Viewpoint by Seth Grossman

VIEWPOINT

“Grossman offers Voters Clear Choice Between Needed Change and Same Old Swamp” ~ Seth Grossman 

                Donald Trump and I are very different.  Donald Trump grew up in New York.  He was a TV celebrity who built housing projects, hotels, and casinos all over the world.   I grew up on top of my dad’s small dental office in Atlantic City.    I opened my first law office before casinos and took the hard cases no other lawyer wanted.   It took years of work and long hours to build a successful, but modest, small-town law firm. 

Trump took little interest in politics until very late in life.   I loved reading history books, and had an interest in politics since childhood.  I formed the Chelsea Neighborhood Association in Atlantic City in my 20’s and was elected city councilman and county freeholder in my 30’s.  I taught history and politics as a writer, radio talk-show host, college professor, and executive director of LibertyAndProsperity.com.  However, I was careful to never put myself in a situation where I needed politics to earn a living.

Although Donald Trump and I have vastly different personalities and life experiences, we both believe in these three core ideas: 

1.       The America we grew up in during the 1950’s and 1960’s was great.    We never claimed it was perfect.  However, that America produced more wealth, safety, opportunity, and justice for more people,  than any nation in human history.

2.       For more than 50 years, our schools, colleges, media and Hollywood entertainment culture  lied about that America.  They falsely blamed it for every evil in the world today.   During that time, radical left-wing Democrats used those lies to take political power and damage or destroy much of  the culture, laws, and institutions that made America great.   Meanwhile, far too few Republicans stood up to stop them.

3.       If older Americans like us don’t teach the truth to our kids and grandkids, and get active in politics, the America we knew, loved, and grew up with will be lost forever.  If that happens, immigrants to our country will soon find the same oppression, poverty, and violence they thought they were running way from.

I am running as a pro-Trump Republican for Congress in the 2d District that includes most of South Jersey.   The election is November 6.  Early voting begins on September 22.

My opponent is Democrat State Senator Jeff Van Drew.   My personality and background are very similar to his.  For years, Jeff Van Drew and I were self-employed in small-town professions.  We knew each other for years, and were often in the same business, social, and political circles.  Unfortunately, as when the Civil War had brother fighting against brother, we are now on completely opposite sides in this election.

Van Drew has been part of the majority Democratic Party in the New Jersey Legislature since 2002 as both Assemblyman and State Senator.    Van Drew always depended on the political and financial support of  Camden/Gloucester Democrat bosses Steve Sweeney and George Norcross.   These Democrat power brokers helped Jeff get re-elected by letting him vote for some “conservative” issues when his vote did not matter.  However, Van Drew consistently voted with the Democratic machine on issues that did matter.

For 16 years, Van Drew reliably voted for the spending, borrowing, and budgets that put New Jersey some $230 billion in debt and made every public employee pension fund insolvent.   Last June, Van Drew voted for a referendum for a bond issue that would borrow another billion dollars—and mandate a new statewide property tax on top of local property taxes if existing state taxes can’t pay that money back.   For 16 years, Van Drew voted for the high taxes and regulations that forced busine

Van Drew voted to let illegal immigrants get driver’s licenses—and to have driver’s licenses automatically be voter registration forms    Van Drew voted to include illegal immigrants in next year’s census, so “sanctuary” states get extra votes in Congress and the Electoral College.

Obama/Clinton Democrats (and “swamp” Republicans) would like to spend the rest of the campaign talking about the same stuff they talked about for the past six weeks.    They claim I should be disqualified because of two or three of the thousands of posts I shared on Facebook years ago, taken completely out of context.    I would like to spend the rest of the campaign talking about real issues that matter.   Please learn more at GrossmanforCongress.com    Thanks.

Seth Grossman