For an "outsider" Ghee has some strange bedfellows

By Rubashov

We don't know Anthony Ghee. 

Ghee calls himself an "outsider."  If he is, then he is the weirdest outsider in memory -- one who has taken great care to surround himself with, and seek the anointment of, the strangest collection of questionable characters since Dr. Moreau's Island of Lost Souls. 

Ghee openly acknowledges that he was recruited by party bosses, one of whom had some trouble a few years back with the federal government for what can politely be termed "public corruption."  We thought this fellow's re-entry into politics would stay below the radar.  We thought he'd be cool.  But it looks like he wants to swing his pecker into places that are decidedly un-machine. 

Now this particular boss has a chairman under his thumb who actually worked against the incumbent conservative Republican congressman in 2016 and provided great assistance to the liberal Democrat -- now Congressman -- Josh Gottheimer.  Following his master, this creature has enthusiastically thrown his support to Anthony Ghee. 

So have others.  Supplicants all (as will be demonstrated in great detail, so please, stay tuned).

The curious thing about this fellow -- the boss, not his creature -- is that he has decidedly bi-partisan tastes.  One would expect a stricter diet from someone who fashions himself the boss of a particular party, but this fellow is an omnivore. 

He's the kind of Republican who hangs out with the Murphys -- Phil and Tammy, that is -- and that was when Phil was starting out his campaign.  The boss enjoys hiring Democrat operatives for his vassals' campaigns.  And his best buddy/ business partner is a county boss himself -- albeit a Democrat.  They do lots of deals together... perhaps Ghee is one of them?

Word has it that this boss would gladly swap a congressional seat for the chance to keep the county clerk's office.  The boss, this fellow, can count the patronage jobs at the county clerk's office.  What he can't comprehend is the damage that turning Congress over to a Leftist Democrat majority would do to the United States of America.  As he isn't the boss of the United States of America, he doesn't care.

For 2018, the Democrats have clearly made playing in the Republican Primary a priority.  We have witnessed the unprecedented emergence of "machine" candidates to block the rise of Republican candidates who clearly represent the views of the GOP's conservative base.  It happened in the neighboring 5th District, where godfather-wannabe Paulie DiGaetano engineered the candidacy of "Stumbling John" McCann.  McCann cared so little for party opinion, that he actually began campaigning while still working for the Democrat Sheriff.   And the Sheriff has endorsed the incumbent Democrat!  So have a number of other McCann "supporters."

The boss doesn't understand ideas and ideology makes him uncomfortable.  He counts philosophy among the diseases.  So he is no conservative, is he?  He went so far as to forbid his county clerk from filling out a Right-to-Life questionnaire during her re-election campaign.  Remember, the boss understands patronage jobs, not ideas.  He would exchange our Party's Platform for a list of elected officials and the number of patronage jobs assigned to each of them.  Is this really who we want to be selecting REPUBLICAN candidates for Congress?

It was one thing for him to be the petty terror of a town... or even a county, but now he wants to determine the balance of the United States Congress.   So how should we confront such an existential threat to both our Party and our Republic?

Rubashov asked some conservative activists for their ideas and they offered these:  (1) They said to write about him... endlessly.  Fashion him into a nice plug of lead to fit around the necks of those he anoints.  And as he threatens the entire country, take him national.  (2) Debate him, drag him out into the sunlight, make the puppet master talk.  (3) Run a conservative reformer in the general election... for county clerk.  After all, in a world with more than two genders, there's no reason for having just two parties.

McCann manager attacked McCann's Democrat boss

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.  The young fellow running candidate John McCann's effort this year, wrote a very potent attack against McCann's Democrat boss -- Bergen County Sheriff Mike Saudino -- last year, accusing him of siding with groups like Black Lives Matter.  The article appeared as commentary, under McCann's manager's own name, in the Save Jersey blog.

In the article, McCann manager Matthew Gilson, took Democrat Saudino (who was paying McCann, a patronage employee in his office, at the time) to task in a rather brutal fashion.  Here is an excerpt from what he wrote:

Saudino’s greatest betrayal?  Siding with the Democrats’ police-hating allies

Support for America’s local police used to be fairly universal or at least never a partisan issue.  Over the last year, however, Democrats have shown their true colors by siding against law enforcement at every turn. Whether it is supporting indictments for officers doing their job, or outright calling for violence against law enforcement officials, Democrats have been fairly vocal in their refrain: cops are the real criminals.

That’s what makes the betrayal of Mike Saudino all the more interesting...

One can’t help but marvel at his logic – or lack thereof – as Saudino cites the need to put good law enforcement over politics while siding with those who side with cop killers’ apologists. I can understand Saudino’s self-preservation instinct given the disarray within the Bergen GOP’s rank’s, but the larger message he is sending is one which frankly scares the hell out of me. That somehow Democrats are the party which supports law enforcement, or that campaigning for Bernie Sanders is something all those who support good police work should be doing? 

Give me a break, Mr. Sheriff.

Do what you want with your career but don’t insult our intelligence.

John McCann's manager makes the point that Sheriff Saudino's party -- the Democrats -- are "a party which thinks that Mumia al-Jamal should be freed from prison, and that Joanne Chesimard is a folk hero..."  which begs the question:  What was John McCann thinking when he agreed to take a pay check from these people?

The mad, mad world of Dem expat John McCann

Last week, Jersey Conservative criticized candidate John McCann for not having a Facebook page.  So he got one in a hurry.  "In a hurry" being the operative phrase.

The problem when you react is that you often get things wrong.  Like this screw up:  "About:  John J. McCann is the only candidate with a proven track record of lowering taxes for New Jersey's 5th congressional district."

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Now that's a lie.  McCann has never held office in New Jersey's 5th congressional district.  He was never in a position to have a track record of anything. 

Then there is McCann's crazy biography.

McCann begins by bragging about being from Massachusetts but claims to have moved to New Jersey because he likes it here -- except that he still has a place in New England.  We're told he's a Patriots fan. 

Then he writes that his mentor is disgraced Senator Arlen Specter -- a Democrat, who turned Republican, then turned back to Democrat after cutting a deal with President Obama, who was then dumped out of office in a Democrat primary.  Oh yea, he's also the moron who came up with the science-defying "magic bullet" theory in the investigation of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. 

McCann's big claim to fame was -- so he writes -- making up the chart that Democrat-turned Republican-turned Democrat Specter used to explain Hillary Care.  Specter would later side with Bill Clinton when he got caught having that canoodle with a young intern.  And this is the guy McCann tells us he's taking after?

In his biography that he wrote and posted on his Facebook page, John McCann explains to us that he worked for the Democrat Sheriff of Bergen County for six years.  How's that?  Yep, McCann held a patronage job courtesy of a Democrat Party elected official.  No wonder many observers believe he was recruited by the Democrats to screw the GOP's chances of re-taking the 5th congressional district.

He also writes that he currently works for the bi-partisan Sheriffs Association in New Jersey.  Yep, the same crew that has been criticized for their double-dipping and pension schemes.  Award-winning reporter Mark Lagerkvist has written extensively about how property taxpayers are being ripped-off.  In a recent NJ Spotlight report, Lagerkvist noted: " All told, the sheriffs on this list pull down about $3.3 million a year in public pay — $2.1 million in county salaries plus $1.2 million from state pensions." 

And get a load of this -- the top two rip-offs are elected Democrats from the 5th congressional district:

 1. Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino (D)

$267,987 – $138,000 salary + $129,987 pension as an Emerson Borough police retiree

2. Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik (D)

$253,957 – $151,887 salary + $102,070 pension as a Clifton police retiree

What is John McCann doing shilling for these guys?  And how can he claim to be a tax saver when he represents tax rip-offs?

This is all self-inflicted.  He wrote this b.s. himself so he owns it.