Murphy endorsement of McCann endangers Hugin

FACT:  There is one thing that rigs an election more than gerrymandering.  It is called "the line". 

WHAT IS "THE LINE"?

A few county party organizations in New Jersey (both Democrat and Republican) have usurped the actual government-prepared ballot so that they can use it to advertise who their "official" candidates are.  That's right.  A few party bosses in a few counties are using the taxpayer-funded ballot to "instruct" the voters of their party on how to vote.

This doesn't happen anywhere else in America, and it happens in New Jersey only because the state's unelected courts have allowed it to happen.  Of course, these are the same courts that have given us Abbott Districts (where all the money for education goes to a few counties controlled by urban political machines). Because of Abbott we have the highest property taxes in America.

If you want to know why you pay so much, look no further than "the line" which keeps the same corrupt party machines in power, selecting the same insider politicians, who make the judges who inhabit the courts.  So if you are content with paying the highest property taxes in America, keep supporting the same party bosses and go on voting "the line."

Candidate John McCann has defended this misuse of the official ballot by political party bosses.  He has done so even when the party boss is someone like Passaic County's Peter Murphy, who was convicted of public corruption and sent to prison.

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Dec 5, 2000 - The chairman of the Passaic County Republican Party was indicted today on federal bribery and mail fraud charges in a continuing investigation of the Republican-dominated county government that has already resulted in guilty pleas by two other officials. ... For most of that time ...

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Jul 16, 2015 - Former Passaic GOP chairman Peter Murphy of Totowa ultimately plead guilty to mail fraud back in 2003 after a lengthy prosecution and conviction (the ... involving dishonesty or moral turpitude or which constitutes a felony in either the State of New Jersey, Federal jurisdiction or equivalent of same in ...

Why would anyone in their right mind support someone like Peter Murphy?  Isn't politics corrupt enough already?

Not only is "the line" an aberration used nowhere in America outside a few political machine controlled counties in New Jersey, it wouldn't pass muster in a Third World election overseen by the United Nations.  "The line" -- the Murphy/ McCann endorsed vehicle for public corruption -- is arguably in violation of several United Nations General Assembly Resolutions, including A/RES/46/137 (1991), A/RES/55/96 (2001), as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966).

So while we send American service men and women far from home to make the world "safe for democracy," a few county politicians in New Jersey are laughing at them by corrupted the process and are making a mockery of the sacrifice of those young lives.  They should be ashamed but corrupt party bosses like Passaic County's Peter Murphy are beyond shame.  And candidate John McCann is right there with them.

President Donald Trump was criticized recently for employing the term "shithole" to describe some Third World nations.  Well, as far as political processes go, there are quite a few "shithole" county party committees (both Democrat and Republican) who are making an effort to turn New Jersey into a political and economic "shithole."

GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin is running on a platform with corruption as its centerpiece.  Can Hugin accept Peter Murphy's endorsement and run on Peter Murphy's slate, while making a serious argument against Senator Bob Menendez?  After all, Murphy was convicted and sent to prison, Menendez was not.

Bob Hugin shouldn't take our word for it, he should ask his friend and ally, former Governor Chris Christie, about Peter Murphy.  It was Christie who said of Murphy: "We are pleased with the end result here – that Mr. Murphy served a considerable amount of time in prison for crimes which he has finally acknowledged committing as Republican party chairman in Passaic County... For those crimes, Mr. Murphy has lost his prestige and power, nearly a year of freedom and now is a convicted felon."

Good luck playing this one down the middle, Mr. Hugin.

Bob Hugin's campaign staff enjoys the Saint Patrick's Day celebrations at convict Peter Murphy's bar.  (And these clowns want to piss on Bob Menendez?)

For an "outsider" Ghee has some strange bedfellows

By Rubashov

We don't know Anthony Ghee. 

Ghee calls himself an "outsider."  If he is, then he is the weirdest outsider in memory -- one who has taken great care to surround himself with, and seek the anointment of, the strangest collection of questionable characters since Dr. Moreau's Island of Lost Souls. 

Ghee openly acknowledges that he was recruited by party bosses, one of whom had some trouble a few years back with the federal government for what can politely be termed "public corruption."  We thought this fellow's re-entry into politics would stay below the radar.  We thought he'd be cool.  But it looks like he wants to swing his pecker into places that are decidedly un-machine. 

Now this particular boss has a chairman under his thumb who actually worked against the incumbent conservative Republican congressman in 2016 and provided great assistance to the liberal Democrat -- now Congressman -- Josh Gottheimer.  Following his master, this creature has enthusiastically thrown his support to Anthony Ghee. 

So have others.  Supplicants all (as will be demonstrated in great detail, so please, stay tuned).

The curious thing about this fellow -- the boss, not his creature -- is that he has decidedly bi-partisan tastes.  One would expect a stricter diet from someone who fashions himself the boss of a particular party, but this fellow is an omnivore. 

He's the kind of Republican who hangs out with the Murphys -- Phil and Tammy, that is -- and that was when Phil was starting out his campaign.  The boss enjoys hiring Democrat operatives for his vassals' campaigns.  And his best buddy/ business partner is a county boss himself -- albeit a Democrat.  They do lots of deals together... perhaps Ghee is one of them?

Word has it that this boss would gladly swap a congressional seat for the chance to keep the county clerk's office.  The boss, this fellow, can count the patronage jobs at the county clerk's office.  What he can't comprehend is the damage that turning Congress over to a Leftist Democrat majority would do to the United States of America.  As he isn't the boss of the United States of America, he doesn't care.

For 2018, the Democrats have clearly made playing in the Republican Primary a priority.  We have witnessed the unprecedented emergence of "machine" candidates to block the rise of Republican candidates who clearly represent the views of the GOP's conservative base.  It happened in the neighboring 5th District, where godfather-wannabe Paulie DiGaetano engineered the candidacy of "Stumbling John" McCann.  McCann cared so little for party opinion, that he actually began campaigning while still working for the Democrat Sheriff.   And the Sheriff has endorsed the incumbent Democrat!  So have a number of other McCann "supporters."

The boss doesn't understand ideas and ideology makes him uncomfortable.  He counts philosophy among the diseases.  So he is no conservative, is he?  He went so far as to forbid his county clerk from filling out a Right-to-Life questionnaire during her re-election campaign.  Remember, the boss understands patronage jobs, not ideas.  He would exchange our Party's Platform for a list of elected officials and the number of patronage jobs assigned to each of them.  Is this really who we want to be selecting REPUBLICAN candidates for Congress?

It was one thing for him to be the petty terror of a town... or even a county, but now he wants to determine the balance of the United States Congress.   So how should we confront such an existential threat to both our Party and our Republic?

Rubashov asked some conservative activists for their ideas and they offered these:  (1) They said to write about him... endlessly.  Fashion him into a nice plug of lead to fit around the necks of those he anoints.  And as he threatens the entire country, take him national.  (2) Debate him, drag him out into the sunlight, make the puppet master talk.  (3) Run a conservative reformer in the general election... for county clerk.  After all, in a world with more than two genders, there's no reason for having just two parties.