How the GOP was saved from Bush and the establishment.
Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.
The first: the tea party is not a “threat” to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn’t remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.
The Asbury Park Press’ recent editorial endorsement in the 12th Congressional District race correctly described the contest between 12-year incumbent Rep. Rush Holt and me as providing voters a stark choice between two very different candidates with different visions about the future direction of our country.
Beyond that, the editorial read more like one of Rush Holt’s negative campaign attacks against me – nasty in tone and short on facts. I thank the editorial board for allowing me the opportunity to respond and set the record straight.
First, I encourage everyone reading this to visit my website at www.supportscott2010.com and read my comprehensive “Blueprint for Renewal.” I am confident they will find it to be the most detailed and thoughtful series of position papers put forth by any congressional candidate in the country this year.
I set out to run a positive campaign of ideas and I am proud to have done just that.
Now, on to the specific issues:
The editorial board falsely accused me of opposing insurance coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. This is a completely fabricated claim that has been promulgated by Holt. In fact, my website lays out a novel plan for large national insurance pools of “uninsureds,” grouped by medical specialty that would be subsidized by federal dollars.
The editorial board also parroted one of Holt’s misleading attacks against me regarding unemployment benefits, quoting a statement they claim was extracted from my campaign website. My campaign website has never had any reference whatsoever to unemployment benefits, another mistake that indicates a sloppy research effort by the Press or an excessive reliance on talking points distributed by Holt.
The truth is that while congressional Democrats have offered to extend benefits indefinitely and congressional Republicans have called for cutting them off immediately, I have discussed a sensible compromise that is both compassionate and fiscally responsible, while focusing on the critical task of rebuilding America’s economic engine.
The best social welfare net is a job. Holt has no plan to create private sector jobs; he is offering just more of the status quo.
The board’s most ridiculous attack against me was regarding partisan politics. The fact of the matter is Holt votes with his party nearly 99 percent of the time and believes any idea offered by a Democrat is good and any idea offered by Republican is bad. He’s part of the problem in Washington and has contributed mightily to the toxic environment there.
On the other hand, I have supported a reform Democrat for mayor in my hometown of Princeton against an entrenched political machine, and I took considerable flak during the Republican primary for my financial donations to Democrats with whom I agreed on certain issues. There is only one candidate in this race who has demonstrated a willingness to reach across the aisle to solve problems – and it is me.
Less than two weeks from today, voters will go to the polls to make a historic decision. I would like them to believe I am the candidate who can make America work again.
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.
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.
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.
4PM Red Bank Rally at TASTE sponsored by Senator Jennifer Beck and Assembly Members Caroline Casagrande and Declan O’Scanlon in support of Anna Little and Red Bank Council Candidates Joe Mizzi and Rob Lombardi.
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8PM: Dinner Party Meet and Greet with Scott Sipprelle at Gusto’s Bar and Grill,1050 State Highway 18 East Brunswick, NJ 08816 .
East Brunswick Council Candidates Camille Ferraro, Jim Wendell, and Mike Hughes,
Middlesex County candidates for Freeholder, Dick Frank, David Rosenthal, Jordan Rickards,
Sheriff candidate Keith Hackett, and County Clerk candidate Harold Kane.
"Jersey Guys" Ray Rossi and Casey Bartholomew greet fans of The Soprano State at the Clearview Middlebrook theater in Ocean Twp. Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure in the background
NJ 101.5 hosted a special showing of The Soprano State this evening in Ocean Township. The Jersey Guys, Casey Bartholomew and Ray Rossi broadcast their show from the Clearview Middlebrook theater this afternoon to promote the showing. Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure, co-authors of the book that inspired the movie where on hand.
The movie opens at Clearview theaters throughout New Jersey and New York on Friday. Click here to find the theater closest to you.
On my way out of the theater I noticed this car park in a handicapped spot:
At first I didn’t notice the handicapped permit hanging from the rear view mirror and thought the driver was thoughtless and foolish. Certainly not a Soprano State caliber law breaker.
Look what I found in the back seat of the car as I walked by:
Kind of looks like Senator Ray Lesniak, doesn’t it? Lesniak didn’t make it into the movie.
Do you think this handicapped driver is cruising in the NJ Turnpike HOV lanes?
Obamacare was supposed to help seniors. Not really. Over $500 Billion in Medicare cuts are strangling medical services for the elderly. The cuts may force a number of hospitals to close. Adding millions more onto the Medicaid rolls will further increase the costs to the taxpayers.
Obamacare was not supposed to ration healthcare services. Obama nominated Dr. Donald Berwick, an advocate of health-care rationing to run Medicare and Medicaid. Dr. Berwick’s claim that the government must ration health care is a portent of things to come. “I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it.” said Dr. Berwick in England in 2008 on the 60th anniversary of the British National Health Service.
Based upon their support for rationing, I guess I’m lucky to have had my open heart surgery done in 2007; some government bureaucrat can now decide whether I could have that operation or not. No government bureaucrat should ever come between a patient and their doctor.
As respects controlling costs; the career politicians assured us that health care costs would go down. Oops, even the Health and Human Services department now projects costs to rise more than originally projected. Didn’t they know that adding 34 million more people to the healthcare system would increase costs for those who subsidize this (us, the taxpayers). Are they really that stupid not to understand that by increasing demand on medical services without a corresponding increase in the supply (doctors and nurses) defacto rationing would occur?
“During 2010-2019, however, these effects (cost control features) would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage,” wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare’s chief actuary. Insurance companies are now forced to raise rates for current policyholders to cover the additional costs caused by Obamacare.
It’s obvious that the Democrat plan to save Social Security and Medicare is to cut the payouts (not just the Cost of Living Increase) by reducing the number of recipients through attrition (namely, to kill the seniors off by rationing their health care). The only business which will thrive as a result are the funeral homes.
Of course, the only other profession who will continue to prosper are the attorneys. The ambulance chasers were deliberately protected by the Democrat Congress led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid when they refused to include any type of tort reform in Obamacare.
I urge my fellow seniors, homeowners and taxpayers to thank Obama and the Democrat career political establishment on Tuesday, November 2nd, by voting Republican for every office, even if you have to hold your nose.
The only way we will ever change Washington is if we change the people we send there. Anna Little in Congressional District 6 and Scott Sipprelle in Congressional District 12 would be a great start.
