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Phil Murphy
No one can deny that the storms caused by the remnants of Ida coming through Jersey were horrible. It didn’t matter, South Jersey or North Jersey, it was bad. I have a friend in the north who lost everything to flooding. Living in Gloucester County, not far from where the tornado touched down I know others who lost everything.
Fortunately, possessions can be replaced…eventually.
Friends, neighbors, perfect strangers are all pulling together to help those in need. It’s heartwarming to see.
But…
What really angers me is that Governor Phil Murphy and his Democrat friends, in both North and South Jersey, wasted no time in playing politics with the damage caused by the storms.
In South Jersey the Guv went the extra mile to play politics. Most of the storm damage, and where the tornado touched down, was in the Second Congressional District, but Murphy made sure to drag the Democrat First District Congressman, Donald Norcross, along with him. It’s a safe bet team Murphy didn’t bother inviting Congressman Jeff Van Drew, the member of Congress who actually represents the area. That’s what a real leader would have done.
Not only that, Murphy dragged the Third Legislative District trio of Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro along for his South Jersey press conference in Mullica Hill. Problem is Mullica Hill lies in the Fifth Legislative District. I suspect suspect Murphy didn’t put the LD5 legislators front and center because the trio lives in Camden County and couldn’t find Mullica Hill with a GPS.
To add insult to injury everyone, all Democrats, took the opportunity to blame climate change.
In the South, according to Politico, Murphy, Norcross and Sweeney all “talked about climate change,” from the Politico article:
Murphy said he spoke during the storm to state Senate President Steve Sweeney, who joined the governor and Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) on a tour of damaged homes in Gloucester County.
Sweeney and Norcross, who have spent much of their lives in South Jersey, marveled in horror at the damage from tornadoes, which they said were largely unheard of in the past.
“What we see behind us is change,” Norcross said during Thursday’s press conference.
The three elected officials — all Democrats — talked about climate change and getting more money to the state from the Biden administration’s infrastructure plans.
In North Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski made sure to blame flooding on climate change.
It’s not my intent to debate climate change in this post, but I will say over in Pennsylvania all the talk has been about the Schuylkill River and flooding. The river, according to 6ABC crested at 16.35 feet, meaning the record of 17 feet still stands.
The Schuylkill River’s all-time record of 17 feet was in 1869, 17 years before Carl Benz invented the car.
Was the flooding in 1869 caused by climate change too? Did the politicians use that flooding for political purposes? Probably not!
Camden County Republicans called out the City of Camden for a Facebook post that contained false information regarding COVID-19. Apparently, the Democrats in Camden didn’t like being called out and deleted comments made by CCGOP, then later deleted the post entirely. Following is the Camden County Republicans press release on the matter (with screenshots):
HADDON HEIGHTS – Camden County Republican Chairman Rich Ambrosino congratulated his social media team for calling out the City of Camden for a misleading COVID-19 social media post and ultimately seeing the City remove the post.
At issue is that the City of Camden stated in a Facebook post that “99.9% of the people contracting COVID-19 are unvaccinated.” Camden County Republicans commented, in part, “99% of those contracting COVID-19 survive unless they were in Governor Phil Murphy nursing homes.” Late Thursday night, shortly after 10:00 PM, Republicans shared the Camden City post with the organization’s comment. Friday morning, all comments were deleted by the City of Camden, followed by a removal of the post.
“The Democrats, from the local level up to the gubernatorial and presidential levels, have used the COVID-19 pandemic for political gain for too long,” CCGOP Chairman Rich Ambrosino said. “My team has pushed back on the fear mongering by the Democrats at every step of the way. This goes to show, even the Democrats are paying attention to our social media efforts.”
CCGOP executive director Tom Crone added, “Here in Camden County, we have Mr. Norcross living amongst us, so the Democrats for the foreseeable future will have more money than us. The best, most cost-effective way for us to fight back against all that money is social media. We’ve put a lot of work into our social media efforts and it is starting to show.”
“The Democrats cannot beat us on the issues. They cling to the COVID-19 pandemic as their only issue because the Bill of Rights is above Phil Murphy’s pay grade and he thinks that if taxes are your issue you should move.” Crone said, “If the Democrats are going to continue to cling to COVID-19, we’ll keep reminding voters of all the nursing home deaths caused by Phil Murphy’s mishandling of the pandemic.”
“Politics without the BS”
Bob Greco is a former chairman of the Cumberland County GOP and Steve Kush is a Republican political consultant. Together we'll deliver political news and opinion in our own unique way via a weekly radio show on Crusin' 92.1 FM every Saturday morning at 7:00 A.M. and here on this website.
