2004-31 on Feb 26, 2004 , Reference: Bill sponsored by Graham, R-SC; Bill HR 503 ; vote number 2001-89 on Apr 26, 2001
Holt might have compassion for the Bean family, but he could care less about the Blair family who lost two unborn children when a driver under the influence of drugs crashed into their car at high speed in August of last year.
I could site more examples of Rush Holt championing infanticide, but I’ve made my point, with logic that won’t make Greg Bean’s head hurt.
But Greg Bean’s head should hurt. His heart should hurt too. He’s a champion of Rush Holt. Rush Holt champions infanticide. Using Spangel’s logic, therefore Greg Bean champions infanticide.
I don’t know if Bean really champions infanticide. I suspect he would rather not think about it or confront pictures like this. I suspect, like Peter Singer and Rush Holt, he puts more value on the quality of life of a mother who doesn’t want to have a baby than he does on the baby’s life, but I don’t know.
This I am convinced of, though. More convinced than Bean is that I am Spangel. I’m convinced that Greg Bean has been chomping at the bit to attack Scott Sipprelle and to help Rush Holt get reelected any way that he can. I’m convinced that Bean wants to see patterns of dirty tricks from the Sipprelle campaign. Greg Bean started out supporting Rush Holt and went looking for reasons to attack Scott Sipprelle.
That’s why Greg Bean is not fair and biased. He’s just biased, but tries to create the illusion that he’s not. He’s unfair and biased, like so many others in the media.
Notice I didn’t say this blog is not colluding with Scott Sipprelle to play dirty tricks on Rush Holt. Until now. This blog is not colluding with Scott Sipprelle to play dirty tricks on Rush Holt.
No one has to ask me to do anything to show Rush Holt in a bad light and dirty tricks are not required because there is so much material on the record with which to expose Holt as the radical progressive socialist baby killing family wrecker that he is.
I may be a bacon head, but Greg Bean is a numb brainpan.
My endorsement by Trenton City Council President George Muschal was one of the highlights of a very, very good week for Team Sipprelle. George said I impressed him with “my heart.” My commitment to bring a new sense of empowerment to our nation’s most economically distressed citizens is a central plank of my campaign. It is time to introduce democracy to a city which has been ignored by Republicans and taken for granted by Democrats.
Tammy’s Rule
At a recent meeting, an undecided voter was listening to me intently, but saying nothing. At the end of my Q&A, I asked her what she thought. She reflected for a moment, and then repeated a comment I have heard literally hundreds of times, “It sounds really good, you sound committed, but I am afraid that once you get there you will become just like all the others, detached from our issues and focused on your re-election.” So, I coined Tammy’s Rule, so named for my questioner: Be courageous, be independent, and do not ever forget the people who sent you there. My personal term limits pledge will do wonders, as well, to keep me focused and give me a sense of urgency. You won’t ever see Scott Sipprelle wheeled in and out of the Capitol building!
I Reject Mr. Holt’s Politics of Division
This will likely become a recurring entry in my weekly updates. My opponent has added a new weapon of cynical political deception to his arsenal. Volunteers at his campaign office are now being asked to copy and sign staff-authored talking points onto campaign postcards, which are then mailed to voters. The new “Falsehood of the Week” is that Scott Sipprelle favors denying healthcare to people with pre-existing conditions. What can you say about someone who will say or do anything to cling to political office? We are better than that.
Our Weapons Are Stronger
Last week I met a woman with a powerful gaze emanating from her deep brown eyes. She took me by the hand and said, “You have to win this election. You have to win it for our young people.” I replied quickly and politely, “Yes, that is what we intend to do,” and proceeded to move on, before realizing that the woman had not released her grip. She pulled my face back to hers and repeated with passion in her voice, “No, I mean you really have to do this.” I have been so moved by the notes and personal letters from people who tell me that they have never before staked out a lawn sign or mailed in a political donation. I will not let these people-or you–down.
Events
We have a wonderful series of events planned for the weeks ahead; I hope you can attend one of these gatherings:
September 24:
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno will join me at a cocktail reception fundraiser in Rumson to support our campaign. RSVP by emailing:
Silicon Valley entrepreneur, former CA Congressman, and current Princeton University professor Ed Zschau will join me for a breakfast fundraiser at my home in Princeton to discuss entrepreneurship, capitalism, and the proper role of government ($250). RSVP to [email protected] and mail in this form: Reply/RSVP Card
October 3:
The Republican Jewish Coalition will host, “A Night of Policy and Politics,” with Jennifer Rubin of Commentary Magazine and yours truly. More details here: Republican Jewish Coalition Event
Like Levy’s Rye Bread used to say:
“You don’t have to be Jewish” (to attend).
Thank you for your continued demonstration of passion and purpose in our campaign for America’s future.
