Garden State Patriot

Some of my readers might be familiar with Seth Grossman. Seth has been hosting a radio program out of Vineland, NJ on Saturday mornings [ON EDIT] and a new program on 1400 AM WOND out of Linwood, NJ. Until now, that is.

Seth’s new show has been abruptly shut down and he is blaming none other than Frank LoBiondo, as well as Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson.

My daily radio program messed things up for both of them. I told the details of how LoBiondo voted to blackmail President Bush into using union contractors for Katrina relief home repairs, end secret ballots for union elections, and waste billions around the country to get beach erosion money down here. I told how LoBiondo was one of only eight Republicans who voted for big new taxes on coal, gas, and oil – while banning offshore drilling for cheap oil.

I also talked of Dennis Levinson’s Boscov’s bailout, putting Democratic union leader Roy Foster in charge of the County Improvement Authority, etc. I corrected Levinson when he blamed Democrats for New Jersey’s $32 billion debt, when Christie Todd Whitman Republicans created roughly half of it.

Many of my listeners then multiplied the effects of my comments by calling these facts in to other talk radio programs. 

In last June’s Republican primary, LoBiondo and Levinson strongly supported “moderate” candidate for Governor Chris Christie. I backed conservative Steve Lonegan. Lonegan got 47 percent of the Atlantic County vote. If a strong conservative runs against LoBiondo next June, would LoBiondo want me broadcasting from both Vineland and Atlantic County?

We answered “Cui bono?” But did the suspects have the means to do it?

Did you notice how many radio ads are paid for with tax dollars? In one paid ad, Dennis Levinson reminds us to drive carefully now that schools are open. Another ad from some government agency to help small business thanks Frank LoBiondo for his support. Did you hear the recent ad from the NJ Broadcasters Association thanking Congressman Frank LoBiondo for opposing a federal law that would charge stations a new “performance tax” for all songs played on the air?

Weeks later, while discussing my theory with friends, I learned that LoBiondo is now saying that this is personal, because I attacked or insulted his wife on the air. But I didn’t, and anyone who says I did is either lying or mistaken. If you know any details, please contact me so I can try to figure out what Frank is talking about, look for the tape, and get to the bottom of this. Thanks.

The RINO LoBiondo is already a marked man with conservatives for his inexplicable ‘yeah’ vote for C(r)ap & Trade. Now, apparently, we have to wonder if he is also petty and thin-skinned.

Cross-posted at Red County and Conservatives with Attitude!

Yesterday, the destructive, job-killing Waxman-Markey C(r)ap and Trade bill passed the House. While numerous Democrats broke ranks to oppose this bad legislation, it passed with some Republican support. That support, unfortunately, came from three so-called Republicans right here in New Jersey. Their names? Leonard Lance, Chris Smith and Frank LoBiondo.

Their votes in favor of this bill represent nothing less than a betrayal of Republican principles. Waxman-Markey, as I have pointed out previously, is a repressive tax for Americans. It will impact everything we produce and result in lost jobs and higher energy bills to the tune of up to $3,000 a year for the average family.

Lance, LoBiondo and Smith have now elevated themselves to the same level as Arlen Specter. Their votes are no less a betrayal as Specter’s was for the Porkulous bill.

As such, each of these Congressmen now no longer deserve our support. Each of them needs to be primaried out. Republicans need to send a strong and clear message that on certain issues you must toe the line and breaking ranks will not be tolerated. If you are a constitutent in the districts represented by these Congressmen make no mistake, they have not represented you, let alone this state and our nation. They need to be voted out.

I, for one, will do all I can to see that that is exactly what happens next year.

This is just remarkable. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, in the wake of the Senate defeat of the auto industry UAW bailout, accused those who opposed the measure of being ”un-American.” 

“It is unacceptable for this un-American, frankly, behavior of these U.S. senators to cause this country to go from a recession into a depression,” Granholm said during a radio interview Friday morning.

Imagine someone accused Granholm of doing the very same thing on this or any other issue? There would be an uproar on the Left.

Later in the day, Granholm went on to accuse those Senators who opposed the bailout of favoring foreign automakers.

This is chutzpah of the tallest order considering it is people like Granholm who have helped cause the problem. It is Granholm and other liberal Democrats who have made it impossible for the US automakers to succeed by virtue of a) being in bed with the UAW and not compelling them to make concessions and b) their continual support of crushing regulations and environmental standards.

Liberals like Granholm are the ones who have actually - in a roundabout way - showed favoritism to foreign automakers. They’ve created an economic environment where it’s harder for the Big 3 to be profitable, while companies like Honda are not subject to the same pressures.

Is it any wonder that Granholm’s home state of Michigan is an economic disaster?

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New Jerseyans take note. These are your Senators and Representatives who voted YES to this UAW bailout.

• Sen. Lautenberg (D)
• Sen. Menendez (D)
• Robert Andrews-1
• Frank LoBiondo-2
• Christopher Smith-4
• Frank Pallone-6
• Bill Pascrell-8
• Steve Rothman-9
• Donald Payne-10
• Rodney Frelinghuysen-11
• Rush Holt-12

These voted NO:

• Jim Saxton-3
• Scott Garrett-5
• Mike Ferguson-7