HIGHLANDS, NJ – June 5th is an important day for New Jersey Republicans. This primary election is one that will determine if New Jersey will move ahead in promoting transparency in government.
The citizens and voters in New Jersey – and across the United States — are tired of the exaggerated claims and negative attacks made in blogs and online postings against many candidates.
The citizens and voters are sick of political party monopoly control in selecting elected officials. The rise of the grassroots Tea Parties is based on educating voters and encouraging open, public meetings, where political candidates and elected officials must interact with the citizens and voters they are supposed to represent.
The Tea Parties are not beholden to any single political party, nor does it matter what political party their members are aligned with. The Tea Parties support candidates who best represent their views and promote open government.
The unsubstantiated attacks made against Herman Cain, a Tea Party favorite for President, earlier this year were nothing more than an orchestrated attack to remove a candidate who many people believed in supporting and voting for. The recent smears of the Jersey Shore Tea Party and Bayshore Tea Party Group are another example of how political insiders are trying to blind the voters and discourage them from having independent views and thoughts.
Likewise, Anna Little is being attacked merely for standing behind her convictions and daring to challenge the Monmouth County system, where the political party bosses and bloggers scheme to predetermine who will be the winning candidate. Three of the exaggerated and outright false attacks being made on Anna’s good record include:
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Posted: June 1st, 2012 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2012 Congressional Races, Anna Little, Ernesto Cullari | Tags: Anna Little, Ernesto Cullari, Frank Pallone, Tea Parties | 11 Comments »
By Art Gallagher
NJ.com blogger Paul Mulshine has a piece today criticising the Tea Party movement for not waging primaries against “safe” Republican state legislators. Add Mulshine to the list of so called conservatives who can’t count.
After the general election last year I was alarmed by the “RINO hunting” rhetoric I was hearing from activists I had come to know as volunteers for the Little campaign. Locally and nationally, the Tea Party efforts were focused on defeating Democrats with conservative Republicans. Why would we now focus our energy on defeating Republicans? Waging Republican primaries to compete for seats held by Democrats made sense last year. Putting “safe” Republican seats at risk doesn’t make sense. Not when we’re the minority party.
We live in a state dominated by a Democratic legislature. Defeating well known and well liked “safe” incumbents in primaries would those “safe seats” in play. Democrats would dedicate resources to winning those seats if they were “vacant.” Rather than “RINO hunting” the Tea Party activists would be wise to continue their efforts to defeating Democrats. Leave the RINO hunting until after we’ve won a majority.
That’s the advise I gave the Tea Party leaders who would listen to me back in November. I’m grateful that many heard the message, whether they heard it from me or somebody else.
Mulshine is making light of the Tea Parties having a convention and training sessions this weekend because without primaries the training won’t weaken the Republicans chances to pick up seats in November.
Some Tea Parties are making noise about waging third party campaigns. If that is the agenda and result of the convention than the organizers are crazier than Mulshine. Third party conservative campaigns in “safe” Republican districts will increase the Democrats chances of expanding their majority.
If the point of the Tea Party Convention is to make inroads into Democratic districts, then their efforts will be well spent.
Posted: April 14th, 2011 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Paul Mulshine, Tea Party | Tags: Paul Mulshine, Tea Parties | 7 Comments »
