The Adventures Of “Brine Boy” – Gov. Phil Murphy Will Buy You Dinner If He Gets To Tax Millionaires

In case you missed it, Governor Phil Murphy is still aggressively pushing the idea of taxing millionaires at an even higher rate. To get folks to agree to raising taxes on millionaires Murphy is offering taxpayers $125 in the form of a “refundable tax credit.” $125 will surly help with the average property tax bill of $8,767.

That’s right, Phil Murphy is offering you a tax credit that’ll cover the cost of a nice dinner out in exchange for raising taxes on the people who employ us. Don’t bother taking the kids to that nice dinner or even hiring a babysitter for the evening because $125 doesn’t go very far.

Of course the Governor, or “Brine Boy” as we like to call him here at the Bob & Steve Show, doesn’t bother to mention that if he didn’t spend $65 million dumping brine on our roads all winter he might not even have to talk about a tax on millionaires.

But, brine only costs about 17 cents a mile. Murphy according to NJ.com:

“I think it costs 17 cents a mile to brine the road, so if we become the brining state of America, I will not be upset about that,” he’s said.

And, don’t forget the time Murphy took “at least $1.2 million and possibly as much as $2 million was cut from our veterans,” yet could “find $2.1 million for the legal defense of illegal immigrants.” Or the time Murphy found $1.6 million to help send 513 illegal aliens to college.

Amazing isn’t it? We’ve found a couple million bucks Murphy has given illegal aliens in New Jersey and he wants to give you, taxpaying legal residents, $125 by taxing millionaires, the people who create jobs.

Great plan, “Brine Boy,” tax the job creators out of the state.

A Cease And Desist Letter That Will Be Ignored

Tom Mastrangelo

On Saturday’s radio show Bob and I chatted a little bit about a cease and desist letter I received as a direct result of a blog post last Wednesday.

I received the cease and desist letter via email from the law firm of Chiesa, Shahinian & Giantomasi PC. They are representing Morris County freeholder Tom Mastrangelo who happens to be on tomorrow’s primary election ballot. The firm represented Mastrangelo three years ago when he filed criminal charges against me and the three freeholder candidates I was working with. The case was eventually dismissed “due to insufficient evidence.”

I have a framed copy of the dismissal proudly displayed in my home:

Oh! I forgot to mention, the last time I checked the law firm representing Mastrangelo happened to be on the Special County Counsel list. I’m not a lawyer, but if they’re still on that list there may be some sort of a conflict.

“Insufficient evidence.” In other words I was never given any evidence the record was expunged, despite three different lawyers asking for that evidence.

Anyway, last Wednesday’s blog post for those of you who haven’t read it talked about a mailer that used a “phony paid for by line.” I said in the post that it was “cowardly” to use a “phony paid for by line.” I truly believe it was cowardly. I practice hardball politics often, but always stand by my work.

The mailer with the phony paid for by line just happened to include a police report that Mastrangelo alleges was expunged. Never mind the fact he said the same thing three years ago and the case was dismissed for insufficient evidence.

What I really found interesting was that shortly after I shared the blog post to my personal Facebook page Johnson McWilliams used the comments section to attack Bob Greco, my radio show co-host and McWilliams’s comments were removed at almost the exact same time I received the cease and desist letter via email.

Could the deletion of McWilliams comments at the same time I received the cease and desist letter from Mastrangelo’s lawyer be a coincidence? It could be, but allegedly Johnson McWilliams is one of several of Mastrangelo’s phony Facebook accounts, so I doubt it was coincidence.

At the time of the comments it appeared Mastrangelo/McWilliams was more concerned that I referred to him as a “scumbag” for once throwing his own son under the bus by denying he sent him to video an event hosted by his opponents.

I standby the scumbag comment because what kind of person would knowingly lie about sending his son to record an event:

As to the cease and desist letter. That law firm can pound sand because, according to the New Jersey State Supreme Court, “The issue before us arises in the realm of political discourse, where speech is often harsh and caustic, but where the constitutional guarantee of free expression is given great latitude. Although our expungement statute relieves a prior offender of some civil disabilities, it does not extinguish the truth.” G.D. v. Kenny, 205 N.J. 275, 283 (N.J. 2011)

While I still think the designer/sender of the mail piece in question is a coward for using a phony paid for by line it doesn’t change the truth.

And, while on the subject of truth I still think any elected official who hides behind fake Facebook accounts and who lies about his own son to save his political hide is truly a scumbag.

You have some interesting choices in tomorrow’s election Morris County!

And just for fun, here’s the cease and desist letter:

Testa Wants A Debate And We Think We Have An Offer Andrzejczak Can’t Refuse

Michael Testa

Way back on March 25th Republican candidate for state Senate in LD1, Mike Testa, sent a letter to Democratic party temporary state Senator Bob Andrzejczak challenging him to a debate “regarding the $4.5 million in school funding cuts foisted upon our district by your Democratic Party leaders in Trenton.”

At the time the Bob & Steve Show ignored the debate challenge because Testa proposed the debate be held on another radio program. It was nothing against Testa, we simply didn’t see the need in us promoting another radio program – even if we do like the host.

Well guess what? Not-so-shockingly more than 60 days later Testa has yet to get a response to his debate challenge from Andrzejczak.

Why hasn’t Andrzejczak responded to Testa in over two months? Could it be Andrzejczak no longer has Congressman Jeff Van Drew to speak for him?

Whatever the reason we want to see, or at least hear, a debate. Though we haven’t asked Testa directly we are fairly certain he would happily debate Andrzejczak any time, at any place. To that end, we have a solution – debate on the Bob & Steve Show.

We understand the fact that we are unabashedly Republican, mostly conservative and extremely opinionated might give Mr. Andrzejczak a reason not to debate Mr. Testa on the Bob & Steve Show, but we have a solution to that too.

Our solution? Simple! Considering he was once a guest on the show (Episode #005, 8-11-18) we’ll invite the state Senate President, Steve Sweeney, to co-host the debate with us. It’s a safe bet he accepts the invitation, we treated him very respectfully when he appeared on the show. And, to sweeten the pot we’ll even take suggestions for a second Democrat to co-host a debate with us from Andrzejczak.

That second Democrat could be almost anyone. Maybe Jeff Van Drew? Maybe a Cumberland County Freeholder? How about former Cumberland County freeholder Lou Magazzu? He probably hates us given all the unkind things we said about him when Bob was the Cumberland GOP chairman and Steve was the organization’s consultant. That would certainly make things fair.

How about it guys? What do you think?