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Governor Christie: Adler / Destefano need to be investigated for election fraud!

Posted on 14 November 2010 | No responses

Now that the election between Jon Runyan and John Adler (and his campaign’s fake tea party candidate) is over, we should redirect our attention at the actions of Adler and his campaign.   For far too long in New Jersey, election fraud is forgotten shortly after the votes are counted only to be wound up bigger and better the next election season.  But that usually applies only to run of the mill fraud like paying poor voters with cigarettes and filling out absentee ballots for seniors.

In this case, a Democratic campaign put up a fraudulent candidate for a Federal House of Representatives election.  The State of New Jersey needs to complete an investigation of Adler’s campaign and file charges if warranted as it is clear the Obama Justice Department is not going to investigate a Democrat. 

New Jersey citizens deserve some answers:

1. Who manned the petition drive for Destefano?

2. Who funded his campaign?

3. How much Adler campaign time, money and support did Destefano receive as a part of his campaign?

4. How much coordination occurred between the two campaigns?  I am sure phone records can assist here.

5. Why did an Adler sponsored poll contain reference to a third party candidate that no one even knew about.  And how much did that poll cost?

6. To what extent did the New Jersey Democratic party participate in this third party candidate plan?

7. Why have Steve Ayscue and Geoff Mackler  (two party operatives mentioned in October 7 Courier Post article) not been questioned under oath by either the State Attorney General’s office or a Federal prosecutor?

The Governor needs to get to the bottom of this situation.  If he does not, he is frankly complicit in the crime.

School’s out: Why is the NJEA convention during the school year?

Posted on 5 November 2010 | 3 responses

Thursday and Friday this week are school holidays for public school children in the state of New Jersey?  Why?  Because the New Jersey Education Association is having it annual convention in Atlantic City.  With all of the days teachers have available during the summer as well as fall and spring breaks, it seem incomprehensible to me that an additional two days need to be taken off two months into the school year for a convention.

A Theory on NJ’s Lack of Mojo Yesterday

Posted on 3 November 2010 | No responses

The first thing I would like to do is congratualte Jon Runyan for his win last night.  While we have zero connection to their campaign, they represented what we really need in Washington.  And the Adler campaign demonstrated EVERYTHING that is wrong with New Jersey politics.

This election cycle saw a tsunami of conservative candidates find their way into US House, Senate and State House victories in most of the United States.  Yet, three state seemed to see a mere ripple.  Those three were California, New Jersey and New York.  Unlike New York and California, New Jersey was a shocking surprise given the amount of Tea Party activity in the state.  Especially since our neighbor Pennsylvania was ground zero for a complete ROUT of the liberal status .  So what happened?

First off, many of you may notice that we were on top of the Adler race the entire cycle.  That is because it always appeared to be the one interesting House race and it delivered.  In addition, it was the only one with real interest predominantly because it was an historically Republican seat for a century before Jim Saxton retired and became a Democratic pickup due to Barack Obama.   The other elections allegedly in play were never really competitive.  Why?  Because our state is so gerrymandered that the seats are a lock.  And those locks ensure that the decision makers are party bosses and not the voter.  And that is why NJ is so completely and utterly corrupt and special interests not voters are represented in Trenton and Washington.

Need some evidence?  I was driving back from the airport on a return trip from Chicago and I heard on The Big Talker 1210 that it was rumored that Chris Christie operatives were all over the Adler campaign celebration and Christie might be showing up with the candidate.   And sure enough, once I was home and the vote was in Christie and Runyan were front and center on the news.  Clearly the Governor’s team new what we picked up, that the only waves in NJ were going to be where they normally are, at the beach.  

Perhaps New Jersey is tired since our Corzine / Christie battle last year.  Who knows.   But I am not jubilant today.  Because instead of being a part of a wave of change, we are once again staring at a state where the only way to change anything is with a subpoena, indictment and conviction.

Fake Tea Party Candidate Destefano Attack Ad – Who paid for it?

Posted on 1 November 2010 | No responses

According to PolitickerNJ, NJ-3 alleged Fake Tea Party Candidate Peter Destefano has put out a negative ad attacking Jon Runyan NJ-3.    From PolitickerNJ:

Though the ad clearly features DeStefano, there is no information as to who paid for it as required by law.  Federal campaign expenditure reports show that DeStefano has not raised any money for his candidacy.  He declared bankruptcy last year.

According to Runyan’s campaign, the ad is further proof that DeStefano is a plant by the opposition to draw votes away from the former NFL lineman. Runyan’s camp claims the language in the mailer is identical to language used earlier in the campaign by Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. John Adler, who has attacked Runyan over his flip on the issue several times.

 

It is extremely disturbing that Destefano has never filed required FEC reports showing who has funded his campaign.  In addition, this ad apparently does not identify who paid for it.  Given that if follows the Adler talking points, perhaps it is obvious. 

Read the entire article here.

NJEA gone wild video?

Posted on 25 October 2010 | 1 response

I trully hope the material on this video is not true and these are not NJEA members (Hat Tip the Corner on National Review Online post here).

Forget the Chamber, it’s the Public Employee Unions!

Posted on 25 October 2010 | No responses

While taking a long drive on my way to a relatively short soccer game yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice a new crop of political advertisements on the radio.  For the first time in several weeks, it wasn’t campaign ads where the candidate “approves of this message”.  No, these were full throated “all of these Republicans which we will name are bad” and you should vote for the Democrat alternative.  And the two most notable were the National Education Association and a public employee’s union.   The Washington Examiner comments on what is going on:

We have noted before the wholesale purchase of politicians in the State of New Jersey by public sector employee unions.  And now we are seeing the blatant us of our taxpayer funds funneled as an arm of one political party.  President Obama can say all he wants to make me be afraid that the older ladies and gentlemen who meet at our local diners (Chamber of Commerce) are subversives plotting to overthrow our liberty and security.   Perhaps New Jersey and Pennsylvania voters should consider who is paying the tab for these advertisements and wonder exactly what they are getting in return from the candidate.  The candidate wins, the union fat cats win, and you the taxpayer lose.

Read the Examiner article here.

Political Ad of the Week – Boxer’s arrogance

Posted on 22 October 2010 | No responses

Remember the movie Airplane?  This political ad was created by David Zucker and is one of the best of the season.

First they came for the Tea Partiers, now the Chamber of Commerce!

Posted on 12 October 2010 | No responses

I just saw this in the comments of a recent post about a House race in South Dakota(ABC News Politics):

Have the Tea People decided that American born Obama is actually worse than accepting tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from foreign governments and corporations via the Chamber of Commerce? Are you really that upset that a black man is the Commander in Chief?

This is the problem with the Obama administration’s ad hoc attacks on anything that moves.  By creating a false controversy over a tiny fraction of foreign dues (don’t we real;y want the American style of business resonating around the world as represented by our local chamber of commerce?), the Obama administration and the Democratic party have now demonized every Main Street business in the country by unleashing their far left loons in the effort.

Well done Mr President.  I will have to make a point to visit my local diner and picket my neighbors every second Wednesday.  Fool.

Perhaps we should re-open the discussion over the Obama campaign disabling foreign donor checks on their donation websites….hmmmm.

Princeton Physicist Resigns from American Physical Society Because Global Warming is a Fraud. But Will That Stop Cap’n Tax?

Posted on 12 October 2010 | 1 response

We all know that a whole lot of people want to tax you based on the exigencies of climate change (e.g., Cap and Trade). According to Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, those taxes will be based on “the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist”.

Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book [The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science --ed.] organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.<

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.

Hal

Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety; Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

What will it take to declare global warming a religion so we can eliminate it as a legitimate basis for decision-making, the way liberals have relegated every other aspect of religion from the public square?

Dem insiders: Adler Election Fraud is TRUE!

Posted on 8 October 2010 | 3 responses

As we have previously noted, there have been serious questions of the Adler campaign setting up a fraudulent tea party candidate in the race for NJ-3.  According to the Courier Post, the fraud was purposeful and sponsored by the Adler campaign.

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