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.