There are certain things a politician just might not reveal before an election, and New Jersey governor Phil Murphy is no exception. We know this because, with the Democrat’s chance at reelection coming up next Tuesday, his advisors were just caught on hidden video admitting that he will force state residents to be vaccinated after he’s reelected. But he can’t be honest about it yet because, one underling said, “right now it is about him winning.”
As the New York Post reports:
Republicans are demanding answers from New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy after campaign staff revealed on hidden camera that he is concealing plans for broad vaccine mandates after the upcoming election….
The video, released on Monday by Project Veritas, shows Wendy Martinez, who works Hispanic outreach for the campaign, tell an undercover reporter that Murphy would implement widespread mandates like California, but the plan can’t be revealed because “right now it is about him winning.”
“He’s going to do it, but he couldn’t do it before the elections because [independent and undecided voters are] all into all the s–t, my rights, my s–t,” Martinez said, adding, “And they don’t care if they kill everybody.”
“He will, but right now it is about him winning,” she said.
Another campaign staffer, Matthew Urquijo, a digital manager, was asked by a Veritas undercover reporter about the governor’s plans for vaccine mandates.
“I think so. I think the problem is right now because it’s election season, he’s not going to have people say like, ‘We’re going to have a mandate now,’” Urquijo said.
This is unfortunately believable because it’s true to form for Murphy. As commentator Andrea Widburg reminded us yesterday:
Murphy is another Democrat governor who has seen COVID’s appearance on the scene as the opportunity to expand his power far beyond the Constitution’s parameters. In 2020, he implemented some of the most draconian lockdown orders in America, including locking down vulnerable seniors with people already infected with COVID.
… Murphy, a product of the Ivy League and Goldman Sachs, became New Jersey’s governor in 2018. A formerly generic Democrat, he became a power-mad tyrant once COVID hit America. As happened in New York, he locked down gyms and restaurants, and even put the kibosh on family gatherings and religious services.
In April, Murphy ordered the arrest of 15 men for attending the funeral of their rabbi, something that is exceptionally important in the Orthodox Jewish community. When Tucker Carlson quizzed him about riding roughshod over the First Amendment’s assertion that people have an inherent right to worship and assemble freely, Murphy guffawed, saying core constitutional rights are “above my pay grade.” Instead, he said, all that mattered were data.
Yet this is a lie, too. If Murphy cared about COVID-19 data, he’d actually analyze them and accept that lockdowns are counterproductive, leading to more death than the “pandemic” alone would; masking large populations doesn’t reduce viral transmission and causes other health problems, physical, social, and psychological; and that the genetic-therapy agents (GTAs, a.k.a. “vaccines”) are of questionable efficacy and are associated with great numbers of serious, and sometimes deadly, side-effects.
But because Murphy doesn’t accept reality, electing him also has deadly side-effects. For example, in August 2020, “when there was still a rule of law in America, the Department of Justice asked the governors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan to explain the orders they issued that resulted in the deaths of so many nursing home residents,” Widburg also writes. “The DOJ noted that ‘New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people — the highest in the nation.’ Luckily for the four Democrat governors who conveniently wiped out the people most reliant on state-funded medical services, Biden’s DOJ dropped the investigation.”
Yet while Murphy clearly doesn’t care about data or death, his “above my pay grade” line about the Bill of Rights was uniquely pathetic. As with all who enter American political office, Murphy took an oath to uphold the Constitution — it is central to his job. Therefore, an admission that it’s beyond him is a confession of incompetence. Such a politician should be immediately removed.
Unsurprisingly, however, the governor’s ignorance is matched by that of his underlings. Just consider the aforementioned Martinez. She absolutely appears a true believer (that’s what happens when you get all your information from The New York Times), as Project Veritas’ sting operation video (below) evidences.
Murphy’s election opponent is Republican ex-state legislator and small-business owner Jack Ciattarelli. He appeared on Tuesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight (video below) to address the governor’s authoritarianism.
While Ciattarelli has been described as Sinatra-esque, a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday nonetheless has him 11 points behind Murphy. And as Politico noted yesterday, Monmouth’s “final polls in New Jersey’s last two gubernatorial races have been close to the final result.”
This perhaps means Monmouth does a good job factoring NJ’s rampant vote fraud into its calculations. Regardless, as with Democrat governor Gavin Newsom’s recall election victory in California, if Murphy wins despite all he’s done and with his GTA mandate machinations having been revealed, he’ll rightly view it as a rubber stamp of his plan. And then it’s no-statist-holds-barred.
As for Widburg’s observation that Murphy is a “formerly generic Democrat” who “became a power-mad tyrant,” note that “generic Democrat” now references a morally bereft, devoid-of-principle demagogue who’ll assume as much power as the situation allows. As journalist and ex-leftist David Horowitz once put it, “Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
