King Penna Got His Ass Kicked By A Woman Again!

King Penna

More than a year ago after Bluetooth wearing wannabe tough guy King Penna, on former beauty pageant winner Hirsh Singh’s behalf, lost his challenge to Rik Mehta’s petitions for US Senate I wrote a blog post with the headline, “Woloshen-Glass Kicks Penna’s Ass Again!”

Back then I wrote:

By my count this marks the fourth time Amanda Woloshen-Glass, Mehta’s campaign manager, has kicked Penna’s ass. Penna ran perennial congressional candidate David Larsen’s three failed primary challenges to former Republican Congressman Leonard Lance. Woloshen-Glass ran Lance’s campaigns. Yesterday’s dismissal now makes Woloshen-Glass 4-0 against Penna.

Singh appeared to be making a race of it. He released, what for the Singh campaign, was a promising poll, according to Politico, “…Hirsh Singh convinced a conservative website in late April to publish a memo from an internal poll conducted by Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, showing Singh with a lead heading into the state’s June 8 Republican primary.”

Then right around the time of the one and only gubernatorial debate (there should have been two but Singh whined and cried like a child who was never told no by his mommy and daddy) another poll was released that had Singh within 6 points of Ciattarelli.

But even with what looked like momentum being in Singh’s favor, Penna decided it would be a good idea to pick a fight with Melinda Ciattarelli.

Getting called out for such a douchebag move wasn’t enough for Penna. He decided to up the ante and try to make an issue of the fact Mrs. Ciattarelli called him an “arrogant asshole.” I don’t know, maybe Penna has an issue with the truth, but he whined incessantly about her language on social media.

It backfired!

The few sane Singh supporters began peeling off. Anyone watching social media could see it. The hardcore, Kool-Aid drinking cult-like Singh supporters became unhinged, launching attacks on anyone who dared to speak ill of him. They even went so far as to publish the home address of Camden County GOP Commissioner candidate Johanna Scheets’ home address. She has 5 kids! These people had (and have) no shame.

So, yeah, without a doubt, Melinda Ciattarelli defending her family was a factor in this race. And, that makes Penna 0 – 5 against women.

Penna may have started that fight, but Mrs. Ciattarelli kicked his “arrogant” ass.

One thing this race has taught us, Jack will have New Jersey’s back and Melinda will be right there with him. Congratulations to the Ciattarelli family and Jack’s team on the win.

Woloshen-Glass Kicks Penna’s Ass Again!

Amanda Woloshen Glass (source: Linkedin)

Here’s a little inside baseball just for fun…

If you missed yesterday’s action in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hirsh Singh, by way of flamboyant, fancy-suit wearing GOP operative King Penna, challenged the nominating petitions of Rik Mehta and according to a Mehta campaign press release the challenge was dismissed.

By my count this marks the fourth time Amanda Woloshen-Glass, Mehta’s campaign manager, has kicked Penna’s ass. Penna ran perennial congressional candidate David Larsen’s three failed primary challenges to former Republican Congressman Leonard Lance. Woloshen-Glass ran Lance’s campaigns. Yesterday’s dismissal now makes Woloshen-Glass 4-0 against Penna.

To be clear I do not like campaigns/candidates using petition challenges as a way to get rid of competition. A year ago I wrote that I thought petition challenges were a gutless move:

I get it, challenging the signatures on nominating petitions is a part of political campaigns in New Jersey (and elsewhere). It’s a part of campaigns I dislike. No campaign I managed has ever challenged nominating petitions – that’s how much I despise the practice. I believe working to remove a candidate who meets the requirements to run for an office from the ballot is a gutless move that proves the person challenging signatures on a nominating petition has very little faith in their chosen candidate to win on ideas.

My displeasure with petition challenges, especially Republican against Republican is well documented. After Singh issued a challenge that had Brian Fitzherbert removed from the ballot in the 2018 congressional primary in CD2 I issued a release on behalf of the candidate I was working for, former Assemblyman Sam Fiocchi, it led to a piece on InsiderNJ in which Max Pizzaro wrote:

Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District, former Assemblyman Sam Fiocchi (R-2), assumed the role of elder chastising statesman as he oratorically grabbed whippersnapper Hirsh Singh by the scruff of his neck and laid into him.

Last week, on my personal Facebook page, I shared a link to a New Jersey Globe piece on the deadline to petition challenges and said, “Anybody who challenges signatures this year is a giant douche!”

I guess that means, at least in my book, that Singh by having someone challenge petitions for the second time in as many years is the winner of my giant douche award. He can share it with Penna or the two can go compete in a beauty contest together.