Governor Murphy Should Look In The Mirror Before Accusing Anyone Of Misguided Rhetoric That Is Hurting Our People.

Governor Phil Murphy

I didn’t get the chance to see President Donald Trump’s address to the nation last night. Instead I went to Salem County’s reorganization meeting. It could have been exciting because failed Salem County sheriff candidate Bob Gant and I were in the same room, but we never got close enough to each other for any fireworks. Maybe I’ll see him in court some day soon.

Anyway, enough of that. Because I didn’t get to see the President’s speech I decided to read about it and the responses to it this morning. Naturally, I stumbled across Governor Phil Murphy’s response. From Murphy’s website:

“President Trump continues to mislead to justify his nonsensical and damaging shutdown. There is a much better and smarter way for us to invest $5 billion than an impractical non-starter of a wall. The Gateway Project would do more to create jobs, promote economic and national security, and build critically needed 21st century infrastructure. Enough of the misguided rhetoric that is hurting our economy and our people, and making us less safe. Let’s get the government open and get to work to get Gateway done.”

After reading that the first thing I thought was who the hell is he to lecture anyone on the ‘smarter way’ to invest any money?

This is the guy who decided it was a good idea to set aside $2.1 million to help illegal immigrants fight deportation while taking at least $1.2 million, and possibly as much as $2 million, from our veterans. Personally, I think money for our veterans is more important than money to help people who enter the country illegally get a lawyer.

It’s rather odd that Murphy would make the statement, “Enough of the misguided rhetoric that is hurting our economy and our people,” when he hurt our people, our veterans, by cutting money from the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs in the budget.

Make no mistake, the cuts to our veterans in the state budget hurt people. We had Bob Garguilo on the radio show and he talked about how two bus loads of veterans were, for lack of better words, left stranded thanks to Murphy’s budget cut to our veterans.

Phil Murphy obviously didn’t care about hurting New Jersey’s veterans so maybe he should look in the mirror next time he wants to accuse anyone else about misguided rhetoric that is hurting our people.

Hopefully someone else will call out Governor Murphy on his BS rhetoric.

Is New Jersey Really The Most Moved From State?

Recently, thanks to a study by United Van Lines, lots of folks (politicians, activists and even the news) have been talking about New Jersey being the most moved from state. The thing is, another national moving company, Atlas Van Lines did a study of their own. According to their study, “Based on 71,092 Interstate and Cross-border Household Goods Relocations from January 1, 2018 through December 15, 2018” West Virginia is the most moved from state while New Jersey ranks tenth on their list. West Virginia doesn’t appear on United’s top ten of moved from states.

United Van Lines vs Atlas Van Lines moved from states

I’m not saying New Jersey isn’t losing people. It is and has been. I have personally left, more than once. Most recently I fled to New Mexico for five years, I’ve also moved to PA, SC, WV and MI over the years. For some reason I always find myself back in NJ.

Every time I left it was for the usual reasons, work and affordability. My rent in NM was about half of my rent here in NJ and I had a better view and a bigger place out west.

That said, what really led me to look in to whether or not New Jersey is truly the most moved from state is that according to the widely cited United Van Lines study the most moved to state is Vermont. That made absolutely no sense to me. I know several people who have left New Jersey and not one of them went to Vermont.

The Atlas Van Lines study claims Nevada is the most moved to state. That makes more sense to me, I actually know people who moved there from New Jersey.

United Van Lines vs Atlas Van Lines moved to states

Maybe New Jersey is the most moved from state in the nation, maybe it isn’t, it’s hard to tell. It appears United has twice as many trucks as Atlas, so United probably moved more people. There are also lots of folks who choose to move themselves, when I moved back to NJ I did it with a friend and a Budget rental truck. That was an experience!

About the only thing that is clear is after looking at the United vs Atlas moving survey and a little bit of U.S. census data and the Move.org website New Jersey definitely is in the top ten of moved from states and that’s not a good thing.

Move.org moved from states

Oddly, it appears Vermont may actually be one of the top ten moved to states.

Move.org moved to states

One has to wonder what Vermont has that New Jersey doesn’t. Maybe it’s the maple syrup?

As we head into the 2019 election season those who govern New Jersey, and those who want to govern, better figure out how to stop people from fleeing New Jersey. Perhaps stop taxing the residents to death and find a way to make Jersey more affordable. Just looking at the moved to and from data, it is obvious, New Jersey is not affordable. That means the state’s economy is something candidates will likely have to talk about in this election cycle. Making New Jersey affordable might be the key to winning elections this year.

Gloucester Township BOE Candidate Who Lied About His Residency Has First Meeting Tonight

Brian Reagan

Remember Brian Reagan, the guy who won a BOE seat in Gloucester Township without actually living there?

Well, at least he now spends “a couple nights a week” in the Township home he owns. According to at least two neighborhood residents Reagan has been spending some nights in the home since Township residents learned The Bob & Steve Show started asking questions about his residency.

Perhaps Reagan will answer questions from voters tonight during his first BOE meeting. I emailed him a question on November 26, 2018 and still haven’t had the courtesy of a reply.

There are many questions left unanswered. We already knew, Reagan splits his time between a home in Margate on North Jefferson and his girlfriend’s home on Hamilton Street in Philly, but one could ask exactly how much time is now being spent at his Cedar Creek Drive home in Gloucester Township?

Folks could also ask why his bio on his campaign website was a lie:

There are many other questions one could ask of Mr. Reagan. We listed some of those questions here.

Another question someone might ask Reagan is: was this slightly outdated online dating profile of his how he met his current girlfriend?

One also might wonder if Reagan is a heavy drinker or if he simply posts a lot of drinking photos on social media to look cool?

And, speaking of looking cool, one could ask if he’ll ever attend a school board meeting dressed like this:

Please don’t be upset with The Bob & Steve Show for poking fun at Reagan. If you want to be upset with anyone perhaps you should look at the voters in Gloucester Township who thought it would be a good idea to vote for a guy with a website that has a registrant address the same as a porn shop. Enjoy your new school board member Gloucester Township. We will stay on him until we get answers to our questions.