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.