Summary of the topics discussed by Seth Grossman on the "Liberty and Prosperity" WPG Radio program.
🗳️ The New Jersey Governor's Election (Jack Ciattarelli vs. Mikey Sherrill)
The bulk of the discussion focused on the election, with Grossman outlining points he believes voters should know.
High Electric Bills: Grossman blames high electricity costs on Governor Murphy for shutting down six productive power plants (including nuclear and Beesleys Point) in pursuit of "green energy." He argues that alternative sources (wind, solar, tidal) are unreliable and that only coal, oil, gas, or nuclear can provide consistent power. He states that Jack Ciattarelli has promised to reopen or replace these plants.
Critique of Mikie Sherrill's Record: He challenges Sherrill's background, claiming:
She was not a "military commander" but worked in an office.
She was a lawyer who didn't practice in a courtroom but worked for a firm that bullied and shook down big corporations to promote "woke" causes. (DEI, anti-American).
She was "never a prosecutor" but an “outreach and re-entry coordinator”. Her job was to help criminals get housing, employment, health care and counseling when they got out of prison.
Sherrill's Stances: He claims Sherrill is in favor of "open borders," "sanctuary" policies in New Jersey, and "reparations for slavery."
Teachers' Union Endorsement and "Statewide Property Tax": T
The teachers' union pension fund was run as a "Ponzi scheme" fore years. Teacher got low salaries and made small pension fund contributions for years. Then they got big pay hikes just before they retired. Then their pension payments were based on their highest salaries just before they retired! By 2014, the pension funds were insolvent. The NJEA Teachers' Union sued the state claiming that the pension fund was "$50 billion in the hole" as of 2014.
The union wants a constitutional amendment to create a new, "mandatory statewide property tax" to bail out the pension fund.
In 2017, the NJEA spent more than $4 million to try to defeat former Senate President Steve Sweeney for previously blocking this. In 2021, they finally succeeded.
Sherrill's commitment to "secure pensions" a "code word" for her commitment to this new statewide tax to bail out the pension funds.
"Fake News": Democrats and "billionaires" created a "fake charity" to fund a "fake newspaper" called the New Jersey Independent. We don't know who is paying for it because it is registered as a "charity" and not as a political campaign organization. This fake newspaper is mailed voters with the big lie that Ciattarelli "talked about" raising the sales tax. He never did! He answered a question about why Tennessee doesn't have an income tax. Sherrill's TV ads are now quoting this "fake newspaper" as a source for this fake news. In reality, Democrat Sherrill made a commitment to raise taxes to bail out the NJEA Teacher pensions.
🏛️ Atlantic City State Takeover
Grossman criticizes Senator Vince Polistina's proposal for a 10-year extension of the state takeover of Atlantic City.
He argues the only reason Atlantic City fell into financial trouble was because of the first state takeover under Governor Chris Christie (starting in 2010).
He claims Christie, to avoid conflict with unions while planning his presidential run, allowed Atlantic City to run "illegal budgets" for six years, accumulating $400 million in debt. The purpose of the "takeover" was to keep the City from suing the State to repudiate this illegal debt created by Christie.
☀️ A "Nightmare" in Florida: A Cautionary Tax Tale
Grossman discusses a ballot question in Florida, supported by Governor Ron DeSantis, that would give the option to eliminate property taxes and fund schools and services with state taxes instead.
He calls this a "nightmare" and uses New Jersey's history as a "cautionary tale."
He argues that property taxes are the "most fair" form of taxation because everyone (i...
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We call him, the traveling man here. It's
Seth Grossman.
Always traveling, Seth, but here on the program,
welcome in Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity. Seth,
good morning.
Good morning. Thank you. Yes. I'm in Florida,
but Brian Fitzherbert is in Somers Point leading
the
Saturday morning discussion that takes place from 09:30
to 10:30
(00:21):
at Sal's coal fired pizza there in Somers
Point. And of course, there's a lot of
new stuff posted on the website, especially with
the election.
So if there's anybody that you know has
who has not made up their mind,
whether to vote for Republican,
Jack Ciattarelli or Democrat Mikey Sherrill,
just go to our website and share the
post you see there. It explains everything.
(00:44):
So,
anyway, I guess I could put your nightmare
aside.
Mamdani is not gonna run for president because
I believe he was born in Uganda.
And the constitution makes it pretty clear that
you've got to be a native born American,
citizen to run for president.
In fact, there were some doubts about Franklin
Roosevelt because even though his parents were American,
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I think he was born on their summer
vacation home in Campobello
Island in Canada.
But, there's no doubt, in my mind that
because,
Mamdani's parents were not American citizens, if he
was born in Uganda, he can't run for
president. Oh, well, that that makes me feel
better.
But there there are some very scary nightmares
(01:27):
out there that maybe I'll have time to
get to this morning.
But, since the election on Tuesday is so
important,
let me just go through, I guess, eight
points
about what you should tell your undecided
with Democrat friends about the election between Republican
Jack Ciattarelli for governor,
and Democrat Mikey Schorell.
(01:47):
First of all, there's no doubt
about it that the reason electric bills are
so high in New Jersey is that Governor
Murphy,
shut down six productive
power plants
that before Murphy did that, New Jersey produced
more than enough electricity to take care of
ourselves.
And that's why we had low affordable electric
(02:09):
rates.
When in the pursuit of so called green
energy,
Murphy shut down,
the nuclear plant in Oyster Creek,
in Lacey Township, he shut down the Beasley's
Point plant in Upper Township,
for others.
Now New Jersey has to get half of
our electricity
from Canada
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and other faraway places at a very high
price.
So for that reason alone, since Jack Ciattarelli
has promised
and knows how to keep that promise to
reopen, rebuild or replace those six power plants,
that's the only way to get affordable electric
in Atlantic City again.
And by the way, I know you get
a lot of calls about all these alternative
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ways of making electricity.
The key to electricity
is when you plug your
toaster oven into the plug,
it has to have 110
volts.
It has to have I believe it's 60
amps. It has to have the same
flow of current
all the time,
twenty four hours a day, seven days a
week.
So if the wind comes and goes and
(03:14):
clouds come and go. And I know you
had a caller last week from Ocean City.
I think you said, well, let's use
the tides. Let's use the waves of the
ocean to make power.
Well, sometimes you have calm days. What do
you do then? Yeah.
There's only one way to make reliable electricity,
and that's coal, oil, gas or nuclear.
You can't have hydroelectric
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in South Jersey because you need to have
water flow downhill.
We don't have any hills here. So I
mean, you've got to use common sense in
basically eighth grade science
to understand the problem. And, of course, Jack
Ciattarelli as an accountant
understands the problem. So that's number one. Number
two, you gotta dissect all the lies of
the Mikey Sherrill campaign.
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No. She was never a military
commander.
She was a private Benjamin. She worked for
an admiral in an office on land, not
in the ship, not in helicopter in the
Navy.
When she gets out of the Navy, she
becomes a lawyer, but she's a lawyer who
never practices law in the courtroom.
She works for the richest law firm in
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the world,
doing woke,
lawsuits,
you know, to shake down corporations to make
them do their DEI and,
in anti American stuff. And it's all documented
at our libertyandprosperity.com
website.
She was never a prosecutor.
Her job was as a counselor
to help criminals get out of prison,
(04:37):
find jobs in counseling and health care and
and, you know, and things like that.
And and and when she got out of
the prosecutor's office not being a prosecutor,
her goal was to, to pursue criminal justice
reform,
whatever the heck that means. But then somebody
gives her $3,000,000
since she runs for Congress, and now she's
(04:58):
running for governor.
So, you know, then we have to understand
that she's for open borders.
She's for sanctuary in New Jersey.
She's to make, anyone who is not black
play pay higher taxes for so called reparations
for slavery.
She co she's one of a 130
congressmen
who co sponsored the legislation
to force the federal government to have reparations.
(05:21):
The other thing we just posted
at the teachers union endorsed her. And I
don't have time to go through the whole
history,
but basically the Teachers Union pension system
was run like a Ponzi scheme for the
past thirty years.
They rigged all the salaries so that teachers
would work most of their careers
with relatively low salaries.
(05:43):
And just before they retired,
they would get, super step increases,
to boost their pensions.
And what that did, it allowed them to
get pensions
based on their last five years of high
salaries,
but they had like twenty five years of
low salaries. So they were getting pensions they
never earned. In 2014,
(06:04):
they did a study,
that showed that the New Jersey pension funds
were $50,000,000,000
in the whole.
And that's why in 2015
rather 2016,
the teachers union pressured,
the,
the state legislature to have a constitutional
amendment
to, you know, to bail out the pension
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system with a mandatory
statewide property tax on top of the county
local and school taxes we have now. Did
you know that? No. I didn't know that.
No. Well, anyway,
Steve Sweeney was the senate president at the
time,
and he refused refused to do it saying
it would bankrupt the state.
And that's when the teachers union did a
(06:47):
vendetta
against Steve Sweeney
and spent $5,000,000
to try to defeat him in 2017.
He barely got reelected.
And then in 2021,
the teachers union finished off Sweeney.
And now with Sweeny out of the way,
they are prepared
to have a governor and a legislature to
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steamroll this legislation
through to have a mandatory,
constitutional
amendment
to bail out the pension funds with a
mandatory
statewide real estate tax on top of all
the real estate taxes we have now. So
it's completely under the radar, but it's all
documented
on our libertyandprosperity.com
(07:28):
website. So I urge people to go there,
read the article and share it.
So if this thing comes to pass,
we're gonna pay an extra
property tax?
Is that what I'm hearing?
Exactly. Because you see, right now we have
the New Jersey constitution
that says that the voters or taxpayers of
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New Jersey
can't be forced to pay debts
unless you vote to approve them.
And,
you know, last about,
six years ago,
the Transportation
Trust Fund, the Highway Trust Fund was completely
insolvent,
and they were looking for a bailout.
But they couldn't they couldn't, bail out the
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the trust fund because the constitution at the
time
said that, you couldn't raise taxes to bail
out an insolvent
debt that the people never voted for. So
what they did is they did a constitutional
amendment with the gas with the Transportation Trust
Fund.
They,
fooled the voters into voting yes. They said,
oh, we're gonna have a lockbox for our
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sales for our gasoline tax.
What that they did in a fine print,
they they caused us to get automatic toll
hikes and gas tax every year not to
build roads, but to bail out that bankrupt
pension fund. So the teacher said, oh boy,
this is such a great idea,
you know, for the for the Highway Trust
Fund. We're gonna do that with the teachers
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union pension. And and, if you look at
their website, the teachers union, they said, Mikey
Sherrill is for quote secure pensions.
And that's code word for a constitutional
amendment,
which will be approved by voters that will
steamroll through and, and then have a mandatory
real estate tax with mandatory hikes every year
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to pay for it. And, so we have
that going on. And why
nobody is publicizing this is beyond me because
it's out you know, everything I've said to
you is just obvious. It's out there. It's
documented, and I hope everyone will will look
at it. Yeah. Well,
it's really important that people
talk about this, especially what you've just said.
(09:33):
I mean, that that's really that's disturbing.
And let me tell you about the lies
about,
Jack Ciattarelli. I mean, this is so insidious.
What the Democrats did,
they got this,
fake charity,
and and it's,
it's called the American
I forget. I don't I'm in Florida, so
I don't have my notes in front of
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me. But they use a fake charity to
do a fake newspaper
called the New Jersey Independent
that they mailed out to every voter for
the past four years. And it's totally, I
mean, for the past four weeks.
And they've been doing this for years and
it's funded by these billionaires. We have no
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idea who they are
because they're a charity so they're they don't
follow any of the campaign finance rules.
So now they have this newspaper come out,
every week for the past four weeks saying
one lie after another about Jack Ciattarelli,
claiming that Jack Ciattarelli is gonna raise the
sales tax when it's a total lie and
the only one who's gonna raise taxes is
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Mikey Sherrill because she made this commitment to
the to the teachers union,
but yet they they have this fake newspaper
has this these same lies week after week.
And what have we seen for the past
week?
We see Mikey Sheryl,
lying
in her TV ads
quoting
the lies that were said in the fake
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newspaper
that that they put out for the past
four weeks. I mean, it's just incredible that
they're getting away with this, and that's why
we've just got to talk to everybody we
know and tell them all that stuff. Well,
didn't they they said that the Jack Ciattarelli
is gonna raise the sales tax, but isn't
it the opposite? I mean, Mikey Sheryl probably
is gonna raise that sack tax. Probably. She
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made a commitment. The teachers union would not
be pouring all that money into her campaign
if she didn't do it,
because remember,
during the Democratic primary,
the teachers union poured $4,000,000
into pushing,
their vice president,
to getting the $400,000
a year salary,
to be their candidate for governor. And I
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he's so memorable. I don't even remember his
name anymore. Yeah. But he lost. Mikey Sheryl
won.
And I'm sure there was some conversation where
Mikey Sheryl said, okay. If if you want
a governor who's gonna push through this, this
constitutional amendment,
you give me the 4,000,000 that you gave
your other guy and I'll do the same
thing. Because there's no way the teachers union
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would give that kind of endorsement
over the specific issue of, quote,
secure pensions if that commitment was not made.
So the reality is that,
they're saying or or Mikey Sheryl's ads are
saying Jack Chedarelli is gonna raise the taxes.
But in reality,
Mikey Sherrill is gonna really raise taxes. Right?
Right. Well well, that's what they that's what
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the socialist, the communist, the leftist, whatever label
you wanna use, they always accuse their opponents
of doing what they're doing.
It's it's classic,
you know, Saul Alinsky tactics, and and we're
seeing it in real time.
Boy,
that's why we gotta get out there we
gotta get out there and to talk to
people. You're right. Yeah. You're absolutely right. And
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meanwhile, some other things just in the in
the last few minutes. If you go go
to our website,
we see that sent senator Vince Paulistina is
proposing to have a ten year extension
of the takeover of Atlantic City,
saying that after ten years, Atlantic City has
not proved it's worthy
of running itself.
And I just want to repeat what we've
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been saying and what's been posted on the
website
for years.
The only reason
that Atlantic City got in financial trouble
was because,
it had been taken over by Chris Christie.
I mean, all the bad things they say
Atlantic City government did during that financial crisis.
They forget to mention that in October
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2010,
that was when Chris Christie used his emergency
powers to take over the finances of Atlantic
City. And what Chris Christie did,
as you may recall back then it was
terrible. Atlantic City lost two thirds of its
casino business.
Real estate
in Atlantic City lost two thirds of its
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value.
They only were trying to run the whole
city with one third of the money they
had. And there was an immediate need to
cut spending.
But that would have meant laying off people,
it would have been denying salaries. And at
that time, Chris Christie, the governor of New
Jersey, his ambition was to become president.
And the key
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program
that Chris Christie was using to sell himself
at that time, his big rival was a
guy called Governor
Walker in Wisconsin,
who had a lot of problems when he
was cutting taxes
and having problems with the public employee unions.
And Chris Christie said, well, I could get
along with unions.
Steve Sweeney and the unions love me. And
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the reason he did that is he gave
all the normal rate increases. He didn't have
any layoffs in Atlantic City and how did
he do
it? By Chris Christie as governor completely disregarding
the state law that requires all cities to
have a balanced budget. So under Chris Christie
for six years, he had illegal budgets put
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the city $400,000,000
in debt. And that's the reason you had
the state takeover to pretend
it was somebody else's fault and to use,
you know, the taxpayers,
to pay off this illegal debt, which if
Atlantic City had good lawyers at the time,
they would have probably had it all knocked
out and make the Christina State pay for
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it because it was all that debt was
completely illegal. But that's all swept under the
rug.
Another another nightmare.
Alright. But and and meanwhile, here's one nightmare
that's going on right here in Florida.
And,
in Florida has an important
ballot question,
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that I just found out about.
Governor,
Ron DeSantis
thinks he's doing reform
by letting,
Florida have the option of eliminating the real
estate tax, the property tax,
and funding the schools and funding all these
other functions
with state taxes instead.
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And
I've had a lot of conversation with my
friends in Florida saying be careful what you
wish for.
Because when you think about it, New Jersey
at one time
was had the model government.
We had no sales tax, we had no
income tax, we had affordable property taxes, we
had the best schools, we had the best
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highways in the country. It was a wonderful
place people from Philadelphia and New York were
flocking to move to New Jersey.
And then what
happened? In 1966,
people in New Jersey said, you know our
property taxes, they're okay, but let's make them
lower.
Let's have a sales tax, a brand new
2% sales tax to make our property taxes
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go down. And what happened? We had a
state sales tax,
property taxes went up anyway. So then we
had a 3% sales tax and a 4%
sales tax
and it never ended. And then they said
that was enough. Let's have an income tax
in 1976.
Absolutely. Now why does that happen?
Why is it whenever you say we're going
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to make one tax go down
by raising another tax, how come it never
works?
Because the worst thing you could do, there's
one thing that's worse than corrupt politicians
in a democracy,
and that's corrupt voters.
Once you give voters the idea
that they could demand anything they want from
government,
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but they could have taxes
that will be paid by somebody else, not
them.
That's when you start to go downhill.
And in a way when you think about
it, property taxes are the most fair way
to tax people because everybody
has to live somewhere.
You know, everybody, whether you're a tenant or
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an owner, you pay taxes.
And it's good that if the government spends
money,
you the taxpayer pay for it and you
know you pay for it. And the worst
thing you could do
is to have, you know, exemption for senior
citizen, exemption for farmers, exemption for veterans.
Because one that's the unintended consequence.
Once you create voters
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who could vote for politicians to spend more
money, but you fool yourself into thinking somebody
else is going to pay for it. That's
where you have corrupt voters who are even
worse than corrupt politicians.
So that's my
conversation I've been having with a lot of
people in Florida down here. And all that
stuff, of course, is posted at libertyandprosperity.com.
We call him, the traveling man here. It's
Seth Grossman.
Always traveling, Seth, but here on the program,
welcome in Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity. Seth,
good morning.
Good morning. Thank you. Yes. I'm in Florida,
but Brian Fitzherbert is in Somers Point leading
the
Saturday morning discussion that takes place from 09:30
to 10:30
(00:21):
at Sal's coal fired pizza there in Somers
Point. And of course, there's a lot of
new stuff posted on the website, especially with
the election.
So if there's anybody that you know has
who has not made up their mind,
whether to vote for Republican,
Jack Ciattarelli or Democrat Mikey Sherrill,
just go to our website and share the
post you see there. It explains everything.
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So,
anyway, I guess I could put your nightmare
aside.
Mamdani is not gonna run for president because
I believe he was born in Uganda.
And the constitution makes it pretty clear that
you've got to be a native born American,
citizen to run for president.
In fact, there were some doubts about Franklin
Roosevelt because even though his parents were American,
(01:07):
I think he was born on their summer
vacation home in Campobello
Island in Canada.
But, there's no doubt, in my mind that
because,
Mamdani's parents were not American citizens, if he
was born in Uganda, he can't run for
president. Oh, well, that that makes me feel
better.
But there there are some very scary nightmares
(01:27):
out there that maybe I'll have time to
get to this morning.
But, since the election on Tuesday is so
important,
let me just go through, I guess, eight
points
about what you should tell your undecided
with Democrat friends about the election between Republican
Jack Ciattarelli for governor,
and Democrat Mikey Schorell.
(01:47):
First of all, there's no doubt
about it that the reason electric bills are
so high in New Jersey is that Governor
Murphy,
shut down six productive
power plants
that before Murphy did that, New Jersey produced
more than enough electricity to take care of
ourselves.
And that's why we had low affordable electric
(02:09):
rates.
When in the pursuit of so called green
energy,
Murphy shut down,
the nuclear plant in Oyster Creek,
in Lacey Township, he shut down the Beasley's
Point plant in Upper Township,
for others.
Now New Jersey has to get half of
our electricity
from Canada
(02:29):
and other faraway places at a very high
price.
So for that reason alone, since Jack Ciattarelli
has promised
and knows how to keep that promise to
reopen, rebuild or replace those six power plants,
that's the only way to get affordable electric
in Atlantic City again.
And by the way, I know you get
a lot of calls about all these alternative
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ways of making electricity.
The key to electricity
is when you plug your
toaster oven into the plug,
it has to have 110
volts.
It has to have I believe it's 60
amps. It has to have the same
flow of current
all the time,
twenty four hours a day, seven days a
week.
So if the wind comes and goes and
(03:14):
clouds come and go. And I know you
had a caller last week from Ocean City.
I think you said, well, let's use
the tides. Let's use the waves of the
ocean to make power.
Well, sometimes you have calm days. What do
you do then? Yeah.
There's only one way to make reliable electricity,
and that's coal, oil, gas or nuclear.
You can't have hydroelectric
(03:35):
in South Jersey because you need to have
water flow downhill.
We don't have any hills here. So I
mean, you've got to use common sense in
basically eighth grade science
to understand the problem. And, of course, Jack
Ciattarelli as an accountant
understands the problem. So that's number one. Number
two, you gotta dissect all the lies of
the Mikey Sherrill campaign.
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No. She was never a military
commander.
She was a private Benjamin. She worked for
an admiral in an office on land, not
in the ship, not in helicopter in the
Navy.
When she gets out of the Navy, she
becomes a lawyer, but she's a lawyer who
never practices law in the courtroom.
She works for the richest law firm in
(04:17):
the world,
doing woke,
lawsuits,
you know, to shake down corporations to make
them do their DEI and,
in anti American stuff. And it's all documented
at our libertyandprosperity.com
website.
She was never a prosecutor.
Her job was as a counselor
to help criminals get out of prison,
(04:37):
find jobs in counseling and health care and
and, you know, and things like that.
And and and when she got out of
the prosecutor's office not being a prosecutor,
her goal was to, to pursue criminal justice
reform,
whatever the heck that means. But then somebody
gives her $3,000,000
since she runs for Congress, and now she's
(04:58):
running for governor.
So, you know, then we have to understand
that she's for open borders.
She's for sanctuary in New Jersey.
She's to make, anyone who is not black
play pay higher taxes for so called reparations
for slavery.
She co she's one of a 130
congressmen
who co sponsored the legislation
to force the federal government to have reparations.
(05:21):
The other thing we just posted
at the teachers union endorsed her. And I
don't have time to go through the whole
history,
but basically the Teachers Union pension system
was run like a Ponzi scheme for the
past thirty years.
They rigged all the salaries so that teachers
would work most of their careers
with relatively low salaries.
(05:43):
And just before they retired,
they would get, super step increases,
to boost their pensions.
And what that did, it allowed them to
get pensions
based on their last five years of high
salaries,
but they had like twenty five years of
low salaries. So they were getting pensions they
never earned. In 2014,
(06:04):
they did a study,
that showed that the New Jersey pension funds
were $50,000,000,000
in the whole.
And that's why in 2015
rather 2016,
the teachers union pressured,
the,
the state legislature to have a constitutional
amendment
to, you know, to bail out the pension
(06:26):
system with a mandatory
statewide property tax on top of the county
local and school taxes we have now. Did
you know that? No. I didn't know that.
No. Well, anyway,
Steve Sweeney was the senate president at the
time,
and he refused refused to do it saying
it would bankrupt the state.
And that's when the teachers union did a
(06:47):
vendetta
against Steve Sweeney
and spent $5,000,000
to try to defeat him in 2017.
He barely got reelected.
And then in 2021,
the teachers union finished off Sweeney.
And now with Sweeny out of the way,
they are prepared
to have a governor and a legislature to
(07:07):
steamroll this legislation
through to have a mandatory,
constitutional
amendment
to bail out the pension funds with a
mandatory
statewide real estate tax on top of all
the real estate taxes we have now. So
it's completely under the radar, but it's all
documented
on our libertyandprosperity.com
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website. So I urge people to go there,
read the article and share it.
So if this thing comes to pass,
we're gonna pay an extra
property tax?
Is that what I'm hearing?
Exactly. Because you see, right now we have
the New Jersey constitution
that says that the voters or taxpayers of
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New Jersey
can't be forced to pay debts
unless you vote to approve them.
And,
you know, last about,
six years ago,
the Transportation
Trust Fund, the Highway Trust Fund was completely
insolvent,
and they were looking for a bailout.
But they couldn't they couldn't, bail out the
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the trust fund because the constitution at the
time
said that, you couldn't raise taxes to bail
out an insolvent
debt that the people never voted for. So
what they did is they did a constitutional
amendment with the gas with the Transportation Trust
Fund.
They,
fooled the voters into voting yes. They said,
oh, we're gonna have a lockbox for our
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sales for our gasoline tax.
What that they did in a fine print,
they they caused us to get automatic toll
hikes and gas tax every year not to
build roads, but to bail out that bankrupt
pension fund. So the teacher said, oh boy,
this is such a great idea,
you know, for the for the Highway Trust
Fund. We're gonna do that with the teachers
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union pension. And and, if you look at
their website, the teachers union, they said, Mikey
Sherrill is for quote secure pensions.
And that's code word for a constitutional
amendment,
which will be approved by voters that will
steamroll through and, and then have a mandatory
real estate tax with mandatory hikes every year
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to pay for it. And, so we have
that going on. And why
nobody is publicizing this is beyond me because
it's out you know, everything I've said to
you is just obvious. It's out there. It's
documented, and I hope everyone will will look
at it. Yeah. Well,
it's really important that people
talk about this, especially what you've just said.
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I mean, that that's really that's disturbing.
And let me tell you about the lies
about,
Jack Ciattarelli. I mean, this is so insidious.
What the Democrats did,
they got this,
fake charity,
and and it's,
it's called the American
I forget. I don't I'm in Florida, so
I don't have my notes in front of
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me. But they use a fake charity to
do a fake newspaper
called the New Jersey Independent
that they mailed out to every voter for
the past four years. And it's totally, I
mean, for the past four weeks.
And they've been doing this for years and
it's funded by these billionaires. We have no
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idea who they are
because they're a charity so they're they don't
follow any of the campaign finance rules.
So now they have this newspaper come out,
every week for the past four weeks saying
one lie after another about Jack Ciattarelli,
claiming that Jack Ciattarelli is gonna raise the
sales tax when it's a total lie and
the only one who's gonna raise taxes is
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Mikey Sherrill because she made this commitment to
the to the teachers union,
but yet they they have this fake newspaper
has this these same lies week after week.
And what have we seen for the past
week?
We see Mikey Sheryl,
lying
in her TV ads
quoting
the lies that were said in the fake
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newspaper
that that they put out for the past
four weeks. I mean, it's just incredible that
they're getting away with this, and that's why
we've just got to talk to everybody we
know and tell them all that stuff. Well,
didn't they they said that the Jack Ciattarelli
is gonna raise the sales tax, but isn't
it the opposite? I mean, Mikey Sheryl probably
is gonna raise that sack tax. Probably. She
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made a commitment. The teachers union would not
be pouring all that money into her campaign
if she didn't do it,
because remember,
during the Democratic primary,
the teachers union poured $4,000,000
into pushing,
their vice president,
to getting the $400,000
a year salary,
to be their candidate for governor. And I
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he's so memorable. I don't even remember his
name anymore. Yeah. But he lost. Mikey Sheryl
won.
And I'm sure there was some conversation where
Mikey Sheryl said, okay. If if you want
a governor who's gonna push through this, this
constitutional amendment,
you give me the 4,000,000 that you gave
your other guy and I'll do the same
thing. Because there's no way the teachers union
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would give that kind of endorsement
over the specific issue of, quote,
secure pensions if that commitment was not made.
So the reality is that,
they're saying or or Mikey Sheryl's ads are
saying Jack Chedarelli is gonna raise the taxes.
But in reality,
Mikey Sherrill is gonna really raise taxes. Right?
Right. Well well, that's what they that's what
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the socialist, the communist, the leftist, whatever label
you wanna use, they always accuse their opponents
of doing what they're doing.
It's it's classic,
you know, Saul Alinsky tactics, and and we're
seeing it in real time.
Boy,
that's why we gotta get out there we
gotta get out there and to talk to
people. You're right. Yeah. You're absolutely right. And
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meanwhile, some other things just in the in
the last few minutes. If you go go
to our website,
we see that sent senator Vince Paulistina is
proposing to have a ten year extension
of the takeover of Atlantic City,
saying that after ten years, Atlantic City has
not proved it's worthy
of running itself.
And I just want to repeat what we've
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been saying and what's been posted on the
website
for years.
The only reason
that Atlantic City got in financial trouble
was because,
it had been taken over by Chris Christie.
I mean, all the bad things they say
Atlantic City government did during that financial crisis.
They forget to mention that in October
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2010,
that was when Chris Christie used his emergency
powers to take over the finances of Atlantic
City. And what Chris Christie did,
as you may recall back then it was
terrible. Atlantic City lost two thirds of its
casino business.
Real estate
in Atlantic City lost two thirds of its
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value.
They only were trying to run the whole
city with one third of the money they
had. And there was an immediate need to
cut spending.
But that would have meant laying off people,
it would have been denying salaries. And at
that time, Chris Christie, the governor of New
Jersey, his ambition was to become president.
And the key
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program
that Chris Christie was using to sell himself
at that time, his big rival was a
guy called Governor
Walker in Wisconsin,
who had a lot of problems when he
was cutting taxes
and having problems with the public employee unions.
And Chris Christie said, well, I could get
along with unions.
Steve Sweeney and the unions love me. And
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the reason he did that is he gave
all the normal rate increases. He didn't have
any layoffs in Atlantic City and how did
he do
it? By Chris Christie as governor completely disregarding
the state law that requires all cities to
have a balanced budget. So under Chris Christie
for six years, he had illegal budgets put
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the city $400,000,000
in debt. And that's the reason you had
the state takeover to pretend
it was somebody else's fault and to use,
you know, the taxpayers,
to pay off this illegal debt, which if
Atlantic City had good lawyers at the time,
they would have probably had it all knocked
out and make the Christina State pay for
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it because it was all that debt was
completely illegal. But that's all swept under the
rug.
Another another nightmare.
Alright. But and and meanwhile, here's one nightmare
that's going on right here in Florida.
And,
in Florida has an important
ballot question,
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that I just found out about.
Governor,
Ron DeSantis
thinks he's doing reform
by letting,
Florida have the option of eliminating the real
estate tax, the property tax,
and funding the schools and funding all these
other functions
with state taxes instead.
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And
I've had a lot of conversation with my
friends in Florida saying be careful what you
wish for.
Because when you think about it, New Jersey
at one time
was had the model government.
We had no sales tax, we had no
income tax, we had affordable property taxes, we
had the best schools, we had the best
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highways in the country. It was a wonderful
place people from Philadelphia and New York were
flocking to move to New Jersey.
And then what
happened? In 1966,
people in New Jersey said, you know our
property taxes, they're okay, but let's make them
lower.
Let's have a sales tax, a brand new
2% sales tax to make our property taxes
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go down. And what happened? We had a
state sales tax,
property taxes went up anyway. So then we
had a 3% sales tax and a 4%
sales tax
and it never ended. And then they said
that was enough. Let's have an income tax
in 1976.
Absolutely. Now why does that happen?
Why is it whenever you say we're going
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to make one tax go down
by raising another tax, how come it never
works?
Because the worst thing you could do, there's
one thing that's worse than corrupt politicians
in a democracy,
and that's corrupt voters.
Once you give voters the idea
that they could demand anything they want from
government,
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but they could have taxes
that will be paid by somebody else, not
them.
That's when you start to go downhill.
And in a way when you think about
it, property taxes are the most fair way
to tax people because everybody
has to live somewhere.
You know, everybody, whether you're a tenant or
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an owner, you pay taxes.
And it's good that if the government spends
money,
you the taxpayer pay for it and you
know you pay for it. And the worst
thing you could do
is to have, you know, exemption for senior
citizen, exemption for farmers, exemption for veterans.
Because one that's the unintended consequence.
Once you create voters
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who could vote for politicians to spend more
money, but you fool yourself into thinking somebody
else is going to pay for it. That's
where you have corrupt voters who are even
worse than corrupt politicians.
So that's my
conversation I've been having with a lot of
people in Florida down here. And all that
stuff, of course, is posted at libertyandprosperity.com.
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