Senator Beck should drop support for trans-men in girls' toilets bill

If we are to avoid another performance like 2015, the Republican legislative caucuses of both chambers should use 2016 to prepare for 2017.  The most important thing is to do yourself no harm. 

We've detailed before how bills like S-283 have no base of support and how they could do enormous damage -- not only to the prospect of turning out our base -- but with any voters who believe in privacy between the sexes and with protecting vulnerable women and girls.  Polling shows large majorities in favor of traditional privacy no matter how the question is posed. 

Such a poll was recently conducted in the Eleventh Legislative District in Monmouth County.  More on that later.

Suffice it to say that modesty might draw barbed mockery from some, but in a district in which 48 percent of all registered Republicans are aged 60 or over and 66 percent of Republican super voters (3 of 4 or above) are aged 60 or over, it is a safe bet that it still counts for something.  And we can't wait to find out.

When educated as to the number of convicted male sex offenders who could use a law like S-283 to gain access to girls and women for their self-gratification, the response is off-the-charts.  Republicans, Democrats, Independents -- it doesn't matter.  Many in the LGBT community break ranks with their lobbyist class and oppose S-283 on the grounds that it leaves too many people vulnerable to sexual abuse, rape, and even murder.

We understand from a highly placed source in the Legislature that S-283 will be making an appearance again.  This source also confirmed that S-283 will have GOP support. Prominent among those GOP supporters is Senator Jennifer Beck, a co-sponsor of S-283.

We didn't expect such a betrayal of the Republican base in an election cycle as rebellious as 2016-17 is turning out to be.  Of course, Senator Beck is making a lot of noise on other issues in an attempt to get conservative voters to forget who she really is, and her decades-long record as a lobbyist and legislator devoted to the liberal causes dear to the heart of the political and corporate establishment.     

If passed into law, Beck's legislation allows a man, with a penis, to become a legal "woman", simply by saying that he is seeing a therapist and then re-submitting his birth certificate to reflect his "new sex".  No surgery required. 

And it won't be recorded as an "amended" birth certificate.  It will be filed as the original.  The government will pretend that it can go back in time to correct the "perception" of the doctors and nurses who saw a child with a penis and checked "male".  The government will, in fact, lie and pretend that the attending physician checked "female" when, of course, he did not.    

What S-283 will do is endanger the lives of women and girls in New Jersey.  And come election time every legislator who supports S-283, regardless of their party, is going to have to answer some tough questions from average constituents about why you had to do this and not something important, like lowering property taxes, ending the tax on retirement income, or fixing the Transportation Trust Fund. 

Watch the video below and see if you are ready to answer those questions:

No intensity for Gov in 4 shore districts

Governor Chris Christie remains popular in swing districts important to 2017, but his popularity lacks the intensity it once had. 

Polling was conducted on June 1st and 2nd, by a highly respected, national survey research firm.  The legislative districts polled were District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic, Cumberland counties), District 2 (Atlantic County), District 11 (Monmouth County), and District 13 (Monmouth County). 

This is how voters responded to the following question regarding the Governor:

T4. Do you Approve or Disapprove of the job Chris Christie is doing as Governor?

Legislative District 1

Sample size:  378

Sample by voter registration: Independent, 37.4%; Republican 35.0%; Democrat 27.6%.

Total Approve .......................................................... 50.4%

Total Disapprove .......................................................... 48.7%

Strongly Approve ...................................................... 26.9%

Somewhat Approve .................................................. 23.6%

Strongly Disapprove ..................................................... 43.1%

Somewhat Disapprove .................................................... 5.6% 

Unsure, No Opinion ................................................. 0.9% 

Legislative District 2

Sample size:  349

Sample by voter registration: Independent, 36.6%; Republican 28.8%; Democrat 34.7%. 

Total Approve .......................................................... 48.6%

Total Disapprove .......................................................... 46.5%

Strongly Approve ...................................................... 13.7%

Somewhat Approve .................................................. 34.9%

Strongly Disapprove ..................................................... 41.2%

Somewhat Disapprove .................................................... 5.3%

Unsure, No Opinion ................................................. 4.9%

Legislative District 11

Sample size:  349

Sample by voter registration: Independent, 36.6%; Republican 28.8%; Democrat 34.7%.

Total Approve .......................................................... 48.2%

Total Disapprove .......................................................... 47.4%

Strongly Approve ...................................................... 16.9%

Somewhat Approve .................................................. 31.3%

Strongly Disapprove ..................................................... 39.0%

Somewhat Disapprove .................................................... 8.4%

Unsure, No Opinion ................................................. 4.4%

Legislative District 13

Sample size:  349

Sample by voter registration: Independent, 36.6%; Republican 28.8%; Democrat 34.7%.

Total Approve .......................................................... 53.8%

Total Disapprove .......................................................... 45.1%

Strongly Approve ...................................................... 21.6%

Somewhat Approve .................................................. 32.2%

Strongly Disapprove ..................................................... 35.6%

Somewhat Disapprove .................................................... 9.5%

Unsure, No Opinion ................................................. 1.1%

In each case, the intensity was lacking.  Stay tuned for more polling.

81% believe government is corrupt

Fresh polling today adds to the mounting data that voters are turned-off on government, politicians, and our post-democratic process in general.  Rasmussen reported today that a new survey shows that 81 percent of likely voters in the United States describe the federal government as "corrupt," with 33 percent describing it as "very corrupt."  Just 16 percent disagree, including the 2 percent (yes, only 2 percent) who describe government as "not at all corrupt."  Here is the survey question:

National Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters

Conducted January 28 and 31, 2016
By Rasmussen Reports

Would you describe the federal government today as very corrupt, somewhat corrupt, not very corrupt or not at all corrupt?

33% Very corrupt
48% Somewhat corrupt
14% Not very corrupt
  2% Not at all corrupt
  3% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence

Now pay attention to these numbers:  Women view government as "corrupt" more than men (84 percent to 79 percent), as do young voters more than seniors (81 percent to 75 percent).

89 percent of Republicans, 85 percent of Independents, and 70 percent of Democrats view government as "corrupt."  75 percent of black voters view government as "corrupt."

69 percent of voters believe "most government contracts are awarded to the company with the most political connections" rather than one that can "provide the best service for the best price." 

Do most government contracts get awarded to the company that can provide the best service for the best price or to the company with the most political connections?

21% Awarded to the company that can provide the best service for the best price
69% Awarded to the company with the most political connections
11% Not sure

To understand why voters feel the way they do, you need only look at what is going to take place tomorrow in the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee. 

While Democrats like Assembly Speaker Vinnie Prieto (D-Sacco) are promising to make New Jersey's historically high child poverty the Legislature's top concern, critters like Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Norcross) have pushed poor children aside in favor of the top issue of the swingers' lobby -- women with penises.  You know how it is, poor children can't afford a lobbyist.  Rich and influential sexual swingers can buy whatever strikes their fancy.

The swingers want to see legislation (S-283) passed so that a man, with a penis, can become a legal "woman", simply by saying that he is seeing a therapist and then re-submitting his birth certificate to reflect his "new sex".  No surgery required. 

And it won't be recorded as an "amended" birth certificate.  It will be filed as the original.  The government will pretend that it can go back in time to correct the "perception" of the doctors and nurses who saw a child with a penis and checked "male".  The government will, in fact, lie and pretend that the attending physician checked "female" when, of course, he did not.    

On Thursday, February 4, 2016, the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee will be holding a hearing on S-283.   The public hearing will be held at 11AM in Committee Room 4, on the First Floor of the State House Annex in Trenton, New Jersey.

Senator Joseph Vitale (D-McGreevey), a man with no medical or psychological training and therefore totally unqualified to preside over this subject matter, is chairman of the committee.  Both he and Senator Sweeney, another of our elected "leaders" who managed to make it through the twelfth grade, will no doubt give excuses for why they support S-283.  But as they do, think of how much money the swingers' lobby has stuffed down their trousers.

Polling: Politicians govern without our consent

You might have heard that the electorate is angry this year... but angry about what?  Well, it seems that it is beginning to dawn on voters that they don't matter and that politicians govern without their consent. 

First, take the Princeton University study released in April 2014 that confirmed what many suspected already...

A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.

Asking "[w]ho really rules?" researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argues that over the past few decades America's political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power.

Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of or even against the will of the majority of voters.

To understand this better, take a look at the resumes of the folks who run the party organizations in New Jersey.  It will quickly become clear that party politics in New Jersey isn't an altruistic or even an ideological occupation -- it is a business venture controlled by people who serve as conduits between those who seek to influence government and the elected officials who exercise power over government.  Lots of money changes hands in direct payments to the conduits who, as party leaders, exercise power over elected officials who want to stay elected; and in contributions made directly to candidates or political committees.

Read these headlines and weep:

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - BBC News

New Princeton Study Confirms US Is No Longer A Democracy

Princeton makes it official — USA Has Become Oligarchy

America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic

US is No Longer a Democracy – Princeton Study

How the US Became an Oligarchy - Truthout

Princeton study: US is no longer a democracy

Now new polling from Rasmussen suggests that voters are beginning to understand this, with just 12 percent of Republicans, 20 percent of Independents, and 30 percent of Democrats believing that "the federal government has the consent of the governed."  Black voters are less likely than white voters to believe that they are governed with their consent.

Voters also question the election process itself, with just 24 percent of black voters, 44 percent of white voters, and 40 percent of other minority voters believing it to be "fair."

Only 27 percent of voters now believe that "the government does the right thing almost always or most of the time."  67 percent of all voters describe themselves as "angry" towards the current policies of their government.

It is no wonder that groups like RepresentUS are growing by leaps and bounds: