A conversation with Douglas Steinhardt

by Joshua Sotomayor - Einstein

In a December 18th interview on NJ Spotlight News with Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aaron, would-be GOP Gubernatorial candidate Douglas Steinhardt, a self-professed Reagan fan violated President Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment that “thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” This was of course a desperate attempt to paint himself as the conservative candidate for the GOP Gubernatorial nomination. The interview by Aaron was a series of straight forward questions each ducked by Steinhardt, the immediate former NJ GOP State Chairman.

When asked by Aaron, “to control spending, what big ticket item would you cut if you were governor?” Steinhardt had no answer but a vague platitudinous response about “bold” programs, “cutting spending so people would keep more of their tax dollars,” and how we need to “keep jobs here.”

It is unclear what “bold” programs Steinhardt was referring to as he could not give specifics. It is painfully obvious that New Jersey needs to cut spending, let people keep more of their own money, and keep jobs in the state.

But what is inexplicable is why Steinhardt, who was theoretically leading the state GOP for 3 years and who has planned for run for governor for months if not longer, could provide no actual budget items as an example of wasteful spending he would eliminate.

Aaron politely pushed back on Steinhardt’s non-answer on cutting state spending, precipitating Steinhardt’s responds that, “I think you gotta roll up your sleeves and look under the hood so we can figure out exactly what’s going on.”

This second non-answer on what he would cut from the pork laden budget that is killing New Jersey begs the question, what was Steinhardt doing for 3 years as state chair if he cannot identify a single specific item he would eliminate from state spending?

When asked by Aaron “if you were governor would you undo New Jersey’s strict gun laws?” Steinhardt ducked the question, discussed his childhood on a farm, and stated that the real problems in New Jersey are “our states failure to enforce the gun laws that we have that keep our communities safe.”

Yet in reality, the restrictive NJ gun laws make our communities less safe by prevent more law-abiding citizens from legally owning guns while preventing zero criminals from access to firearms.

Asked about voter fraud in the 2020 election, Steinhardt hemmed and hawed, calling evidence of voter fraud mere “claims” and “claims the law allows them (witnesses to voter fraud) to assert” as well as stating that, “eventually January 20th is gonna roll around and our constitutional republic will move on.” As if this passivity to defending the vote was not enough, on the mandatory vote-by-mail elections New Jersey was recently subject to he said, “I don’t think he (Murphy) proposed a fix to that yet, we have to wait and see what comes up in 2021.”

Steinhardt repeatedly ducked questions, failed to identify a single budget item he would eliminate, offered vague empty promises rather than actual concrete solutions, responded with lethargy in defense of basic freedoms, and was passive and deferred to Democrat Governor Feckless Phil Murphy in how the next election is run instead of taking a stand for the people.

That’s Doug Steinhardt and that was in a straightforward interview less than 6 minutes long - how the heck can anyone believe he could be a good Gubernatorial candidate?

Sumter insults South Asian history in attack on Singh

Yesterday, New Jersey Democrat State Committee Chairman John Currie went on InsiderNJ to complain about the election process that Democrat Phil Murphy imposed on New Jersey. Yes, it is taking very long to count the votes here and in other states across America. That is not the fault of those who did not want this process. It was imposed on us.

Heck, Currie runs the Board of Elections in Passaic County and they aren’t done their vote count yet… so what’s the man hollering about?

Currie suggested that Republicans concede, even as another congressional seat flipped to Republican in New York City, and Tom Kean Jr. inches ever closer to victory in New Jersey. We can understand Chairman Currie’s fears. The prognosticator’s “blue wave” has turned into a trickle of piss running down their legs. They got it wrong. Don’t blame us.

Chairman Currie suggested that gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey – specifically Republicans – comment on the voting processes of other states and lobby for them to stop their vote counts as well. Of course, this would be highly inappropriate, not to mention, irrational.

Perhaps Chairman Currie should focus on something closer to home – like all those nursing home and veterans' home deaths his party wants to shove under the rug. Currie should be challenged to call for an investigation into how irresponsible COVID mandates by the Murphy administration led all those blessed souls to die.

In response to Chairman Currie’s rather silly request (and deflection from the real issue at hand – COVID deaths at nursing and veterans’ homes), GOP gubernatorial candidate Hirsh Singh stepped up and responded. Late yesterday afternoon, he wrote:

“I too have a message for John Currie: As part of the Democrat Party, you are part of a plantation that treats you like a slave. Joe Biden called you and all other black Americans as dirty and inarticulate when he claimed that Obama was the first clean and articulate black. Hillary Clinton claims that all black children are superpredators who need to be brought to heel. The Democrat Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. Right now, look at how they are stealing the election from John James, a US Senate Candidate, in Michigan. I urge you to quit it and walk away from it. We will welcome you into the Republican Party as long as you leave your Democrat values behind and embrace American values.”

A few hours later, responding to Singh, Democrat Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter wrote:

Assemblywoman shavonta sumter - nj

“To dare to spit hate venom and the use of the plantation terminology in reference to Chairman John Currie is offensive and beyond ignorant and disrespectful of the Black Slave injustice here in the US.”

Wow…

History must not be Shavonda Sumter’s strong point. To suggest that someone whose ancestry is rooted in the Indian subcontinent, the former “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire, whose sons and daughters were sent to the four corners of the globe to work on plantations, cannot use the term “plantation” because the use of it is exclusive to “Black Slave injustice here in the US” – well, that is just stupid. Plain stupid. There’s no other word for it.

Assemblywoman Sumter should try reading a book sometime. Take Trinidad, for example, where the British instituted a system of indentureship to provide plantation labor. These indentureships were so exploitative that historians (such as Hugh Tinker) called it “a new system of slavery”.

“Various nationalities were contracted under this system, including Indians, Chinese, and Portuguese. Of these, the East Indians were imported in the largest numbers, starting from 1 May 1845, when 225 Indians were brought in the first shipment to Trinidad on the Fatel Razack, a Muslim-owned vessel. Indentureship of the Indians lasted from 1845 to 1917, during which time more than 147,000 Indians came to Trinidad to work on sugarcane plantations.”

And this was in just one corner of Great Britain’s vast empire. Assemblywoman Sumter is aware, we hope, that there were vast plantations within the Indian subcontinent and Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka). In shear numbers of workers, these outstripped anything happening in the southern United States.

Then, of course, there is the larger issue of proscribing speech in the way that neo-Victorians like Assemblywoman Sumter do. We wonder what Sumter would make of these words by former New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges, a leading thinker of the honest (aka non-corporate, non-political hack) Left. In his 2012 book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Hedges wrote about poverty and the Democrat machine:

"Poverty is a business. And those who profit most from Camden's poverty are the state's Democratic Party leaders, and New Jersey's most powerful political boss, George E. Norcross III, although he holds no elective office and does not live in Camden."

"Norcross runs Conner Strong & Buckelew, one of the country's largest insurance brokerages. He has collected tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in governmental work across the state for his insurance firms. His insurance division serves more than half the state's municipalities."

"Norcross, nicknamed 'King George,' lives in the upscale community of Cherry Hill. He is a college dropout. He decides, according to several Camden politicians, who runs for office and who does not, who gets contracts and what projects receive state funds. Norcross influences the language of every state budget and can block or pass legislation. Little is done in South Jersey without his approval. And when the money came to Camden, nearly all of it went to his pet construction projects."

Yes, poverty has been monetized by Democrat Party machines. It is a business not unlike slavery. It has been made so by economic elites like Governor Phil Murphy and machine politicians like George Norcross. This is why they play with titles like “Freeholder”, because that is all they dare to do about slavery. They look back instead of dealing with today. They are about fake issues and taking offence where there is none because it is easier to look into a mirror that way.

Do nothing hypocrites. Shills for the Establishment.

““Dead people vote more often when you make it easier for them to vote.”
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— Tucker Carlson on Vote-by-Mail