Union County GOP: Minorities Too Stupid To Vote For Us

by: Stephen Yellin

Sun Dec 12, 2010 at 08:25:26 PM EST

promoted by Rosi

Hi all,

As you may know, I was a candidate for Township Council in Berkeley Heights this year. As a Democrat running in a Republican-leaning town in a Republican "wave" year, it's not surprising that I lost. Union County, however, saw a surprisingly strong victory for the Democratic Party's County-wide ticket, with Sheriff Ralph Froehlich and Clerk Joanne Rajoppi each garnering 60% of the vote; our Freeholder candidates weren't far behind.

I can imagine that the Union County Republican Party's Election Night gathering wasn't that joyful - neither was mine. When I conceded, however, I certainly did not attack the voters of Berkeley Heights by saying (for example): "You hit them [the Republicans] with a cattle prod, and they'll go under; there's no brain power involved." It would be incredibly offensive, and would do a tremendous disservice to my supporters, some of whom were registered Republicans.

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Why isn't Chris Christie a Republican in Spanish too?

by: Jason Springer

Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 05:38:00 PM EDT

Dailykos makes this catch in their mid day roundup:

Republican NJ-Gov candidate Chris Christie doesn't seem too interested in letting Spanish-speaking voters know he's a Republican. Compare the English and Spanish versions of his new "Bringing Back Our Cities" web ad. The Spanish one omits the word "Republican" in a couple places where the English one identifies Christie with his party.

Here's the first ad in english. In the opening 30 seconds, he mentions the fact that he is a Republican twice:

And here is the ad in spanish. While I'm no expert, I don't hear the word Republican at all:

A viewer of the Spanish version was insulted by the omission and left this comment:

Hablamos diferente idioma, no somos estupidos.

That's exactly right, they may speak a different language, but they're not stupid. So what gives with the Christie campaign and what is their explanation for only being a Republican in English? Maybe it's just like he was only a conservative for the primary too.

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Reforming School Aid Formula Will Wait Yet Another Year

by: mikeshapiro

Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 11:49:31 AM EST

Cross-Posted from ShapTalk.com:

More than half of New Jersey's property taxes are used to finance public schools. For the past seven months, Governor Corzine and the State Legislature have attempted to reform the school aid formula that determines the amount of State funding each school district receives. For many years, the aid has disproportionately gone to underperforming urban school districts while suburban and rural districts receive little in the way of funding. Unfortunately, because of political wrangling, plans to implement a new school aid formula for the upcoming fiscal year have been scrapped. Instead, hundreds of millions of dollars in Governor Corzine's upcoming budget proposal will be pledged to boost state aid to our school districts. While increased funding is a welcome change, meaningful property tax reform will never occur unless our legislators are willing to tackle the unfair school assistance program.

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