A Not So Different Kind Of Republican

The different kind of Republican you see above is Dale Gladding. He’s running for Congress in New Jersey, which means he has no shot. The man who currently holds the seat he wants is Rob Andrews, recent victim of Frank Lautenberg in the Democratic Senate primary. Andrews held a Congressional hearing on transgender rights in the workplace, and Gladding wasn’t happy about it.

“While the families of the 1st District are struggling to make ends meet, with gas prices reaching $4 a gallon,” GOP candidate Dale Glading said, “Rob Andrews has demonstrated once and for all how out of touch he is with the people he has failed to represent.”

“We’re not making a statement one way or another about transgender rights,” Tim Saler, Glading’s campaign manager, said. “We’re just saying that if you had a list of things that need addressing right now, transgender rights would not be at the top.”

Are we to assume Rob Andrews is incapable of addressing both gas prices (which he really can’t do anything about) and transgender rights (which he might be able to, by chairing a subcommittee)?

Glading’s campaign manager’s statement is even more annoying. If you’re going to say, “I don’t care about transgender rights,” (or anything similar about any issue) you have to take the criticism that could come with that statement. You can’t say, “Transgender rights are not important,” and also say, “I’m not making a statement on transgender rights.” And Andrews isn’t even running for re-election. And you’re a Republican in fucking New Jersey who is running for a seat which represents, say, Collingswood and Haddonfield (and other towns where lots of gay people live) and you say things that will make no gay people vote for you and, seriously, how fucking stupid are you?

New rule: I don’t want to go on a rant here. But, come on.

Transgender rights hearing earns Andrews praise, pans [Courier-Post]
Image via Dale Glading’s website

Action News, Poetically

Oh, I recorded this last weekend then forgot to post it. Here’s Action News‘ Rob Jennings, reporting on tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Now that, my friends, is poetry. Is he speaking in iambic pentameter? The local news stations should totally begin all their broadcasts this way.

And You Thought You Were Free Of This

Ha ha, New Jersey has a primary coming up, too, and it’s not until the first Tuesday in June. Apparently the state only moved up its presidential primary, and other primaries — including U.S. Congressman Rob Andrews’s challenge of current U.S. Sen. Frank “Secaucus Junction” Lautenberg — aren’t for over a month away. This ad shows that Congressman Andrews specifically killed like 300 million Iraqis. I can’t wait for more of it!

Rob Andrews Already Getting Attacked

A reader was browsing her Pennsylvania Democrats email when she noted a “Rob Andrews for Senate” Google ad on the side of the page. Andrews, a U.S. Congressman, is challenging 147-year-old incumbent Frank “Secaucus Junction” Lautenberg in the primary.

The link goes to robandrews2008.com, which is a weird URL to use for the website of the Jersey Inquirer. It’s also odd that the paper only seems to report on negative news about Rob Andrews.

Still, I’m pretty pumped about a new newspaper to make fun of. But, you know, it could use some stories.