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May 31, 2011
DONNA CAMP, PLAINTIFF,v.CENTRUE BANK, DEFENDANT.
Defendant Centrue Bank ("Centrue") moves for summary judgment against Plaintiff Donna Camp ("Camp") on her third amended complaint. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is granted.
Having previously provided a lengthy description of the facts in this case, the court will only briefly summarize certain undisputed facts here. See Camp v. Centrue Fin. Corp., No. 08 C 4020, 2010 WL 1333811 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 31, 2010). At some point in 2006, Camp began working as a Mortgage Loan Originator ("MLO") for Centrue Bank at Centrue's Yorkville, Illinois branch. In that role, Camp's direct supervisor was Dan Sabol, who was himself supervised by Executive Vice President Roger Dotson. As an MLO, Camp's duties included, inter alia, obtaining business from realtors, building a customer base, and working with existing customers. MLOs do not, however, have lending authority or underwriting responsibility. Centrue employees who are permitted originate, approve, and close home equity lines of credit ("HELOCs") do so through a computerized loan scoring and lending program called Mark IV. Thus, when Camp (who previously had acted as a personal banking supervisor) became an MLO, Centrue should have eliminated Camp's access to Mark IV, but that did not happen.
However, Dotson specifically told Camp at a November 16, 2007 meeting that she was not to use Mark IV. Dotson believed that allowing MLOs to access Mark IV (which allows the same person to input, review, and close a qualified loan) created a potential security or fraud problem, and could have caused Centrue to be noncompliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. During that meeting, Camp argued with Dotson, but later apologized and confirmed that she would focus only on mortgages from that point forward.
Camp continued to use Mark IV unbeknownst to Dotson. During a February 20, 2008 review, he noticed that Camp's name was listed in a Mark IV access log; further investigation indicated that Camp had logged onto Mark IV at least ten times and that she had used other people's names to do so. Dotson decided to discharge Camp, and spoke with various Centrue executive board members, as well as with Heather Hammitt (the Director of Human Resources), regarding his decision. On February 25, 2008, Dotson advised Sabol, Camp's supervisor, that he planned to fire her. Sabol asked him to reconsider, but Dotson declined to do so. On February 26, 2008, Dotson drove to the Yorkville facility and terminated Camp's employment.
At some point during this process, Dotson personally learned that Camp had requested leave under the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") so that she could be treated for cancer. Camp had first contacted one of Centrue's benefit specialists, Donna Mussatto, regarding FMLA leave on or about February 8, 2008. Mussatto received Camp's FMLA request via email on February 25, 2008 and confirmed Camp's FMLA eligibility that same day. Camp was notified that her FMLA request had been approved the day after her employment was terminated by Dotson.
Camp filed suit in state court. The action was removed, and this court permitted Camp to amend her complaint twice. In her second amended complaint, she alleged, inter alia, wrongful termination and retaliation in violation of the FMLA.*fn1 Centrue filed a motion for summary judgment. While the briefing on the summary judgment motion was underway, Camp sought leave to amend her complaint a third time to assert an FMLA interference claim. The court granted summary judgment on the second amended complaint, but also granted Camp leave to amend. In so doing, the court warned that "it is not obvious how Camp can prevail on the merits of her interference claim given the findings in this order." Centrue has now moved for summary judgment on the third amended complaint, which the court addresses below.
A.Standard of Review
Summary judgment is warranted where "there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a).On summary judgment, all facts and any inferences to be drawn therefrom must be viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. McCann v. Iroquois Mem'l Hosp., 622 F.3d 745, 752 (7th Cir. 2010). Of course, the court is not required to make every conceivable inference in the non-movant's favor; instead, only reasonable inferences must be drawn. Smith v. Hope Sch., 560 F.3d 694, 699 (7th Cir. 2009). Further, the non-moving party cannot "merely allege the existence of a factual dispute to defeat summary judgment." McPhaul v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 226 F.3d 558, 563 (7th Cir. 2000). The non-movant must provide sufficient evidence so as to "allow a jury to render a verdict in her favor." Id. If a plaintiff fails to establish one of the elements of her case and there is no factual dispute regarding that element, then summary judgment will be entered in favor of the defendant. See Beard v. Banks, 548 U.S. 521, 529-30 (2006); Johnson v. ExxonMobil Corp., 426 F.3d 887, 892 (7th Cir. 2005).
1. Previously Admitted Facts
As a preliminary matter, Centrue urges the court to treat as admitted all of the facts the court previously deemed admitted when it granted summary judgment on Camp's second amended complaint. Certain of those facts were (and are) admitted by Camp; others the court decided to treat as admitted due to Camp's failure to comply with Local Rule 56.1(b)(3)(B) and other governing principles. See Camp, 2010 WL 1333811, at *1 n.1.*fn2 Camp, in turn, argues that justice requires the court to consider the full substance of her pleadings and urges the court not to rely on a "technicality."
Neither party cites any on-point authority in support of its position, although the court identified decisions going both ways. Compare, e.g., Real Colors, Inc. v. Patel, 39 F. Supp. 2d 978, 986 (N.D. Ill. 1999) ("Obviously, [the plaintiff], for the purposes of its earlier motion for summary judgment, failed to appreciate the importance of Local Rule compliance. Although it might have been fatal to that motion, it is not necessarily fatal for subsequent motions.") with Fisher v. Ill. Dep't of Corr., 51 F. Supp. 2d 883, 884- 85 (N.D. Ill. 1999) ("Time and again, the judges of this Court have strictly enforced our Local Rules . . . which deem admitted all of the facts set forth in the plaintiff's statement of additional facts which are not properly controverted by the other party's response. We do so again today. Not only will these facts will be deemed admitted for purposes of this motion, but they will continue to be so considered for the duration of the case, including the trial."). But the court need not decide this issue, because Camp's "new" responses do not help her in any event.
2. FMLA Interference
Under the FMLA, an eligible employee is entitled to take up to twelve weeks of leave per year due to "a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of the position of such employee." 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D). The Act forbids any employer from "interfere[ing] with, restrain[ing], or deny[ing] the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under [the Act]." Id. § 2615(a)(1).
To prevail on a claim for FMLA interference, Camp ultimately would have to establish that: (1) she was eligible for FMLA protections; (2) her employer was covered by the FMLA; (3) she was entitled to leave under the FMLA; (4) she provided sufficient notice of her intent to take FMLA leave; and (5) her employer denied her FMLA benefits to which she was entitled. See Righi v. SMC Corp., 632 F.3d 404, 408 (7th Cir. 2011).
There appears to be no argument that had Camp not been discharged, she would have been eligible for FMLA protections; that Centrue was covered by the FMLA; that Camp would otherwise have been entitled to FMLA leave; and that she provided sufficient notice of her intent to do so. Therefore, the argument revolves solely around whether Centrue denied Camp benefits to which she was entitled by discharging her.
Although the court permitted Camp to amend her complaint to allege a
new cause of action under the FMLA, Camp's responses to Centrue's
motion for summary judgment are nearly identical in substance to those
Camp filed in response to Centrue's previous motion.*fn3
Camp attempts to ward off summary judgment by asking the
court to draw two inferences in her favor: first, that Camp was not
insubordinate or that her alleged insubordination was not the reason
for her termination; and second, that Dotson knew of Camp's FMLA
request before setting out for Yorkville to terminate her on February
26, 2008. But the logical leaps that Camp asks the court to make are
not supported by the evidence; instead, as before, the only evidence
supports the opposite conclusion.
a) Insubordination
Camp argues that she was not insubordinate or that, at least, her insubordination was not the reason for her termination. In support, she points to (1) her performance reviews, which were generally good and did not contain admonishments regarding her use of Mark IV; (2) the fact that she was not issued a verbal or written warning after her November 2007 argument with Dotson; (3) the lack of written procedures or policies that were violated by Camp's Mark IV use; (4) the fact that Camp was told to "[c]ross sell HELOCs" and that Sabol had made it clear that HELOCs could only be written with Mark IV; (5) the fact that Sabol had told Camp not to be concerned about the November 2007 confrontation and made some statements regarding Camp's continued use of Mark IV; and (6) the fact that Sabol was very surprised when Camp was fired and thought her to be a valuable employee.
The court has already gone into great detail as to why these facts do not suffice to create a genuine issue for trial. See Camp, 2010 WL 1333811, at **7-10. First, Camp's general performance is not very probative. Camp knew that she was not to use Mark IV, but did so anyhow. More importantly, Dotson was the undisputed decisionmaker, and Camp cites no evidence showing that her insubordination was not viewed by Dotson as constituting good cause for her dismissal. As this court stated, "[i]t was Dotson's responsibility to locate potential problems with fraud in order to certify Centrue's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and he believed Camp's access created a problem for Centrue. Whether Dotson was ultimately correct in this assessment does not undo Camp's breach of Dotson's command, and Camp provides no basis from which the court or a reasonable jury could determine that it would. Moreover, Camp has adduced no competent evidence to show that Dotson's belief was unfounded or not sincerely held."
For the reasons previously stated in Camp, 2010 WL 1333811, at **8-9, Sabol's opinions and actions are immaterial here. Nor do Camp's actions (e.g., seeking credit for HELOCs closed in 2007) provide any support for her claims. Camp has not pointed to any facts that create a genuine dispute regarding her insubordination.
b) Knowledge of FLMA Request
Here, the relevant question is whether Dotson-the undisputed decisionmaker- learned of Camp's FMLA leave request before deciding to terminate her employment.
See Long v. Teachers' Retirement Sys., 585 F.3d 344, 351 (7th Cir. 2009) (in retaliation context, where the record showed that the supervisor did not know that the plaintiff took FMLA leave, the supervisor "could not have possibly terminated her for that reason").
The court will not belabor the point. As the court found previously, undisputed evidence establishes that Camp's termination was the final event in a decisionmaking process that Dotson put into motion as soon as he discovered, on February 20, 2008, that Camp accessed Mark IV multiple times in violation of his November 2007 order. This process included investigating Dotson's findings; discussing the issue with Sabol, Centrue President/CEO Tom Daiber, Hammitt, and the executive committee; submitting a disciplinary action form for Hammitt's review; and setting up an meeting with Camp in Yorkville.
Camp asks the court to infer that Dotson knew about her FLMA request prior to deciding to discharge her. In support, she points to the fact that: (1) Donna Mussatto and Dan Sabol knew of Camp's intent to request leave prior to Camp's submission of a formal request; (2) Mussatto told Heather Hammitt about the FMLA request at some point; (3) while nothing indicates precisely when Hammitt told Dotson about the request, Dotson and Hammitt had numerous conversations about Camp's improper Mark IV access; (4) during their February 26, 2008 conversation, Hammitt asked Dotson whether Dotson's decision to fire Camp could create any "exposure for the bank," implying knowledge of some vulnerability on Centrue's part; and (5) when Sabol mentioned to Dotson that Camp was receiving chemotherapy, Dotson responded "I don't really care," which could imply that Dotson already knew about the illness or the FMLA request.
These are the same inferences the court was asked to draw previously, and they fail for the same reasons. See Camp, 2010 WL 1333811, at **3-6. Camp claims that Hammitt's question regarding exposure "implies knowledge of facts from which 'exposure' could potentially arise." But the next few lines of Dotson's testimony continue: "then [Hammitt] told me, well . . . I [Hammitt] just found out [Camp] applied for an FMLA leave . . . would that change your mind?" Thus, while it is not clear what Hammitt meant by "exposure," Dotson's unrebutted testimony establishes that during the February 26, 2008 phone call, Hammitt told Dotson that she had just learned of Camp's FMLA request, and that Dotson did not know about Camp's request until that time. In other words, Hammitt's mention of "exposure" cannot support an inference that Dotson knew of Camp's FMLA request before Hammitt had even informed him of it. In addition, this unrebutted evidence precludes the court from drawing the inference that during prior discussions between Hammitt and Dotson regarding Camp's Mark IV violations, the FMLA request might also have been discussed.
Likewise, the notion that any supporting inference could be drawn from Dotson's "dismissive response" to Sabol's statement regarding Camp's chemotherapy appointment is untenable. Camp states that "[a]ccording to Sabol, Dotson's response was simply, 'I don't really care.'" In fact, that portion of the discussion occurred when Sabol was asking Dotson if Dotson was already on his way to meet with, and to fire, Camp. Sabol recounted that Dotson responded "I don't really care where she is at. I am going up there. She is going to be fired." As the court found previously, at best Dotson's statement reflects a fixed determination to discharge Camp; Camp points to no evidence to support a different interpretation of Dotson's words. Camp's theory as to the intent behind Dotson's remark is entirely speculative and is insufficient to satisfy her burden in opposing summary judgment in light of Dotson's unrebutted testimony to the contrary. Camp's general allegations of "suspicious timing," without more, likewise do not create a genuine issue of material fact.
Camp has not shown that there are any material facts in dispute that preclude summary judgment. For the reasons set forth above, the court grants summary judgment in favor of Centrue. The case is dismissed with prejudice.
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In another pre-dawn Twitter purge, Donald Trump said our allegedly great democracy should throw flag-burners in jail or strip them of their citizenship.
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Because liberals love flag burners. But they hate being called out for their hypocrisy. And nothing emphasizes their hypocrisy more than burning a Koran, which as we all know is a Hate Crime of epic proportions, and requires denunciation of Islamophobia as a matter of principle.
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In New York City it is illegal, punishable by massive fines, to refer to a "transgender" person by anything other than its preferred pronoun. You know, because government needs to enshrine a constitutional right to mental illness.
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More than 200,000 residents left New Jersey last year, new Census data shows.
The state lost 17,000 more people than it gained back, as residents left for other states and overseas, according to the 2015 American Community Survey. The loss could signal potential future issues with its population and economy.
New Jersey residents — 227,000 of them — abandoned the state ranked dead last in income growth last year, and with the highest property taxes.
Most of what the state gained back came from foreign immigration, which netted the state 62,000 new residents last year. Earlier data suggests that many of those immigrants come from Asia, as the region accounted for 45 percent of new foreign migrants in 2014.
Most of our refugees ended up in Pennsylvania, Florida, California, North Carolina, and Texas. Which says to me, if you're leaving NJ for Kookyfornia, well, things here must be pretty bad. Those nuts just banned plastic grocery bags, and they don't have any water. Yet almost 13,000 people thought it was a better place to live than our not so fair state.
But those other states, they have vibrant economies. Us? We've got Chris Christie back, seeing as how his audition for Donald Trump's cabinet didn't go exactly as planned. Color me underwhelmed. He doesn't want to be here, and frankly, we don't want him to be here either.
Except, the only thing worse than a Governor Chris Christie is limousine liberal Phil Murphy, or God forbid John Wisniewski. Yet they're the front-runners to succeed Governor Gas Tax, who is inexplicably doing everything he can to torpedo the candidacy of Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno.
Once upon a time our state slogan was "New Jersey and You, Perfect
Together." Now it's "Get Out While The Getting Is Good."
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Taking some time off from his rapidly diminishing role on Donald Trump's presidential transition team, NJ Governor Chris Christie returned to Trenton today to whack some common sense into our state's legislative Democrats. He vetoed a bill that would have granted unemployment insurance benefits to striking Verizon and casino workers.
Gov. Chris Christie on Monday nixed a bill that would have allowed striking workers to collect unemployment benefits.
The bill emerged during a six-week strike involving Verizon workers who walked off the job in protest of the telecommunications giant's contract demands. About 4,600 of the 40,000 East Coast employees on strike work in New Jersey. They returned to work in June.
Good. The Democrats think we're stupid and we'll gladly pay their unionista buddies to go on strike. Except that's what their precious union's strike fund is for. And in the Real World, if you can't afford to go on strike, don't go on strike.
Alas our reprieve might be short-lived. The Democrats have cleared the decks for limousine liberal Phil Murphy (aka Jon Corzine 2.0) to run for governor next year. And since the NJ GOP bench is, shall we say, weak thanks to Chris Christie's "troubles," it's likely he'll win, handing the reins of NJ government over to the Tax-And-Spend crowd.
But a lot can happen in a year. And a win's a win. So thanks governor. We're
glad you remembered where your office was. Don't be a stranger, OK?
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The White House Correspondents Association has it's collective panties in a knot because President-elect Trump doesn't consult them, ever.
"The White House Correspondents' Association is deeply concerned by President-elect Donald Trump's decision to reject the practice of traveling with a "protective pool" of reporters for his first visit to Washington since the election," White House Correspondents Association President Jeff Mason said in a statement. "In addition to breaking with decades of historical precedent and First Amendment principles, this decision could leave Americans blind about his whereabouts and well-being in the event of a national crisis. A pool of reporters is in place and ready to cover President-elect Trump. The WHCA urges President-elect Trump to allow it to do its job, including being present for motorcade movements, meetings, and other interactions. Not allowing a pool of journalists to travel with and cover the next president of the United States is unacceptable."
Listen up you sanctimonious stenographer for the DNC, President-elect Trump knows where your loyalties lie, because they most certainly do not lie with "First Amendment principles." You hacks have no principles. You exposed yourselves as whoring cheerleaders for progressive Democrats and now you demand that the object of your derision bow before your preening self-importance?
Let's get something straight sport. You need Trump. Trump doesn't need you.
There's plenty of alternative media. And a good portion of that media isn't permeated by left-wing bias. Which is how Trump became President-elect in spite of your best efforts to coronate Hillary Clinton.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said on Thursday that he would tell the Trump transition team that it has "a responsibility to communicate with the White House press corps."
Got a Constitutional citation for that "responsibility" Josh?
Didn't think so.
I have a feeling that President Trump will find a way to get his message out just fine, without filtering it through the JournoList clown show.
"Having a pool of reporters follow you around everywhere you go is inconvenient, occasionally annoying and takes a long time to get used to, but it serves an important purpose," Earnest said during the daily briefing. "And this White House has gone to great lengths to coordinate with all of you as you organize that effort and I would recommend that the incoming administration do the same."
The operative word there being "coordinate." We know all about the MSM / DNC coordination that's been going on. So tell me Mr. Journalist, will Glenn Thrush send his stories to President Trump for pre-approval? Will CNN secretly share their interview questions with him in advance? Will the LA Times bury an unflattering tape of his remarks?
I suspect not.
Because in the end your credibility is shot, beyond repair. Your elitist disdain for Trump and his voters cannot be denied. Like I said, he doesn't need you. And there really is no good reason he should even throw you a bone. I hope he banishes each and every one of you pressitutes to the wilderness where you can flounder in a pool of lost subscribers and diminishing revenue.
The MSM is dead, of a self-inflicted wound.
Good riddance.
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Yup, we stayed up until 3:30 AM to watch the victory speech. Sophie zonked out at around 1, but I woke up at 2:30 to tell her the good news.
God bless her, she made it to the school bus on time this morning!
Anyway, it's a good day to be an American. And since I'm basically running on coffee I'll just post some celebratory music to congratulate President-Elect Donald J. Trump.
We're gonna Make America Great Again!
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She's a Clinton. Her definition of ethics depends on what the meaning of "is" is. But it's refreshing to know that at least some people inside her cocoon of sycophants are willing to call out her mendacity. An internal vetting document prepared by her campaign to examine her "vulnerabilities" was released this weekend by Wikileaks.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "disregarded ethics guidelines" to raise more than $72 million for the U.S. Pavilion at the World's Fair in Shanghai in 2010, taking money from big-name contributors who later "received favorable treatment" from her State Department and also contributed to her namesake foundation, according to a 2015 internal Clinton research document revealed Sunday by WikiLeaks.
"When soliciting contributions, Clinton had little consideration for ethics, as the corporations who were featured in Shanghai also contributed to her foundation and received accolades from the State Department," the document stated.
Campaign chairman Robby Mook emailed John Podesta to say she turned the U.S. Pavilion into the Hillary Clinton Hall Of Fame.
The corporate contributions were a boon for Clinton, giving her a public relations win as she helped save the privately-funded U.S. pavilion. But in doing so, Clinton allowed the corporations to become the centerpiece of an exhibit that is supposed to emphasize American values. As the Washington Post noted, the American pavilion was "larded with corporate advertising" but contained "no messages about democracy or freedom of expression or religious beliefs." In her haste to help herself and her corporate allies, Clinton forgot the purpose of American participation in events like the expo.
Oh she didn't "forget" the purpose of the expo. She used it to further her own interests, which is the only purpose she cares about. $72 million dollars buys a lot of influence, and she took good care of her corporate benefactors.
"Boeing contributed $2.25 million to the Shanghai Expo, while Clinton helped the company land a multi-billion [dollar] Russian deal."
"Procter & Gamble gave $3 million to the Shanghai & Expo [sic] & Millions to The Clinton Foundation; Was repaid with Corporate Excellence Award."
"Clinton solicited PepsiCo as one of the largest Shanghai Expo sponsors; PepsiCo committed same amount to Clinton Foundation projects."
"Alcoa, a Shanghai Expo contributor, pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges facilitated by a major Clinton Foundation donor."
"Secretary Clinton was 'Advocate-In-Chief' for General Electric, which was one of the largest donors to the Shanghai Expo."
Here I'll bet you thought she'd be "Advocate-In-Chief" for you, right?
She's a lying sack of shit, and everybody knows it. If you don't pay, you can't play, and she won't even give you the time of day.
In a freshly Wikileaked exchange, Hillary Clinton's communications director Jennifer Palmieri admits that some Clinton Foundation donors probably did expect some favors for their money.
Writing to aides, including John Podesta, whose emails were hacked, Palmieri discourages having Clinton answer too many questions about foundation donations because '[t]here aren't great answers and in many cases not her place to answer them.'
Don't hold your breath waiting for her Palace Guard Media to ask too many questions though. They're not interested in her answers, especially the ones that "aren't great."
So tell me again why she should be promoted to the White House? Because she'll
use that position in the same way, to enrich herself and her cronies. As for
the American people, well, we're just in her way, and she won't hesitate to
squash us like the bugs she believes we are.
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Well, now we know why Hillary had to delete those emails about Chelsea's wedding. Because the wedding was paid for by the Clinton Foundation, aka the family slush fund masquerading as a "charity."
As with many of the Doug Band email chains, the rabbit hole just got a little deeper today with Band accusing of Chelsea of "using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade" among other accusations. He also concludes with another veiled threat on the consequences "once we go down this road...."
But what else could we expect when their own lawyers warned that the Clinton Foundation was "more political operation than charity."
A third-party review of the Clinton Foundation found the charity operated "more like a political operation" than a philanthropy in Nov. 2011 — just a few months before the end of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The revelation was included in a "confidential" memo prepared by Kumiki Gibson, then a lawyer at Williams & Connolly, the firm that has represented Clinton throughout her email controversy. That memo was published Saturday by WikiLeaks, along with hundreds of other emails taken from the inbox of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
"The Foundation (as opposed to its initiatives, which I have not reviewed) operates more like a political operation focused on immediate situations, tasks, and events, as opposed to a professional, strategic, and sustainable corporation committed to advancing its overall mission," the review stated.
Except, considering that the Clinton Foundation's "overall mission" is to advance the political career of Hillary Clinton, I'd say Mr. Gibson was being disingenuous.
In another revelation from yesterday's email dump we learn that back in 2011 the government of Qatar wanted to wish Bill Clinton a happy 65th birthday by presenting his foundation with a check for one million dollars. No strings. Just well wishes. Or so he and Hillary would have us believe. Because everyone whose wife isn't running for president gets million dollar checks from rich Arabs, right?
Mine must have gotten lost in the mail.
I know that nothing I say here will convince die-hard Clintonistas she's really corrupt to the core. So take it from one of her own friends. Brent Budowsky was a legislative assistant to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentson and is an "advocacy journalist" with LA Progressive who claims he is Hillary's "friend."
Budowsky told Podesta how discouraged he was to learn "that problems with foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation continue, Hillary Clinton was still making paid speeches for hire this week, and Tony Rodham is hustling gold mining deals in Haiti." Tony Rodham is Hillary Clinton's brother.
"If there is one thing that could well bring down a Hillary Clinton candidacy, it is this cycle of money issues about which I am now feeling red alerts, loud bells, warning signals, and red flags," Budowsky wrote in a March 21, 2015, email to John Podesta. Wikileaks made the email public Saturday.
It remains to be seen whether or not Clinton Foundation corruption does indeed
"bring down" Hillary's candidacy. I sure hope it does, because the stench of
a Hillary Clinton presidency would forever taint our republic.
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Councilmen Tom O'Donnell and Pat Capozzoli are the very models of fiscal restraint. Since joining the Caldwell Council they have worked tirelessly to hold the line on municipal spending, and twice they were responsible for zero-tax-increase budgets. In other years, the municipal portion of the tax levy's slight increases never came close to the state's permissable two percent cap.
So imagine my surprise when a mailer from Democrat challengers Steve Flack and Henderson Cole arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
What have we here?
Tom and Pat want to raise taxes?
News to me!
And probably news to them too.
Because it's an absolute falsehood.
Oh, and memo to you two supposed "businessmen" running as Democrats. The town council doesn't set rents. Not downtown, not anywhere. Landlords do that. So if you have a beef, take it up with the guys who own the properties. I understand quite a few of them are your fellow democrats.
But wait, there's more tomfoolery! The other side of their mailer lists five supposed goals of their candidacy. Number 3 rings a bell:
Uh oh. They're harping on the Community Center again. We know what that means. Fire Gordon Lawshe!
The Democrats finally figured out that coming right out and saying they want to fire Gordon isn't a winning strategy. So this time they're couching it in a nebulous paean to fiscal responsibility.
Don't be fooled. They've been looking for his head on a platter ever since he spearheaded the takedown of their party's council majority.
You remember when the Deocrats ran Caldwell, right? They ran it into the ground with shoddy record keeping, sloppy bill paying practices, whopping tax increases, and enough cronyism to make Hillary Clinton blush. We don't need to experience that again. Ever.
Re-elect Tom O'Donnell and Pat Capozzoli. Keep Caldwell moving in the right direction. You'll be glad you did.
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As you head to the polls on November 8th bring along your health insurance bill as a reminder of what's at stake. Can you afford 4 more years of double digit premium increases?
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday.
Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.
Moreover, about 1 in 5 consumers will have plans only from a single insurer to pick from, after major national carriers such as UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Aetna scaled back their roles.
"Consumers will be faced this year with not only big premium increases but also with a declining number of insurers participating, and that will lead to a tumultuous open enrollment period," said Larry Levitt, who tracks the health care law for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
Liberal apologists are quick to blame "greedy insurance companies."
Except it's not "greedy insurance companies" who mandated expensive comprehensive health insurance plans covering all manner of "free" services.
And it's not "greedy insurance companies" who required the plans to take on all comers and charge them the same price regardless of risk of illness or pre-existing conditions.
Nope, that was President Barack The Magnificent, who's a firm believer in the Government Knows Best school of human interaction. According to him, the only choices we're allowed to make are choices he's pre-selected for us.
To which the "greedy insurance companies" responded, "No thanks."
Dwindling choice is another issue.
The total number of HealthCare.gov insurers will drop from 232 this year to 167 in 2017, a loss of 28 percent. (Insurers are counted multiple times if they offer coverage in more than one state. So Aetna, for example, would count once in each state that it participated in.)
Switching insurers may not be simple for patients with chronic conditions.
While many carriers are offering a choice of plan designs, most use a single prescription formulary and physician network across all their products, explained Pearson. "So, enrollees may need to change doctors or drugs when they switch insurers," she said.
If you like your doctor you can't keep your doctor.
If you like your life-saving medication you probably can't keep them either.
Adding to the pain, employer-sponsored plans will likely see very similar premium increases and reductions in choices because they're required to offer the same comprehensive coverages as the marketplace plans.
There really isn't anything surprising, though, about Obamacare's latest woes. They were widely predicted. Obamacare was ill-conceived — so ill-conceived that some suggest it was designed to fail and be replaced with a single-payer style system.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until Hillary makes it "free."
Obamacare's passage is an object lesson in what happens when Democrats control the White House and the Congress. The latest news should help drive that lesson home just in time for the election.
Yup. Just say "No" to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Vote Donald Trump for
President! Because he'll repeal Obamacare on day one, and save us money.
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Corrupt weasels to the core. The FBI Deputy Director in charge of "investigating" Hillary's homebrew email server just happened to have a wife running for state senator in Virginia. And purely by coincidence Clinton pal Terry McAuliffe decided to donate almost $500,000 to her campaign.
A top Clinton ally's political organization reportedly gave nearly a half-million dollars to the campaign of the wife of an FBI official who would go on to help oversee the probe into Hillary Clinton's email practices — a tangled web likely to fuel Republican complaints about the investigation.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night on the connection. According to the Journal, finance records show Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's PAC gave $467,500 to Dr. Jill McCabe's 2015 state Senate campaign. The Virginia Democratic Party spent an additional $207,788 on the campaign, the Journal reported.
McCabe, who ended up losing to Republican incumbent Dick Black, is married to Andrew McCabe — the FBI's deputy director.
Oh, but there's nothing to see here, because Mr. McCabe asked for ethics advice from his FBI buddies, who of course said it was OK, and besides, he swears he paid no attention to his wife's campaign whatsoever.
Yeah, right.
He didn't have to be "involved" in his wife's campaign to know who was buttering her bread. And he'd have to be a fool to ignore such a large donation from someone so obviously connected to the subject of his investigation. He got the message, the same way his boss's boss Loretta Lynch got a message from Bill Clinton. Hillary has friends, and her friends are your friends. Don't screw that up.
And so like the good little weasel he is, Andrew McCabe fell in line.
McCabe continues to be involved in the email investigation aftermath. He was called last week to brief House oversight committee members on allegations — contained in newly released FBI files — that a State Department official offered a "quid pro quo" with the bureau in a bid to un-classify a particular server email.
The culture of corruption surrounding Hillary Clinton reeks. Pay to play, quid pro quo, back scratching, whatever you want to call it, it's dirty. Patrick Kennedy essentially offered the FBI a bribe to take some heat off Hillary. He won't be investigated, let alone prosecuted. If she's elected he'll be rewarded for his loyalty. That's how the Clintons roll.
Hillary herself hit up the King of Morocco for $12 million dollars while she was Secretary of State. Just because they're friends dontcha know. Not for political favors, that would be illegal! And besides, Russians!
Listen, this Morocco thing is so bad even her toadies at the Puffington Host had to take notice. She sold her office for personal gain and no amount of stonewalling can obviate that fact.
Are we really going to let her sell the presidency too?
Oh, right, Donald Trump said "pussy." Nevermind.
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We know Hillary Clinton's plan for America. More government. Higher taxes. More regulations. Less freedom.
But until yesterday we hadn't really heard the specifics of Donald Trump's vision.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Trump's Gettysburg address may not be as lofty as Abraham Lincoln's. But that's OK. Because Donald Trump is a different kind of man. A man who's time has come.
We are not engaged in a great civl war. But yet it must be questioned, can our nation so conceived, endure? Can it survive the progressive onslaught? Or will we devolve into liberal tyranny?
Donald Trump stands athwart history yelling "stop."
As in, Stop Hillary Clinton. Stop the social justice warriors. Stop the regulatory state. Stop the erosion of our freedom. Stop crony capitalism. Stop blaming America. Stop Islamic terrorism. Stop illegal immigration.
While I don't agree with everything Mr. Trump posits, overall I can say his plan is more than a step in the right direction.
Step One: Drain the swamp!
FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);
THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;
FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
Aside from term limits, which have the unfortunate side affect of further empowering the unelected permanent bureaucracy, there's nothing in there that won't make America better. The revolving door between the DNC, the White House, the media, and K street must be slammed closed, forever.
Through her family foundation Hillary Clinton epitomizes foreigners and the well-connected purchasing influence over American politics. This must stop. She is beholden to her donors; no president or legislator should be so compromised.
Step Two: Trump's signature issue is trade, and he's laying out a bold platform of reform.
FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator
FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
Solid proposals all. The Obama - Clinton energy provisos ensure higher prices for dwindling supply. Donald Trump understands that America needs to be a world leader in energy production, and that the chimera of "green energy" cannot ever be counted on. Hillary Clinton has bragged about putting coal miners out of work. Barack Obama laughs while saying electricity prices must "necessarily" skyrocket. Their contempt for average Americans is palpable, and they cannot be allowed to ruin millions of lives in pursuit of maybe preventing a dubious and unproven future calamity. People are hurting now. Worrying about what might, or more likely might not happen 100 years from now doesn't put food on their tables.
Step Three: Respect the Constitution.
FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama
SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities
FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back
FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.
What's not to like about any of that?
Barack Obama has ruled by executive fiat. His pen and phone can be undone, and Donald Trump's pen and phone are mightier than Obama's.
Justice Scalia was a giant among men. His replacement must be a constitutional scholar steeped in respect for tradition and the rule of law. You all heard Hillary Clinton at the last debate, espousing a judiciary which issues decrees based on emotion and liberal demagoguery. That's a recipe for totalitarian disaster. The constitution limits government power; Hillary Clinton wants a Supreme Court which espouses unlimited government power.
As for illegal immigration, the power of the purse is the ultimate federal cattle prod. Sanctuary cities flout the rule of law, so they don't deserve to share in our tax dollars. Remember when Frank Lautenberg withheld federal dollars from states which didn't implement a 55 mph speed limit? Or when he forced us all to increase the drinking age to 21? Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. No federal dollars for sanctuary cities!
And I really like his stab at nations which refuse to take back their criminal citizens. No visas for you! No students. No diplomats. No guest workers. No one from your pissant little shithole gets in until you take responsibility for your own riff raff. America First baby, because you need us way more than we need you.
Ditto for the Mohammedan hordes. Send your refugees to live with their Arab brothers. They've got lots of money and plenty of room. Plus they'll be closer to home making it easier for them to go back when President Trump crushes ISIS.
Step Four: A bold legislative agenda.
I won't quote the whole ten point plan, because this post is long enough already. But please do go and read it; there's a boatload of good stuff in there. Repeal Obamacare and replace it with free market reforms. Middle class tax relief. School choice, and a return of local schools to local control. Build the wall. Rebuild our military. Strengthen our police and dismantle criminal gangs.
It's a lot to do. It's a bold plan. If he accomplishes half of it he'll be well on his way to making America great again.
Donald Trump for president! Spread the word, because Hillary's media
cheerleaders sure won't.
Make the election about Trump's policies and he'll win in a landslide.
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Behind the scenes, Democrats don't believe their own bullshit. And DNC Chair Donna Brazile got caught telling the truth.
In an email to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta from February 2016, released Friday by WikiLeaks, now-acting chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile gave a frank and honest assessment of the Obama economy — it wasn't good.
"I think people are more in despair about how things are … yes new jobs but they are low wage jobs," she admits. "HOUSING is a huge issue. Most people pay half of what they make to rent," she continued.
Guess who's not getting invited to the coronation?
Nevermind that guys like me have been saying the same thing for 8 years now.
But then, if Hillary is elected, we'll likely look back on this time as The Good Old Days. Because if anything her policies will be even more distrastrous.
She'll tax us into "prosperity."
She'll put 12 million illegal aliens on the dole and push millions more Americans into poverty.
She'll pass out "free" college degrees like candy. (Repeat after me slackers, "Do you want fries with that?" It'll come in handy when your free degree turns out to be worthless.)
Speaking of "free," she'll, uh, fix Obamacare by replacing it with Single Payer Hillarycare. And if you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's "free."
She'll finish Obama's war on cheap energy, so I hope you'll enjoy paying $8 a gallon for gas. And deciding whether to feed your kids or heat your house, there's a fun choice we'll all look forward to making, right?
Oh, and don't forget how Obama quietly and without fanfare just made air conditioning illegal. Not that you'll be able to afford it, but still, don't expect Hillary to feel sorry for you.
Because face it, if you don't come bearing a 6-figure check made out to her family foundation she won't give you the time of day. Heck, the King of Morocco dropped $12 million into her lap and all he got was a visit from Chelsea. Oh, wait, if you believe that's all he got, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn you can have, cheap.
Hillary Clinton has made a career out of influence peddling. She grabs the "quid" from quid pro quo, if you get my drift. She'll turn the White House into a money laudering operation that'll make Columbian drug lords blush.
I guess that's her idea of "economic stimulus." Stimulate Hillary's economy! But without the trickle-down part of course.
The fact that so many people are willing to let her get away with it just blows my mind.
Oh, right,
Donald Trump said "pussy." What's a little corruption compared to that?
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In a recently released email exchange two of Hillary Clinton's top aides openly mocked Catholics.
A top spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign mocked Catholics and evangelical Christians in a 2011 email exchange exposed by WikiLeaks this week.
In the exchange reported Tuesday night on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File", Jennifer Palmieri, now the Clinton campaign's director of communications, says that politically conservative Catholics "think [Roman Catholicism] is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals."
That snide remark was in response to a message from John Halpin, of the uber-liberal Center for American Progress. He was deriding Rupert Murdock's decision to raise his children in the Catholic faith.
"Ken Auletta's latest piece on Murdoch in the New Yorker starts off with the aside that both Murdoch and Robert Thompson, managing editor of the [Wall Street Journal], are raising their kids Catholic," Halpin wrote. "Friggin' Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus."
"It's an amazing bastardization of the faith," Halpin added. "They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy."
Wow. Don't hold back guys, tell us how you really feel.
Wait. It gets worse. Much worse.
John Podesta, Hillary's national campaign chairman, called for an end to the Catholic Church's "middle ages dictatorship" by fomenting an uprising of astroturf groups bankrolled by the DNC.
This is mind-boggling stuff folks. It means Hillary's disdain for the Catholic faith permeates her inner circle. And don't forget, she's already on record demanding that Holy Mother Church reverse its stance against abortion on demand.
Hillary Clinton essentially [said] that Christians must be forced to change their religious views to accommodate abortions.
"Far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth. All the laws we've passed don't count for much if they're not enforced," Clinton said, using the euphemism for abortion.
"Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper," Clinton argued. "Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed."
Got that? A President Hillary will demand that Catholics embrace abortion, just like President Obama tried to do with The Little Sisters Of The Poor. The Sisters won that round. But if we allow Hillary to pack the Supreme Court with radical pro-abortion leftists, it's game over for the Catholic Church.
I'll say it again. A President Hillary Clinton could easily make adherence to the Catholic faith an illegal act. She'll force us to accommodate same-sex "marriages." She'll force us to recognize 57 different genders and open our bathrooms and locker rooms to every new flavor of the month. She'll demand we finance abortion, contraception, sterilization, and embryonic stem cell research. All at the point of a gun. All with no recourse except prison.
That is not the America our Founders envisioned.
That cannot be the America we pass on to our children.
Hillary Clinton will put the government above our religious faith. She's Henry VIII in a pantsuit, commanding the Pope and the faithful to submit to her will. Her disdain for our First Amendment rights must be stopped, no matter the cost. She hates us, and we cannot afford to turn the other cheek.Wolverines!
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A short note to all my liberal friends:
Your condemnations of Donald Trump's vile comments seem sincere. So, welcome to Sexual Morality Club. Come on in, we don't bite!
First off, I'm glad you're finally seeing the light. For far too long our society has tolerated all manner of perversity, and your pre-Trump actions led me to believe you were all OK with that. From Hollywood to rap music to advertising to our public schools, sex and sexual innuendo is everywhere, and that's not how we roll here.
And so, I eagerly await your equally vociferous condemnations of pre-marital sex, cohabitation, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, abortion, extra-marital affairs, pornography, and homosexuality. Sins of the flesh aren't tolerated in Sexual Morality Club, and I'm told that the newest converts often become the most zealous enforcers. I sure hope so! We can use all the help we can get.
I also expect you'll be canceling your subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and most network television, because their depictions of sexual deviancy are legion. You won't be buying People Magazine, or watching the Oscars, Emmys, or Tony Awards either. By and large the participants in our entertainment industry lead lives of sexual depravity and I can't imagine you'll want to endorse that, right?
In the political arena, I'm sure you'll agree that politicians who aren't with us are against us. So Trump's out. And so's Hillary, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. We're gonna need to draft a suitable candidate, and quickly too. I nominate Rick Santorum. He practically founded Sexual Morality Club, and he's currently a senior member in good standing. He'll get America back onto the straight and narrow in no time!
Because my friends, if we're going to force Donald Trump into upholding the Choir Boy Standard, then everyone, including you!, should uphold it too. Saul Alinsky said so.
Signed, with kind regards, Chris.
ps — Go To Confession!
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Sigh. Eleven years ago Donald Trump made some really crude comments about women, and apparently that's the worst thing to have ever happened in the history of the universe.
Or so the liberal media would have us believe.
These are, of course, the same guys who cheer for all manner of sin — fornication, homosexuality, cohabitation, divorce, abortion, drug use. They're the same media which pooh-poohed Bill Clinton's many transgressions, gave awards to Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and Lena Dunham, snickered over the antics of one Carlos Danger, and conveniently forgot that Ted Kennedy left a woman to die.
But now they're arbiters of morality?
Gimme a break.
Donald Trump is not perfect.
Neither am I. Neither are you.
Should he have said those vile things? No. But he has unequivocally disavowed them, apologized for making them, and owned up to his struggle to be a better man.
I believe him when he says he's a changed man.
It's time to put this behind us and move on.
Because, on the flip side, here's what the media isn't telling you.
Hillary Clinton's Goldman Sachs speech transcripts are finally seeing the light of day. And they are, as the saying goes, Real News.
Discussing middle class economic anxieties, Clinton told a crowd at a Goldman Sachs-sponsored speech that she is now "kind of far removed because the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy."
At the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Summit, Clinton responded to a question from chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, who quipped that you go to Washington" to "make a small fortune." Clinton agreed with the comment and complained about ethics rules that require officials to divest from certain assets before entering government. "There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives," Clinton said.
Gee, I thought people went to Washington to serve their country and their fellow Americans. Nope. Hillary's going there, again, to get rich. At our expense, of course, since she's "kind of far removed" from folks like us.
Then, in another speech, she really ramped up the hypocrisy:
"You just have to sort of figure out how to … balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."
Got that? Hillary needs to keep her machinations secret. But not Trump's! Hillary needs both a "public" and a "private" position, so she can fool the rubes while assuaging her corporate benefactors. But not Trump! He's gotta be pure as the driven snow while she can be as dirty as sin so long as she ends up where she needs to be.
There's the Democrats' double standard — the ends justify the means.
Look, I get it. Politics ain't beanbag. But good grief, surely you can see that there is one media standard for Democrats and a totally different, and vastly more stringent standard being applied to Republicans.
So let's focus on the issues. And on the issues, Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton like a rented mule.
Donald Trump will respect our Second Amendment rights. Hillary Clinton has pledged to stack the Supreme Court with rabid gun-grabbers.
Donald Trump will protect the unborn by re-authorizing the Hyde Amendment and working to overturn Roe v. Wade. Hillary Clinton praises Margaret Sanger while vowing to lavish federal funds on the charnal houses of Planned Parenthood.
Donald Trump will repeal Obamacare. Hillary Clinton helped craft Obamacare, insists it's "working" (nonwithstanding that her husband says otherwise), and would love to expand the government takeover of healthcare into a Single Payer system of socialized medicine.
Donald Trump will reaffirm America's place as the leader of the Free World and strengthen our military. Hillary Clinton is the architect of Obama's failed foreign policy. She presided over the disastrous dissolution of Libya, the debacle in Syria, the disengagement and surrender of Iraq to ISIS, and of course the farcical Iran nuclear deal, which virtually guarantees the mad mullahs will get The Bomb.
Donald Trump knows how to create jobs and get Americans working again. He'll renegotiate bad trade deals, cut onerous regulations, and grow our economy. Hillary Clinton plans to stay the course with Obama's ineffective economic policies of anemic growth and stifling government regulation wrapped up in bureaucratic central planning.
Donald Trump has pledged to cut taxes to put more money into our pockets. Hillary Clinton wants to raise taxes by trillions of dollars and continue to inflate the deficit to finance an unprecedented expansion of the cradle to grave nanny state. Donald Trumps wants Americans to be self-sufficient; Hillary Clinton wants Americans to be dependent on government largess.
I could go on. On issue after issue, from energy policy to education to religious liberty to free speech to border security Donald Trump and the Republican Party are on the side of freedom and liberty while Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are determined to undermine the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and American sovereignty.
Donald Trump will make America great again. Hillary Clinton will continue Barack Obama's legacy of failure. The choice is clear. Donald Trump must become the next president of the United States.
UPDATE 08 Oct 2016 14:12:
Peter Ingemi voices similar thoughts.
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The Clintons don't do anything by accident. So when everyone started hyperventilating because Bill Clinton was trashing Obamacare, I knew I needed to sit back and wait for the other shoe to drop.
I didn't have to wait long.
Right on cue, uber-liberal NJ Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) introduced the "New Jersey Public Option Health Care Act."
And Bill himself "pitched a new system that would allow people to buy into Medicare or Medicaid," while calling for "a government-run 'public option,' describing it as 'the change we need' to help working class people who aren't covered."
Because what's better than a botched government takeover of health insurance companies?
A government takeover of all health care!
Doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmacies, drug companies — they'll all fall under the umbrella of the omnipotent State. And promptly become as screwed up as the health insurance marketplaces are now. But that's not important.
What's important (h/t Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll on Facebook) is getting 51% of the people to vote for Hillary Clinton by promising that the other 49% will pay for their every whim.
And face it, universal Single Payer health care is the liberal holy grail.
With it they can enslave the population until the end of time.
Nevermind that truly successful government programs are few and far between.
Nevermind that of the three current government health care systems, the VA is an unmitigated disaster, Medicaid is rampant with fraud, and Medicare is woefully underfunded.
Hillarycare will be the bees knees. Honest!
Don't be fooled. Government health care will promote neither health nor care. It will provide lifetime sinecures for bureaucrats, and offer up unprecedented opportunities for graft, but as for helping the average American, well, that's gonna have to wait for the next Five Year Plan. Or maybe the one after that.
There's a reason no one from the U.S. travels to Canada (or Cuba or England or Sweden) for health care. Socialized medicine sucks. The lines are long. The care is subpar. The horror stories are legion. Venezuela is the model.
The only truly meaningful reform will come about via the free market. Remove the government from the equation entirely. Eliminate costly mandates, and let people buy the coverage they alone decide that they need. Institute pricing transparency, so that doctors and hospitals post their rates for all to see, and consumers can comparison shop. Free insurance companies from the artificial boundaries of state lines and allow us to purchase health care coverage from anyone willing to sell it to us. Expand the role of Health Savings Accounts to enable more of us to prepare for unexpected expenses.
Then watch prices drop as care improves.
That's how to reform Obamacare, no matter what Bill and Hillary might want
you to believe.
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One-time Caldwell council candidate and current West Caldwell resident E. William Edge wrote a letter to our local paper last week taunting Donald Trump for saying this upcoming election might be "rigged."
Mounting his high horse, Mr. Edge proceeded to explain how his extensive experience as a voter guarantees that vote fraud could not possibly occur here in Essex County.
And he's got the straw man, complete with multiple mismatched raincoats, to "prove" it.
Now I happen to know Bill Edge from my Verona days. So I can call him out.
You've got a small problem there Bill.
Er, make that three not so small problems.
Problem #1: Carmine Casciano, a fellow Democrat, and former Superintendent of Elections in Essex County. He was in charge of voter registration, absentee ballots, and ensuring the smooth operation of the electoral process.
Mr. Casciano is a smooth operator alright. He's charged with second-degree official misconduct for giving unauthorized paid days off to the employees of his office so they could work on political campaigns and then telling them to destroy or alter their time logs so nobody would find out.
Penny ante stuff really. He forged time records so some folks could get extra paid days off. And for that he faces up to 10 years in state prison and a six figure fine.
But here's a deeper question. Why are employees of the office which is tasked with ensuring a smooth electoral process allowed to volunteer for political campaigns? Isn't that an enormous conflict of interest? They can hardly be even-handed in their official duties if they are actively working on behalf of a particular candidate or political party!
The guys in charge of running a "fair" election were working for the Democrats on the taxpayers' dime. But there's nothing to see here, right Bill?
Except he pleaded guilty. And a fish rots from it's head, as Gianine Narvaez, a suspended data processor in Casciano's office, also pleaded guilty to submitting phony absentee ballots while working for the 2007 campaign of State Senator Teresa Ruiz.
Leading us to Problem #2: Samuel Gonzalez. AKA State Senator Ruiz's husband. And vote fraudster extraordinaire. Can you guess that he's another well-connected Essex County Democrat? Gee Bill, I wonder why you two have never met? Anyway, Sam was quite skillful at the fraudulent absentee ballot game. His buddy John Fernandez helped rat him out. But he managed to avoid jail time because his wife is a hot shot protected by Essex County Executive For Life Joe DiVincenzo. Yeah Bill, it's good to have friends!
But the people around Teresa Ruiz keep getting caught. Enter Problem #3: Angel Colon, a Newark "campaign worker" who also managed to beat your supposedly impenetrable fraud detection system.
Wanna play the Bonus Round Bill?
Meet Rocio Rivera! She pleaded guilty to vote fraud too. And she fraudulently kept her Essex County job after entering her guilty plea. She landed a job with your fellow Democrat and Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura even though she's got a felony conviction on her record.
It's almost like there's a conspiracy afoot, or something.
I won't hold my breath waiting for Sheriff Fontoura to uncover it though. He's too busy double-dipping at the taxpayer's trough to concern himself with such trifles.
But as for your protestations Bill?
Yeah, they're bullshit.
And you know it.
Vote fraud is rampant in Essex County.
And it's a nationwide problem.
Because if Democrats don't cheat, they can't win.
And you know that too.
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Show of hands. Who thinks gas prices are too low?
OK, I see Chris Christie. Anyone else?
Didn't think so.
So bend over New Jersey, because he just raised the price of gasoline by 23 cents a gallon, ostensibly to fund "road improvements." Which, of course, is politician-speak for more light rail boondoggles and useless bike lanes.
And there I was blissfully unaware while rocking out at the LBI Chowderfest all weekend. (It was a blast, thanks for asking!) But I probably won't be able to afford to attend next year because all the extra money I don't actually have will be siphoned off for gas taxes.
Thanks Chris. Thanks a lot.
Oh but golly gee, he's countering with a 1/8 percent cut in the sales tax! And a bigger pension income exclusion for the geezer set.
My cup runneth over... Not.
Then, because he hadn't given enough of the store away yet, he tacked on a big bump in the Earned Income Tax Credit, which as we all know is a "refund" on taxes that weren't actually paid. But as a wise man once said, if you rob Peter to pay Paul, Steve Sweeney can always count on Paul's vote.
There's something to look forward to. Governor Steve Sweeney, the mastermind
behind Christie's capitulation. Say goodbye to the rest of your money New
Jersey. This is only his first salvo, and he's got a lot of people counting
on him to fill their pockets. None of those people are taxpayers. But that's
OK. The takers outnumber us now and they can smell the Benjamins.
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Well whaddaya know, suspected terrorist Ahmad Khan Rahami has greivances. People were mean to his family. And their lawsuit against the city of Elizabeth, NJ isn't getting any traction.
So, bombs away!
The family of Ahmad Khan Rahami, arrested in connection with weekend bombings in Seaside Park and New York City, sued the city of Elizabeth in 2011, alleging a pattern of harassment and religious discrimination by city officials.
According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, the Rahami family said Elizabeth police officers repeatedly forced the closure of their family restaurant, First American Fried Chicken, telling family members "Muslims don't belong here" and "Muslims are trouble."
Court papers show several members of Rahami's family were arrested during a multi-year dispute with city officials stemming from noise complaints at First American Fried Chicken. Ahmad Rahami is not named in the lawsuit, but his most recent listed address is that of the family restaurant.
Way to embrace that American dream there guys. You've got the victimology angle down pat. Let me guess, you're Ready For Hillary?
The suit is still active, but on hold. Their attorney recused herself after at least one Rahami family member pleaded guilty to interfering with a law enforcement officer back in 2015.
And not for nothing, but noise complaints at a fried chicken restaurant? Were they screaming "Death To America!" at all hours of the day and night?
Color me skeptical too on the "Islamophobia" complaints. Today's politically correct police departments wouldn't dare go on record saying those kind of things, not when every Ahmad, Omar, and Mohammed is carrying a cell phone camera. All it takes is one YouTube video of a cop saying "Muslim go home" and it'd be front page news for the better part of a year.
But that won't stop the Social Justice Warriors from launching into their "we need to learn from this" apologistic drivel. And right on cue there are commenters at NJ.com saying precisely that.
[M]aybe Mr. Rahami believed that he and his family could not get redress from the courts... disenfranchisement was cited as a motivating factor in the ISIS attacks in France...
Somebody called BS, and was promptly whacked with the Moral Equivalence Card.
Remember that guy in Texas who crashed his Cesna into the IRS offices? It's hardly a unique ideology...
Honestly, I don't know how someone that clueless manages to tie his own shoes.
But that's how liberals roll. Blame America first. Even if you have to dredge up a lone nut from 2005 to do it.
All we need now is for President Golfpants to tell us the Elizabeth police "acted stupidly." Or maybe he'll just crack another inappropriate joke before green-lighting the next wave of unvetted Muslim "refugees" who'll refuse to assimilate into our society.
Let's just hope that Obama doesn't simply excuse Rahami, because after all no
one was killed, and it's not like
one of his oldest and dearest friends wasn't, uh not guilty, of
the same thing, right?
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Trent's stock rose 5.38 per cent to close at Rs1768.10 a piece on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday when the benchmark index Sensex gained 0.46 per cent.
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Trent declares an interim dividend of Rs 9 per equity share
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