Medford Mayor Chris Myers last night in Mount Holly debate: Politicker photoThe news tonight that President George W. Bush plans to headline a Colts Neck fundraiser on Monday for Republican Congressional candidates, state Sen. Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon) and Medford Mayor Chris Myers, created an easy opening for the Democrats.
Bush has a 15 percent job approval rating in New Jersey, according to Strategic Vision.
Only too happy to exploit the president’s toxicity here, Mark Warren, spokesman for state Sen. John Adler (D-Camden), Democratic candidate in the 3rd Congressional district, criticized Republican adversary Myers for allowing Bush to come in and raise money for him.
State Sen. John Adler (D-Camden) last night in the Veterans for Education debate in Mount Holly: Politicker photo
Still, he said the news didn’t catch him off guard. In the most recent fundraising reports, the Republican candidates trailed their counterparts by wide margins.
"It’s no surprise at all," said Warren. "Mayor Myers has been getting his campaign playbook from George W. Bush and Karl Rove. The principle point of Mayor Myers’s energy policy is extensive tax breaks for big oil companies.
"Mayor Myers has been operating out of the Bush-Rove playbook since day one," Warren added. "I’m not surprised that president is coming to New Jersey himself to save the flailing campaign of his attack dog Chris Myers. It was never a matter of ‘if,’ it was only a matter of when."
Asked last night at their Mount Holly debate about when - if ever - he had bucked his party’s leadership, Myers said he wrote a letter to Bush arguing for why Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) GI bill deserved the president’s support.
The bill, which Bush initially opposed, substantially raised the amount of college aid available to Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans. Bush ended up supporting the bill before it passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Senate.
Myers jokingly took credit for bringing Bush around on the issue.
Contacted for a comment tonight, Myers campaign manager Chris Russell issued a retaliatory statement - form-fitting Adler to the will of Gov. Jon Corzine.
"Career, tax and spend politician John Adler has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for Jon Corzine’s failed agenda in Trenton, and now his campaign is being bankrolled by the do-nothing politicians and corrupt special interests in Washington," Russell said. "Chris Myers is a decorated combat veteran, job-creating businessman and tax-cutting Mayor who can't be bought and won't be bossed - least of all by a President who will be out of office by the time Chris is sworn into Congress next January. Chris Myers is the only candidate in this race capable of bringing real change to Congress, and the hundreds of people supporting him at this event will help spread that message to voters across the 3rd Congressional District.”
In the 7th Congressional race between Lance and Assemblywoman Linda Stender (D-Fanwood), the Democrat has been running ads against Lance that tie him to big oil.
"Leonard Lance has been saying he’s independent and that he goes against his party, while we’ve been making the case that he is a Bush Republican, and in terms of his energy policy, which includes taking money from big oil, he just represents more of the same," said Stender spokesperson Irene Lin.
If Bush and big oil are the soft targets for the Democrats, Lance’s campaign for weeks has demanded - to no avail - that Stender return campaign contributions from embattled U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who last week ate another damning New York Times headline about his failure to disclose ownership of a Dominican beach house, for which he receives about $75,000 annually.
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Bush Bush Bush!
Looks like Myers is still walking with Bush.
Soon the DCCC won't have to doctor photos, they can just use the ones from this fundraiser.
What a horrible turn of events for Myers and Lance.
Wait?
"his campaign is being bankrolled by the do-nothing politicians and corrupt special interests in Washington"
From the guy who has a fundraiser from Bush coming up...
Because after all...
...the best thing to counter the incompetence of the Bush administration is to bring some good 'ol New Jersey Democratic incompetence to Washington. Do you like ballooning debt with or without tax increases? You can put lipstick on Corzine/Codey policies, but they still suck.
don't be a drag...
...oh come come, the biggest drag on our economy is all those tax dollars NJ residents pay into the federal treasury to subsidize our compatriots in the red states.
Can i get an Amen?!?
Overstatements by the Dems
"Mayor Myers has been operating out of the Bush-Rove playbook since day one." How could that possibly be true?--it's seems pointless to suggest it. Some of Myers' exaggerations concerning his military experience perhaps need tempering, but to go as far to suggest it's straight out of "Bush-Rover playbook since day one" is another unnecessary exaggeration.
Also, Lance's record proves he doesn't always vote party lines and is an independent thinker. His views on environmental policy, for example, are quite progressive in powerful ways that might put him at odds with very conservative Republicans.
My prediction and my hope: Adler over Myers, Lance over Stender.
Will dems bash...
people who took money from:
Governor McGroovey, Senator Sharpe James, Senator Wayne Bryant, Senator Joe Coniglio, Senator Dick Codey, or the bile-laden machines in Camden and Hudson?
Probably not.
Who cares?
Apparenlty many people think Bush has lower ratings than the Democratically controlled congress. Let them bloviate.
birds of a feather...
As someone who has looked up Chris Myers' record and policy positions, that is, when he isn't too afraid to take a policy position (still waiting on his SCHIP and Iraq War vote stance, months later), I can say unequivocally that he supports the same fundamentalist neocon ideology as the Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. From his pro-oil drilling stance to his anti-choice stance on abortion rights to his anti-withdrawal stance on the Iraq War, Chris Myers has clearly aligned himself with the fringe conservativism of Bush-Cheney, to whom he gave $500 of his own money in a previous election cycle.
I'd be embarrassed to be attending a fundraiser with one of, if not the worst president in American history, so Myers' hesitation is understandable, as is Lance's, even though the latter has welcomed Bush with open arms on previous occasions.
Martin
Martin from the looks of your picture there are alot of things you do that are embarassing on Friday nights.
Biggest Drag on NJ economy
is the corruption tax period.
Myers, Corzine and Ferriero are the problem
in NJ. BUSH is almost gone, but NJ corruption still remains alive and well.
Let's be clear
Let's be clear about how things really are. Many Republicans are not negative regarding President Bush. Many Republicans, as well as Dems, tend to follow their party leader and believe it is wrong to speak negatively of them. I personally, as a true fiscal conservative, believe that President Bush, and the Congress - both under Repub and Dem control - have allowed spending to get WAY out of control. But, we have to also keep it all in perspective. Of course, Democrats want to simply Bash the President as if he were the devil, but in reality, there are areas that he has done a good job:
- Pres. Bush inherited an economy in trouble (i.e. negative GDP), and the surplus was, to a great extent, only a result of two major factors: 1) the revenues from the tech sector, which we learned was a bubble based on very bad business models, and it burst. 2) Pres. Clinton slashed the military by 52% (and cut the Intel community - but that is more of a national defense blunder than a fiscal one).
- President Bush's tax cuts turned the economy around quickly (It was the war spending and Congressional spending that kept the overall economy from souring through the clouds)
- As for the Housing/Banking bubble. The blame, to a very large extent, can be dropped on the Democrats and their belief in "fairness" for the lower class. With Andrew Cuomo taking the lead, there was a push to force lenders to avoid "red lining" unqualified borrowers, the result was bad loans to people who then defaulted when the introductory rates ended and many could not afford to pay their mortgages. I am not forgiving those borrowers themselves who should know what they can afford, nor the lenders who should have been more careful in their lending practices. But, the environment was started by liberal Dems who wanted to assure that even the least qualified had the opportunity to get (and then default on) a home loan.
Miss Cookie, I think I am missing something??
Miss Cookie, Please explain how NJ tax payers are subsidizing red states? Please clarify how one state's taxes are different from another state's taxes when it comes to going into the federal treasury? With your logic, would not our taxes also subsidize blue states too? We all pay federal taxes, and then what? they take our taxes from NJ taxpayers and send them to do things in states like Alabama? North Carolina? I think I need another economics course, I don't think I get how this all works according to you... Oh, and one more thing, so if taxes are too high, and you are a democrat, then if Obama is elected President, or another tax and spend liberal here in NJ as Gov., do you expect taxes to actually go up or down?
MotownRepub
If Obama is elected President, I expect taxes to go down for those below the 95 percentile, and up for those above.
So unless you're Chris Myers with his $250,000 annual salary and $100,000 average annual bonus, you have nothing to worry about.
MotownRepub
Motown needs to wake up and smell the plutocrat. The Adlers (good liberal democrats) are pulling down well over $400,000 per year. The difference between them an Myers is that (1) Myers makes less and (2) taxpayers don't pay his salary.
Passerby
Adler makes $49,000 from the State Senate, not $400,000. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.
Oh Brother
The President of the United States can go anywhere he chooses and by the way the Obama campaign has lost ground in Jersey, I think the residents of NJ are willing to accept a change.
Least we forgot who is in charge of this state that has taxed, taxed spent spent over and over; - THE DEMOCRATS!
Two birds of a feather
Fake OC and Alice - two birds of a feather. You both spread false information around like it was the truth. Adler only makes $49,000? So he is not a partner in a law firm? Are you saying he is lying on his financial disclosure forms? Maybe he should release his tax returns for him and his wife to see if you are telling the truth or if he is telling the truth. And Alice (aka Dorothy, Tinker Bell, Martian) - when are you going to stop spreading lies? Chris has been very vocal on his opposition to the Bush plan on drilling. Stop lying like a five year old who had her hand caught in the cookie jar.
Idiot.
Adler makes $49,000 from the State Senate, not $400,000 from the taxpayer. He can make whatever he can earn from outside income, but don't say the taxpayer pays all of his salary.
The point was you idiot
The point was that Adler accepts a salary from the taxpayers yet rakes in 400k a year. So who is the idiot? Here is a hint - look in the mirror. Moreover it clearly shows that Adler is out of touch with the average taxpayer. You get dumber with every breath you take.
The point was you idiot
The point was that Adler accepts a salary from the taxpayers yet rakes in 400k a year. So who is the idiot? Here is a hint - look in the mirror. Moreover it clearly shows that Adler is out of touch with the average taxpayer. You get dumber with every breath you take.
Adler/Stender Classless to attack on 9/11
I understand the point of their release, but did they really have to do it on 9/11 of all days? They could have shown some class and called off the attack dogs for one more day.
This is a day when even Obama and McCain dropped the politics to visit Ground Zero together and show American unity.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D934LKH80&show_article=1
I believe it is a very flawed argument to say either party is more patriotic than the other...but I found it interesting in looking at the Lance, Myers, Stender and Adler websites (on 9/11) that Lance and Myers had some sort of tribute to the lives lost, while Stender and Adler had no mention of 9/11. Just pointing out some observations.
Myers politicized 9/11
Myers ordered his site down after he found out the DCCC sent out Adler mailers in NJ-3. He didn't announce it in advance, or issue a statement. He only turned his site off when he realized he could try to start a controversy over it.
And then Myers sent out a press release on 9/11.
More idiotic comments
More idiotic comments from the fake oc. Myers was responding to a hti piece the DCCC and Adler sent out on 9/11. Was he supposed to wait? You are clueless numbnuts. And he did not "oreder" his site down after the DCCC piece went out. But I keep forgetting that you are an insider and know everything. The lies keep coming.