Did NJ Demo Rep. John Adler Plant a Fake Tea Party Candidate?

Democrat Rep. John Adler is locked in a hotly contested race with Republican Jon Runyan for the NJ-3 congressional seat. The Adler released a highly questionable poll showing their candidate up by 17% over his GOP challenger. Questionable internal campaign polls aren't surprising. What shocked local political aficionados was the 12% to Independent Tea Party Candidate Peter DeStefano. No one had ever heard of him. DeStefano had no online campaign presence until after his name surfaced in an internal poll released by Rep. Adler. He had his name placed on the ballot by getting 237 signatures on a petition. He is running to the right of Republican Jon Runyan. The founder of the local Tea Party has no idea who Peter DeStefano is.

The tri-county West Jersey Tea Party said Peter DeStefano, who is running on the NJ Tea Party line this fall, was not representative of the movement.

"Peter DeStefano is not, and I emphasize, not a Tea Party candidate, by any stretch," said William Haney, the group's founder.

Haney is the founder of the Burlington County Tea Party, which changed its name to West Jersey to reflect the expansion of the group.

Aside from DeStefano's sudden appearance on the ballot and in Adler's poll, there are some other strange things about him. DeStefano is as critical of Runyan as he is of Adler. Strangely, he changed his voter registration from Republican to Democrat earlier this year before settling on Unaffiliated shortly before filing his petition. That is very strange for someone running on the right of the GOP as Tea Party candidate.

But his party registrations are only fuel on the smoldering fire as they show a switch to Democrat in April after more than a decade as a member of the GOP. In June, just five days before the primary that he says set him on his course, he switched his registration again, this time to unaffiliated.

Even stranger is the fact many of the signatures on his petition are longtime Adler supporters and Democratic activists.

Republicans said it was troubling that longtime allies and donors to Adler had signed DeStefano’s petition. They include Marshall Spevak, who has worked for the Camden County Democratic Committee, pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, Adler’s 2008 congressional campaign, and Adler’s state Senate office. He works on the campaign of Chris Coons, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Delaware.

sked through a Facebook message last Thursday about his signature on the petition, Spevak wrote: “Yes, I signed that petition. I did so with regret because I was very disappointed in the Congressman’s (Adler’s) vote on health care.”

Runyan campaign adviser Russell responded: “That’s the most ridiculous, dishonest political spin I’ve ever heard....

GOP candidate Jon Runyan smells a rat.

Mainstream Media Plotted to Kill Rev. Wright-Obama Story in 2008

The Daily Caller is reporting documents from Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, like-minded professors and activists prove the mainstream media tried to kill damaging stories about Obama's pastor of 20 years, Reverend Wright, in 2008. This is just the latest revelation of liberal pro-Obama bias in the news media. Recently, a MSNBC co-host admitted working with the White House on gulf oil spill talking points. Earlier this month, the editor of US News and World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, Mort Zuckerman, admitted he endorsed Obama and actually “helped write one of his speeches.”

The Daily Caller reported:

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. ...

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller...

Demo Rep. Dave Obey Spent $30K in Polling 8 Days Before Announcing He Was "Bone Tired" and Retiring

"Panic-stricken" might have been a better reason for retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Obey to use as an excuse for not running for reelection.

WISPOLITICS reported:

Retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Obey paid more than $30,000 on polling just eight days before announcing his retirement, according to the longtime congressman's latest filing with the FEC....

Newt Gingrich: "The President is, sadly, the opposite of Ronald Reagan" (video)

Newt Gingrich nails President Obama on the Sean Hannity show last night.

“The president, sadly, is the opposite of Ronald Reagan… Reagan told the truth.”

Oh my! Andrew Breitbart bombs the NAACP with a video of racism in their midst (video)

This will make liberal race baiters heads explode. Here is a video of a racist speaker at a NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund banquet in March. Pot, meet kettle.

Video of racist speaker at NAACP event in March.

Rasmussen: 56% of Voters Still Favor Repeal of Obamacare.

More voters think Obamacare is going to raise the cost of their health care. 61% now believe the cost will go up under Obamacare. Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters still favor repeal.

Rasmussen reported:

Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters nationwide now expect the cost of health care to go up under the health care reform law, the highest level of pessimism measured since the law was passed in March.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows only 17% expect the cost of health care...

President Obama's Popularity in Arizona Approaches Root Canal Level

President Obama's Popularity in Arizona Approaches Root Canal Level. Only 28% of Arizonians approve of President Obama. That number drops to 22 percent among Independents.

Most Arizonans no longer think Barack Obama is doing a decent job as president.

A new Behavior Research Poll released Sunday shows...Read more here.

Scott Brown: “Why is it that I’m always the one that has to vote with the Democrats?"

Actually Scott Brown doesn't have to "always the one that has to vote with the Democrats?" He can stop being a RINO any day he wants to.

The Boston Herald reported:

Scott Brown, with some justification, makes frequent claims to bipartisanship. But as the Republican senator from Massachusetts prepared to cast another vote next week against an extension of benefits for jobless Americans, he expressed frustration. Democrats, he said, never gave his alternative plan to extend benefits a serious look.

“Why is it that I’m always the one that has to vote with the Democrats?’’ Brown lamented. “Bipartisanship is a two-way street, you know? Why can’t they also work together to pay for these things within the budget, within the monies that we already have? Why is it that we always have to add to the deficit?"