David Richter allies himself with biggest Never-Trumper in South Jersey

By Rubashov

Has David Richter’s campaign team taken leave of its senses?
 
Yes, we get that she’s attractive… and a former Assemblywoman… but she supported two far-Left Democrats against two conservative Republican Assembly candidates just a few months ago.  Happily, the Republicans won. 
 
Last November, Republicans Ryan Peters, a former Navy Seal, and Jean Stanfield, the former Sheriff of Burlington County, defeated two far-Left Democrats.  In order to win, Peters and Stanfield had to overcome a lot of treachery, a lot of scumbaggery, but the worse of it came from “Republican” turncoats like former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg – who David Richter himself praised in a press release yesterday, when he accepted her endorsement.
 
This is what David Richter said – yesterday – about former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg: 
 
“I would like to thank Maria for her endorsement.  She has dedicated her life to public service, first in elective office and more recently as a tireless advocate against domestic abuse.  I am truly honored that she has chosen to support my campaign for Congress.”
 
In fact, Maria Rodriguez-Gregg is a tireless advocate for Democrat Party causes and is notorious for being the Number One anti-Trump Republican in South Jersey.  She is the Democrats’ fig-leaf when they want to make their anti-Trump rantings appear bi-partisan…
 
When asked as a Republican woman, where does she fit in the current party with Donald Trump as its head, Rodriguez-Gregg responded: “Is it even my party anymore?  It is hard being a Republican woman with the state of the party today.”

https://www.insidernj.com/rodriguez-gregg-trumps-gop-even-party-anymore/

 
“I think it’s my whole life experience that leads me to not being able to support him.”

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2016/06/nj-only-hispanic-republican-maria-rodriguez-gregg-wont-support-trump-103153

 
“At the end of the day he’s so divisive and he has taken multiple policy positions that I’m not sure I know where he stands on the issues,” Rodriguez-Gregg told PolitickerNJ.

https://observer.com/2016/06/rodriguez-gregg-says-she-cant-vote-for-donald-trump/

 
And from yesterday’s press release, it is clear that David Richter courted Maria Rodriguez-Gregg for her endorsement.  The statement put out by Richter’s own campaign clearly states:  “Since the first time David reached out to me…”
 
What’s wrong with David Richter?  Did someone take a dump in his brain and forget to flush it? 
 
In yesterday’s press release, Maria Rodriguez-Gregg writes:  “I look forward to working with him (David Richter) in the future.”  On what?  Being a social liberal?  The anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party?  The never-Trump rump of the GOP congressional caucus? 

Former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg is a turncoat, she sided with the corrupt South Jersey Democrat machine and supported two far-Left Democrats against two conservative Republican Assembly candidates.  She placed herself beyond the pale.
 
Apparently, this doesn’t matter to David Richter who, after all, was quite happy to do business with the government of terrorist dictator Muammar Gaddafi or go into business with Joe Biden’s brother in order to secure a government contract.  There’s a lack of moral compass to David Richter.  His cause, the only cause he seems to recognize, is the face staring back at him in the mirror each morning.  He appears to be a moral dead zone.  The solipsism he displays is frightening. 

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

(George Orwell, aka Eric Blair)

Quoted by Chris Hedges, in his bestseller, “Death of the Liberal Class" (2010).

NJ Assembly backs license plate deal for revoked group

Last week, the New Jersey Assembly passed legislation designed to use the power of government itself -- and your tax dollars -- to fund Garden State Equality's lobbying and political efforts.  In effect, the Democrats want to create a program of government -funded lobbying and political campaign activity -- but only for one side. 

Garden State Equality -- a group with a history of threatening elected officials when they don't get their way -- is actually three separate organizations.  Garden State Equality Educational Fund, Inc., is a New Jersey non-profit corporation organized under the IRS Code as a 501(c)(3).  Garden State Equality Action Fund, Inc., is a non-profit corporation organized under the IRS Code as a 501(c)(4).    Garden State Equality, LLC, is a Domestic Limited Liability Corporation organized to run a political action committee (see below).

The legislation passed by the Assembly last week, A-4790, specifically funds Garden State Equality, LLC, the political action committee.  Here's what it does:

An Act providing for the issuance of “Equality” license plates and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes

Now here is the really wild thing.  Apparently, Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the sponsor of A-4790, along with the brain trusts at OLS and the Democrat Assembly Caucus, were so excited about securing this funding rip-off in service of the latest fashion statement of the "Feeling Class", that they forget to do their homework and vet the group that was to benefit.  If they had properly vetted Garden State Equality, LLC, they would have learned that the organization had been revoked by the New Jersey Department of Revenue in 2012 and that in 2015, it had been dissolved and terminated.

That's not all, Garden State Equality Action Fund, Inc., is currently under suspension by the New Jersey Department of Revenue and has been so for five years.  The group filed its last annual report in April 2010 and has been pretty much a scofflaw since.  In 2012, Garden State Equality Action Fund’s status was listed as "revoked" and it was placed on "suspension" in July of that year. 

Curiously, the entity responsible for filing the most recently available IRS 990 tax statements for Garden State Equality Action Fund is none other than John M. Traier & Associates, of Wayne, New Jersey.  Mr. Traier is the chairman of the Passaic County Republican Committee.  Traier was a fierce critic of conservative Republican Congressman Scott Garrett during last year's re-election campaign.

And finally, according to the most recent IRS 990 tax statement filed by the Garden State Equality Educational Fund, the organization is in the process of repaying a $47,581.00 loan it received from Steve Goldstein.  The loan was negotiated without a written agreement and is a "loan for operating expenses", according to the information provided to the Internal Revenue Service.  Rather interesting, is it not?

So this is how you make government work for you -- and you don't even need to follow the basic rules to do it. 

Along with the herd of frightened Democrats, several Republicans voted to join the Left and give a government bank account and source of government funding to an organization that is involved in lobbying, political campaigns, and funding the Democrat Party.  Among those Republicans were Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg (R-08), who is embroiled in legal troubles; Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi (R-39), mentioned as a potential candidate for Congress; Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon (R-13), who is running for the State Senate; and Assemblyman Chris Brown (R-02), also a candidate for State Senate.

We are surprised that any Republicans would have voted for A-4790, as it was rushed to a floor vote without the benefit of any committee hearings at all.  This was a short-circuiting of the normal legislative process and deeply un-democratic.  As a result, whether by accident or design, the press and the public were not afforded the opportunity to vet the intended beneficiaries of this taxpayer-funded accommodation.  The people were not given the opportunity to question the wisdom of doing such a deal with a lobbying and political action group. 

At the very least, Republicans should have been unified in standing up for the democratic process.  They should have demanded a hearing and done so loudly.  Instead, they failed, and in some cases participated in the corruption.  Sad, really, sad.