Legislator "Porno" Burzichelli gets rude while pandering

Assemblyman John "Porno" Burzichelli is one of the shadiest figures in Trenton and a longtime double-dipper who held two elected offices at once.  He's had his fingers in a lot of local deals too.  More on that later.

We normally wouldn't comment on what Mr. Burzichelli gets up to, but through his rudeness, he has attracted our attention.  Whether or not he maintains our attention is up to him. 

Mr. Burzichelli is the Vice Chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee.  That's where the Democrat leadership sent legislation that promotes the Left's latest fashion statement:  Transgenderism.   Yep, to the Budget Committee.  Looks like they expect to spend some of your hard earned tax dollars to promote this bullshit.

The legislation, A-4652, is similar to S-3067, which uses the power of the State to require that the Commissioner of Education stick his nose into the business of local school districts and "develop guidelines regarding transgender students."  Things like the use of "the name and pronoun that corresponds to a student’s gender identity... issuance of school documentation such as student ID’s in the name that corresponds to a student’s gender identity... permitting transgender students to dress in accordance with their gender identity... equal opportunities for participation in physical education... participation in gender-segregated school activities in accordance with a student’s gender identity... the use of restrooms and locker rooms... permitting and supporting the formation of student clubs or programs regarding issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth."  In addition, the guidelines will include "information on organizations or other resources available to students and parents that provide support to transgender individuals." Yes, this is about proselytizing and recruitment.

Now we have no doubt that Mr. Burzichelli has some sort of back ally knowledge concerning how to get ahead in patronage politics, but he really isn't what you would call a learned man.  True, he managed to graduate from high school, but it kind of ended there.  You see this pattern over and over again with the Democrats.  They have these back ally operators who rise up the political patronage ladder and along the way shed any humility they once possessed, to replace it with a brittle arrogance that resists new ideas and intellectual curiosity.

At yesterday's hearing on A-4652, we witnessed the spectacle of Mr. Burzichelli calling people names, like "intolerant", when it was clearly he who failed to extend simple human courtesy and politeness in tolerating the point of view of others.   It was a real dirt bag act, worthy of the back ally.

Was the Assemblyman being rude simply for the benefit of the potential donors present?  We all know how Garden State Equality gets when it doesn't have its ass expressly licked.  We all remember the tantrum that GSE's former executive director had a few years ago, when he threatened to withhold money from Democrat candidates because they had acted independently, following their conscience, instead of doing as his lobby group demanded. 

This crass lack of civility didn't stop with Mr. Burzichelli.  Assemblyman Troy Singleton got in on the act too.  Mr. Singleton, who is the only "carpenter" we know of who doesn't use a hammer, got shitty too, pausing in his shit long enough to look around to see if the GSE crowd was writing any checks.  Then there was the committee chairman, Assemblyman Gary Schaer, a normally civil man who behaved like a handjob throughout the hearing -- allowing the check writing side to pontificate, while cutting off anyone with an alternative opinion.  Real asshole behavior.

These moes can't seem to play it straight.  They are too interested in listening for the rustle of the checkbook, and playing to potential donors, to take the time to open their minds long enough to learn something... anything. 

Maybe we need to have people's hearings on some of these subjects.  Invite in really, really smart thinkers and allow them to talk. We could even critique the official hearings on the subjects, with all their pandering and lack of civility. 

Maybe we could get Camille Paglia?  Now that would be a cut above what Messrs. Burzichelli, Singleton, and Schaer gave us yesterday.