Hirsh Singh Can Afford Kool-Aid, Jim Jones Used Fla-Vor-Aid

Hirsh Singh

Former beauty pageant winner Hirsh Singh has officially announced he is a candidate for Governor in 2021. The other announced Republican candidate for Governor is former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.

There are many differences between the two candidates, but I like to point out the fun ones: Ciattarelli moved out of his parents’ house, Singh continues to live in mommy and daddy’s basement. Ciattarelli went to college, got a job on his own, eventually started his own business, won elections to council, Freeholder and Assembly. Singh went to college, was given a no-show job in daddy’s company, won a beauty contest, lost a gubernatorial primary, dropped out of a US Senate primary, lost a congressional primary and lost a US Senate primary that he’s still crying about.

A major difference between these two announced candidates is that Ciattarelli understands the winner of the primary runs against Governor Phil Murphy. Singh doesn’t seem to have a clue as to who he is trying to win the opportunity to run against.

Singh’s entire strategy appears to be whining and crying about some mythical establishment that rigged an election against him.

Even worse, a bunch of Kool-Aid drinking morons believe every word that comes from Singh’s keyboard.

For some reason I decided to look and see what led to Singh posting about “fake Republicans” on social media this morning and discovered this press release on InsiderNJ.

I’m not going to publish the entire release because it’s over 500 words of stupid. Singh spends most of his time attacking former Governor Chris Christie and Republican National Committeeman Bill Palatucci.

Why attack these guys? Christie and Palatucci aren’t running for anything.

The answer is simple, Singh went after Christie because he knew he would get some traction on social media. I’ll give him credit for being smart enough to know that. But they aren’t running for governor, so it doesn’t help his cause – not even a little bit.

After Singh gets done whining about Christie and Palatucci he switches gears and starts with his tried and true attacks against the mythical establishment. From Singh’s release:

The centerpiece of Singh’s gubernatorial campaign is to fix the electoral system in New Jersey as he himself was the victim of electoral fraud during the 2020 US Senate primary election. Every single type of fraud that Singh experienced has been used against President Trump as well. Singh also has a lawsuit that reached the US Supreme Court in October this year and with arguments nearly identical to those in the lawsuits filed later by President Trump’s teams. In both the case of Singh and President Trump, the NJ GOP and their most experienced operatives have been in cahoots with the Democrats in making the fraud a systemic feature of our election system.

The New Jersey establishment had set up a Democrat named Rik Mehta in the 2020 US Senate primary election to oppose Singh and rigged the primary in Mehta’s favor. They then joined the Democrats in opposing election transparency despite evidence of massive fraud. As a result of Mehta’s Senate candidacy, the Republican Party in New Jersey has nearly been wiped out.

The centerpiece of Singh’s gubernatorial campaign is to fix the electoral system in New Jersey? Is he nuts? Hirsh Singh has never paid a dime in rent or a mortgage or a utility bill and now he wants to fix an electoral system. If you believe he can fix anything you are drinking Hirsh Singh’s Kool-Aid and need to stop before it’s too late.

And, Singh is still whining about the “New Jersey establishment” setting up “a Democrat.” He even goes as far to say they “rigged the primary.” Perhaps Singh forgot that same “New Jersey establishment” awarded him the county line in four counties for the primary.

Get real! Hirsh Singh didn’t believe the establishment rigged anything when he was competing for county lines. If he truly believed that line of garbage he would not have competed for those lines. And, if you believe that garbage you’re still drinking Singh’s Kool-Aid.

I’m fairly certain others will get into the GOP primary for Governor and I am equally certain Singh will play the role of spoiler. The problem is no matter how whacky Singh is, no matter that he is completely unqualified to be Governor of anything, Singh has a following. His followers are as loyal as the followers of Jim Jones. And, those followers are eager to sallow some Kool Aid.

I can do nothing to stop folks from following Singh but I can ask that if he offers you some sort of Jim Jones style grape drink that you not take it. Though I suspect Singh will use Kool Aid rather than the Flavor Aid found at Jonestown.

At least, until Singh loses another primary, he’ll give me something to write about when the news is slow.

Let Him Eat Cake, Or At Least In Peace

Phil Murphy

I’ve been working on political campaigns and with candidates and causes for a long time, longer than I care to admit, since before email. I remember when email was becoming acceptable and calling reporters and assignment desks and asking if they preferred press releases being sent by fax or email and most answering fax.

I also remember there were certain rules. Among those rules were you never went to a candidate’s home and you always left family out of it. Of course, there were (and are) exceptions to every rule. For example, if a family member injected themselves into a campaign then they got what they asked for.

This leads me to last night when a woman decided it was a good idea to curse out Governor Phil Murphy as he was eating dinner with his family at a restaurant.

Now, before you start with the hate emails, private messages and stupid comments I do not have an issue with the woman’s opinion of Murphy. In fact, I agree with her assessment, he is “such a dick.” One of his staffers once told a public relations client of mine that the client should not deal with me because I say bad things about the Governor on the radio. Whatever! Glad to know the guv (or at least his people) listens, Murphy should call-in some time.

While do I have at least one reason to dislike our governor, I do have an issue with harassing the man at a restaurant when he was with his family.

I had an issue with leftists when they harassed former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen or former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders at restaurants.

Most of the people who read this blog had a problem with the harassment of Trump administration officials being at restaurants.

The problem is I now see people I know for a fact had issues with Trump administration officials being harassed at restaurants on social media praising the woman for harassing Murphy. There is at least one radio personality who was angry at the harassment of Trump administration officials praising the move.

You cannot have it both ways! If you thought it was wrong for Republicans to be harassed then it is wrong the other way.

But I have to admit I saw this coming. Last evening I was talking with a north Jersey Democrat friend of mine – on Messenger, because he is a millennial and that’s how they talk – basically we were both agreeing that politics is all screwed up because what used to be off limits no longer is off limits, we agreed it was happening before President Trump and that it just gets worse with each administration. The conversation ended with me telling him to “Wait till we see how the right pays the left back for all the #notmypresident and impeach shit.”

If last night is any indication of things to come it looks like the payback for the #notmypresident and impeach garbage is on its way and it isn’t going to be pretty.

I’m not so sure a harassment strategy is going to work and I’m doing my best to remember that two wrongs don’t make a right. I’m mostly hopeful that my fellow Republicans who said it was wrong when the left was harassing people we support means they understand it would be wrong for us to do it.

In other words don’t be a hypocrite! We can beat the Democrats, even Murphy, on the issues! Republicans didn’t order COVID patients to be placed in nursing homes, Murphy did. Republicans didn’t let criminals out of jail because of COVID, Murphy did. Republicans didn’t shut down New Jersey’s economy, Murphy and the Democrat-controlled legislature did.

I’m not saying don’t fight hard. I’m not saying don’t fight dirty. Get down in the gutter with the Democrats and beat them. Just don’t be hypocrites. Let them eat in peace.

And because I agree with the woman who in the video said Murphy is “such a dick,” here is the video for those who have not seen it:

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy confronted while having dinner with his maskless family.

**Language Warning**

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 23, 2020

Vote Fraud Exists – Stop Saying It Doesn’t

I am sick and tired of members of the press trying to make it sound like vote fraud does not exist.

To be fair the “press” has changed their message a little and are now saying things like “there is no evidence if wide-spread vote fraud.”

The fact is there are many instances of vote fraud that have been covered in the nation’s newspapers. Because these instances have made the news I can’t understand why members of the press insist it doesn’t happen.

Vote fraud, or elections fraud happens in many ways. I still remember way back in 2000 when I was a candidate for Congress (the old PA CD1) in Philly having to go to court on Election Day morning to stop an illegal turkey for votes giveaway in the city’s 7th ward. The judge agreed.

Fraud happens, and in the interest of being fair, I will admit it happens both ways. Only two years ago a political operative working for North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris managed to get himself indicted on charges related to collecting absentee ballots in the 2018 primary and 2016 election. The whole ordeal led to a new election in which a different Republican candidate, Dan Bishop, stepped up to win the House seat in NC-09.

New Jersey has plenty of vote fraud problems. Anyone remember the time when then Roselle Council President Jamel Holley was charged with absentee ballot fraud for filling out and submitting more than 20 ballots in the 2006 election? In one of those “only in New Jersey” stories Holley paid a $125 fine and was granted pre-trial intervention to avoid jail time and have criminal charges of ballot-tampering dismissed within a year. Even former Governor Jon Corzine wanted Holley out, but typical Democrat politicos like Ray Lesniak and Joe Cryan supported Holley. Eventually, Holley was rewarded with the Assembly seat he occupies today.

Also in New Jersey is the story of John Fernandez, the former Essex County Department of Economic Development employee who received a five-year prison sentence for conspiracy, election fraud, absentee ballot fraud, tampering with public records or information and forgery. According to NJ.com:

In September, a Mercer County jury found Fernandez was guilty of submitting ballots on behalf of voters in the Nov. 6, 2007, general election without their knowledge. He helped collect ballots on behalf of Teresa Ruiz, who won the election and still serves in the Senate.

The jury convicted him of conspiracy, election fraud, absentee ballot fraud, tampering with public records or information and forgery.

And, since the article quoted is from 2012, for those who don’t pay attention Ruiz is still a state Senator.

New Jersey has a long history of vote fraud. The Heritage Foundation lists 16 cases going back to 2003.

More recently Gloucester County Republicans challenged 157 mail-in ballots of voters who voted in Gloucester County even though they filled out a change of address form with the post office because they moved out of the county.

Last time I checked it was illegal to vote where you don’t live. Apparently, no one bothered to tell the judge.

The bottom line here is that vote fraud exists. We know it exists and we have to work to stop it – and not just during election season. The fight for 2021 begins now. We have to out the folks who are committing vote fraud. If they know we’re watching them it might be enough to stop them. Some of those folks who voted in Gloucester County who don’t live in the county I have tracked down on social media, I have the screenshots that show they live elsewhere, I might just have to publish them soon.

To the press: Please stop saying vote fraud doesn’t exist, you’ve written about it, so you know it does.