After eight years of Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey again has only poor choices for governor. In reading interviews by NJEA and APP, Democrat Phil Murphy is a nightmare. He wants to clone New Jersey into a mini-California by making us a sanctuary state and providing illegal immigrants in-state tuition.

He has no plan to correct the pension problems, but does plan to raise taxes $1.3 billion. As a progressive, Murphy has the same tired agenda of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the regressive left, which has little concern for middle-class, taxpaying citizens. The progressive socialists mainly want to retain the underclass and ghetto system in order to remain in power and build their bottom-end voter block while they lie about their association with the rich. Murphy, like the rest of the progressives, is tight with Goldman Sachs and not for the little people. He is anti-Second Amendment and anti-school choice.

Murphy likes to play the “money shell game” — put a dollar in your right pocket, take two from the left. New Jersey is in bad financial condition and to follow the agenda of California is insanity. The polls show Murphy is likely to win due to the demographics of North Jersey, where the tax money flows through endless progressive programs that attract recipients over contributors to the budget. What a shame for New Jersey.

Richard Engebretsen


Read or Share this story: