For Whom Does Governor Jon Corzine Work?

Make Halloween a “FUN”draiser

The Vice President of the Atlantic City Republican Club announced today that the FLYING CLOUD CAFE will be hosting this years “FUN”draiser event on Saturday, October 31, 2009 with:  “A THRILLER OF AN EVENING.” 

To volunteer on the dance committee or purchase tickets contact Mark Padula at 609-517-0376.  Ticket costs are $40 in advance and $50 at the door and include a sit down dinner with choice of three entrees and a silent auction.  All are invited to attend and there is NO age restriction for this event. 

We hope you can join us for an evening out at a very LOW price and some time with friends to forget all of your worries and problems.

John Devlin’s Hypocrisy

JOHN DEVLIN TO TAXPAYERS “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”
04/08/2009
In response to a recent request by Atlantic City School Board member John Devlin for greater budget transparency, Keith Davis, Atlantic County Republican Party Leader, issued a challenge of his own to Devlin: don’t issue bold statements when you have a record of inaction and playing politics on your own school board.

“The most important job for any elected official is their vote – either a Yes or a No. But when it was time to vote for the most recent Atlantic City school budget which increases tuition by 25% on downbeach residents, John Devlin was too cowardly to take a stand,” said Davis. “As reported by the Press of Atlantic City, ‘Member John Devlin abstained from the vote in protest of the increase, but his abstention preserved the six-vote majority for approval.’ Devlin didn’t do his job for the taxpayers.”

“Atlantic County government has been a model of efficiency under the leadership of Freeholders Frank Giordano and Jim Curcio,” said Davis. “How does their record on the Freeholder Board compare with Devlin’s on the Atlantic City School Board? The cost per pupil in Atlantic City is now a whopping $18,700 — a 20% increase over the past three years that Devlin has served on the Board.”

“Apparently, Devlin couldn’t comprehend his own budget and the impact it will have on the taxpayers he now wants to represent as a freeholder,” Davis said. “If he stood up for his future constituents in Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate and Longport who will get walloped by the tax increase in his budget by voting ‘no’ he could have stopped it. But instead he played politics and tried to have it both ways by abstaining.”

Davis also took note of Devlin’s recent comments made during his campaign announcement. Devlin said: “I am committed to working on behalf of Atlantic County’s hard-working families, who deserve representatives who put forth real solutions for community problems, not just sound bytes to win political points.”

“Talk about double-talk,” Davis said. “Devlin’s so-called ‘protest vote’ in abstaining on his own school budget is just the type of sound byte he claims he’s against. If he was really protesting his own budget, he should have had the guts to vote ‘no’.”

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An Atlantic City Halloween THRILLER

K. Mark Padula, Vice President of the Atlantic City Republican Club announced today that he will be hosting a fundraiser dinner dance on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at a venue to be announced.

To get involved or volunteer to be on the dance committee contact Mark directly at 609-517-0376. All will be invited to attend this Halloween Dress Up Bash and Door prizes as well as special surprised will be part of the fun filled evening.

The theme for the evening will be Michael Jackson’s THRILLER!

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PRESS RELEASE – FRANK D. FORMICA RECEIVES REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINATION

Frank Formica For Freeholder 2310 Arctic Avenue Atlantic City, NJ 08401 formica4freeholder@gmail.com

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

April 1, 2009

Contact:

Michele Giampaolo

(609) 839-3898

 

Businessman Frank D. Formica receives Republican Party Nomination as candidate for 2nd District Freeholder Atlantic County

 

Atlantic County, NJ (Wednesday April 1, 2009) – Frank D. Formica, business owner Formica Bros. Bakery received the Republican Party’s nomination to run for the 2^nd District Freeholder Atlantic county seat being vacated by Tom Russo yesterday evening during the Annual Republican Party Convention held in Galloway Township, NJ. 

 

“I am honored to have the opportunity to run for 2^nd District Freeholder.  During my campaign I will demonstrate to the people of Atlantic County that a vote for Frank Formica is a vote for responsible government spending, responsible government spending that will drive Atlantic County’s Growth.   I have a proven track record as a business and community leader, a solid foundation of over 32 years of experience growing successful businesses, serving in the community, making strategic investment decisions and champion development projects that have stimulated the economy.  I know what it takes to grow a business in challenging economic times, to be fiscally responsible and to put people to work.  I recognize the importance of protecting our natural resources while preserving quality of life and I pledge to continue to support this county’s open space initiatives.  As 2^nd District Freeholder, I will work hard on behalf of the people of Atlantic County.  I am delivering results in the private sector and I will deliver results on behalf of the people as 2^nd District Freeholder.”  Frank D. Formica, Candidate 2^nd District Freeholder

 

Who is Frank D. Formica
Experience	Over 32 years experience successfully running family owned businesses; Executive Administrator at Resorts International; +33 years real estate management and development
Veteran	Served in the United States Air Force from 1972-1974.
Business Experience	Successfully grew family business from a local bakery to one of the region’s largest bakeries; Served on the first Atlantic City Business development Board; Founding Board Member of St. Michael’s Development Committee responsible for constructing Dante Hall Theatre of the Arts; testified before the US Congress House of Representatives Committee on Small Business on escalating cost of food prices; Member Greater Atlantic County Development Commission
Community Leader	President Ducktown Revitalization Association, Board Member Dante Hall Theatre of the Arts, Received 2008 World of Difference Award from the Chelsea Neighborhood Association for contributions to the community.

 

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NY Times Wrong Again

This time they are wrong on condemning South Carolina GOP Governor Mark Sanford’s rejection of federal “Porkulus” funding.   The New York Times wrote:

The federal stimulus money is meant to shield schools from layoffs and reignite a national reform effort that still has a long way to go in places like South Carolina. Without the federal money, state lawmakers say, tuition at state-supported universities could increase dramatically and thousands of teachers could be laid off.

With South Carolina’s unemployment rate already one of the highest in the nation, state lawmakers seem poised to invoke a provision of the federal stimulus law that allows them to override the governor’s decision. They worry, however, that a legal challenge might tie up the issue in the courts beyond the beginning of the state’s next fiscal year.

It would be best, therefore, for Mr. Sanford to find a face-saving way to reverse himself. If he does not, voters should remember that their governor placed politics ahead of schoolchildren and the schools that are struggling to save them.

The key point omitted by The New York Times is that accepting federal funding comes with strings.    Fiscally responsible states are forced to establish federally-mandated wasteful programs in exchange for the federal funds.   Governor Sanford should be commended for not accepting the federal funds.  

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AMODEO AND POLISTINA: INCOME TAX + BUSINESS TAX + PROPERTY TAX = 8.2% UNEMPLOYMENT

Assemblyman John Amodeo / 609-677-8266
Assemblyman Vincent Polistina / 609-677-8266
Assembly Republican Press Office / 609-292-5339
March 26, 2009
AMODEO AND POLISTINA: INCOME TAX + BUSINESS TAX + PROPERTY TAX = 8.2% UNEMPLOYMENT
 
            As New Jersey’s unemployment level soared to its highest rate in 16 years, Assemblymen John Amodeo and Vincent Polistina, both R-Atlantic, said today that the formula for the state’s turmoil was put together by taxing individuals and business to the point where other states are more appealing places to live and work because they are more affordable than New Jersey.
            “When assessing what factors contribute to the staggering increase in those who are unemployed, people need to consider the cumulative effect of taxes on incomes, operating a business, and owning a home in New Jersey,” stated Polistina.  “There are numerous studies and polls that place the state at the bottom of many key economic rankings and are the reason New Jersey is so vulnerable during this recession. 
            “The Corzine administration’s tax policies have fostered the negative perception about the state and now we are paying the price.  In order to quench his thirst to continue spending, Corzine has picked the pockets of homeowners and business to the point where they’ve had enough.  Apparently, the $3,000 employer rebate the state is offering for hiring and retaining new employees isn’t as much of an incentive as the governor thought it would be.”
            Several economists predict that the state’s unemployment rate could exceed 10 percent within the next several months.  New Jersey has lost 70,000 jobs in the last four months alone, and nearly 125,000 since January 2008.  An economist with the Federal Reserve Bank called the data “staggering.”  Since that time New Jersey’s unemployment rate has increased 3.6 percent.
            “There is a preponderance of evidence that suggests the state has been traveling down this economic dead end for several years,” remarked Amodeo.  “Both small business and large corporations are suffocating from the tax burdens that this administration is placing on them. Homeowners are paying the highest property taxes in the country.  Instead of figuring out how to encourage job growth by recruiting companies to locate in the state, the governor has given a road map of how to leave it for more friendly surroundings.”
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Republican Party, Happy 155th Birthday!

This is from the Grand Old Partisan Blog:

Our party’s heritage IS the moral high ground, and forgetting it costs us the political initiative. We would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of the Republican Party.
Today, Republicans celebrate – or should celebrate – the 155th anniversary of our Grand Old Party.
Several sites share the credit as its birthplace, but our party was named in Ripon, Wisconsin. On March 20, 1854, fifty-eight civil rights activists called for all opponents of slavery to unite in a new organization, to be called “the Republican Party.” This name had a past as well as a future, since Thomas Jefferson and many other Founders had called themselves “Republicans.”
On July 6, the first state convention was held, in Jackson, Michigan. Thanks to the zeal and dedication of early Republican leaders, the GOP soon became a major national party.
Now, more than ever, the Republican Party should get back to basics.
Here is the permalink to this article on the Grand Old Partisan blog, each day celebrating 155 years of Republican heroes and heroics.
Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Stimulus Plan is Democrat Disaster

The below article is taken from Free Republic:

The Stimulus is a Step Towards a Soviet America
US Senate speech ^ | Feb 10, 2009 | Tom Coburn

Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:02:32 PM by beejaa

THE STIMULUS IS A STEP TOWARDS A SOVIET AMERICA Written by Senator Tom Coburn Tuesday, 10 February 2009

[Senator Coburn recently gave this speech on the floor of the Senate]

We are going in exactly the wrong direction. We ought to be standing on the principles that made this country great.

There ought to be a review of every program in the Federal Government that is not effective, that is not efficient, that is wasteful or fraudulent, and we ought to get rid of it right now. We ought to say, Gone, to be able to pay for a real stimulus plan that might, in fact, have some impact.

I would be remiss if I didn’t remind everybody that next week we are going to hear from the Obama administration wanting another $500 billion. Outside of this ["stimulus" bill], they are going to want another $500 billion to handle the banking system.

I want to make sure the American people know what is in this Stimulus bill. I think once they know what is in this bill, they are going to reject it out of hand. Let me read for my colleagues some of the things that are in this bill.

The biggest earmark in history is in this bill. There is $2 billion in this bill to build a coal plant with zero emissions. That would be great, maybe, if we had the technology, but the greatest brains in the world sitting at MIT say we don’t have the technology yet to do that.

Why would we build a $2 billion powerplant we don’t have the technology for that we know will come back and ask for another $2 billion and another $2 billion and another $2 billion when we could build a demonstration project that might cost $150 million or $200 million? There is nothing wrong with having coal-fired plants that don’t produce pollution; I am not against that. Even the Washington Post said the technology isn’t there. It is a boondoggle. Why would we do that?

We eliminated tonight a $246 million payback for the large movie studios in Hollywood .

We are going to spend $88 million to study whether we ought to buy a new ice breaker for the Coast Guard. You know what. The Coast Guard needs a new ice breaker. Why do we need to spend $88 million? They have two ice breakers now that they could retrofit and fix and come up with equivalent to what they needed to and not spend the $1 billion they are going to come back and ask for, for another ice breaker, so why would we spend $88 million doing that?

We are going to spend $448 million to build the Department of Homeland Security a new building. We have $1.3 trillion worth of empty buildings right now, and because it has been blocked in Congress we can’t sell them, we can’t raze them, we can’t do anything, but we are going to spend money on a new building here in Washington .

We are going to spend another $248 million for new furniture for that building; a quarter of a billion dollars for new furniture. What about the furniture the Department of Homeland Security has now? These are tough times. Should we be buying new furniture? How about using what we have? That is what a family would do. They would use what they have. They wouldn’t go out and spend $248 million on furniture.

How about buying $600 million worth of hybrid vehicles? Do you know what I would say? Right now times are tough; I would rather Americans have new cars than Federal employees have new cars. What is wrong with the cars we have? Dumping $600 million worth of used vehicles on the used vehicle market right now is one of the worst things we could do. Instead, we are going to spend $600 million buying new cars for Federal employees.

There is $400 million in here to prevent STDs. I have a lot of experience on that. I have delivered 4,000 babies. We don’t need to spend $400 million on STDs. What we need to do is properly educate about the infection rates and the effectiveness of methods of prevention. That doesn’t take a penny more. You can write that on one piece of paper and teach every kid in this country, but we don’t need to spend $400 million on it. It is not a priority.

How about $150 million for a Smithsonian museum? Tell me how that helps get us out of a recession. Tell me how that is a priority. Would the average American think that is a priority that we ought to be mortgaging our kids’ future to spend another $150 million at the Smithsonian?

How about $1 billion for the 2010 census? So everybody knows, the census is so poorly managed that the census in 2010 is going to cost twice what it cost 10 years ago, and we wasted $800 million on a contract because it was no-bid that didn’t perform. Nobody got fired, no competitive bidding, and we blew $800 million.

We have $75 million for smoking cessation activities, which probably is a great idea, but we just passed a bill, the SCHIP bill, that we need to get 21 million more Americans smoking to be able to pay for that bill. That doesn’t make sense.

How about $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges? I mean, did we talk with Dell and Hewlett-Packard and say, How do we make you all do better? Is there not a market force that could make that better? Will we actually buy on a true competitive bid?

No, because there is nothing that requires competitive bidding in anything in this bill. There is nothing that requires it. It is one of the things President Obama said he was going to mandate at the Federal Government, but there is no competitive bidding in this bill at all.

We have $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas. Well, that will put 10 or 15 people to work. Is that a priority for us right now?

There is $6 billion to turn Federal buildings into green buildings. That is a priority, versus somebody getting a job outside of Washington , a job that actually produces something, that actually increases wealth?

How about $500 million for State and local fire stations? Where do you find in the Constitution us paying for local fire stations within our realm of prerogatives? None of it is competitively bid.

Next is $1.2 billion for youth activities. Who does that employ? What does that mean?

How about $88 million for renovating the public health service building? You know, if we could sell half of the $1.3 trillion worth of properties we have, we could take care of every Federal building requirement and backlog we have.

Then there’s $412 million for CDC [Centers for disease Control] buildings and property. We spent billions on a new center and headquarters for CDC. Is that a priority? If we are going to spend $412 million on building buildings, let’s build one that will produce something, one that will give us something.

How about $850 million for that most “efficient” Amtrak that hasn’t made any money since 1976 and continues to have $2 billion or $3 billion a year in subsidies?

Here is one of my favorites: $75 million to construct a new “security training” facility for State Department security officers. We already have four other facilities already available to train them. But they want theirs. By the way, it is going to be in West Virginia . I wonder how that got there.

So we are going to build a new training facility that duplicates four others that we already have that could easily do what we need to do. But because we have a stimulus package, we are going to add in oink pork.

How about $200 million in funding for a lease – not buying, but a lease – of alternative energy vehicles on military installations?

We are going to bail out the States on Medicaid. Total all of the health programs in this, and we are going to transfer $150 billion out of the private sector and we are going to move it to the Federal Government. You talk about backdooring national health care.

Henry Waxman has to be smiling big today. He wants a single-payer Government-run health care system. We are going to move another $150 billion to the Federal Government from the private sector.

We are going to eliminate fees on loans from the Small Business Administration. You know what that does? That pushes productive capital to unproductive projects. It is exactly the wrong thing to do.

We are going to spend $524 million for information technology upgrades that the Appropriations Committee claims will create 388 jobs. If you do the math on that, that is $1.5 million a job. Don’t you love the efficiency of Washington thinking?

We are going to create $79 billion in additional money for the States, a “slush fund,” to bail out States and provide millions of dollars for education costs. How many of you think that will ever go away?

Once the State education programs get $79 billion over 2 years, do you think that will ever go away? The cry and hue of taking “our money” away, even though it was a stimulus and supposed to be limited, it will never go away. So we will continue putting that forward until our kids have grandkids of their own.

There is about $47 billion for a variety of energy programs that are primarily focused on renewable energy. I am fine with spending that. But we ought to get something for it. There ought to be metrics. There are no metrics. It is pie in the sky, saying we will throw some money at it.

Let me conclude by saying we are at a seminal moment in our country. We will either start living within the confines of realism and responsibility or we will blow it and we will create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived.

This bill is the start of that downfall. To abandon a market-oriented society and transfer it to a Soviet-style, government-centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated program, that is the thing that will put the stake in the heart of freedom in this country.

I hope the American people know what is in this bill. I am doing everything I can to make sure they know. But more important, I hope somebody is listening who will treat the “pneumonia” we are faced with today, which is the housing and mortgage markets. It doesn’t matter how much money we spend in this bill. It is doomed to failure unless we fix that problem first.

Failing that, we will go down in history as the Congress that undermined the future and vitality of this country. Let it not be so.

Mr. Obama Policies Destroy Families

Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation
Star Parker
Monday, February 09, 2009

(Source – http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation)

Six years ago I wrote a book called “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.” I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.

I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas. A poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.

I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.

A vast sea of perhaps well intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960’s, that were going to lift the nation’s poor out of poverty.

A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from “How do I take care of myself?” to “What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?”

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems. The kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.

Through God’s grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is.

I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996, passed by a Republican congress and signed into law by a Democrat president. A few years after enactment, welfare roles were down fifty percent.

I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor black communities and replacing it with wealth producing American capitalism.

But, incredibly, we are going in the opposite direction.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have said, “Thank you, Suh.”

Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash.

There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation.

In an op-ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Mr. Obama is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much more than short term economic stimulus.

“This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending-it’s a strategy for America’s long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care, and education.”

Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government can take place “with unprecedented transparency and accountability.”

Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.

Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — The War on Poverty — which President Johnson said “…does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.”

Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black families are not, with triple the incidence of single parent homes and out of wedlock births.

It’s not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama’s invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.

Does anyone really need to think about what the choice should be?

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