Tonight: Sprint to Victory Reception @ Bar Anticipation, Belmar.
Please join Assemblyman Dave Rible, Senator Sean Kean, Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini and Chairman Joe Oxley for a Victory reception honoring Sheriff Shaun Golden, Freeholder Rob Clifton, and Mayor Tom Arnone. Cost: $60 per person or reservations or 5 for $250. For more information, call (732)701-0009.
Saturday: If you haven’t marched with Anna’s Army yet, this is your last chance until her 2012 reelection campaign.
They saved the best for last. With respect to our friends in Manalapan, the Battle of Monmouth will be in Long Branch on Saturday. The Patriots will meet at The Windmill, 200 Ocean Ave, North, Long Branch from 8:30am-10am before heading out to knock on 5,629 doors in Frank Pallone’s hometown. Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno will be marching with the troops on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, an old fashioned Hot Dog Rally at Middletown GOP headquarters, 340 Route 35, from 12-2. Come out and support Gerry Scharfenberger and Kevin Settembrino for the final push of their great campaign.
If you miss Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno in Long Branch in the morning you can catch her at Monmouth County GOP Headquarters in Freehold, 16 West Main St, at 12:30.
Sunday: Pancake Breakfast with the Neptune Twp Republicans. Featuring Anna Little, Shaun Golden, Rob Clifton, Tom Arnone and Warren Lapp.
“Anna Little understands that medical decisions are the most personal decisions in our lives, and should be kept between doctors and patients,” said Dr. Alieta Eck, President-elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), who announced the endorsement on behalf of the AAPS. “Anna understands that the government takeover of health care will be damaging to our citizens’ abilities to choose their own doctors, make their own medical decisions, and receive the quality care of their choice.
“Government bureaucrats simply don’t know what’s best for patients,” continued Eck. “They cannot. Only patients and their doctors should make those decisions. Ann Little understands that, and Frank Pallone clearly does not. That’s why endorsing Anna Little was an easy decision.”
“I’m honored to receive the endorsement of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,” said Little. “They’re battling on the front lines of health care every day, and they know better than most just how destructive ‘PalloneCare’ is going to be.
“We need to repeal this bill as soon as possible – that’s why I’ve signed the Independent Women’s Voice ObamaCare Repeal Pledge, and that’s why I’m committed to fighting with everything I’ve got to get this law overturned once I get to Washington.
“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, then I need your vote – because you cannot change Washington without changing the people we send to Washington!”
New Jersey Senator Tom Kean, Jr was on hand to introduce Little.
The gap that Scott Sipprelle needs to close in order to return Rush Holt’s career to plasma has widened from 5% to 8% in the last two weeks, according to a Monmouth University Poll released this afternoon.
Holt has widened his support in Middlesex County to 10%, 52%-42% vs a 4 point margin, 50%-46% in the earlier poll. Sipprelle still leads among Independents in the district, but only buy 11% vs 15% two weeks ago.
“While he’s not out of the woods yet, Rush Holt appears to be solidify his standing among voters in this district,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
That’s a puzzling conclusion from Murray, given that Holt’s support has remained constant at 51% in the two polls Monmouth conducted. “Undecided and other” have doubled as a percentage of respondents in the current poll, from 3% to 6%. Among Independents, “undecided and other” has increased from 7% to 9%. Rather than Holt solidifying his support, it would appear that Holt’s negative ads have been taking on toll on Sipprelle’s support and/or that Scott has failed to give Independents a reason to come out for him over the last two weeks.
The most surprising number both of Murray’s NJ-12 polls is Sipprelle’s favorability rating. In the October 13th poll, 41% of the respondents did not know enough about Scott to form a favorable or unfavorable opinion, including 44% of Independents and 24% of Republicans. In today’s poll, the “no opinion” number dropped only 2 points to 39%, including 42% of I’s and 24% of R’s. This is particularly surprising given Sipprelle’s radio and TV advertising throughout the summer and fall.
Just as Holt is “not out of the woods,” Scott has not been knocked out and can still win this race, though time is running short. Fast, and expensive adjustments are necessary for him to win.
Scott needs to “let it hang out” and let the Independent voters know the more human side of himself. Elections are not won on debating points. To a large extent they are won on likeability. Scott has been argumentative and a bit strident since the second debate. He’s argued with Holt’s commercials and he’s argued with the Asbury Park Press. He’s been defending himself instead of convincing the voters he’s going to fight for them. The “I don’t know and I don’t care” clip from the second debate that Holt is using on TV hurts. It shows a side of Scott that those who challenged him back in convention season saw a great deal of, but that the electorate does not need to see in the closing days of the campaign. A feel good, emotion provoking TV spot with his family and voters could turn the tide. It would have to be written, produced and booked tomorrow, but Scott has the resources to make that happen.
Focus on increasing the turnout in Monmouth County where Scott has a 60%-35% lead, according to Murray. Let Holt have Trenton and the rest of Mercer. Any resources spent there are a waste at best and possibly counterproductive in the last four days of the campaign. Close the gap with Middlesex Independents with the new ad. Play it during NFL games if there are spots available.
The following was written two years ago to try to convince people that voting liberal is just dumb.I apparently didn’t convince enough people.Names have changed, but the sentiment is the same.Now, after two years of liberalism/near socialism, the need for people to wake up is even more urgent.This piece is more about why it’s important to start the pendulum-swing back towards old-fashioned values than it is about John McCain or Anna Little.We need people like Anna Little in congress to make that happen. For the sake of your children and grandchildren, please read.
WHY I’LL VOTE FOR McCAIN
There are many things I like about Obama and a few things I don’t like about McCain.There are many issues that need to be considered when deciding for whom to vote in an election, especially presidential and congressional.People talk about, in order of recently perceived degree of importance, the economy; the war; taxes; crime; to name the top few.To me, the top issue is morality.Don’t dismiss.This issue takes in much of the others, especially crime, including crime of all types, from the slimy street corner drug pusher, to the purveyors of unrealistic mortgages, to the packager of financial instruments too convoluted for anyone to fully understand, to the ratings agencies that called them A+, to the producers, the sellers, to all participants in the world of pornography, to the people who shove at us and our children “Two and a Half Men” and “Will and Grace,” to the welfare connivers, and on and on.We are too easy on all types of crime.A politician gets caught stealing and gets nine months in jail.Any moron knows that this only encourages more graft and corruption. If I can figure a way to steal from the public trough, and I know the chances of getting caught are slim, and I know the punishment will be slight, I’m encouraged to do so.
There are so many things I would like to say about the poor moral state of our current society, but this cannot be too long a rambling, else no one would read it.So, I’ll state my point:Liberalism is ruining our society!I’m old enough to remember how things used to be.You hear people say “we didn’t lock out doors at night.”It’s true, we didn’t.That was before they started “rehabilitating” the scum we now have to lock out.“It’s not his fault he robbed that old lady’s savings, he had a tough childhood; let’s try to save him.”I say let’s try to save all his future victims by putting him away for a long time, long enough to ensure that he’ll never do that again.Liberalism has brought usmore crime, more handouts to slackers, more slime on our airways, more one-parent and parentless children, more drugs on out streets, more social problems of every stripe, even more economic malaise.It’s all inter-related.If you don’t think drugs produce internet pornography, you’re blind.If you can’t see that pornography produces sex crimes, you’re stupid.If you can’t see that sex crimes produce increased prison population, more broken families, more welfare costs and on and on, then you just don’t get it.Then, most of theseproblems produce more drugs, and then all other types of crimes, and on and on.Drugs are available all over the place because we don’t execute drug dealers.We should, because drug dealing is the worst crime, bar none.It’s done for fun and profit.Most murders are committed for reasons of passion, business, gangster-on-gangster, spur of the moment anger, and it’s one victim, usually.A drug peddler victimizes the buyer, his children, his future children, his family, his parents who will later on have to spend their golden years raising their grandchildren, the taxpayers who will have to pay the welfare costs, the police costs, the legal costs, and the incarceration costs, and everyone who lives in our society.And remember, not out of passion, necessity, or mental sickness, but purely out of greed.Have you ever read how all the other criminals in prison ostracize and victimize the sex offenders?I’ve always thought that was interesting.They look upon them as really bad people who need to be punished even by other criminals.But the sex offenders, as heinous as their acts may be, committed those acts out of their sick minds.The other criminals are seeking a sub-class of criminal lower than themselves to vent righteous wrath upon. That’s a common psychologicalploy or rationalization.It makes them feel less bad.It’s hardly possible since most of them are there due to drug crimes, many of them dealers, and what’s lower than that.We all have our sexual desires, but thankfully, most of us have normal ones, directed in acceptable channels.Some people have unnatural desires, and, largely because they are bombarded by sexual temptation at every turn in our permissive, liberal environment, they seek to act out those desires.Punish them, of course.Protect us from them, of course.But, punish more severely than we now do those whose crimes come out of greed and pure evil.Think of it:if we start adequately punishing drug dealers, where a person knows that if he is ever caught, let’s say, with more drugs than he can himself use in a day or two, he will absolutely be put away for a very long time, then what will be the results.Don’t just look at next week or even next year, when incarceration numbers will go up, but look a few years down the line.Eventually, prison populations will shrink;all crime will go way down; welfare costs will go way down; costs of our now vast legal system will go down; everything will get better.We might even be able to go to bed at night with our doors unlocked.And remember, all we’ve done is take the quite logical step of severely punishing those who would kill our children for profit.
(HIGHLANDS, October 28) – Republican Congressional challenger Anna Little today maintained her campaign’s focus on Frank Pallone’s recent silence on his role in the passage of the government takeover of health care, frequently referred to in New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District as “PalloneCare.””Back in the spring, when he thought it was going to be popular, my opponent infamously said of the government takeover of health care, ‘This is not Obama’s bill. This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s bill. This is MY bill,'” said Little. “But now that the public has learned more about what’s in it, and it’s not nearly as popular as he thought it was going to be, he’s gone radio silent – why, his campaign web site’s ‘On the Issues’ section doesn’t even MENTION health care!”
“Sadly, this is not surprising,” said Little. “All we’ve heard from Frank Pallone is distortions of my views, rather than an explanation for the votes he cast for a failed trillion-dollar stimulus package, a failed cap and trade policy that would raise everyone’s electricity bills, and the government takeover of health care.
“Of course, it’s perfectly understandable – if I had cast a vote to cut Medicare by $500 billion, reduce patient choice, put government bureaucrats between doctors and their patients, and raise taxes, I probably wouldn’t want to draw attention to it, either.
“But that’s the big difference between Frank Pallone and me – I would never have cast that vote in the first place!
“In five 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!”
With Anna Little leading Frank Pallone by 20+ points in Monmouth County and closing the gap in Middlesex County where the County ticket of Hackett and Kane for Sheriff and Clerk and Freeholder candidates Frank, Rickards and Rosenthal are running strong campaigns, the outcome of a nail biter could very well depend on the turnout in the Union County City of Plainfield where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of 11,028 to 876, with 6,230 Independents.
Frank Pallone appears to be betting his career on a strong Plainfield turnout. He opened a satellite congressional office there, at taxpayers expense, two weeks ago, after ignoring the city for 22 years. Politickernj reports that Democratic Assemblyman Jerry Green and Union County Democratic Chairwoman Charlotte DeFilippo have targeted a turnout of 30% of Plainfield’s 18,134 registered voters.
Pray for rain in Plainfield. Turnout the vote in Monmouth.
