McCann dissing Jewish voters in CD05? What will NJGOP do?
/Once again, "Stumbling John" McCann has pissed down his leg. A liberal both by habit and instinct, McCann couldn't help but go overboard when trying to "improve" his conservative credentials. So McCann brought in a controversial figure who has been linked in the media with some rather unsavory folks of the "blood and soil" variety.
This is what so-called GOP "moderates" do, like last year when they trashed a Sikh in race in Southern New Jersey. Instead of winning on ideas -- and ideas are cross-cultural and colorblind -- they go with personalities, trying to turn a candidate into a celebrity, and when that fails, they go straight to what they think their party's base is really all about. And it isn't, but they don't know that.
Here is what was reported this morning in Politico, by Matt Freidman:
The former chairman of Bergen County‘s Republican Party is slamming a congressional candidate for raising money with Sebastian Gorka, a one-time adviser to President Donald Trump who wore a medal associated with a Hungarian group that collaborated with Nazi Germany.
“It’s absolutely despicable. It shows that I have to assume that John McCann approves of this man,” said Bob Yudin, who chaired the Bergen County GOP from 2008 to 2016 and backs McCann rival Steve Lonegan for the GOP nomination in the 5th Congressional District. “This man seems to have sympathy toward fascists and Nazis, and this act of accepting support from him disqualifies John McCann in all ways and manners from being my congressman.”
...The 5th District has approximately 67,000 Jewish residents, or just over 9 percent of its population, according to the Jewish Data Bank. That’s the second-largest Jewish population of New Jersey’s 12 congressional districts.
You can read the full column here: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/03/23/mccann-slammed-over-ties-to-former-trump-adviser-gorka-325596
Gorka has been accused of selling his endorsement to candidates looking for readymade "Trump" cred. The Washington Examiner reported (February 22, 2018):
Sebastian Gorka doesn’t want to talk about his special friendship with Danny Tarkanian, the insurgent Republican challenging incumbent Sen. Dean Heller in the Nevada GOP primary.
Asked at CPAC whether he sold Tarkanian his endorsement, the former White House strategist bristles. “No, because that would be illegal,” Gorka tells me in his English accent, taking care to emphasize each word. “I was given an honorarium.”
As the Washington Examiner first reported, the timeline of payments and speeches and endorsements is as follows: Gorka endorsed Tarkanian on stage in Nevada on Dec. 20. Disclosures filed with the Federal Electoral Commission show that the candidate paid the speaker $5,000 the day before.
The campaign later confirmed the payment and claimed it’s not unusual for politicians to pay speaking fees to their endorsers. But a search through FEC records shows the opposite. In the last three election cycles, only two candidates ever made such payments.
Asked if it is normal for him to get paid for speaking gigs with politicians, Gorka guffaws: “Me getting speaking fees? Every week, yes.”
You can read the full column here:
McCann's event with Sabastian Gorka is March 28th.
The NJGOP is trying to expand its base along the lines of demographics. We don't know what demographic group they are shooting for with someone like Gorka, but we advise them to take the path of ideas. Ideas are open to everyone.
