Neither Democrat running against Staten Island Mafia thug Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm deserves to be elected-- not even over one of the worst and most corrupt Members of Congress ever. Domenic Recchia is a typical Steve Israel-recruited mystery-meat hack who isn't fit to collect a civil servant check, and Erick Salgado, a hate-mongering bigot and right wing sociopath, is even worse. (If Salgado sounds vaguely familiar, it may be be cause he came in 6th-- after Anthony Weiner-- in the primary in the recent NYC mayor's race.) Last Sunday, though, we discussed how Grimm is one of the first two candidates in Bill Maher's Flip-A-District extravaganza.Maher, who hasn't delved the depth of Grimm's criminal character yet, explained that "he’s a guy who thrust himself into the running this year by threatening to throw a reporter off the balcony of the Capitol. He seems to be all of Staten Island distilled in one man and there is a lot of enthusiasm out there for making him go away."Grimm, who has virtually no positive case to make for reelection in the blue-trending district, was quick to grab at the attack by Maher as a lifeline-- and is already whining in fundraising e-mails that he's being picked on. He terms the Staten Island and Brooklyn congressional district as "My Congressional seat," rather than a seat that belongs to the unfortunate constituents who keep being told to pick between the lesser of two evils. This is from a letter he sent out over the weekend:
The liberals are coming and apparently, they want MY Congressional seat! Bill Maher announced that he’s taking aim and wants to “Flip This District...”What Maher doesn’t understand is that the voters in Staten Island and Brooklyn do not agree with his anti-Catholic, leftist propaganda. Bill Maher is hardly the spokesman for traditional American values, in fact-- he’s the opposite.Maher not only offers advice to what districts need to be flipped, just this week he shared some words of wisdom to Democrat candidates on how to best “sell” Obamacare to the American people, “Stand your ground. When a Tea Partier says, ‘Obamacare is a government takeover,’ say, ‘I wish’.” …He also said, “We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking, I think it justified crazies.”Like Bill Maher, the DCCC and Mayor de Blasio (aka the most progressive Mayor of New York City has ever seen) want this seat because it would make their lives much easier-- let’s face it, I am the only one standing between them and a liberal take over of NYC.I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people. THEY WANT ME GONE!They want to unseat me because I’m an outspoken, conservative Republican.They despise the fact that I am a United States Marine combat veteran and a former undercover FBI agent and that I continue to fight for the honor of this country.The reality is the liberal left is destroying this great country. They don’t share our values.
Not many people who have examined Michael Grimm's sleazy career, much of it steeped in criminal activities, look to him for a definition of reality. Widely considered the shadiest Member of Congress and a spokesperson in Washington for the Gambino Crime Family, Grimm never stops screaming how he was a Marine. So was Lee Harvey Oswald. So? He also says he was a former FBI agent but never explains that he's under investigation by the FBI for a wide range of offenses and never discusses how he left the FBI for a life in organized crime. And for all his wailing about Maher being "anti-Catholic," Grimm has raised thousands of dollars in suspect funds from pornographers. I wonder if the DCCC will ever allow a candidate worth voting for to run against Grimm.
