PRESS RELEASE: Congressman Van Drew Fires Back at Governor Murphy over President Trump’s Upcoming Rally in South Jersey

New Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew put Governor Phil Murphy in his place regarding President Trump’s upcoming visit to South Jersey. Van Drew’s press release on the matter follows:

Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew released the following statement in response to Governor Murphy’s comments regarding the President Trump’s upcoming “Keep America Great” Rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center on Tuesday, January 28th. 

"You can add Phil Murphy to the list of reasons why I left the Democrat Party," said Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew. "I didn't vote for him in 2017 and certainly wasn't going to in 2021. Murphy is totally out of touch with the hard working middle class families and retirees here in South Jersey who are benefiting from the Trump economy despite the Governor's best efforts to make New Jersey even more unaffordable. The only thing Murphy should be focused on is working with Republicans and Democrats to find solutions to the problems he caused without raising even more of our taxes."

PRESS RELEASE: New Jersey Right to Life PAC Endorses Brian Fitzherbert for Congress

Republican candidate for Congress in CD2 Brian Fitzherbert announced today that he has earned the endorsement of New Jersey Right to Life PAC. His press release follows:

Egg Harbor Township –Brian T. Fitzherbert, who is seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s Second Congressional District, announced the endorsement of New Jersey Right to Life PAC.

New Jersey Right to Life PAC vets and supports candidates that are pro-life.    “We are proud to endorse Brian T. Fitzherbert for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd District,” said Marie Tasy, Executive Director of NJRTL PAC. “He is the only congressional candidate in South Jersey who we feel will fight for babies in the womb and their mothers.    Brian is the clear Conservative in this race. We look forward to having an advocate in that seat again.”

“I’m grateful for NJRTL PAC’s endorsement for my race for Congress. I’m a true Conservative and unmistakably pro-life and will never waver from my values. I was raised in a Christian household and believe as I’ve said countless times in public, that a heartbeat begins a life just as it ends one. I will fight to defund Planned Parenthood and any other organization that promotes abortion. I’m looking forward to joining the rest of the pro-life community in the Garden State on Wednesday January 22, 2020 at 11am for the NJ Rally for Life in Trenton at the NJ State House Annex,” said Fitzherbert. 

LGBTQ Curriculum Coming To A School Near You

Yesterday Garden State Equality proudly announced they were “kicking off LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in twelve New Jersey public schools who are participating in our new curriculum pilot program.”

US News & World Report says:

The new classes are meant to teach middle and high school students about the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to society and will be required next school year thanks to a law signed by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in January 2019.

"We want students to see themselves in the stories that are told," Ashley Chiappano, safe schools and community education manager for Garden State Equality, the advocacy group leading the pilot project, told NorthJersey.com.

“We want students to see themselves in the stories that are told” sounds like a nice statement, but what about straight students. Does anyone want them to see themselves in the stories that are told?

I don’t know, maybe part of the new curriculum will be showing the movie Milk, the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office. Honestly, it was a good movie and I remember when I was in school I always liked when a teacher would show a movie.

Here’s the thing, Garden State Equality states:

Over the last year, our team has been hard at work developing a robust set of lesson plans that will teach the next generation of youth about the political, social, and economic contributions of LGBTQ people. And this isn’t just history class: we’ve developed lessons that promote inclusion across all relevant subject areas.

All relevant subject areas! I decided to take a look at what “all relevant subject areas” are.

Fascinating! What exactly is the LGBTQ way to teach math? 2+2=4, doesn’t matter, straight, gay, whatever, it’s the same answer.

The same question for science, what’s the LGBTQ way to teach science?

Then there’s this gem from the US News & World Report article:

Among the topics that will be woven into the students' curriculum will be the treatment of gay victims of the Holocaust. These victims were forced to wear pink triangles. Other lessons include grammar lessons to learn the proper use of pronouns relating to individuals' identities, and a lesson detailing the experiences of an individual forced to undergo conversion therapy.

“Grammar lessons to learn the proper use of pronouns relating to individuals’ identities?” That’s just nuts! There aren’t pronouns relating to individuals’ identities.

I’ll make it simple, here is a list of singular pronouns for each of the types of pronouns:

• Subject Pronouns - I, you, he, she, it, they

• Object Pronouns - me, you, him, her, it

• Possessive Pronouns - my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its

• Interrogative Pronouns - who, whom, whose, what, which

• Indefinite Pronouns - another, each, everything, nobody, either, someone

• Relative Pronouns - who, whom, whose, that, which

• Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns - myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself

• Demonstrative Pronouns - this, that

Please spare me the “you’re gay bashing” stuff, because I’m not. Frankly, I don’t care who is gay and who isn’t. I just think trying to teach math and science in an LGBTQ way is ridiculous. I think changing pronouns because someone wants to identify in a particular way is stupid.

Unfortunately, what I think doesn’t matter because we’re stuck with this stuff now for at least as long as whacky Phil Murphy is governor.

The only thing I know for sure is this new LGBTQ curriculum is going to be what saves Catholic schools in New Jersey. In fact, now that I’m a grandfather I think it’s time to start an education account for my granddaughter to go to Catholic school.