Rush Holt's Obnoxious Concoctions

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Rush Holt, and several of his radical colleagues, continually creates obnoxious appropriations that raid the taxpayer purse for special benefits to be handed out to a few connected recipients. Rush Holt firmly stood with partisan allies to narrowly pass many expansive, and expensive bills this year. Several of these mountainous appropriation bills, emanating from the petulant 111th Congress, which became public law, contain curious allotments of taxpayer dollars.


We need to scrutinize all congressional expenditures. Rush Holt's tenure is marked by misappropriations and maladministration of taxpayer funds. At a time when austerity is sorely needed in Congress, Mr. Holt continues to recklessly disburse public treasure on ridiculous programs. He must believe that the federal government can simply spend money on any conceivable project. This blatant display of contempt for our trust, and misconstruction of public power and budgetary discretion, deserves outright denunciation.


H.R. 3288, a monstrous appropriation bill, Rush Holt voted for spending $124 million on Seat Belt Performance Grants, $139 million for Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures Incentive Grant Program, $4 million for the city and county of Honolulu to operate a ferry boat service demonstration, $80 million to restore Pacific salmon populations, $10 million for prisoner reentry research, and $300 thousand for a program to support student and parent mock elections.


In H.R. 2997, another wasteful display of extravagance filled with excessive spending, Rush Holt voted for $1 million to fund a food animal residue avoidance database program, $80 million for breastfeeding peer counselors, and $216 million for the Center for Tobacco Products. In the same bloated bill, Mr. Holt voted to derive $578 million from prescription drug user fees and $57 million from medical device user fees to pay for all these ridiculous programs.


In H.R. 2918, a legislative branch appropriation bill, Rush Holt voted to spend $25 million for salaries and expenses for house leadership offices, $20 thousand for the house family room, $200 thousand for digitizing culturally significant and historic materials for the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska – which has nothing to do with the legislative branch - $191 million for salaries for compensation and expenses of house officers and employees, and $276 million in contributions for health, retirement, Social Security, and other benefits. Federal salaries and benefits should be cut by at least 10% for those not defending this nation.


In H.R. 1105, an omnibus appropriation bill passed by the grabbing 111th Congress, Rush Holt voted to spend $100 million for boll weevil eradication programs, $469 thousand for the design and construction of an agriculture pest facility in the State of Hawaii, and $80 million for salmon fisheries.


This list of wasteful spending is a very small sample of what was actually spent by Congress, when factoring out salaries and benefits, represents about $1 billion. That is $10 billion over a decade that could be better spent elsewhere, say, securing our borders, servicing our national debt, or letting taxpayers keep it.  The taxpayers of New Jersey's 12th congressional district deserve better representation. Rush Holt has squandered taxpayer money on a multitude of programs that the federal government should not be funding. These programs should be under the purview of state governments, with local resources and labor. Time after time, Rush Holt votes with his partisan colleagues. They are forcing their expansionist will with slim majorities, recklessly spending our public treasure on pet projects for special favorites. These practices are unfair, fiscally unsound, not a duty of the federal head.

Every dollar counts. One million here, and another million there, soon it amounts to billions, which could be better spent paying off our national debt, securing our nation, and defending our common interests, not reckless concoctions to end all ills. The federal government is drifting further and further away from its primary objectives. It is being distracted by too many acquired duties that have nothing to do with any enumerated power in the U.S. Constitution. How many priorities can there be? Our national debt and common defense are the primary objectives for the federal government. We need to rein in extravagant spending and discretionary authority. We can start by voting Rush Holt out of office in November, ending his reckless spending endeavor.

Rush Holt's Radical Tenor

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What has Rush Holt done for us lately? He expanded federal reach, authority, power, discretion, and deficits. In H.R. 4173, the financial strangulation bill - the latest unread legislative behemoth spewed forth by an impetuous Democratic Congress - Mr. Holt followed the beaten partisan path and voted for more bureaucratic layers and phantom fixes.

Each added layer will be staffed with a gluttonous retinue of salaried pensioners and careerists micromanaging the books of thousands of businesses. Those unelected bureaucrats, each salivating over the budgetary trough, seeking comfort and security in their obscure positions, will invent and implement complex administrative laws, strict statutes, and a penumbra of procedures for an all-assuming and voracious federal head. It is time for the citizens of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District to halt Mr. Holt’s imprudent schemes.

The new financial regime, concocted by Rush Holt and the most radical Democrats controlling the 111th Congress, made the following bureaucratic additions to an already enlarged federal sphere: 1) the Financial Stability Oversight Council, 2) the Office of Financial Research, 3) the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, 4) the Federal Insurance Office, 5) the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee, 6) the Investor Advisory Committee, 7) the Office of Investor Advocate, 8) the Office of Municipal Securities, 9) the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, 10) the Consumer Advisory Board, and 11) the Office of Housing Counseling, just to name a few.

Dense foliage will grow from these newly sprouted federal tentacles. Swift shadows will stretch far and wide over our republican realm of liberty. A heavy frost on economic activity will creep in due to an array of uncertainties emanating from cumbersome regulatory measures, intrusive enforcement procedures, broad discretionary power, and enhanced supervisory authority. A multitude of studies, research reports, and exhaustive examinations will be conducted. There are several new disclosure mandates, and the sharing of that private information with many federal government agencies, and international entities. Too many of these expansive schemes are unnecessary intrusions that will ultimately consume precious time, waste valuable resources, and damper economic recovery.

In sections 204 and 205, the former dealing with the orderly liquidation of covered financial companies, and the latter dealing with the orderly liquidation of covered brokers and dealers, a supposed Lehman Brothers fix, may even do nothing to prevent capital markets from experiencing drastic psychological disturbances. We all witnessed, and many participated in, the real-time rapid depletion of market value in the autumn of 2008. Many celebrified economic pundits noted the manner in which the Lehman incident occurred as being a major catalyst for the initial phase of mass market mayhem. We are kidding ourselves, and it is disingenuous of public servants like Rush Holt to suggest, that these newly created agencies, commissions, and councils will be able to prevent another Lehman episode.

It does not matter when, where, by whom, and how a financial institution is dismantled. What will matter, though, is that a financial institution is being liquidated. Whether it is done by new federal agencies, or under existing structures, led by free and independent market participants, the act of liquidation itself can drastically erode confidence, especially if the designated institution for liquidation is a major component of the national economy. These new layers of federal bureaucracies will not have a special ability to accurately predict, or competently prevent, market instability, large bankruptcies, criminal behavior, bear raids, panics, and frozen liquidity.

Quite simply, too many companies, and individuals, were over-leveraged. The federal government is over-leveraged. We are now undergoing a de-leveraging process in the private sector that is being artificially manipulated by the continual hindrances hurled by Congress. We need to de-leverage the federal balance sheet. Many financial institutions relied on fantastical algorithmic computer models to determine risk, exotic financial instruments to hedge it, and investment vehicles to disperse it. When these human inventions failed, panic spread, the federal government stepped in, and taxpayer liquidity was granted. Congress should not be determining what companies can exist or perish. This is a free market determination.

There should be no favoritism, most especially with bankruptcy laws, given the constitutional mandate of uniformity. This detached actual consequences from risk, and reality, because of an implicit guarantee, especially unfairly granted to the largest financial institutions, that their assets, and poor fiscal judgment, were backed by the full faith and credit of the federal printing press and taxpayers. If Congress is having such a difficult time managing our own federal budget, then how could they manage the balance sheets of thousands of public and private companies, and responsible for determining the suitable level of risk on the books? Congress cannot even determine the risk of its own endeavors, how can they possibly perform these intricate duties?

Rush Holt, and so many public servants, has failed to provide any real leadership on these pressing concerns. Mr. Holt does not completely understand the ramifications of his decisions, or our precarious fiscal arrangement. He has placed several new bureaucratic impediments in the path of prosperity. During a time of economic malaise we should be dismantling barriers to growth, not erecting new obstacles in the path to economic renewal. Sure there are certain aspects of H.R. 4173 that can be accepted. If the best provisions of this massive bill were put into separate legislative instruments, and fully debated, maybe this bill could have garnered more supporters than it did.

The radical tenor emanating from Rush Holt and this Democrat Congress is being carried by the laws they enact. Real growth and prosperity is greatly inhibited by a national leadership vacuum that produces confusion, contention, consternation, and conflagration. This political void can be an opportunity for our common advancement, or an avenue for demagogues to divide and conquer us. The wise and virtuous citizens residing in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, and the nation at large, must be an impediment to these contortionist attempts by Congress. We need to free ourselves from the innumerable burdens that restrain and distort economic virtue and vitality. November will be a day to take back the reins of government from Mr. Holt and his Democrat colleagues, and redirect this misguided utopian journey back to practical reality.

Rush Holt’s Weak Defense Posture

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Rush Holt’s voting record in Congress on national security issues is a disgrace that his constituents and fellow citizens should be aware of. Mr. Holt veers from the nation’s general interest. Several curious votes have been cast during his lengthy tenure, which have taken a contrary course from a sound security policy. These votes, cast on our behalf, need to be known in order to arrive at a proper assessment of Rush Holt, the public servant, not the private man. Certainly, respect for Mr. Holt as a human being, a husband, a step-father, a son, a scientist, and citizen, is very much warranted, but his voting record should be separated from the individual, and scrutinized by every citizen. The primary objective for public servants assembled in Congress is to provide for our common defense. All other treasures flow from this basic human necessity. Life, liberty, property, justice, and social tranquility can only be present when there is peace, internal and external.


Rush Holt consistently falls in line with the most partisan members of Congress. He mysteriously shows up in obscure minorities vote after vote. Mr. Holt was one of the 24% that voted against the National Missile Defense Act of 1999 http://bit.ly/a0juGn, and was one of 14% to vote against the US/India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act http://bit.ly/d2w4ow. Mr. Holt was one of four members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation joining the 16% that voted against H.R. 4939, which provided emergency supplemental funding for our soldiers http://bit.ly/a1ALYr, and also accompanied the 5% that voted against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 http://bit.ly/bC76ca. He joined the 16% who voted against H.R. 2360 Homeland Security appropriations http://bit.ly/dxwOde, critical resources needed to ensure our domestic security. A contrarians approach might be acceptable when dealing with free capital markets and discernable risk, but when it deals with the security of this nation, and the lives of soldiers and citizens, political posturing performs a great disservice, and wounds our national character.

When we are secure in our vocation, our family relationships, the confines of our homes, and are sufficiently enlightened by a rigorous self-examination, supported by an honest industry, then we will be a free and independent nation. We are rational and resourceful creatures, capable enough to make informed decisions and practical applications, constantly checking our passions so they do not unduly diminish reason, distort perceptions, disturb public discourse, and impede upon the general welfare. Mr. Holt’s voting record can only speak for itself, if it is known. He may be an honorable man in private life, and public pursuits, like a vast majority of people, but he consistently does a bad job as a public servant with the trust given to him to protect our national security interests.

Time after time, vote after vote, Rush Holt continually finds himself gravitating toward curious groups voting against important legislation trying to make this nation, and all of us, safer. Mr. Holt’s political persuasion and partisan loyalties are not in line with the general sentiments of his constituents, and are detrimental to the nation’s interest. Why has Rush Holt taken such extreme positions? Most constituents of the district would not be joining Rush Holt on these votes if they were in Congress. The problem with Mr. Holt is that he does not truly represent his constituent’s common interests. In fact, Mr. Holt serves at his own pleasure, advocating his own personal interest, and that of his most extreme colleagues controlling the Democrat Party, and with it, our Congress. The record of Rush Holt’s past actions provides us with a flavor of future actions to come. I have faith in the wise citizens of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, that they will end Rush Holt’s misguided adventure in November.

Rush Holt's Ruinous Border Policy

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Rush Holt’s voting record on national security is one filled with misguided actions, false assessments, and pleasing partisan loyalties. More specifically, Mr. Holt’s record on border security is as weak as the border is porous. He voted against bills that sought to stop drug and weapon smugglers, kidnappers, illegal immigrants, human traffickers, criminal marauders, and many other intrusive, subversive, and foreign assailants invading this nation every day, or at least wanting to. There is a serious problem on our southern border and Rush Holt fails to recognize it.


The enfeebled governments south of the border, especially our Mexican neighbor, are not having any success at all controlling the murderous atrocities now being committed on the border. These mismanaged problems have spilled over into our country, and is preventing us from enjoying the peace, liberty, security, and social tranquility we deserve as free citizens of an independent republic. It is time to clean out a festering sore that insidiously spreads its malignant streams into our national discourse. Before the November reckoning, we need to pause, and spend more time reflecting on Rush Holt’s very poor voting record. If we cannot ensure the integrity of our national borders, we cease to exist as a sovereign and independent nation.

Mr. Holt’s decade-long occupancy in Congress is marked by intemperate obstructions. He voted against H.R. 1141 (106th) 1999-2000 http://bit.ly/dndX6O, which provided $80 million “to support increased detention requirements for Central American criminal aliens and to address the expected influx of illegal immigrants from Central America as a result of Hurricane Mitch,” $750,000 “to expand the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” in New Mexico, and $750,000 “for the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” in Arizona.

Rush Holt was one of the 30% that tried to obstruct the passage of H.R. 5005 (107th) 2001-2002, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 http://bit.ly/aW2p2s. This significant piece of legislation - passed by more than two-thirds majority in the House, gaining the assent of ninety Senators, and receiving the President’s signature - was a step in the right direction. Rush Holt did not approve of this important step toward securing our borders. This bill gathered up disparate federal agencies and placed them in one department, with one budget, and one mission. The Directorate of Border and Transportation Security was created and is tasked with “preventing the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terrorism into the United States; securing the borders…carrying out the immigration enforcement functions” and “establishing and administering” necessary “rules governing the granting of visas.” The Directorate is responsible for “establishing national immigration enforcement policies and priorities.”

Rush Holt also voted against H.R. 6061 (109th) 2005-2006, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 http://bit.ly/ceIalg. He was one of the 32% to vote no, and one of the four representatives out of twelve from New Jersey’s delegation to do the same. This bill included provisions dealing with “systemic border surveillance” and “physical infrastructure enhancements,” which required “at least two layers of reinforced fencing, installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors.” What are Rush Holt’s priorities? Obviously not the security of our borders, or our national interests, but, instead, they are partisan priorities.

The wise constituents of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District must familiarize themselves with the sobering facts regarding Rush Holt’s dubious, and not well known, voting record dealing with border security. After all his noble speeches are made, and all the votes are finally tallied, Rush Holt consistently shows up in small minorities voting against a more secure and robust border policy. Given the sobering realities of a complex global arrangement, an array of threatening foreign dispositions, fragile relationships, and temporary alliances, suggests to this citizen, at least, that Rush Holt should not cast votes in Congress anymore. Mr. Holt is wrong on border security and the wrong choice in November. Rush Holt’s actions are harmful to our border security, and diminish our national sovereignty. Send Mr. Holt a message from the ballot box saying that you are fed up with partisan ploys and dissimulative exploits.

Rush Holt's Other Side

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Rush Holt exploits the most heartfelt emotions of his constituents. He uses them, their unique situation in society, and the peculiar passions that they are personally attached to, for political advantage, like so many other public officials do, and will continue doing. Rush Holt, and the most extreme Democrat persuasions in Congress, paints every issue with partisan colors. They utilize specious arguments for divisive ends, and pose wicked visions and terrible specters as consequences for not consenting to their utopian schemes. Since our representative is so fond of using veterans, and every other categorized constituent, for popular posturing and pathetic pandering, then it is appropriate for us to take a closer look at Mr. Holt's other side, when he turned his back on veterans.


Rush Holt's record on national security is very troubling, and will be discussed in the near future. His voting record dealing with veterans is somewhat better. Where Mr. Holt has performed well for veterans he should be commended. That is the good side of our representative; but, as we have come to know, or will find out more in the future, Rush Holt has another side, one that is downright disgraceful and hypocritical. Rush Holt is a part-time advocate. He chooses when and when not to support specific constituents. At certain times, Mr. Holt firmly stands at your side, and other times, he abandons you for the sake of some partisan profit or allegiance to obscure principles that do not reflect our general sentiments. Mr. Holt's inconsistency is well documented, and the following items are only tiny portions of a lengthy public record.

If Rush Holt is such a great advocate for veterans then why did he vote against H.R. 3010 (109th) 2005-2006, which provided $1.9 million for the National Veterans Employment and Training Services Institute, and $29.5 million for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Programs and the Veterans Workforce Investment Programs? Why did Mr. Holt vote against H.R. 2684 (106th) 1999-2000, which guaranteed $48 million for transitional housing loans for the Homeless Veterans Program Account, and $321 million for medical and prosthetic research?

Rush Holt was one of the 13% who voted against H.R. 4546 (107th) 2001-2002. This bill, which became a law just like all bills mentioned in this piece, included a 10% increase for "military retired pay for enlisted personnel credited with extraordinary heroism in the line of duty." It also "extended the period of eligibility for the use of Selected Reserve educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 years." Mr. Holt was also one of the 11% who voted against H.R. 2116 (106th) 1999-2000, which provided nursing home care for veterans, and "a program to enhance the provision of specialized mental health services to veterans" dealing with PTSD and substance abuse issues. The bill also included extending "the veterans readjustment counseling program" and "a program for furnishing housing assistance for homeless veterans."

How can Rush Holt claim to be a champion for veterans with a voting record like this? Let us retire Rush Holt in November. The citizens of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District have had enough partisan politics.  We do not need any more opportunistic manipulators playing with our fears and hopes for political profit.

Rush Holt's Disturbing Duality

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Rush Holt is a political partisan in its most extreme form. He consistently supports disturbing political interests that diverge from the general interest of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Rush Holt is an opportunistic political creature. He has exhibited a curious display of colors that are well adapted to the environment where he prowls. If you closely follow Rush Holt's voting record, you will see a trail of misguided adventures led by the most radical Democrat's in Congress. The voters in district 12 must send Rush Holt home in November. We do not need a representative that serves interests other than ours. It is time to exert our rightful influence as citizens and cast aside the career politician obstructing our general will. Mr. Holt's voting record does not accurately represent his public pronouncements. Although this exercise represents a small sample of a larger, and more disturbing, voting record, it does reflect upon the nature of our representative, and his troublesome actions.


If Rush Holt is a strong proponent of education, and a worthy advocate for teachers, then why did he vote against those interests on several occasions, especially when he was in the minority? A closer look at Mr. Holt's dismal voting record clearly reflects that he has acted, and will continue to act, as a partisan Democrat, aligned against our collective welfare. The votes he makes for us have been turned over to the reckless will of a radical element nestled in the hierarchy of the Democrat Party. Why did Rush Holt vote against H.R. 1141 (106th) 1999-2000, which provided $56 million for educating the disadvantaged?

Why did our congressman vote against H.R. 3090 (107th) 2001-2002, which enabled teachers a tax deduction on income for school supplies paid for out of their own pockets, and also voting against extending this teacher tax deduction in H.R. 1308 (108th) 2003-2004, the very next congressional session? Why did Rush Holt vote against providing $5 million "for national service scholarships for high school students performing community service" in H.R. 2684 (106th) 1999-2000?

Why did our representative vote against H.R. 3010 (109th) 2005-2006, which provided $6.8 billion "for making payments under Head Start Act[,]" $100 million "for competitive grants to local educational agencies, including charter schools...to develop and implement performance-based teacher and principle compensation systems in high-need schools[,]" and $1.5 million "to provide information on diagnosis, intervention, and teaching strategies for children with disabilities?" This is not the voting record of a consistent advocate for education and teachers.

We must hold Rush Holt accountable for this reckless partisan adventure. We must get an explanation for the votes he casts in Congress. Rush Holt must provide specific reasons why he voted against the interest of education and teachers while proudly proclaiming to be their champion in Congress. Rush Holt's duality is worrisome. His political partisanship is second only to Nancy Pelosi. They have taken us for a ride on the Utopian Express, using every issue and crisis as a means to extend their radical ideology, and expansive political schemes, all the while dangerously blowing through every check and balance in the way, and fueling their journey with taxpayer money. It is time to stop the train of abuses that is hurling down the track, soaking up our liberty and property along the way. The only remedy is to change conductors. We can start this November by voting Rush Holt out of our seat.

Rush Holt's Political Patronage

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Rush Holt contributor Alan M. Hershey, Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. http://bit.ly/dlQK1i in Princeton is another special favorite of our representative. Mr. Hershey, and his research company, are part of the corrosive tentacles of corruption that have ensnared our representative, and many other public servants and officials alike, in an entangled web of special access, influence, privilege, and reciprocal benefits. A political disease is steadily eating away the moral fabric of civic virtue. Sometimes the awful spectacles of nepotism and patronage expose themselves squarely in the daylight for all eyes to gaze upon; but, the great multitude, slide right by us as they traverse the darkened corridors of Congress, and the gilded streets in the District of Columbia, with a virulent persistence to seek out and feast on taxpayer dollars that nourish their activities and perpetuate their existence.

Mr. Hershey is a contributor to Rush Holt. Mr. Hershey and associates http://bit.ly/9j4KNQ have been well served http://bit.ly/bvX4IM http://bit.ly/axrcZi http://bit.ly/cKI5RL by Rush Holt. Mr. Holt, and several of his congressional colleagues, have fully cranked open the barrel tap of taxpayer monies to Alan Hershey and Mathematica Policy Research. They continually drink from an endlessly flowing fountain and arrogantly expect taxpayer’s to pick up the tab. They have been treated with gifts of patronage and bountiful bundles of liquidity to carry out their social research. They are a constituent part of the troublesome crew of special favorites that control our public servants and our purse strings. They infect the legislative process and squander resources that should be used to pay off the national debt and balance the federal budget. Mr. Hershey, I am sorry to say, is only one of several individuals, and corporate entities, that profit from the public purse, which has been willingly, and recklessly, opened very wide for a gluttonous entourage to devour.

We must vote Rush Holt, and his partisan crew of cronies, out of our seat in Congress, and get his liberal hands, and his greedy little friends, out of our pockets, and far away from the legislative process. Rush Holt has taken our consent for granted, misappropriated our money, and mal-administered our interests. He, and a formidable few, stands in the way of real political reform. We need a public servant that will not veer from our general welfare, nor shrink from responsibility. Rush Holt has seemingly sacrificed our collective interest because he chooses to be an ardent partisan and fiscally extravagant.

Our sovereignty, independence, and solvency, as citizens of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, is threatened by subversive streams of power and influence slowly weathering away the trust and confidence we have in our public servants and officials. These scrupulous elements of social manipulation and insidious patronage have induced Rush Holt into relinquishing his responsibility to promote the district’s general welfare. Since he entered office more than a decade ago, he has only represented the special interest of a select few inside and outside the district. They are the true beneficiaries of Rush Holt’s career in public service, not the vast majority of district citizens. Most of us in the district are not benefiting like Rush Holt’s little favorites. Mr. Holt has left a long and wasteful legacy of special favors during his tenure in office. By acting in such a manner, Mr. Holt has clearly supplanted the district’s general welfare with that of his own, the most radical Democrat partisans in Congress, and all the influence peddlers residing in Princeton, Trenton, and the District of Columbia. We must take back the reins of power and influence, and reassert, reaffirm, and redirect our civic energies as proprietors of government, to remove the corrosive tentacles of corruption that squeeze the virtue from our public servants, and diminish our liberty.

We can put an end to this long dreary episode of political patronage and favoritism that has gone on for decades, if we summon up the courage to vote.  This district deserves political reforms, not political rewards to a few. This November make political patronage surrender.

Rush Holt's Corrosive Tentacles of Corruption

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Rush Holt is tightly ensnared by the corrosive tentacles of corruption. The serpent of political intrigue has unleashed a multitude of influence peddlers that are fatally squeezing all the virtue and independence from our public servants. Our precious liberties and republican principles are being choked out by a deadly grasp. This is the sad state of political affairs we are faced with in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. It is a microcosm of what is terribly wrong with our governing arrangement. Rush Holt is held hostage by a troublesome retinue of flattering favorites that prevent real reform. They have supplanted our general welfare with partisan zeal, parochial interests, and other venomous vehicles that threaten our sovereignty, and restrain our consent. It is time for all citizens of the district, state, and nation, to exercise their proper and legitimate power. We need to make our influence known at the ballot box this November, and take back our rightful station as proprietors of government.


If you take a look at Rush Holt’s most recent campaign disclosure records http://bit.ly/d60D9d you will see that he is well funded by corporate lobbyists and Washington D.C. insiders. Most of the money comes from outside the state, and, more specifically, Washington D.C. There are a few contributions from New Jersey. Mark Matzen http://bit.ly/aKb79d http://linkd.in/deZH3v is one of Rush Holt's corrupted cronies that is well rewarded, but not well known. He just received $7000 for campaign consulting through FiftyOne Percent, LLC, and has been crawling around Rush Holt’s web of power and influence for some time now. I wonder who in the relationship is in charge. It does not look like we are. Mr. Matzen is definitely a special favorite of our congressman, and is well rewarded http://bit.ly/bDVDWN, http://bit.ly/aE2OYO for his loyalty. He is a political operator for the Democrat Party and was involved with some disturbing political improprieties http://bit.ly/apDGKF, http://bit.ly/9acFe3, http://bit.ly/9I7aod. Mr. Matzen is part of the revolving door policy that has polluted Washington D.C., and New Jersey. His political alliance with Representative Holt, if we can even call him a representative, is well documented, and this is only a very small portion. Mr. Matzen is a professional corporate lobbyist that has peddled influence inside and outside of Rush Holt's office. Mr. Matzen and his friends at MWW Group http://bit.ly/cIUqtS, http://bit.ly/crR9AW have benefited from contributing to Mr. Holt’s campaign treasure chest over the years, using him as a special conduit to the halls of Congress.

Mark Matzen is one of Rush Holt’s special favorites. Mr. Matzen, and MWW, have greatly benefited from the special relationship they have established with Rush Holt. They have special influence and easy access to our public servant. Yet these are only small sections in the web of corruption that Rush Holt has spun over his decade long career in Congress. It is time for the wise citizens of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District to remove Rush Holt from office, and sever all the corrosive tentacles of corruption that threaten republican virtue. We are the only legitimate interest that should influence our representative’s actions. In November, though, we have a chance to clean up Congress, and remove every vestige of special interest and greed that corrupts our officials, discredits the legislative process, diminishes our will, and denigrates our national character. We will do what is right in November, because it is our duty, as informed citizens of a free republic, to correct the balance of power when it becomes necessary.

Scott Sipprelle Will Serve At Our Pleasure

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It is time for the citizens of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District to hold Representative Rush Holt to account for a voting record that runs contrary to the common interest of the district, state, and nation. Mr. Scott Sipprelle http://www.supportscott2010.com/ is the candidate we should elect this November, and send him to Congress to fix the several problems his opponent has incompetently resided over for the past decade. The time has come for Rush Holt to lay down his partisan fiddle, recognize the flames are curling under his seat, and return to the research lab at Princeton University, where his skills are better suited.


At every turn, Rush Holt stands firmly against our common interests. The only real interest he has faithfully and fervently served is that of the Democrat Party, and the barrel loads of money flowing into his campaign war chest from radical liberal elements and corporate lobbyists, which greatly diminishes our sovereignty. Rush Holt has surrendered our interests to Washington lobbyists and bureaucrats. When Mr. Holt first went to Congress more than a decade ago, he wanted to end the partisanship plaguing our nation. Well, see what a decade in Washington D.C. can do to the most sincere among us. Mr. Holt has become inebriated with all the power and influence swirling about the halls of Congress. Corporate and Washington D.C. lobbyists have contributed a disproportionate amount of money to our representative, if we can even call him that, and seduced him with cajoling characters stroking his ego for special favors in the form of federal grants and contracts funded by taxpayer dollars, and crafting legislative language.

These insidious miscreants corrupt legislation through our representative. They lurk in the crevices of Congress. They have supplanted the consent of the governed, and pose a serious barrier to real political reform and threaten republican principles. They implant convoluted provisions, appropriate obnoxious allotments, and erect evasive loopholes, which are surreptitiously inserted into enormous bills, in the dark of night, without fully exposing the true elements, passed with procedural gimmicks and deception, ultimately benefiting very few of us in the district. This November the wise citizens of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District must let Rush Holt know that our interest will prevail in the halls of Congress, not the partisan cronies looking for federal favors.

Quite frankly, we can no longer afford to keep Rush Holt is office any longer. He has plundered our purse, and supplanted our general welfare with all his special favorites deeply embedded in the District of Columbia, Princeton University, and the City of Trenton. The nation’s capitol has degenerated itself into a bastion of special interests prying away our consent to be governed. Who are we governed by? The answer is supposed to be ourselves, but that is not the case in New Jersey’s 12th congressional district. This is a direct assault on our liberty, independence, and republican principles. The only people Rush Holt should be beholden to is the people of this district. Mr. Scott Sipprelle, Holt’s opponent, is a citizen who owes nothing to any special interests, or corporate lobbyists. He will serve at our pleasure, and never sacrifice our common interest, nor surrender our sovereignty, to the most radical elements of the Democrat Party, or any other interest that aligns itself against our own. Elect Scott Sipprelle in November and we will return our voice, and our interest, to the House of Representatives.

Rush Holt Cannot Be Trusted

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Rush Holt is not the right person we need in Congress during these trying economic uncertainties. He has proven to us that he cannot be trusted with taxpayer money, and does not really understand the totality of the circumstances driving our complex global economy and fiscal distresses. What he does understand, very well though, is how to recklessly spend our money. We need to drastically cut back on all spending, scrutinize every expenditure to every department, especially salaries and pensions, and let taxpayers keep more of their income and property, so we can prop up our own families, and with it our national economy, like Americans have done, and will continue to do, so long as we are not hampered by expansive bureaucracies and regulatory impediments, which breed confusion and apprehension, borne from political uncertainties. We do not need the federal printing press and foreign credit to be successful, because it will only debase our currency, defile our national character, and diminish our independence.

The record speaks for itself. In 2006, Rush Holt made the following statements during a congressional hearing in regard to science and technology funding. He was not the least bit concerned about the national debt and federal deficit. “We, each day when we cast our vote, are deciding the future of our nation; we are deciding the future for our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren. We are creating a legacy for which history will hold us accountable.” I am sorry Mr. Holt, but the citizens of this district need accountability now, we can’t afford to wait for a future generation to determine if you and your Democrat wire-pullers are justified in heaping more federal bureaucracies, debt, and deficits onto taxpayer backs to fund. The legacy that you are leaving, and the reality we currently dwell in, I am saddened to comment, is like an iron wedge chained around the collective neck of posterity, and ourselves. If we do not arrest the expansive utopian schemes now being impetuously erected and radically implemented by Rush Holt and Nancy Pelosi, we are going to carry this burdensome yoke of insolvency and place it around the necks of unborn millions. Are we to believe that the tradeoff between spending more on research and development and having higher debt and deficit spending will eventually be a benefit to all of us? Our generation is standing up right now Mr. Holt, to proudly proclaim that the reckless spending spree that has gone on for decades in Washington D.C. will come to an abrupt end in November.

Further along in Rush Holt’s 2006 testimony, he mentioned that “[i]nvestment and decisions concerning science and technology require an understanding of the scientific and technological development process, a sense of responsibility to understand the potential policy outcomes of our decisions.” Are we to suppose that because our congressmen is a “rocket scientist,” no pun intended, that he has the special ability to understand the investment decisions that need to be made about science and research funding, and the policy ramifications of those decisions? That may be the case. Then we can carry his proposition a bit further, and explore the nature of our congressmen’s assumptions. Should we suppose, then, that in order to effectively deal with the federal budget’s numerable distresses, we need a representative that is capable enough to understand the complexities of our economic predicament, and the implications of policy decisions on the national debt, federal deficit, and small businesses?

If this be the case, according to our own congressmen’s logic, then, clearly, Rush Holt is not the best person to have representing us during a time of fiscal fragility. If we were preparing to leave the solar system on a rocket, then, maybe, we may want him in government. In fact, we need to address the dire financial perplexities we find ourselves in. We need to turn this great ship of state away from a course of fiscal decay, toward one that squarely places us on a path to economic renewal and expansion. We do not need to wait for a future generation to condemn our names because we saddled them with insolvency.

The Partisan Nature of Rush Holt

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The record clearly reflects that Rush Holt is fiscally irresponsible. For instance, his Federal Budget Testimony from March, 2009, given during a time of severe economic uncertainty, applauded the fact that the federal budget sought to make the R&D tax credit permanent. This is quite fine, if only his voting record reflected this sentiment more often. On several other occasions, though, when he was in the minority, he, and the most extreme Democrat partisans in Congress, obstructed the efforts to make tax cuts permanent, and extending similar tax credits, which greatly benefited several small businesses in the district when finally enacted into law.


In H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005 – which Mr. Holt was one of the thirty percent who voted against it – there were several tax credits that were enacted into law that helped businesses in the district. Section’s 1331 and 1332, for example, the former allowed “a tax deduction for energy efficient commercial building property placed in service before 2008,” and the latter, “[a]llows certain home contractors a business tax credit for the construction of new energy efficient homes acquired before 2008.” Both benefited small businesses in the district. Our collective interests are not consistently attended to by the current career politician. Obviously this representative chooses his own personal interests, and that of his party, over our general interest. We need to halt the spiraling debt and deficit spending that is currently underway by the extreme Democrat Congress pulling real hard on our purse.

Getting back to Rush Holt’s 2009 budget testimony, he noted that

“[f]rom 2005 through 2007, federal research obligations decreased 7.8 percent in constant dollars. Between Fiscal Year 2007 and 2008 alone, total federal research spending dropped by 4.8 percent in constant dollars. The Congress must take some responsibility for this funding situation. In Fiscal year 2008, Congress slightly increased the investment in NSF by 2.5 percent, far short of the 8 to 10 percent increase that was provided in earlier versions of the appropriations bills and less than the 3.8 percent inflation that year. At the same, DoE’s Office of Science received 5.8 percent increase, far less than the 15 to 18 percent increase in earlier versions of these bills. I urge the Budget Committee and the Congress to take a different approach this appropriations cycle.”

Apparently, discretionary spending was actually curtailed by both the Republican and Democratic majority, and Mr. Holt vigorously opposed that fiscal remedy. Certainly, this is an extreme position that does not reflect the general interest of district taxpayers, or even the overall sentiment of Congress as a whole. What is the "different approach" Mr. Holt suggests, even more debt and deficit spending? Is that taking "responsibility for the funding situation?" This is fiscally irresponsible and an unsound partisan sentiment, especially at a time of escalating debt and deficits. It shows a blatant and reckless disregard of fiscal discipline when all of our attention should be focused on eliminating the debt and deficit brought on by decades of wasteful spending. It is clear to me that Mr. Holt will compound the debt issue with increased federal spending, higher taxes, and foreign borrowing, and support all those pet projects for his fellow scientists at Princeton University.

He concluded the 2009 statement by letting us know where his heart really is.

“In these troubled economic times, science is the ideal investment because it provides jobs now while laying the foundation for our future economic growth. As Speaker Pelosi said best, the way to move forward as a nation is ‘through science, science, science, and science.’”

Rush Holt must think that the federal government is the only entity that has ever invested in R&D and created economic growth and jobs.  Surely the federal government can provide an atmosphere to have prosperity, but economic growth, job creation, and innovation is not a primary objective for the federal government, it is the personal responsibility of every citizen. I expect this line of thinking coming from a partisan politician, a plasma scientist by trade, who has used his office and connections to keep a steady stream of taxpayer dollars freely running to his former employer, Princeton University, so they can soak up our wealth to conduct scientific and social experiments in their labs on campus, and in the City of Trenton. One thing is for sure, scientists, and Princeton University, have been taken care of during this recession, and have been very busy using all the federal grants and contracts funded by the taxpayers of this district, state, and nation; as if Princeton University cannot afford to finance their own projects, given the amount of money they charge per credit for a liberal education these days, or even the numerous public and private donations accumulated and invested in hedge funds. What should be our national priority when faced with ballooning deficits and debts? Rush Holt would have you listen to, and follow, Nancy Pelosi, as he often does, and triple spending increases on discretionary research and development.

We need to make the tough decisions required to balance the federal budget, cut spending on non-essential programs, and possibly using that revenue to actually start paying off our national debt. We must not let Rush Holt and Congress recklessly throw our hard earned wages at more unnecessary programs. Now this is clearly in the interest of the whole district, not political favors dished out to a few influential constituents residing in one part of it, at the expense of everyone else. We can no longer be spectators, idly standing by on the sideline while another congressional session wastefully spends our money. We must not be apathetic or disgusted with the process. We are the process. The result is determined by our votes. Vote in November, and, maybe, debt and deficits will be a thing to remember.

Bankruptcy or Solvency?

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This November, the citizens of the 12th congressional district of New Jersey, and the rest of us in this state and country, have to decide whether to cast a vote for bankruptcy, or solvency. The choice is supposed to be a simple one, yet, due to our peculiar financial circumstances over the past few decades, it has become a stark choice nonetheless. The ultimate verdict will have immediate and long-term repercussions on us, our nation, and posterity. The overall consequences arising from the critical choice before us will be our own doing. We are the active agents of our destiny. All that one has to do is merely look across the Atlantic Ocean at the countries of Europe, and see that most of them are struggling with the troublesome symptoms of a government controlled welfare state that has steadily squeezed the economic vitality from a small and vibrant population.

If European countries, with small and aging populations mind you, cannot financially sustain a government controlled welfare system, then how can it be expected that this country, with its enormously free and diverse population, can sustain a similar system? European socialism is a premonition of what is to come to our shores if we do not make a firm stand against the tide of financial ruin. It is brought on by the careless winds of insolvency, nurtured by reckless spending habits that seek to eradicate every naturally occurring social malady. This utopian storm, now being conjured up by the most radical forces within the Democrat Congress, will produce a devastating tidal surge of higher debt and deficits that will ravage individual freedom and denigrate personal property in its worrisome wake, leaving us all dependent on a highly centralized federal apparatus to take care of our every need and want. This is not the precious fabric of liberty; it is pernicious chains of slavery.


We, in this district, state, and nation, must finally arrest the mounting national debt and continual budget deficits that are being pushed by a crew of career politicians going on a delusional spending spree with our hard earned wages. Quite frankly, much of our personal wealth and property is wasted on unnecessary functions that are not granted to the federal government by any enumerated power proscribed in any section of the U.S. Constitution. Career politicians use fear tactics, and always point to ideal evils whenever there is an attempt to curtail any discretionary spending. Rush Holt is one of these career politicians. He occupies our seat, is supposed to serve at our pleasure, but shows utter contempt by wastefully spending our money, always at the behest of the Democrat Party and Washington D.C. insiders.

Rush Holt, is fiscally irresponsible. He, and his Democrat wire-pullers, who have controlled Congress for four years now, will eventually shackle us to even more specious tax and spending schemes, concocted in the dark of the night, surreptitiously slipped into the middle of enormous bills, with plenty of procedural gimmicks to get them passed, and with no legitimate debate at all to unmask the manufactured maladies they seek to eradicate. We do not deserve ill-conceived partisanship.

During Rush Holt’s decade long occupation of our congressional seat, he fought vigorously to expand the size and role of the federal bureaucracy, which only added to the national debt, and increased the federal deficit, with not too many salutary benefits to point to. As Rush Holt sat in Congress our debt and deficit grew larger, never really making any serious suggestions about curtailing it, but making concerted efforts to increase it.
We need to face the liberal menace that now controls the Democrat Party, and with it, our seat in Congress. Too many political careerists, along with their cadre of salaried federal bureaucrats, are arrogantly pushing their narrow-minded special interests, with slim majorities mind you, over that of the general interest. We are witnessing a time when extreme political ideologies, on both sides of the political spectrum, are polarizing the populace for political expediency, and distracting this nation from accomplishing real political reform and economic renewal.  American citizens are the active participants driving this experiment in self-government.