PRESS RELEASE: Booker’s Immigration Plan Is Wrong For America

US Senator/ Democratic party presidential candidate Cory Booker released his immigration plan and Republican candidate for US Senate Tricia Flanagan has some serious issues with his plan. Her press release on the issue follows:

Booker’s Immigration Plan Is Wrong For America

Booker needs to stop encouraging illegal border crossings

LAWRENCEVILLE – Republican Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan said today that the “immigration plan” released by US Senator Cory Booker is “wrong for border residents and wrong for America.”

“It’s a strange coincidence that on the same day I spoke on the phone with Tricia Elbrock, a rancher and small business owner in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, Cory Booker released an immigration plan that could devastate rural areas in the southwestern United States,” Tricia Flanagan said. “Mr. Booker’s plan to ‘virtually eliminate immigration detention’ tells me he hasn’t talked with one person suffering the negative effects of illegal border crossers.”

“Mr. Booker’s plan embodies exactly what Mrs. Elbrock meant when she told me members of Congress don’t care about them,” Flanagan remarked.

“I listened as Mrs. Elbrock explained to me how there’s always been illegal immigrant traffic in the area she lives and how the folks coming now are different.” Flanagan explained, “Illegal border crossers come on ranchers’ properties and demand assistance, and they’re the nice people.”

“An employee of Mrs. Elbrock’s was kidnapped, she, and others, have had their homes broken into.” Flanagan continued, “Others have found bundles of drugs on their ranches, only to have property stolen or damaged as retaliation for calling Border Patrol when the drugs were found.”

“These are the realities of life along the border, but Cory Booker doesn’t care because he’s too busy lurching left-ward as a part of his vanity presidential campaign,” Flanagan explained. “It’s ideas like ‘virtually eliminating immigration detention’ and endorsing the idea of decriminalizing illegal border crossings, like he did in the debate, that encourage people to continue to illegally cross our southern border.”

“After speaking with Mrs. Elbrock, a person Mr. Booker will likely never speak with because her story and the stories of her neighbors don’t fit his narrative, I’m more convinced than I ever was in the need for us to build the wall.” Flanagan said, “It’s time for Mr. Booker to end his vanity presidential campaign and stop encouraging illegal behavior that puts Americans at risk.”

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PRESS RELEASE: Cory Booker’s Disingenuous No PAC Money Pledge

Declared Republican candidate for US Senate Tricia Flanagan called out US Senator Cory Booker for his disingenuous no PAC money pledge today. Her press release follows:

Cory Booker’s Disingenuous No PAC Money Pledge

Booker’s 50 Shades of PAC Money

LAWRENCEVILLE – As progressives around New Jersey complain that Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo and South Jersey political powerbroker George Norcross are co-hosting a fundraiser for US Senator Cory Booker’s vanity presidential campaign today the one thing they continue to ignore is that Booker’s pledge not to accept PAC money is disingenuous.

Republican Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan said, “It’s easy for Senator Booker to pledge not to accept PAC money when he’s attending a fundraiser co-hosted by the man most political observers view as the person connected to the General Majority PAC.”

Flanagan asked, “How many donors to General Majority will be at today’s fundraiser?”

“Let’s not forget Governor Murphy held a fundraiser at his home for Booker earlier this year,” Flanagan added, “One has to wonder how many donors to New Direction New Jersey, the ‘dark money’ group Murphy has solicited funds for, wrote checks at that event.”

“My point is, it’s easy to say you won’t accept PAC money when you have the people raising money for PACs raising money for you. It makes Mr. Booker’s no PAC money pledge disingenuous. Frankly, I’m surprised Cory Booker’s fellow progressives haven’t figured it out,” Flanagan stated.

“Perhaps this kind of dishonesty is why when you do as a Booker campaign email suggests and ‘check out Street Fight, the story of Cory’s first campaign for Mayor of Newark’ you learn that ‘Jesse Jackson comes to town and calls Cory a wolf in Sheep’s clothing,’” Flanagan remarked. “Obviously, there was a time activists on the left could see through Mr. Booker’s deceitfulness.”

“Given the fact that Mr. Booker has created his own personal loophole to get around taking PAC money it could be time for a new ‘50 Shades’ movie. We could call it ‘Booker’s 50 Shades of PAC Money,’” Flanagan said.

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Vincent Squire Strikes Again: Tried To Sue Camden County Board Of Elections, Case Dismissed

Vincent Squire

Remember Vincent Squire?

He’s the former Republican freeholder candidate in Camden County disavowed by his own party. He’s also the guy who tried to pull a fast one on the Vineland Development Corporation and solicited $20,000 campaign contributions. There’s more, just type his name in the search bar on the right side of this page.

Squire is at it again!

Back in March he picked up nominating petitions to run for freeholder in Camden County as a Republican. It’s news I was happy to hear because I was looking forward to crushing him in a GOP primary. Unfortunately, I was denied that opportunity because nearly four months later, if my memory is correct on the day to file as an independent, he went back and claimed he was given the wrong petitions in March saying he meant to file as an independent according to a source close to the situation.

Here’s the thing – he couldn’t have been given the wrong petitions in March because, like all candidates, he signed a form for the petitions he picked up. Bottom line: He knew he picked up Republican petitions.

Add to that, Squire was collecting signatures as a Republican. I heard that from members of the Haddonfield and Haddon Township Republican committees. He even has a video on his freeholder campaign Facebook page with a Haddon Heights Republican member of Council.

But, Squire being Squire at some point decided he wanted to run as an independent. So, according to a source close to the situation, Squire marched into the Camden County Board of Elections in June, on the day independent candidates are to file, went back and complained he was given the wrong petitions in the first place and picked up petitions to file as an independent. Squire then went out on filing day and gathered signatures and came back, according to the source, “an hour after the filing deadline” and attempted to file as an independent. Because he arrived after the deadline it was explained to him that he could not file.

That should have been the end of it. Not for Squire. He decided to sue. He lost. Case dismissed.

Maybe this means we are finally done with Vincent Squire. The only unfortunate part of the story is I didn’t get the opportunity to destroy him in an election.

Finally, as luck would have it, the Bob & Steve Show has obtained a copy of the dismissal for your viewing pleasure: