The Post endorses Jack Ciatarelli for New Jersey – Latest News
New Jersey voters sick of the blue-state blues have a shot at some aid this November, by backing Republican Jack Ciattaralli for governor.
We heartily endorse Ciattarelli, a former assemblyman who got here within three factors of toppling incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy (D) in 2021 and now faces same-old, same-old hack Democrat Rep. Mikie Sherrill.
If Garden Staters need more of Murphy’s distress — through-the-roof utility payments, nation-leading taxes, woke faculties, decaying infrastructure, oppressive crime and large state debt — they need to race to back Rep. Sherrill.
If not, Ciattarelli is the clear alternative.
Start with Sherrill’s professed high precedence: “affordability.”
Her plan to tame prices boils down to: more handouts (at taxpayer expense), focusing on mysterious “bad actors,” locking in dear “clean energy” and, of course, combating massive, unhealthy Orange Man.
No joke: She really blames Donald Trump for high costs — regardless that inflation struck during the Biden years (when Trump was out of workplace), and was fueled by reckless federal spending that she herself, alongside together with her fellow Democrats in Congress, rammed via.
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“There’s no cost higher than the price that all of us will have to pay if we don’t stand up” to Trump, she huffs.
Funny: Lots of different states handle to keep their utility payments and taxes down even whereas supporting Trump…
Her pathetic plan to decrease grocery payments facilities on going after “large corporations [that] jack up food prices and take advantage of consumers during a crisis.”
Sounds like she’s cribbing from socialist Zohran Mamdani’s e book on magically repealing the legal guidelines of provide and demand.
She’d “transform New Jersey’s energy picture” by building “cheaper and cleaner energy generation” and “hit our emissions and clean-air goals.”
Hello? It’s exactly Democrats’ drive for zero emissions that has despatched electric payments hovering: A report by Affordable Energy for New Jersey cites a $1.4 trillion price tag for Murphy’s greener-than-green Energy Master Plan.
Sherrill doesn’t simply vow to lock in that plan, she needs to double down on it, .
In different phrases, doing the identical factor time and again again and anticipating a completely different consequence — and that’s not remotely the one Sherrill coverage that matches that definition of madness.
She’ll persist with the Murphy insurance policies that ram DEI into each faculty district, depart property and income taxes ever-growing and fail to control crime.
Hilariously, her thought for offering aid for the state’s onerous taxes (the nation’s second-highest, after New York) is (get this!) to “close tax loopholes” — i.e., raise taxes even more.
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And, like Murphy, she opposes letting mother and father decide out of LGBTQ schooling.
Sherrill additionally has a trust downside: She pretended to not know that her stock holdings have soared by $7 million since she entered Congress — more than likely as a result of she doesn’t need to reply questions on her “good luck.”
By distinction, Ciattarelli, a CPA and former business proprietor, would reverse the Murphy agenda, counting on common-sense concepts to deal with Jersey’s largest ills:
Actually reducing income taxes, for each people and companies, which may then cross the financial savings on to clients by way of decrease costs.
Chopping state spending dramatically and limiting price range growth to the inflation charge.
Scrapping Jersey’s sanctuary-state coverage and banning sanctuary cities.
Pushing via a new Energy Master Plan to keep prices down by permitting for new sources of dependable and inexpensive electrical energy whereas repealing “unrealistic and unaffordable mandates” to impress the whole lot from vehicles to family home equipment and home heating.
Fixing bail-reform flaws and tapping smart judges who’ll keep repeat offenders behind bars.
Expanding constitution faculties and college alternative for households.
Yes, the Garden State has leaned blue for years, however there’s a restrict to how a lot ache even liberals can take.
Last November, Jersey voters gave Sherrill’s boogey man, Donald Trump, a full 46% of their votes, making Kamala Harris’ six-point margin of victory the smallest the Garden State’s given a Democratic presidential hopeful in 32 years.
And final week, an Emerson College ballot had the race locked in a lifeless heat, with Sherrill and Ciattarelli every pulling 43% help.
Her get together is aware of she’s in hassle: The Democratic National Committee simply doubled its spending on the marketing campaign to $3 million, probably the most it’s ever shelled out in Jersey for an off-year election.
So hopes are high for Ciattarelli. He’s the Garden State’s best probability at shedding the blues as soon as and for all.
