I didn’t make any “gay” jokes about Mike Panter during the election because I didn’t think it was fair, but now that he’s been voted out of office I see no reason not to make the occasional “Friends of Dorothy” reference.
That’s right, in the 12th district the incumbent Democrats have been voted out and the Republicans have been voted in. And since the Democrats retained control in the State over all, this can only mean that the locals were unseated because of their animal rights positions, and their attempts to ban hunting and fishing in the state.
That bodes really well for Anthony Mauro and the NJOA, because in just three short months he’s made his organizations “bones”. He can now stand there upon the ended careers of Ellen Karcher and Mike Panter, and tell all the other feckless and inscrutable politicians in Trenton to listen to him, and they will. They’ll have no choice.
Mr. Mauro and I chatted a bit via email, and he’s already made it clear that his plan is to get a constitutional right to hunt, fish and trap permanently protected by changing the state constitution. Originally I told him that I thought it was a bad idea to let the weasels that we currently have holding office go anywhere near that document, but he explained the process to me and has made me into a believer. Toward that end, I’m going to send him a check and let him know that I’ll be happy to help in any other way I can.
As for me, now comes the time when I have to put up or shut up about being non-partisan. The Republicans have taken over in my district, and if I’m going to be true to my word I’ve got to take them apart the same way I did Mr. Panter. A NJ Republican like Jennifer Beck is hardly a staunch libertarian, so I don’t think that will be such a difficult task. Most of the time NJ Republicans are really no different from NJ Democrats but for they’re being in favor of big tax breaks for real estate developers. Since I have no intention of getting in the real estate business, I see no issue there.
Jennifer Beck also gets a D from the NRA, a position of hers I plan on working very hard to change. She need to understand that it’s a racist position to ban guns in NJ, and that the real reason the civilian population is entitled to be armed is as a check against the people in government like her. But that’s a discussion for another day.
On a statewide level, the people of New Jersey showed a little sense, and voted down the governors “stem cell research bond bill” which I wrote about here. According to Sitemeter.com, it’s actually my second most read essay even though it’s not (in my opinion) my best. I guess that says something for substance over style. But since it will no doubt come up again, you might want to reread it.
And with that, I’ve got to get to the office. But I wanted to leave one last item for the Ex-Assemblyman from district 12, Mike Panter.
Mike, thanks to your new found “respect for hunting” I’m sure we’ll all be seeing you out there opening day of firearm season. I’ll be more than happy to lend you a shotgun so you can save the few hundred bucks it would cost to buy one. After all, you probably want to start watching those pennies. I’m also sure that you’re on your way to one of those “consulting” jobs that the Democratic Machine keeps around Trenton for people that toe the line. Hopefully they don’t ban youtube at your new digs.
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Some other good news in the 39th District (North Jersey): John Rooney (NRA A-) and Bryan Miller foe Gerry Cardinale (NRA B+) were also re-elected.
Always good to hear.
I've sort fo given up on the idea of politicians of either party behaving in an ethical and responsible way. some of them will of course, but most of them simply wont. That's not what they're in it for.
The only way we'll get them to behave the way they should is if we leave them no choice. Thankfully, I think the NJOA may actually be the group that can pull that off.
It's a start, but we put our Governor in federal prison today.
Again.
Top that, New Jersey!
Don,
In my mind, there is nothing in the public sphere that is quite as satisfying as seeing your politicians go to federal prison. It reinforces that whole belief that there is a place for everything, and everything should be in its place. In our case (NJ) the only thing I could think of that would be better is a state law that made it a crime to be elected to office. Then we could sort of "cut out the federal middleman". We could just bar up the windows on the state house, lock all the doors, and crime in the state would drop appreciably.
I guess it didn't occur to your governor that he could have just declared himself a "Gay American" and would then be considered too much of a victim by the media for him to be effectively prosecuted. Well ... I'm sure the next governor you send to prison will have a better set of tricks up his sleeve.
Congrats though.
For now, I'm willing to settle for our worst politicians being unemployed. In New Jersey we can't spend our whole lives waiting around for the federal prosecutors to get their act together, or we'd never get rid of a politician. And there aren't enough courtrooms and judges to handle all our dirty officials so we have to take what we can get.
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