US SENATE: Does He Support The County Organization(s) That Endorsed Him?

Hirsh Singh

Under normal circumstances I probably wouldn’t care about the fact that a Republican US Senate candidate blurred out the names of all the candidates, with the exception of President Donald Trump, in the column with him. Unfortunately, these are not normal circumstances.

On this past Saturday’s radio show Bob and I spent a considerable amount of time discussing the fact that some Cumberland County Republicans have called radio station management complaining we don’t show enough support for Cumberland’s Republican candidates on the air. Apparently, this has been discussed quite a bit, or at least often enough to get back to us, in GOP circles.

Never mind the fact that I still sometimes hear “The Sound of Silence” in my head because we played it on the air so often during our relentless attacks on former temporary state Senator Silent Bob Andrzejczak and his at least 119 days of silence.

Perhaps those Republicans who claim we don’t show support for Cumberland Republicans forgot our quick about face in CD2 after Congressman Jeff Van Drew became a Republican. Bob, in a rare blog post withdrew his endorsement of Brian Fitzherbert and I stopped inviting then CD2 candidate David Richter on the show. In other words, we fell in line. We even had Congressman Van Drew on the show and he has an open invitation. His opponent, Bob Patterson, does not have an open invitation. Quite the opposite, I go out of my way to find a reason to write about Patterson’s thoughts on condoms and “the remarkable chemicals in semen,” mostly because Patterson’s past writings on the topics make me laugh.

Sure, the Cumberland Republicans who claim we don’t show Cumberland Republicans enough support will argue we don’t support former beauty pageant winner Hirsh Singh’s candidacy for US Senate. Neither does at least half our listening audience! While Singh has the line in Cape May, Cumberland and Atlantic – all counties where WVLT is heard – US Senate candidate Rik Mehta has organizational support in Salem, Gloucester, Camden and Burlington – also all counties where WVLT is heard.

Furthermore, those same complaining Republicans should now be asking if Singh supports Cumberland County Republicans.

One would think that after fighting so hard to win the line in Cumberland that Singh would be proud to be in the column with all the candidates. He’s so proud to be in the column with his fellow Republicans that he blurred all their names out in a social media post:

Here it is larger:

He did the same in his home county of Atlantic:

Blurring out the names of those he shares the column with sends a terrible message.

Congressman Van Drew is in the column with Singh. Van Drew has a primary yet Singh blurred his name out.

One has to wonder – does Singh care about anyone else in the column? Does the blurring out of Van Drew’s name mean he supports Patterson?

This time, as opposed to other times, I didn’t go out of my way to pick on Singh, he can thank the Cumberland Republicans that have complained about us not being supportive enough for that. Maybe instead of questioning our party loyalty certain Cumberland Republicans should be calling out the guy they voted for at convention because Singh obviously doesn’t care about the rest of the column.