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Dispatches From San Juan

A Response to Senator Kerry

By “Teddy Roosevelt”

Massachusetts Senator and failed Presidential Candidate John Kerry recently went on a rant before a Boston Chamber of Commerce. Among the things he said was this little bon mot.  “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in.”

The Senators little tantrum was brought on by his frustration at the shellacking his party is about to receive in Tuesdays election.

In response I say to Senator Kerry that the on the contrary people are finally looking at the truth.

The truth is that almost every massive Government program of the last 70 years has failed and in many cases made the situation worse.

The New Deal did not end the Great Depression.  Johnson’s war on poverty failed and enacted policies that contributed to the break up of families and the degradation of society (don’t believe me this was pointed out by the great Democratic Senator Patrick Moynihan). Social Security and Medicare are headed for bankruptcy. We just recently saw government housing programs contribute to an economic collapse. The No Child Left Behind Act has not improved our schools. These and myriad other programs had grandiose ambitions and failed.  Yet what is the response of Democrats.  Keep piling on the Government programs.  Increasing regulation and taxes are strangling businesses and killing our competitive edge.  Yet when Kennedy and Reagan lowered taxes we prospered.  Keynsian economic policies touted by Democrats consistently do not produce results while those of Milton Friedman  and Charles Laffer which are touted by Republicans have historically produced stellar results.

What is happening today is the continuation of an argument as old as this great Republic.  It is an argument about what is the proper role of the Federal Government.

The Ironic part is that leaders who the Democrats claim they descend from Jefferson and Jackson where stalwart defenders of a severly limited role for the federal Government.  However even Federalists like Adams and Hamilton would be appalled were they to see our governments reach today. 

No Senator you are wrong.  People are looking at the facts and based on those facts they are repudiating your Party’s policies of bigger government and returning to our Founding Fathers vision of limited federal government.

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Money Bomb For Anna Little!

It’s crunch time!  72 hours to retire Frank Pallone and leave him to survive on the lucrative salary he got for his wife at the EPA.

You didn’t hear?  Yes, Frank “I’m on your side” Pallone, aka Phoney Palloney aka Falsetto Frankie got his wife a $144,385 job in “government relations” at the EPA.  She started the job in June of 2009 while you and I were struggling with the worst economic times in our lives.

But I digress.  Anna Little is going to win this race.  Let’s make sure of it by raising enough money to keep her on TV and on the radio all weekend and all day Monday until Chris Christie arrives at Bachstadt’s. (I did tell you that Christie is coming to the rally at Bachstadt’s Monday night, didn’t I? He is.)

Let’s raise $50,000 in the next 72 hours.  Click here and donate.  $10, $25, $100, $1000, $2400 (the max per person), whatever you can.

Email this post to all of your friends and family and ask them to do the same. Link this post on your facebook page and twitter it. Click here to get this post to open as its own page. Copy the link into an email and send it to everyone with a personal request.

Let’s get it done!  Donate here.

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D’Amico Exposed As Pay To Play Hack

Freeholder John D’Amico has spent his three years in office trying to get his fellow members of the board to go along with creating a new level of bureaucracy, a County Inspector Generals office, and a county Ethics Board.

D’Amico attempted to revive a five year old scandal for his own political gain.  He’s consistently held himself up as a paragon of virtue and implied, or charged,that Republicans are corrupt and doing favors for their friends and campaign contributors.

Turns out that John D’Amico is a hypocritical poltical hack.

MoreMonmouthMusings has obtained an email that D’Amico sent to then Freeholder Director Barbara McMorrow on December 16, 2009 requesting her support in appointing one of his 2007 campaign contributors with a lucrative legal contract for the Monmouth County Reclamation Center.

Here’s the email:

From:                          John D’Amico [jdamic juno.com]
> Sent:                           Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:26 PM
> To:                               Barbara McMorrow [Gmail]
> Subject:                      Reclamation Center Attorney
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> Barbara:          Charles Fallon called today to advise that it would be very helpful to him (and to me, from a campaign standpoint) if we were to designate the Wilentz firm as the exclusive attorney for the Reclamation Center legal matters. Right now there are two firms: Haskins Delafield (an out of state firm that does the bulk of the work) and Wilentz (which only got $6,000 worth of work this year). The Wilentz firm gave Steve Schueler and me a very good fund raiser in 2007, and indications are that they will repeat the favor. Can you support a request to Jim Gray that the appointment go to Wilentz only on the agenda for the 12/22 meeting? Thanks. John

McMorrow did not support the request.

Nor did McMorrow cooperate with MMM for this story.

MoreMonmouthMusings wishes John D’Amico a happy retirement at the taxpayers expense and a  bit part in The Soprano State, Part 2

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National Research Poll: Sipprelle Up By 1% In NJ-12. 14% Still Undecided

By Adam Geller

 Sipprelle leads 46%-32% among self identified Independent/unaffiliated voters.

 Among those who identify themselves as the most likely to turn out, Sipprelle leads 47%-41%.

 Among voters who have heard of both candidates, Sipprelle leads 44%-42%.

 Among voters who have formed an opinion of both candidates, Sipprelle leads 52%-40%.

 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has a very strong image in this district, with a 60% favorable rating and a 34% unfavorable.

 Among the voters who are favorable to the Governor, Sipprelle leads Holt 66%-23%.

 The generic ballot shows a five point GOP advantage, as the generic Republican leads the generic Democrat 45%-40%.

 As undecided voters become late deciders this weekend and early next week, we expect the race to continue to be tight, with turnout becoming the final, crucial determining factor. But if current turnout holds and Republicans continue to exhibit an enthusiasm advantage in this district, we give the edge to Sipprelle.

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LITTLE: SENIORS WILL HAVE NO BETTER FRIEND THAN I

HIGHLANDS, October 29) – Republican Congressional challenger Anna Little focused her campaign’s message on the large population of seniors residing in New Jersey’s 6^th Congressional District – seniors who have been disproportionately hurt by the votes cast by Frank Pallone during his 22 years in the Congress.

“All over our district, I meet seniors who are worried for the future – theirs, and their children’s and grandchildren’s,” said Little. “They see a government taking over more and more of their decisions. They see a political class that seems no longer to care about them, despite the sacrifices they’ve made to allow younger generations to enjoy a lifestyle they couldn’t. And they fear a government that doesn’t seem to know how best to get our economy back on track.

“New Jersey seniors should know this – they’ll have no better friend than I, when I go to Congress in January,” continued Little.

“It was Frank Pallone, not I, who cast a vote to cut $500 billion from Medicare.

“It was Frank Pallone, not I, who cast a series of votes over the last 22 years to raise the national debt from $2.6 trillion to $13.6 trillion, and pass on a debt of more than $30,000 to every man, woman and child in this country – including our grandchildren.

“It was Frank Pallone, not I, who cast votes to put government bureaucrats between doctors and their patients – including their senior patients, who may now find themselves forced off their current health care coverage and into some new plan that doesn’t provide the benefits to which they’ve grown accustomed.

“And it was Frank Pallone, not I, who cast vote after vote for higher taxes and more government spending – higher taxes and more spending that saps our economy, drives up the cost of living, makes New Jersey one of the least affordable states in the country, and forces many of them to become ‘plane ticket grandparents’ – the kind of grandparents who need to use a plane ticket to see their grandchildren, because they’ve been forced to move out of state for their retirements, and only see their grandchildren at the holidays, when they get on a plane to come back to New Jersey.

“On all these fronts and more, our current Congressman has failed to lead for seniors,” said Little. “He has raised their taxes, borrowed their money, and put their children and grandchildren in debt. It’s time we stopped that, and moved in a new direction – a direction that gives New Jersey’s seniors more freedom of action, leaves more money in their pockets, and secures their ability to see the doctor of their choice.

“In four days, New Jersey will vote, and we’ll have a chance to send a fresh face to Washington,” said Little.

“If you think we’re headed in the right direction, then Frank Pallone is your man,” said Little. “But if you think we’re moving in the wrong direction, if you think you’re ready for a change, then I need your vote – because you cannot change Washington without changing the people we send to Washington!”

Posted: October 29th, 2010 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Anna Little, Press Release | Tags: Anna Little | 3 Comments »

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Our deepest condolences to the Halfacre Family

Our friend Mike Halfacre lost his father Robert yesterday at age 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

A loving son posted this obituary on facebook this morning:

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Prosperity is dead

We might as well all just quit working, saving, investing and inventing.  Prosperity is dead. 

It must be true.  I read it in the Asbury Park Press.

Governor Christie killed it, according to the Neptune Nudniks in their editorial, A death blow for prosperity, by killing the ill conceived ARC tunnel project that would have boosted New York’s economy while New Jersey tax payers  paid the open ended bill. 

What a bunch of hyperbole.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that Monmouth and Ocean counties don’t have a reliable and trustworthy news organization to serve the region, the head Nudnik wants to export his special brand of propaganda throughout the nation.  Hollis Towns, the Executive Editor of the Neptune Nudniks was recently elected president of the Associated Press Managing Editors.

“I’m thrilled to be elected president of an organization with such a rich history and bright future,” said Towns, 46. “I plan to build on the successes of the past year by growing the membership, extending our reach and launching an important national reporting project with The Associated Press.”

Good grief.  Did the APME members read his rag before electing him?  This nudnik is going to launch an important national reporting project with the internationally syndicated Associated Press?

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Material For Soprano State Two

The way things are going, The Soprano State will have more sequels than Sly Stillone’s Rocky movies.

Just in the last month we had Toms River Regional School District Superintendent Michael Ritacco’s indictment for taking millions in kick backs.  We’ve seen Frank Pallone, Steve Rothman, Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg put Americans’ health at risk in exchange for campaign contributions.  We’ve seen Rush Holt exposed promulgating phony science to bamboozle Congress out of out of millions of dollars for his employer, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

There’s more material to come, perhaps as early as this afternoon.  MMM is fact checking a tip on a pay to play scheme by a Monmouth County elected official who has a stack a soap boxes he’s broken while preaching against such behavior.  We’re told the APP has had the same tip for a few days.  We got it last night.  Maybe they’re still fact checking too.    Stay tuned.

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