ICYMI: Kate Gibbs Smacks David Richter Over The Head With Hirsh Singh

Kate Gibbs

Late yesterday, as I was watching people argue on my Facebook page over former beauty pageant winner and Republican US Senate candidate Hirsh Singh’s “vote early and if you change your mind, vote again” strategy I received a press release from Republican candidate in CD3 Kate Gibbs’ campaign.

I didn’t post the Gibbs release because, like I said, it was late and I didn’t get around to reading it until this morning. If you haven’t seen the release on InsiderNJ or New Jersey Globe’s take on it, the text of the release follows:

Republican Kate Gibbs’ campaign released the following statement today in response to U.S. Senate candidate Hirsh Singh’s recent mailer advocating for voter fraud:

“Hirsh Singh’s recent mailer openly advocating for voter fraud is one of the more outrageous and ridiculous things I’ve ever seen a candidate put in a piece of literature — and that’s saying something” stated Gibbs’ Campaign Manager Angelo Lamberto. “Given that David Richter has so closely tied himself to Singh and are running as a united ticket in Burlington and Ocean County, I am concerned about the potential impact this misinformation campaign may have on voters already confused by this chaotic election cycle. David Richter has an obligation to denounce Singh and distance himself from Singh’s campaign publicly over this mess. David should refuse to participate in any GOP club meetings or events, including the upcoming Berkeley Township Republican Club Meeting, unless Singh is disinvited.”

I’ve made it no secret that I have been doing my best to stay out of the steel cage match that is the Republican primary in CD3 because I have friends on both sides of this one.

Unfortunately, for me, I’m going to piss off some of my friends because Gibbs is right to call on David Richter to denounce Singh. Richter chose to bracket with Singh in the Burlington County portion of CD3. Richter could have just as easily bracketed with Tricia Flanagan, Natalie Rivera or that other guy nobody ever heard of who suddenly appeared on filing day.

Because Richter chose to bracket with Singh it is his responsibility to denounce him for advocating voter fraud.

To put Richter’s choice of bracketing with Singh in perspective: Even the condom-hating Bob Patterson in CD2 was smart enough not to bracket with Singh.

Now it’s time for David Richter to take his “money shot” and denounce Singh.

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.

CD2 Action: Patterson Reminded Us There Is A Primary And He Isn’t Going Down Without A Fight

Bob Patterson (source: Facebook)

I forgot there is an actual primary election on the Republican side in CD2. A Bob Patterson Facebook post quickly reminded me that he is still waging an uphill battle against incumbent Congressman Jeff Van Drew. Patterson has launched a hard-hitting TV ad.

I suppose I forgot there is a primary in CD2 because the Bob & Steve Show isn’t on the Patterson campaign’s press list. No doubt. the reason we aren’t on his press list is that Patterson doesn’t like me very much. That’s fine, he’s part of a long list and it’s not like I’m going to lose any sleep over it.

To be fair, I’ve been pretty hard on Patterson. I just can’t help it, I do have a sometimes, well most-of-the-time, juvenile sense of humor and when a dude has written about semen in the past I have to mention it. For example, I can’t escape writing a blog post about him without mentioning the fact that Patterson once wrote that “semen-exposed women have better cognitive skills” and that “condom use deprives women of the remarkable chemicals in semen.”

Patterson, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “referenced a 2004 study that suggested birth-control pills weakened a woman's "natural sense of attraction to men who would be a good biological match and enable her to conceive easily and bear healthy children."

The jokes just write themselves! So, yeah maybe Patterson does have a good reason to leave us off his press list.

Juvenile sense of humor aside, I do always try my best to be fair and fairness dictates that I admit Patterson’s ad is a pretty good hard-hitting piece.

I think, given all the writing of semen, condoms and birth-control pills I’ll call the ad “Patterson’s Money Shot:”