OPINION: The Author Of A Washington Times Opinion Piece Is Nuts (Or Was Paid)
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Hirsh Singh competes in the Mr. DC beauty pageant
The one thing that happens while lying on the couch with the flu for days is you spend a lot of time scanning social media. I couldn’t help noticing an opinion piece in the Washington Times has been shared by a lot of folks here in New Jersey. Even my least favorite Republican U.S. Senate candidate Hirsh Singh shared the piece:
Of course, Singh would share the piece the author made Singh sound like an amazing candidate.
I freely admit I liked the headline. I was good with the first few paragraphs. Then came the garbage:
On the Republican side, GOP leadership has lined up behind 34-year-old Indian-American Hirsh Singh. Hirsh Singh — an engineer by trade who has over a decade in government contracting experience — is an up and coming Republican star endorsed by RNC Committeeman Bill Palatucci and has deep ties to conservative, libertarian and establishment Republican circles.
New Jersey is one of the most diverse states in the nation and sports one of the highest Indian-American populations in the country. The Indian-American community has long been allied with the Hispanic and Jewish communities, and with a well-liked, young and connected Hirsh Singh — whose strategy helped Republican successes in 2019 — leading the way, New Jersey is primed for massive Republican gains.
I don’t know if it was the flu or the fact that those two paragraphs are so disgustingly wrong, but I got sick, violently sick after reading that garbage.
In what world has GOP leadership lined up behind Hirsh Singh? Off the top of my head I know of at least five counties where I guarantee Singh will not be awarded the line.
I would love to know where Singh’s “deep ties to conservative, libertarian and establishment Republican circles” are.
And my personal favorite, Hirsh Singh’s “strategy helped Republican successes in 2019.”
I don’t recall Singh assisting any campaign in 2019. But, just for fun, let’s assume he did. What strategy did he employ? The same strategy he employed to win a beauty contest in Washington, DC?
Or perhaps he went with his strategy of accusing South Jersey farmers of hiring illegal immigrants. Or maybe he convinced one of the campaigns he helped to resurrect his idea of building a bridge from Cape May to Delaware.
Maybe Singh’s brilliant strategy that was so helpful in 2019 included complaining about his 99 problems:
Let’s ignore all of the above, even then how could anyone in their right mind want to vote for a 34-year-old man who still lives at home with his mommy and daddy. Then again, maybe that’s where he got all that “government contracting experience” – looking over mommy and daddy’s shoulders at the dining room table as they were filling out paperwork.
To be fair, I am not a fan of Hirsh Singh, maybe it’s because he lied to me in our one and only conversation. Here’s the way that conversation went:
Singh, on the other hand, I had a phone conversation with him when he ran for governor and he lied to me in that conversation. By way of background, a friend of mine was doing video work for him and at that friend’s urging, Singh called me. I asked him directly what made him think he could be governor and said something about the amount of money one would need to raise. Singh told me he had just written a check to his campaign for $1 million, to which I asked where he got $1 million and he told me from his personal wealth. Considering we all know that money was a loan from his father to the campaign, his reply to me was a lie.
But hey, why should I let that one lie bother me? He lied to a lot of other folks when he led Republicans to believe he could self-fund his congressional campaign. Don’t take my word for it. From the Press of Atlantic City:
Singh also angered party leaders like Atlantic County Republican Chairman Keith Davis, who accused him of misleading county party officials about how much personal wealth he had. After pledging to self-fund his campaign and raise as much as $2 million, Singh filed financial papers indicating he only has $50,000 to $100,000 in personal wealth, Davis said.
I don’t know who Rick Amato, the author of the Washington Times piece is, but I do believe the question has to be asked, did Hirsh Singh pay him to write the piece?
I don’t want to tell anyone how to vote in the US Senate primary, but you might be doing Singh’s parents a favor if you vote for him. He could end up winning the whole thing and then he would finally be able to afford to move out of mommy and daddy’s house.
