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John Morris March 2 at 5:15pm
Sp??ta???  (John's Greek spelling will not carry over after it's pasted here??)
  That's the Greek way to spell Spartacus. My Grandmother was from Thrace which is according to Plutarch where, Spartacus came from. Anyway there is a little bit of him in everyone today. Was reading your comments on Mexico, I was down there this summer in Cozumel for SCUBA. You are right that country is corrupt as hell. Talking to the dive master I realized how poorly the people are treated. I was told they work all day there for about five dollars unless they have specialized training, while government officials rake in the big bucks. Gary I feel this country is going the same way sometimes. Anyway I like your music choices and your wit. I have told friends about your website hopefully this will increase your following. As for me I voted for Christie, If I knew you were running I would have voted for you. I hope they make a Mr. Stein goes to Washington instead of the same old Smiths.

Gary Stein March 3 at 10:42am
John, loved your note. I'm in Florida visiting my dad, at library now. Friends like you give me hope. Talked to my friend in Mexico 2 nights ago. Long story short, he's thrown in the towel and he got a job as a wknd watchman- and grounds keeper- at a school one hour from where he lives. The kicker; he had to basically buy the job. They stink down there. Think of the trade back and forth if their economy wasn't in the toilet. And I know you'd have voted for me, thanks. Don't know if you noticed, but on the Gov's web site I basically came out for Christie, said all I wanted was to raise a ruckus about Mexico. Maybe we'll talk some more when I get back this wknd.

John Morris March 3 at 1:46pm
Give your Dad my best and enjoy every minute in Florida.
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Governor's "Virtual Debate" hosted last year by the Hall Institute of New Jersey

Question 6 

New Jersey has a long history of corruption in government and politics. Aside from enacting and enforcing strong ethics laws, what can be done to change the “culture of corruption” in our state?

Written by Gary Stein

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:21

Voters!  Last Thursday all the Independents (except one) showed up for a candidate’s night hosted by the Mayor of Riverdale.  Our newly crowned media darling, Chris Daggett, sort of an unknown 2 months ago,  was too busy to attend.  Understandable, we’re viewed as whackos; but he was also too busy to answer question #5 of the Hall Institute’s Virtual Debate about Health Care.  Corzine did.  Christie hasn’t bothered with this forum since day one; that’s consistency (?). Christie also passed on “candidates” night………the Governor too.  Their no-show at the event makes sense; a complete refusal to cover us by the “elite media” is more problematical, “whacko” label notwithstanding.  Ten candidates, 800 signatures each- got us on the ballot.  That rates an “honorable mention” by the 4th estate in my book!

With that bit of housekeeping done, I can’t wait to tackle question #6, because if “Dadgummit” Daggett can’t be bothered with a legitimate organizations efforts to pick our brains, “South of the Border” Gary Stein always looks forward to the challenge.   That’s until this unfortunate question.  I’ll give a cursory answer and then segue.

I said all there was say about Jersey corruption on my web site.  Go to the navigation button titled,  “7/23/09.”   I just went there for a reminder how creative my campaigning technique is.   I was listening to Frank Sinatra sing- appropriately, “I Won’t Dance.”  There are media players on each page; it’s a fun site.   Sinatra croons, “I won’t dance, don’t ask me, I won’t dance don’t ask…….you know what you’re lovely…” (snap your fingers, and on and on it goes)….. “ring a ding ding …….”   Sinatra does that to lyrics, anybody know what I’m talking about?   It’s never been established precisely how much involvement “Old Blue Eyes” had with the “families,” if any (I shouldn’t be talking this way……) but it is fact that on 7/23/09, 44 no good New Jersey rat fink public servants were led away in FBI handcuffs.

Again, what else can I say?  They never learn, and prosecutors are always more then willing to nab the dumbbells.   That’s the system working as it should.   The corruption by public servants and the police in Mexico is another story altogether.  Mexico!  Read my web site, that swell country is my forte, and my entrée into the governor’s race.  Drivers licenses and illegal aliens; have we forgotten?  Anyway, I’ve never brushed elbows with any crooks in my part of the hemisphere, but in Mexico I’ve actually been an innocent victim of police- mafia style shakedown and intimidation- several times.   I met Beto, the guy in my web-site, in Matamoras, right over the border last year.  We drove two days in a truck to his hometown near Mexico City.   I was actually threatened with serious physical violence in the town of Puebla.  Beto and I determined the night before that enough’s enough; the next time we’re stopped for absolutely no good reason, we wouldn’t wimp out (again).  So much for theories; the next day’s events landed us at police headquarters where the chief no less, gladly got involved and upped the ante from the original $50-$100 at the scene of our non-infraction, to- take a deep breath, $2000.  We tried gallantly to be small time heroes and dug in deeper.   I was eventually told to take off without Beto.  That was a non starter.  We were separated, he somewhere inside, and me under their watchful eye, sitting in my Chevrolet Suburban.  When I said no, I’m not leaving without my best friend; they threatened to beat me in the groin area, where it doesn’t show.  Long story short, the hostage standoff cost us 800 dollars- or just enough “cabbage” for the chief… and no-one else.  That’s true; the 2 police who “netted” us in the first place couldn’t believe our stupidity in simply not paying them off earlier, thus avoiding complications.  That’s how it goes down there if you drive a car by day, instead of night, as we did with U.S. plates announcing a rare bird, was in town.  At night they’re god damned scared of you.  They haven’t a clue who’s in the car.  Not the best way to see a gorgeous country, but safer.    How’s that for minutia, N.Y Times?   Call me!

Mexico’s corruption is obviously worse then New Jerseys so I’ll stay right here a few more years, if I can afford it.  I won’t think of retiring to Mexico until I fix things first with my much ballyhooed plan to boycott that crummy country- our illegals leading the way- not sending home remittances- and us in return granting them amnesty.  A boycott by their citizens living here would go a long way toward solving the local corruption problem there; it would- if the whole world was watching.  Haven’t heard my plan discussed on talk radio?  That was the master plan?   It hasn’t worked.  Thanks in no small part to the non- help I’ve gotten from Hispanic Organizations who I continually e-mail.  You’d think they’d view my candidacy kindly?  Here’s the conundrum.  They could help- I’d get a 2-3% protest vote, or I get 2-3% protest vote on my own, working night and day, but I become exhausted and drop dead.  At my wake they say what a nice guy I was, bravely promoting drivers licenses, amnesty, and admitting I had 2 illegals living with us under our roof  for 5 years etc., etc.

Here’s the cold hard facts, lobbyists don’t care about anything outside their narrow focus and fund raising….even to the detriment of the community they supposedly represent.  I’d have settled for being a “useful idiot” to the Hispanic organizations; as in,“he means well…. he’s not the best we’d put forward…. but the klutz got himself on the ballot.”

I’m putting my last collector vehicle on e-bay.  I’m raising money one more time to go down to that wicked country.  I'll see my friend again- give him a little extra money- and we’ll figure this thing out ourselves.   Meanwhile you apathetic, useless Hispanic non-profits, bid up the damn 1964 pick-up truck, or tell someone else to buy it!