A New Jersey mayor recently caused controversy by criticizing President Donald Trump in a private Facebook post that compared his supporters to “religious zealots” who want to “enact the Christian version of Sharia law.”
Betsy Driver is the mayor of Flemington, New Jersey and her alleged recent post was shared on a local Republican website.
THANK YOU @NBCNews for covering the horrific “Mayor” of Flemington Borough. Betsy Driver, you need to resign! pic.twitter.com/pUwwtMmgax
— TS (@lopestrouse) October 12, 2020
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“This is day one of the new SCOTUS terms – the religious zealots want to enact the Christian version of Sharia law,” the post reads.
“If you voted for the orange monster with COVID, go f*** yourself. If you plan on voting for him again, unfriend me and go f*** yourself again.”
Local GOP Chairman Gabe Plumer shared the post and condemned it as as “shameful” and “insulting.”
“Your statement is antithetical to the principles of representative democracy,” Plumer wrote in a statement.
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“It is further proof that you do not represent the people of Flemington, the character of Hunterdon County, and the values of at least part of the Democrat party.”
Former assemblyman and candidate for New Jersey Governor, Jack Ciattarelli, tweeted something similar on Saturday: “I join with Chairman Plumer in calling for Driver’s resignation & urge leaders across our state to do the same.”
What has become of us? The vitriolic language of Mayor Driver is totally unacceptable. By any elected official, it has no place whatsoever in the public discourse. I join with Chairman Plumer in calling for Driver’s resignation & urge leaders across our state to do the same.
— Jack Ciattarelli (@Jack4NJ) October 10, 2020
Ciattarelli and Plumer are correct, but this kind of local and hateful anti-Trump sentiment happens more often than some might think.
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A woman who declared “I am Antifa” wants to be the next mayor of Portland.
And she’s ahead in the polls.
The Washington Examiner reports, “A poll shows Portland, Oregon, mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone is up 11 percentage points over the city’s incumbent Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler.”
“Iannarone has defended antifa, an often-violent activist group whose masked supporters protest law enforcement and work to promote left-wing policies, once tweeting, ‘I am Antifa,” the Examiner noted.
Portland Mayoral Candidate @sarahforpdx says she is "ANTIFA"- What does she mean? She tells @jessewatters and you're gonna wanna see this! WATCH pic.twitter.com/2XJPScQld0
— Watters' World (@WattersWorld) September 6, 2020
Fox News’ Jesse Waters asked Iannarone in early September, “Why do you call yourself the ‘Antifa mayor?'”
“Because it’s good to oppose fascism!” Iannarone replied.
Madison, Wisconsin Mayor Forced To Apologize For Praising Police
The mayor of famously left-wing Madison, Wisconsin was recently forced to apologize after a video of her praising and showing sympathy for the police was leaked, because she supposedly failed to say that black lives matter.
NBC News reports, “The mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, apologized after video leaked of her praising local officers and sympathizing with police over the stress of recent protests without discussing the nationwide concerns for police reform.”
Madison mayor apologizes after video leaks of her praising officers with no mention of police reform #Wisconsin https://t.co/mkuViTu4GO
— Raymond E. Foster (@policeofficer) June 12, 2020
“Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway walked back the comments in a new video posted Wednesday where she admits she ‘failed to center’ the message that black lives matter in her password-protected video to the Madison Police Department,” NBC noted.
“I realize I may have done irreparable harm with my actions,” Rhodes-Conway said. “I realize too that I may have permanently lost any trust I may have had.”
Extremist left-wing views are not confined to the bright lights and bold headlines of national political figures. But it’s the environment we find ourselves in now.
They can be found right down the street, at City Hall.
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if the New Jersey mayor needs to move to a country that supports Sharia Law we do not want it here
New Jersey turd speaks.
the left is losing it, which also means they had no real or substantial rhetoric
Where is the insane asylum that these ungrateful, unpatriotic, ugly and people and politican come from. It must have been from the woodwork there. Can't believe some of these people; most of them certainly should be locked up or put on a slow boat to China with a 1/2 a tank of fuel. Those who are unhappy with the US really have mental problems, insecure, incompetent, dumb, etc. They need to learn to zip their mouth as nobody wants to hear about their misery.
Just goes to show you how smart you people are. The liberal left wants Sharia law, not the right. Get your 'facts' straight.
President Trump made another brainless head explode Bravo Trump. To the people in Flemington get your head out of your ass
I think she is a two bag lady one for her head and one for the guy's
Mayor Driver supposedly the "first intersex public official" in the US has a potty mouth …
Yep, Trump supporters want "sharia law". Do you think she said that while wearing her mask or did she dare to take it off in violation of Governor Murphy's dictates? Maybe she said it in a masked Zoom meeting like one leftist bunch of idiots required.
In the order of increasingly stupid comments are leftists, ignorant leftists that post on this and other similar sites, and then there are leftist and Democrat mayors like this clown, DiBlasio, and Lightfoot.
Well, she did say the "Christian version of Sharia Law." I wonder what she means by that. Perhaps she's referring to the 10 Commandments (which are Jewish Law), or Jesus' statement "Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and spirit, and love your neighbor as you love yourself."
But she sounds like a crybaby, a toddler in a grownup body, who HATES God with everything in her, and therefore HATES both her neighbors and herself. What "laws" would she prefer? Probably something on the order of "rules for thee but not for me." A lot of crybabies, especially those promoting violence, seem to believe in "No Rules, No Enforcers." That would be because they want to be the rulers who make the rules for everyone else and enforce them with death.
Since these people have long since chosen to live in fantasy worlds in which they are king, queen, and god, rather than the real world, they are clearly insane.
So, she thinks all Trump supporters are Muslim? If so, isn't that considered bigotry?
These corrupt Leftist Democrat Establishment Elite are getting so desperate
that they are resorting to absurd lies.
Trump does not support Sharia law or terrorist.
What he wants is to end unwinnable wars that only enrich the Industrial/Military complex.
Would I buy a used car from Trump? Absolutely!! Not only a used car but also an abused national economy that he turned around in only 3 years and that's why you have to attack him.
After all the hoax of "Russia collusion", all the Chinese Communist Party Virus panic, getting sick with C-19, unending defamation and demonization, etc., etc. he stands VERY STRONG and you ENVY and hate that because you are weak and couldn't take any of what he has endured for a New York minute. Total Fail!! His bombastic statements keep attention on him and the important issues and you, like all the deranged leftists, fall for it. America Is Great!!
Trump does indeed make policy usually with his gut. Consequently, advisors, cabinet members, and career experts have fallen by wayside expressing their abhorrence of Trump's ignorance, lack of work ethic, and narcissism.
The big picture: President Trump says he's an expert on a lot of things, including ISIS, taxes, technology, nuclear arms et al.
Would you buy a used car from this man? Not me!
Funny thing, I graduated a year behind Gen. Mattis from the same high school, though we didn't know each other (it was a big high school). I didn't know this until he mentioned our mutual home town in an interview a few months back. But he is in my high school yearbook. Small world.
That said, I feel bad for the women of Afghanistan once all our troops are pulled out and the Taliban take over. Still, better the people there figure out how to manage than that we do everything for them. Given the idiots trying to burn, loot, and murder in this country in hopes of turning us into China II, we need the troops here.
What you don't understand is that President Trump makes the policy. The Pentagon, esp Jim Mattis, was put on notice on the withdrawal with numerous statements by Trump. It was his ignorance and his mistaken belief that he ran the Defense policy that made him surprised. You also don't know what discussions were held with whom since you weren't there, so you also post in ignorance. However, I have Trump's Tweet records and comments by other people to show numerous statements.
Trump Ensures Sharia Law In Afghanistan. Taliban Rejoice at U.S. Troops Pull Out
President Trump’s surprise tweet last week that he would pull all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas is not the only important military mission he may abruptly shrink or end as Election Day nears.
Mr. Trump has told senior advisers that he also wants to see plans for withdrawing all American forces in Somalia, despite warnings from senior military and counterterrorism officials that doing so would bolster the deadly Qaeda affiliate there and cede strategic ground in East Africa to China and Russia.
U.S. commanders remember all too vividly Mr. Trump’s penchant for taking to Twitter to blurt out a new policy change, as he did in announcing a previous troop withdrawal from Syria in 2018 without informing the Pentagon. That move prompted the resignation of Jim Mattis as defense secretary.
With Election Day less than three weeks away, Pentagon officials are bracing to deal with the consequences of another possible presidential troop forecast.
“How will we mitigate the risk of withdrawing U.S. troops from these places?” said Seth G. Jones, the director of the transnational threats project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “I’m hearing crickets. That is not a recipe for a sound foreign policy.”