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Email Article | Permalink | tagged CNN, Frank Pallone, New Jersey, anna little, conservative, democrat, liberal, manalapan, ocean grove, progressive, republican, soledad o'brien | in 2010 Election, Video Oh my goodness gracious:
NJ-06: Is longtime Dem endangered? GOP internal poll says he is
If this internal poll is to be believed (and the standard caveats, of course, apply), then the climate for Dems in this cycle might be even worse than has been often projected. A new internal poll, by National Research, for longshot Republican candidate Anna Little claims that she might not be a longshot, after all. The poll shows longtime Democratic incumbent Frank Pallone leading Little by just six points (40-34). This would be a stunning result, if true, in a district where Barack Obama won by 60-38 and where Pallone has won every election since 1992 with at least 57% of the vote.
Notice how they ignore the far more relevant election result, that being Chris Christie’s thumping of John Corzine by 15% in the 6th just a year after Obama’s win.
Methinks the answer to the question, then, may very well be yes, with the standard caveats…of course.
Buckle up folks! It’s gonna be one hell of a season!
via Examiner.com:
Anna C. Little, Republican candidate for Congress in the 6th District, is closing in rapidly on her opponent, Democratic incumbent Frank Pallone, in a race that has now become a tossup, according to an internal poll. In a press release issued August 23, Little cited a poll conducted for the campaign by National Research, Inc., showing Pallone at 40 percent of the vote and Little at 34 percent. That would mean that 26 percent of respondents surveyed were undecided or declined to answer. To be within single digits of the lead with a double-digit undecided population a scant ten weeks before the election is definitely an enviable place to be. Against an opponent having 100 percent name recognition (as Little points out) and a history of having won 11 elections in adistrict that the last three Democratic candidates for President carried by roughly 3:2 margins, this indicates that the trend, and the anti-incumbent sentiment that pervades the country, has broken in Little's favor. Little credits her ground game with bringing her within this striking distance. By her own count, "Anna's Army" has knocked on 10,000 doors since the ground campaign began five weeks ago. Her successful recruitment of an old hand at congressional campaigning, namely Leigh-Ann Bellew, who ran against Pallone in 2006, as the chair of her campaign might also have something to do with her success. But Bellew and Little both suggest as well that Pallone has himself largely to blame for not having 50 percent of the vote locked in with the election 10 weeks away.
via the Atlantic Highlands Herald:
Written by Christopher Shalaby TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 2010 17:10
On January 6th 2008, Frank Pallone, Jr. was officially sworn in for his 11th full term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Frank Pallone is obviously not for congressional term limits. Frank is a career political, and is now pursuing his 12th term in congress. Frank is also proud to announce he is currently celebrating his 111th congress approval rating of 16%. Also according to the latest Rasmussen Report, “Only 12% of voters believe most members of Congress are more interested in helping people than in helping their own careers; while 76% say most in Congress put their own careers first.”
Pallone is proud to announce he is working hard with lobbyist, and special interests instead of, “We the People” of the 6th Congressional District. Frank wouldn’t like the people of Middlesex, Bayshore, Monmouth, Plainfield, and Franklin to know he has spent over 56.3 million dollars in pork barrel ear mark projects from 2008-2010. During his anticipated lame duck session, he will add additional spending to that debt.
During Frank’s career in the once prosperous New Jersey, the opportunities for middle-class citizens has vanished. Pallone’s policies have driven the wealth and jobs from New Jersey to other neighboring states that are more business friendly. From 2004-2008, author John Havens found “a large decline in the number of wealthy households entering New Jersey” as well as “a moderate increase in the outflow of wealthy households leaving.” The result: a net decline of $70 billion in household wealth for the state of New Jersey.
In the 111th Congress, Pallone is a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee which is responsible for a list of extremely unpopular, and small business crushing legislation. Frank Pallone supports mandating every American to buy Government Health care insurance. The socialistic takeover of medicine will force all Americans to pay for health insurance or be subject to violations, penalties and fines.Pallone supports the Health Care bill even though support for repealing the bill is at its highest level. Many voters know Socialism programs are not helpful in a Free Market Economy. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely Voters shows that 60% want the Healthcare bill repealed. The mandatory health insurance bill will cost tax payers “$940 billion over 10 years,” according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Ok, I don’t know if using taxpayer money to lie to constituents and campaign for a threatened Democratic congressman is technically “illegal”, but it sure as hell should be. I’m guessing we’ll find out soon enough.
Oh, and Pallone himself does this all the time; it’s called “Franking” for a reason.
Is someone scared so badly that he’s gonna lose that he calls on his Democratic henchmen in the State legislature to lie to the taxpayers on their dime?
Hmmm…..
(via More Monmouth Musings)
Vitale And Coughlin Use Legislative Stationery For Political Purposes
By Art Gallagher
State Senator Joseph Vitale and Assemblyman Craig Coughlin, both Democrats from Middlesex County’s 19th legislative district, have distributed a “Dear Friends” letter on legislative stationery that is strongly critical of Governor Christie, Republican State Legislators and Congressman Leonard Lance, while praising Congressmen Frank Pallone and Albio Sires.
The 19th legislative district is comprised of parts of 6th, 13th and 7th congressional districts which are represented by Pallone, Sires and Lance respectively.
The letter, a copy of which can be downloaded here, is critical of Christie for vetoing the “Millionaires tax extension” and the GOP legislators for not voting to override Christie’s veto. The so called Millionaires tax enacted under Governor Corzine expired in December 2009. Christie’s veto was not of an extension, but of a new tax.
Vitale and Coughlin tell their “Dear Friends” that they are not getting there Homestead Property Tax Rebates because Christie vetoed the tax and that he took “$1200 out of the pockets of 500,000 middle class residents.”
They conclude their letter by sharing the “good news” that their friends who hit the Medicare “Donut Hole” will receive a $250 check thanks to Pallone’s and Sires’s votes in favor of ObamaCare. “Congressman Lance, on the other hand voted against mailing seniors and disabled the $250 Medicare ‘Donut Hole’ checks,” they said at the end of the “good news” paragraph.
The State Ethics Commission expressly prohibits the use of Official Stationary to promote a candidate for political office. That line has been crossed in this letter by the comments on Pallone, Sires and Lance, each of whom is currently running for reelection.
Additionally, the Ethics Commission prohibits using Official Stationary to express a personal opinion on a matter not related to one’s official duties. While this is more of a grey area, the letter is clearly opinion, as the facts are wrong on the Millionaires tax “extension” and there is no guarantee that had the previous Democratic legislature and Governor Corzine extended the tax, that the revenue from it would have funded rebates.
Vitale and Coughlin should be severely reprimanded for the political nature of this letter and compelled to reimburse the taxpayers for the cost of printing and postage.
Email Article | Permalink | tagged Craig Coughlin, Frank Pallone, Joseph Vitale, LD 19, New Jersey, anna little | in 2010 Election, New Jersey Politics, Politics, The Left Yes, Frank Pallone wants to off your Grandma to make room for lots of strapping young men.
But…he’ll make sure her pillow is good and fluffed.
Frank Pallone is one hell of a guy.
(photo courtesy of Mike Iurilli)
First the sack of crap holds a bunch of meaningless “one on ones” with voters because he’s too chickenshit to stand up in front of them anymore after his disaster last fall, then the crapsack throws a shameless campaign rally billed as the “Women’s Health Fair and Panel Discussion”.
The lengths some liars will go to lie is just breathtaking.
Why wasn’t Anna Little invited to the “panel discussion”?
You are too pathetic for words…Francis: (via More Monmouth Musings)
Phoney Palloney Shows Up in Edison for publicity stuntA first-hand account by Michael IurilliThere was a women’s health fair today at Middlesex County College from 9am-12pm. An email had gone out telling the TEA-parties that the event was happening, that Frank would be there, and asking for people to go and try to talk to Frank on healthcare related questions, because he’s hiding from his constituents. I arrived at 9:00, with my mother, and sister, and found about 75 people there. Without disturbing anyone, the three of us quietly took seats at a table to wait to see when (of IF) Frank would arrive.Looking around, I saw there were about a dozen groups, including the congressional glaucoma caucus providing eye exams and glaucoma screenings, the cancer institute of NJ, the HealthCare institute of NJ, the Family Support Center, the AHA, the American Diabetes assoc., St. Peters Hospital (a ‘pro-life’ Catholic hospital), Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, the Lupus Foundation, and others, some of which were providing glucose tests, blood pressure tests, information on osteoporosis and its prevention, and stroke awareness and prevention. Frank even had a table for his Congressional office, run by staff. I picked up a booklet titled ‘End of Life – Helping With Comfort and Care’. I was disturbed by the order of the title – comfort before care. It reminded me of Obama’s comments about just giving granny pain meds, instead of care. A quick scan of the table of contents confirms the order of importance to the author: Providing comfort comes before finding care.The event was advertised as a HealthCare Institute of NJ event, with Frank as a “featured guest”. They must not have gotten the memo that it was really a Frank campaign event, because at about 9:15 we were approached by an event administrator and the Chief of Police, and asked why we were here. They must have seen the sign that my mother carried, which said “Hey Frank, I have special needs too!” We were informed that the congressman’s office had reserved the location through proper channels, and that if we were there to protest, we would have to do so outside. We responded that we were there to ask the congressman a question, and inquired as to when he was scheduled to arrive. We were told he should be arriving at approximately 9:45. After telling us again that protesting must be done outside, they wandered off, but stayed within line of sight to make sure we didn’t cause trouble (like a visually impaired 50 year old woman, her 26 year old son and 19 year old daughter would cause trouble).
Email Article | Permalink | tagged Frank Pallone, anna little, lies, more monmouth musings | in 2010 Election, Health Care, New Jersey Politics, Politics, The Left Like nothing they've ever seen before folks:
Anna C. Little, the Republican candidate for Congress in the 6th District, can't afford big media ad buys and doesn't have the franking privilege. So she has elevated the one thing remaining to her--going door-to-door--to a high art. Because one woman alone can scarcely knock on thousands of doors in a modern US congressional district, Little has created an "army" of volunteers. They will go to a town, fan out in pairs or small clusters, make hundreds of telephone calls, and knock on a thousand or more doors. This is how Little won the June 8 primary, despite being out-fundraised twenty-to-one. And against a much-better funded opponent (Frank Pallone), this is her best option, and she knows it. Their first target, on July 24, was Dunellen, where, according to Little, about 25 voluntters made just under 5,000 calls and 1,000 home visits, this during one of the worst heat waves that New Jersey has ever seen. On July 31, "Anna's Army" struck again, this time in Matawan with 50 volunteers, for 3,000 telephone calls and 1,700 direct visits. (Actually, a commenter at this poll claimed 2,700 visits, though that might be a typographical error.)
“It’s ridiculous.”~Anna Little, (R), NJ6
That’s what I’m talking about. Nothing more need be said about PalloneCare and its mandates. It is, in fact, ridiculous.
Bring it Francis!
Get involved folks, right now. This is literally history in the making.
Russ
Via More Monmouth Musings
Blood and Oil on Pallone's Hands
By guest columnist Ernesto Cullari.
triCityNews, Asbury Park, NJ Cross posted at Justified Right
What does Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. have to show for his 20 plus years in office? He has his well-crafted talking points.
For example, he claims to care for senior citizens, he touts his concern for the environment and he feigns expertise on healthcare issues, but other than pandering to certain segments of his constituency what has Frank Pallone actually done with his political clout, other than help his wife, Sarah Hospodor-Pallone, land a lucrative job at the EPA?
To be specific, during his tenure as Congressman of New Jersey’s sixth Congressional district Pallone claims to have expanded access to healthcare, yet his behemoth healthcare legislation cuts benefits to disabled children and seniors, prevents physicians from competing with operating room services also provided by publicly funded hospitals and creates government rationing bureaucracies to decide who does and doesn’t receive certain medical treatments. Pallone has given the federal government an insurmountable advantage in administering medical care thus making it difficult for all other private practice competitors to continue to work.
Details within his legislative record indicates that there is a vast difference between how Congressman Pallone portrays both himself and the laws that he writes with who Frank Pallone really is. Perhaps the most recent example of Congressman Frank Pallone’s duplicity is that he claims to be a champion for the environment yet he has failed for decades at his Constitutional duties that required him to oversee the Minerals Management Service (MMS), which was responsible for safety investigations of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded, killing several and causing the worst environmental disaster in American history.
In fact, Congressman Pallone’s professional negligence runs so deep that it took him over 20 years to reign in an agency that has been notoriously plagued with corruption since 1990 and as a result he is ethically culpable for both the deaths of the rig workers and the environmental damage that ravages one of our nation’s treasured coastlines.
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via More Monmouth MusingsVolunteers eager to do it again this Saturday in Matawan
Highlands, NJ: In the first week of her ground game with temperatures approaching 100 degrees, enthusiastic and committed volunteers for Republican nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s 6th District, Anna Little, made nearly 5,000 phone calls and knocked on close to 1,000 doors in the small town of Dunellen, NJ, tucked into the northwest corner of Middlesex County. Members of the Press are cordially invited to join Anna at the Park Place Diner on Rt. 34 in Matawan, NJ at 9 a.m. and to accompany her on her Matawan walk, the time for which will be announced on Thursday, July 29th.
Beginning the day at 8 a.m. at a popular Bagel store on North Ave., hundreds of invited constituents and curious passersby stopped by to chat with Anna before the volunteers fanned out across the town. Working in teams of 2, 3 or 4, “Anna’s Army” personally touched almost 1,000 homes in Dunellen in less than six hours.
Growing by leaps and bounds on a daily basis, volunteers will be canvassing Matawan in similar fashion this Saturday, July 31st and will begin the day at 8:30 am at the Park Place Diner.
Email Article | Permalink | tagged Dunellen NJ, Frank Pallone, Matawan NJ, New Jersey, anna little | in 2010 Election, New Jersey, New Jersey Politics, Politics 
That's so damn corny I can't stand it. You're my boy Art!
He's right though; if the collective Jersey blog readership of MMM, Save Jersey and Conservatives with Attitude all got on board for the cause, Anna would annihilate the rest of the field. Sorry rest of the field.
And where the hell is WyBlog when you need him!
On the "America's Governor" note, after last night's 6-month anniversary hoedown in Lacey Township, yes, you can officially begin calling Anna Little a "Chris Christie Republican". Tell 'em Russ said it was Ok.
The shout out from the Governor was, in a word, &^%$# awesome...as usual. Christie, like the rest of us here in the 6th, is just...so...sick and tired of Frank Pallone.
So, if you want to be like Chris Christie, (and I know you do), vote for Anna Little in this week's Ten Buck Friday poll.
There's 72 hours left...my money's still on Anna.
This thing is growing like wildfire, for good reason.
Please be sure and check out RightKlik, whose diligence in running the show is exemplary.
Cheers RK!
Yes I’m admittedly biased but our opponent, Frank Pallone, has the largest war-chest in Congress at well over $4 million in the bank. Make no mistake about it though, this race is entirely winnable. Frank knows it, we know it…soon the rest of the Country will know it too.
For those of you who don’t know it yet, Frank Pallone is the proud author of H.R. 3200, which is arguably the impetus for the entire Tea Party, Constitutional Conservative movement. He makes no bones about it and plans to run on that record loudly and proudly this summer.
Anna Little, meanwhile, beat the handpicked Republican establishment candidate in the primary while being outspent more than 20-1.
This is exactly the race everyone should be paying attention to. This is the race where the groundswell of disgust over healthcare, cap and trade, card check, institutional elitism and rampant socialism will prove its mettle.
We have nothing right now but the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds of volunteers who work literally day and night to rid the Country of one of the worst Congressmen out there.
Can you spare $10 to help us out?
Thank you America. We promise to do everything we possibly can here on the ground in NJ6 to make this happen.
Together, this is the year we push back against the rising tide.
Russ
Russ
HEY EVERYONE…Email the big dogs about Ten Buck Fridays.
Lilac Sunday, newest addition to the mob roll, has the perfect email to cut and paste (I’ve shamelessly done so myself): (internal links omitted)
Dear Rush,You’ve said that we should nationalize every House and Senate race in 2010. Well, I want to let you know that there is a small but growing group of bloggers who are trying to do just that. The effort is called Ten Buck Fridays.Ten Buck Fridays is a small-d democratic moneybomb project of the patriotic blogosphere. Back in May, a blogger called Conscientiously Conservative declared her intent to donate $10 to a different worthy national Congressional candidate each week, and the concept is spreading across the web. Each week, voters decide which conservative Congressional candidate needs their support the most, and everyone is encouraged to donate what they can to the winner. There is no middleman, no national committee; anyone motivated to donate sends their support to the candidates directly. The poll that closed last Friday morning was carried on 60 blogs and received over 2000 votes. There’s even a Facebook page! This is real grass roots stuff.At RightKilk, you can read more about the poll, the nominating process, and this week’s winner. A good synopsis can be found here. (Rightklik is doing yeoman’s work collecting nominations, posting candidate info, and launching each week’s poll. The poll hosted and promoted by dozens of other bloggers, including my own little blog.)Worthy candidates are getting great visibility within our small but growing community. If you are as psyched about this effort as we are, I humbly and respectfully request that you share Ten Buck Fridays with your listeners and web community. Small donors might feel like their $10 is a drop in the ocean, but small, regular donations from a large group of patriots can turn the tide.Thank you
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I would like to choose political candidates based on how they throw a pitch.Email Article | Permalink | tagged Barack Obama, Baseball, George W. Bush, Justice McNamara | in Politics, Sports, whatever 
I knew he was worried, but this level of desperation with more than three months to go makes him seem terrified of Anna Little.
And if it seems that way, that’s because he is terrified of Anna Little…trust me, I’ve seen it firsthand.
Oh Lord it’s gonna be a fun summer!
By Art Gallagher at More Monmouth Musings:
More Proof That Frank Pallone Is Worried
Phoney Palloney is begging for money and volunteers!
Following up on Tommy DeSeno’s piece earlier this week, Proof That Frank Pallone Is Worried, a loyal reader fowarded this email from Frank Pallone:
Since my first run for council in my hometown of Long Branch, one thing has remained constant in each campaign we’ve waged together: volunteers have always been an integral part of our victories. Simply put, without your hard work, dedication and support I wouldn’t be able to fight for jobs, expand healthcare and continue to protect our environment.
This year, I’m being challenged by a radical, self-proclaimed “tea party approved” candidate. My opponent wants to roll back all we’ve accomplished…she even believes we should expand offshore drilling!
Over the coming months, I need your help to take on this challenge. I hope you’ll consider volunteering for our campaign over the summer. We are hosting phone banks in our Long Branch office every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening. Will you join us and encourage other supporters to get involved? Even a few hours a week can make a meaningful difference.
If you can’t make it in to our office, there are other ways you can pitch in:
Suggest that your friends “like” my Facebook page so they can stay up to date on the work I’m doing in Washington and throughout the 6th Congressional District.
Follow me on Twitter.
Make a secure online donation, so we have the funds needed to fight back against the smear machine that is surely coming our way. Even $25 can make a huge difference.
The fight this year is going to be as tough – and as important – as ever. I hope you will join our team as we work towards victory in November.
Sincerely,
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.
P.S. Can I count on you to forward this e-mail to five friends so we can grow our volunteer ranks this Summer and get our team trained for the challenge we face this Fall?Pallone has $4 million dollars and he’s asking for $25 contributions! It has been so long since he’s had a credible challenger that he obviously no longer has a ground game. He needs to train he’s volunteers. Advantage Anna Little.
Donate to Anna Little’s campaign for Congress here.
Sign up to volunteer for Little’s campaign here.
