Was Jesse Jackson Right (about Cory Booker)?

Cory Booker

Like many of you I watched the Democrats running for President debate last night. At one point during the debate, in an apparent attempt to show he isn’t part of a political machine, Cory Booker said, “I, with a bunch of tenant leaders in Newark, New Jersey, in 2002, took on the political machine. And boy did they fight back.”

I laughed, not because it was funny, but because like many New Jerseyans I know Booker is very much a machine politician. Many “progressives” called Booker out for a fundraiser hosted by George Norcross and Joe DiVincenzo. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan whacked Booker for the fundraiser.

Apparently Jesse Jackson might have known before all of us that Booker would turn out to be a machine politician. Jackson once warned that Booker was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

I learned of Jackson’s warning by taking an action Booker asked me to. Okay, he didn’t ask just me, Booker asks anyone who signs up for his campaign’s emails to “check out Street Fight, the story of Cory's first campaign for mayor of Newark.”

So, I did exactly as the Booker welcome email asked and watched Street Fight on Netflix. About an hour into the movie the narrator explains, “Jesse Jackson comes to town and calls Cory a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

If all those years ago Jesse Jackson knew Booker was no good, what’s taking New Jersey’s Democrats so long to figure it out? Maybe they will. Time will tell.

CD3: Kate Gibbs Forms Exploratory Committee

Kate Gibbs

Republican Kate Gibbs announced she has formed an exploratory committee to run for Congress in the 3rd District. The former Freeholder announced via email (or at least that’s how I got it). Gibbs’ email follows:

“I have had enough of politicians in both parties spending so much time tearing our country apart for their own gain, rather than finding solutions that bring us together. That is why I formed an Exploratory Committee and am seriously considering a campaign for Congress in New Jersey’s Third District.

As a millennial Republican woman who has good friends on both sides of the aisle, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s brand of politics doesn’t represent me or everyone in my generation. Embracing socialism and turning our back on the great democratic experiment that is America is not the answer to our problems.

I was born in South Jersey, raised by a single mom, worked to put myself through school, and became the first person in my family to graduate from college. I am deeply troubled about the direction of our country and sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone else to fix it isn’t my style. I expect to make a final decision about my plans in the coming weeks and appreciate all the encouragement I’ve received.”

KateForNJ.com

Phil Murphy’s Sanctuary State Policy Hits Close To Home

Gov. Phil Murphy

Late last month the state of Delaware saw a “historic million-dollar drug bust.” I honestly didn’t pay much attention to the story until I stumbled across this GloucesterCityNews.net headline: Delaware State Drug Suspects Living in Gloucester City Are Illegal Aliens.

You read that headline right! The largest heroin and fentanyl bust in Delaware history was courtesy of illegal aliens. And, those illegal aliens, Julian Rivera-Villa, age 56, and Ricardo Perez-Guillen, age 40, were living right here in South Jersey. Camden County – Gloucester City to be exact, which is where one of the suspects, Rivera-Villa, was arrested.

According to the GloucesterCityNews report, a U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Delaware press release and page 7 of the criminal complaint filed by the DOJ some of their heroin was seized right here in South Jersey in hidden compartments in a car registered to Perez-Guillen.

If illegal aliens cannot legally obtain a drivers license in New Jersey one has to wonder how Perez-Guillen, a Mexican national, was able to register his car in New Jersey.

Even with an illegal alien somehow registering a car, driving that car on the streets of South Jersey and over a bridge to Delaware to sell illegal drugs, there are still liberal groups pushing for illegals to get drivers licenses and so is Governor Phil Murphy. It makes no sense to allow illegal aliens to obtain a drivers license!

Thanks for the sanctuary state policy Mr. Murphy.