PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman: Malinowski A Hypocrite For Calling Republicans "a white nationalist party" While Remaining Friends With A Co-worker Who Is Obsessed With Nazi Culture

NJGOP Chairman: Malinowski A Hypocrite For Calling Republicans "a white nationalist party" While Remaining Friends With A Co-worker Who Is Obsessed With Nazi Culture

Trenton, NJ -  During a debate yesterday, Tom Malinowski decried that Republicans were becoming a white nationalist party.

The NJGOP wants to know why Malinowski has no problem using this radical talking point against Republicans, but when his own co-worker was questioned about his Nazi obsession, Malinowski stood silent and they remain friends to this day.

Democrat nominee for Congress in New Jersey's 7th Congressional district, Tom Malinowski, worked for the organization, Human Rights Watch, from 2001 to 2013.

During that time, one of his top advisors, Marc Garlasco was suspended without pay and investigated for his infatuation with collecting Nazi memorabilia. 

Even after the suspension, Malinowski's organization defended Garlaco, likening him to a student of history. To this day, Malinowski and he remain friends, interacting on Facebook.

"New Jersey deserves a Congressman who will be thoughtful and constructive in his opposition of the other side of the aisle," said Chairman Steinhardt. "Tom Malinowski is a partisan wet noodle with whom no Washington leader will want to work after comments like those. Moreover, he has no problem likening as racist a faceless brand, but when faced with a real life opportunity to condemn a Nazi obsessed co-worker, he cowered."

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Is This The Reason Camden Mayor Frank Moran Was Afraid To Call Out Congressman Donald Norcross Over Comments About Camden Workforce?

Camden Mayor Frank Moran

Social media is a wonderful tool for politicians, it’s also great for those of us who talk about those politicians on the radio or write about the politicians using social media. Thanks to a post earlier today on the City of Camden’s Facebook page we can now ask if the reason Camden Mayor Frank Moran was afraid to call out Congressman Donald Norcross for comments he made about Camden’s workforce is the mayor’s chummy relationship with the congressman’s big brother.

The post that causes us to ask the question:

“Mayor Frank Moran joins Cooper University Healthcare Board Chairman George Norcross, Cooper University Healthcare CEO Adrienne Kirby & Senate President Steve Sweeney as they celebrate the 5th Anniversary of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden. Camden is proud to be home to the premier comprehensive cancer center in the U.S. if not the world!”

A post on the City of Camden Government Facebook page. Screenshot taken approximately 2:30PM 9/25/2018

Look at the photo of the mayor and George Norcross. Look how happy they look together.

Mayor Moran and George Norcross. The same photo is in the bottom left corner of the above Facebook post by the City of Camden Government’s. Photo was taken from that Facebook page at approximately 2:30PM.

I have no idea how well Moran and Norcross know each other, but a picture does say a thousand words, and sometimes more. The two appear very friendly in the picture. Maybe that friendliness is why Moran never called out the younger Norcross.

PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman Calls On Newly Formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability To Investigate Marcellus Jackson Hire And Provide Oversight Of His Employment

NJGOP Chairman Calls On Newly Formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability To Investigate Marcellus Jackson Hire And Provide Oversight Of His Employment

Trenton, NJ - Last week Governor Murphy defended hiring former Passaic councilman, Marcellus Jackson, who, as a Passaic City councilman, was convicted of taking bribes from undercover FBI agents.  Murphy called his decision to hire the convicted felon into the Department of Education his administration’s “new norm.”

In response to this, New Jersey Republican State Committee Chairman Doug Steinhardt made the following statement:

"We should be throwing corruption out of public government, not welcoming it back in. If hiring corrupt officials back into state government is Governor Murphy’s new norm, then he clearly is deaf to the tone New Jersey residents want to hear.”

The Bergen Record ran an editorial this weekend that referred to Jackson's hire as "one of those made-up, soft-suds patronage jobs that is breaking the state’s pension bank".

Steinhardt said, “The hypocrisy of this hire is palpable. I call on the Attorney General to use the newly formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, whose purpose, according to northjersey.com, is to ’root out the corruption and misconduct that hurts faith in public institutions,’ to take definitive steps towards ensuring that this practice is monitored closely. The Attorney General should also investigate if Mr. Jackson's guilty plea for accepting a bribe in exchange for a taxpayer funded contract caused a forfeiture of his public pension. It is bad enough that his new job puts him back into the pension system, but it would be an even bigger slap in the face to New Jersey residents if he was allowed to add to his previous pension.”

"After admitting to taking more than $25,000 in bribes, Jackson is making $70,000 a year on the public payroll, in the public pension system, with premium healthcare benefits. On the day he entered his guilty plea, Mr. Jackson remarked boldly, “I shall return,” perhaps foreshadowing that New Jersey Democrats hiring someone who went to jail for public corruption would be their new “normal.”

“New Jersey's residents deserve to see the results of an investigation into Jackson’s actual hiring. The bar should never be this low. At a time when we should be building the public’s trust in government, questionable decisions like this do nothing but set us back."

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