Gordon Johnson is not the brightest bulb in Trenton

"Johnson says he gave the money because he liked their anti-George W. Bush grass roots campaign."

Hitler had a great anti-communism campaign, too.

Let me get this straight. Johnson contributes money to a group that the anti defamation league says is anit semitic and Senator Loretta Weinberg still supports him. What does this say about Senator Weinbergs ethics. How dare she presume to lecture anyone on ethics. And we don't hear anything from Assemblywoman Huttle. Is she to busy spending the pay to play money her husband gets from th DeCotis law firm where he is employed. What a crew!

If any one of you has never made a stupid mistake in your lives, you have permission to step to the front of the line and take a cheap shot at Johnson.

From all indications he's a good and decent honest man who was conned by a cult.

If this particular blunder is the worst thing Johnson has ever done then he still stands heads and shoulders over the utterly corrupt and contemptible moral lepers "on both sides of the aisle" that run legally corrupt machine politics in NJ.

Now if it were to turn out that Gordon actually was a sincere "believer" in the LaRouche personality cult; I would strongly suggest that he deserves to be primaried at the next available opportunity.

LaRouche is all about his own personal power and is a textbook case cult "leader".

Here's a site with some links to info on this cult.

http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/l/larouche-movement/

PS There all manner of corrupt personality "cult-ures" infecting NJ politics; let's face it political bossism amounts to pretty much the same thing only it's driven by an authoritarian impulse as opposed to a totalitarian one.

The folks who work for the County Machines who are afraid to speak their minds for fear of losing their jobs or, worse yet, who have convinced themselves to support corruption enthusiasticly to "get ahead" are members of a corrupt culture just as dehumanizing and soul deadening as any Moonie or LaRouchite zombie you see on the street.

Think.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Lento, Maybe Gordon should have joined Heavens Gate or Jim Jones or even the Mooneys. What a lame excuse. The road to Dachau is paved by idiots who in their own sick minds were " good and decent men "

While I agree corruption should be rooted out on both sides - I find the postings here that somewhat excuse Johnson because Republicans are not better - well I believe in district 37 the two candidates Frank Cifarelli and Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz are better - they are not your typical Republicans - they have no ethical conflicts from what I read, both never held office or political appointments or jobs, both are very educated and politically knowledgeable and have spoken out against wrongdoing on all levels and it goes for both parties. In addition, as far as I am aware they have no families on the public dole. Let’s give them a chance.

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/wwwboard/messages/4561.html

>>>>>

If House Speaker Dennis Hastert were really concerned about drug profits being laundered into the U.S. political process, he would not be sliming billionaire financier George Soros with that suspicion. Hastert would be looking at a principal conservative funder: South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon.

While Hastert was unable to cite a shred of evidence that the liberal Soros is funneling illicit money, there is a substantial body of evidence that Moon has long commanded a criminal enterprise with close ties to Asian and South American drug lords. The evidence includes first-hand accounts of money laundering disclosed by Moon confidantes and even family members. Besides those more recent accounts, Moon was convicted of tax fraud based on evidence developed in the late 1970s about his money-laundering activities.

Since serving his tax-evasion sentence in the early 1980s, however, Moon appears to have bought himself protection by spreading hundreds of millions of dollars around conservative causes and through generous speaking fee payments to Republican leaders, including former President George H.W. Bush.

Moon himself has boasted that he spent $1 billion on the right-wing Washington Times in its first decade alone. The newspaper, which started in 1982, continues to lose Moon an estimated $50 million a year but remains a valuable propaganda organ for the Republican Party.

How Moon has managed to cover the vast losses of his media empire and pay for lavish conservative conferences has been one of the most enduring mysteries of Washington, but curiously one of the least investigated � at least since the Reagan-Bush era.

Limited investigations of Moon�s organization have revealed large sums of money flowing into the United States mostly from untraceable accounts in Japan, where Moon had close ties to yakuza gangster Ryoichi Sasakawa. Former Moon associates also have revealed major money flows from shadowy sources in South America, where Moon built relationships with right-wing elements associated with the cocaine trade, including the so-called Cocaine Coup government of Bolivia in the early 1980s.<<<<

http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/1earth4.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0103-07.htm

Bottom line:

I don't see any of you "outraged/shocked" Republicans criticizing the leadership of your own party for being in bed and promiscuously involved with Moon's cult.

Johnson made an unwitting mistake, he messed up, and he's admitted it and aplogised. So, yes, there's "a speck" in his eye.

But what about the many "beams" in the eye of the national Republican establishment in re support from/to the Moonie cult?

Your whole party is STILL in bed with the MOONIES; and I've never hear a word of complaint about it from any Republicans.

So cut the hypocritical nonsense folks! It's not credible.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I've already acknowledged that Gordon was wrong to give LaRouche a penny. He has acknowledged the error of his ways and apologised.

You, on the other hand, are too much of a hypocrite to acknowledge that your party, the Republican party has been sucking at the corrupt toxic teet of a cult that dwarfs LaRouche's.

"Reverend" Moon is a first class crook, and your leadership is in bed with him. Yet you don't utter a peep when invited to do so.

What is it about Republicans that makes it impossible for them to ever acknowledge that they are ever in the wrong in any way?

I'm still waiting for your boy Bush to admit that he's screwed up in Iraq.

Pulaski, you've often heard me criticizing the Democratic machine pols; let's hear you criticize the Republican machines.

Yours is the party that impeached a president over a bj; yet Bush is directly responsible for tearing our Constitution apart and killing thousands of innocent American soldiers in a stupid, insane war that he lied us into.

The man is a criminal; yet your own party still brown noses him to the point of it dripping off your nostrils. Don't you smell the stench of the Bush administration?

So yes, Gordon screwed up and made an error; that makes him a flawed human being.

Our choices are not between flawed humans and perfected humans. Compared to you Republicans, a chastened and contrite Johnson who has acknowledged error remains the superior candidate over Republicans like you who still think Bush is good.

Bush is LaRouche writ large; both are deluded ugly little men on sick power trips that hurt decent human beings.

I realize that there's nothing I can say that will likely penetrate your partisan armour; but, for the sake of your soul I pray you are graced with a moment of Conscience.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

sorry energizer but it is too late in the game for nibot and her running mates. but all this should be remmbered on 2009 when next we see gordon"i dont know anything"johnson and valerie "its my husband not me that does pay to play" huttle, appear on a ballot again.

The word "bulb" is used in the following Blog...

http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=6074

...a beer to anyone who can intelligently/cogently comment on my usage of the bulb metaphor therein.

Meanwhile, here's a great snippet whose significance in this case should be obvious to anyone here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_A4Skusro

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.