Jon Runyan - Career Politician

by: deciminyan

Wed Jan 05, 2011 at 08:05:00 PM EST

One of the things new Congressman Jon Runyan constantly harped on during his campaign against one-term Democrat John Adler was that Runyan was not a "career politician." To me, a career politician is one who puts his own well-being ahead of those of his constituents, one whose top priority is re-election rather than service.

By this definition, Runyan crossed the line from your average NFL offensive tackle to career politician even before he was sworn in. He recently held a fundraiser where the price of admission was up to $50.000. Now, I wasn't there, so I can't say for certain, but I'll bet the folks who attended were wealthy corporatists, bankers, oil interests, and insurance executives from across the country.

I'd also bet that there were no schoolteachers, firefighters, or any representatives of New Jersey's thousand of unemployed citizens at the event.

During the campaign, Jon Runyan promised to serve the people of his district. With hundreds of thousands of dollars coming into his campaign coffers from outside the district, this promise rings hollow.

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Jon Runyan - Career Politician | 1 comments

We expected no less. (0.00 / 0)

He ran as a Republican.

That means getting out of the way of Plutocrats - actually it means actively helping them out by crushing everyone else.

He's a guy who worked really hard at what he did - being athletic - and found that rich people like sports stars. So he used he athletic prowess to get ahead,

Since then he's curried their favor to get better off. He's not going to stop now; he has his family to think about, ferchissakes!

Anyone else could do it, as long as they could parlay their natural athletic gifts into an NFL career. But they were just too interested in sitting on their backsides!

Runyan doesn't feel like he owes anybody anything, except for the wealthy donors and backers who ran him for Congress. They are the ones that he has to please.

So that is what he'll do. If he had to lie to his constituents to do it, so what? In two years, he'll be an incumbent, and they almost always win (except in the elections following a historical change of parties in the White House.)

Is there anyplace on Earth that is governed rationally and truthfully?

by: Louise @ Thu Jan 06, 2011 at 02:29:00 AM UTC