PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman calls for Legislative Hearings on Governor's Murphy's Storm Preparedness Failures

Sorry for the delay in posting this morning’s NJGOP press release. Obviously, the party chairman, like many of us are pretty pissed off at Governor Phil Murphy’s handling of yesterday’s winter storm. The NJGOP press release follows:

NJGOP Chairman calls for Legislative Hearings on Governor's Murphy's Storm Preparedness Failures

For Immediate Release

Trenton, New Jersey - After reports of N.J. kids stranded in schools, on buses late into the night and Troopers responding to at least 555 vehicle crashes as of late Thursday along with impassable roads across New Jersey NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt offered the following comment: 

"The NJGOP thanks the men and women of NJ's Police, Fire and Emergency Services, Public Works, & countless service providers who were forced unnecessarily into emergency mode, yesterday, because Governor Phil Murphy was unprepared for what didn't have to be a crippling storm. Instead of the Governor asking NJ to be patient, we must demand that our leaders are prepared. If the Governor was prepared, everyone would have been home safe and sound, instead of just wishing it were so.

Although Murphy downplayed his failures by suggesting the State was “going through the reps" of snowstorm response for the first time in nine months, he should have appreciated that this is New Jersey, and we have Winter every year. On behalf of the scores of tired, cold, disgusted, angry, and in some cases, still stranded NJ commuters, students, parents and workers, we call on the NJ Legislature to conduct hearings into how this was allowed to happen and what steps the Governor will take to prevent it from happening again.  At the very least, we should expect efficient services from our government. Last night's response was shameful."

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Questions About School Board Election Winner’s Residency And Why The Township’s Communication Director Is the Registrant Of Campaign Website

Brian Reagan

Yesterday, shortly after posting about how newly elected Gloucester Township school board member Brian Reagan has some explaining to do, my cell phone blew up with people swearing he doesn’t live in Gloucester Township.

One caller even suggested that he allegedly lives in Philadelphia with his girlfriend and has an office in Gloucester Township that he uses as his “residence.” Another source said, “Yeah, he lives with his girlfriend in Philly. She’s a dentist or something.”

Other sources texted and emailed. One sent this picture with Reagan and his significant other:

The picture proves nothing, but before blocking out her name I looked her up on social media and sure enough, in the left sidebar in the “Intro” it says she’s from Blackwood, lives in Philadelphia and there are multiple pictures of her and Reagan.

And, scrolling through the same social media account I discovered that she works at a dentist, or at least she did in 2015, which gives credibility to the above mentioned “She works at a dentist or something” comment:

Again, the above picture doesn’t “prove” Reagan lives in Philly with his girlfriend, but all this together adds up to a bunch of questions that have to be asked of Gloucester Township’s newly elected school board member about his residency.

I was going to reach out to Reagan through the contact feature on his campaign website and ask. Unfortunately, the site was taken down shortly after my post about the election yesterday.

Now with no way to contact Reagan I decided to do a WHOIS search to see if he used his name to register his campaign website and then contact him that way. Nope! No way to contact Reagan there. But the registrant name was very interesting:

The registrant of the Reagan campaign website is none other than Regina Caristo, the Gloucester Township Communications Director.

If a LinkedIn profile isn’t enough then click here to read an article on NJ.com in which she is quoted as the communications director.

Now, I cannot explain why the Gloucester Township Communications Director would list the town she lives in as Sicklerville on her LinkedIn profile and the “Registrant street” as 6301 Passyunk Avenue or the “Registrant city” as Philadelphia for the campaign website of Reagan and his running mates.

Curious, I looked up 6301 Passyunk Avenue in Philadelphia and it happens to be the Southwest Philly location of the Venus Adult Superstore. Don’t take my word for it, go to their website and click on locations.

I sent Venus Adult Superstore an email asking them, “Is there any reason you can think of that a campaign website for a school board race would list the address of your Southwest Philly location as their registrant address?” I’ll update you when and if I get a reply.

Until then, I’m going to try and figure out why the communications director of Gloucester Township would be the registrant of a campaign website for a group of school board candidates, where candidate Reagan actually lives, why stuff from my first post on this race was scrubbed from social media and why the campaign website was suddenly taken down.

Stay tuned!

South Jersey Fight Club Has Six Rules, Besides All Its Members Being Democrats

Former Assemblyman Arthur Barclay, Voorhees Township Deputy Mayor Jason Ravitz, Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam and Atlantic City Councilman Jeffree Fauntleroy and failed Democratic sheriff candidate Bob Gant are all members of the South Jersey Fight Club. They’re all Democrats and they all follow the rules.

The first rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: you never reprimand a fellow Democrat. The second rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: you never reprimand a fellow Democrat.

The third rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: deny, deny, deny. At least that’s what Gant did when The Bob & Steve Show called him out for his role in the beating of a defenseless inmate at the old Salem County Jail, and that’s exactly what Gilliam and Fauntleroy did until confronted with video from a member of the media.

The fourth rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: say “It is what it is.” That’s the exact phrase used by Barclay and Fauntleroy.

The fifth rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: blame someone else for your own actions, even if it’s on video. That’s what Ravitz did and it appears Fauntleroy is doing the same. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer:

"When we go out, we're actually targets," Fauntleroy added. "Sometimes things get provoked into situations where you have to, actually … things happen."

The sixth rule to South Jersey Fight Club is: hide! Several media outlets reported that Gilliam hid in his city hall office most of yesterday and Barclay was missing for nearly two weeks after his incident.

Other than following the rules and being Democrats these South Jersey Fight Club members have something else in common. South Jersey’s Democratic leaders haven’t said one single word about their poor behavior. Not Senate President Steve Sweeney, not Congressman Donald Norcross, not Congressman-elect Jeff Van Drew, not Camden County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Beach, not Salem County Democratic Party Chairman Steven Caltabiano, not Atlantic County Democratic Party Chairman Michael Suleiman. Not even the party’s municipal leaders said a word about these South Jersey Fight Club members.

Maybe South Jersey’s Democratic leaders need Tyler Durden from the Fight Club movie to yell his famous movie quote, “Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else,” at them.

If that doesn’t do the trick maybe, just maybe, South Jersey voters will get sick of the bad behavior of Democrats and start rejecting them at the polls.