"Our daddy's no mutant!"- Bhalla Kids
Supporters of Mayor Zimmer, like GA, learned yesterday that we are a "mutant" variant of Reform.
At least that is what a Giattino mailer to Hoboken Republicans said:
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| Mailer sent by Giattino campaign to registered Republicans, targeting Zimmer and "close allies" |
What's the most ironic thing about an political endorsement letter alleging that "mutated" Reformers disrespect "transparency"?
The letter is missing "paid for by..." labeling required by NJ election law.
GA the Mutant has no idea who paid for this mailer!
If it was a third party, like letter-writer Sue Pregibon, the ad would be treated as an in-kind campaign contribution with "paid for by (third party's name)" as required by law for political communications.
This is not rocket science.
So, who has respect for transparency?
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| Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) Candidate Guidelines |
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| Giattino campaign letter sent to registered Republicans missing "Paid for" language |
Do not despair, fellow Mutants!
Transparency is coming.... October ELEC reports should be online any day now!
I wonder which campaign will include the enormous value of Roman Bice's earthquake inducing political coverage as a contribution in kind? Is it supposed to be included by the campaign it's supposed to help or by the campaigns it actually helps?
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting question given the fundraising for his sight by Tiffanie Fisher is whether he should be including her paid for language at the bottom of each story.
Dawn didn't have to include PK on her filings so I doubt Ravi will have to include Roman's. Not either of their faults that those to respective blogs became massive negatives for the candidates they were supporting and pushed voters into supporting other candidates.
Delete25% of the vote in Hoboken went to Trump? I didn't know we lived amongst that many morally deficient idiots. Trump is the culmination of decades of the Republican party playing footsie with the most extreme right wing, bigoted elements in US culture, including neo-nazis and Russian operatives. Not a great calling card for Jen, who seems to have voted for the guy. Also not sure why the involvement in politics from the letter writer, isn't Sue Pregibon Canadian?
ReplyDeleteI don't know anyone in Hoboken who voted for Trump. I do, however, know some Trump voters in general. All but Horsey have had the same mantra about it: "I voted against Hillary."
DeleteI also voted against Hillary. . .and Trump. I voted 3rd party to show my displeasure over two of the worst candidates that could possibly have been vomited up by either major party.
Democrats have no one to blame but the DNC for their loss. I didn't like Bernie, and I find him to be a hypocritical oaf, but he lost to Clinton because of DNC bs and nonsense. Bernie would have beaten Trump, anyone but Hillary could have. And that would have been for the best.
But, accurate or not, when you talk about the morally deficient idiots that have ideological viewpoints different from your own, it makes you sound narrow minded, condescending and exactly like the kind of "limousine liberal" that is trotted out to motivate the republican base.
I'm extremely disappointed that anyone voted for Trump or Clinton. They're both lying, narcissistic scumbags. It should never have come down to the two of them.
I don't care what motivates morally deficient idiots, and I'm working class, so no limousines in my past, present or future. If the Republicans in Hoboken are rallying around one of their own, then that's their right, but let's not pretend party doesn't matter when the differences are so great.
DeleteOracle - as long as people on both sides believe the other side is "deficient" in some way, we'll continue to have the choice of a shit sandwich and a polished turd. Republicans are not any more morally deficient than Democrats. Democrats are no less intelligent than Republicans. But both sides have way too many people who believe they're superior for some reason or another. This is why we're a nation divided.
DeleteI wish many limos for you (and me, and all of us) in our future! :)
Their chosen leader is a self-admitted sexual predator. If that isn't a game-changer, then their moral compass is broken.
DeleteI don't consider Trumpers to be Republicans. Most Trumpers I know - and I know more than I'd care to - believe things that are categorically, demonstrably false, and often irrational and nonsensical. Not necessarily because they are "stupid" per se but because they make a conscious choice to let their prejudices and preconceived notions guide them into embracing narratives worthy of Weekly World News.
DeleteIt's easy to uphold the standard of respecting others' opinion when we're having traditional Democrat-Republican debates over the size and role of government, not when we're debating whether Schumer and Clinton ran a child-sex ring out of a pizza parlor or whether Obama was born here. It can't even be called an issue of ideological differences since Trump has no consistent or coherent ideology to debate.
People differ on whether Trumpers are best handled through courtship or dismissal, but I don't think it's egregiously haughty to call them out as deficient because they did, in fact, make their consequential choice based on a deficient assessment of the facts.
I share snoopy's view that both candidates were unfortunate but not that they were equally so. Whatever one may think of Hillary Clinton (I am not much of a fan), it was reasonable of any voter to conclude that the Clintons' decades in government, while flawed and disappointing in many, many ways, at least featured the basic work ethic, intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in our national welfare that are completely absent from Trump, to our daily detriment.
Again, speaking as a liberal Democrat, I would have happily voted for Mitt Romney, Kasich, or just about any Bush (even W, who I hated at the time), over Trump, a force of unadulterated malevolence who knows no ideology. But the only viable alternative was Clinton, and while she surely would have disappointed, she would just as surely be competent and not bringing us to the brink of potential disaster.
So I think Trumpers are deficient and am fine with saying so, and am thrilled to see real Republicans standing up to him.