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James Madison, Federalist 41



Saturday, August 14, 2010

Rush Holt's Political Patronage



WARNING: Do not break the law before, during, or after reading anything I mention.



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.