Ciattarelli's new ad hitting Sherrill in N.J.

Team Punchbowl News ^ | September 22, 2025 | Staff

[xxqqzz]

If you could pass one piece of legislation, what would it be?

Wow. I would love That's a really good question because there's so many that are coming to mind right now. But right now, I would love at this point to um pass legislation to um as a

[xxqqzz]

She is doing a Kamala imitation.

[montag813]

Anti LGBTQ is always a winning issue

[Wilderness Conservative]

Horse face froze like a deer in the headlights.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Reporter: "Why do you want to be president?"

Kennedy: "Uhhhhhhhh, er, uh, well, uhhhhh."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sherrill is the white supremacist Karen Version of Kamalala Walz Harris. “Go back to Jamaica mahn! Drink some rum mahn! Iree Iree mahn!”

[pepsi_junkie]

That new commercial has been playing in NJ for weeks. Also the one where she said that her plan would massively raise energy costs but if you're a good person you'll do it.

She's a real winner. On the other hand she has a commercial where Ciattarelli talks about raising the sales tax to 10% and extending it to include currently exempt items like groceries. It's clearly a cut from a longer discussion, would actually like to know WTF he's talking about, because in NJ we had low low gas costs (the one good economic thing we had in NJ) until Chris Christie - a republican - massively raised the tax on it and now it's high. So I can't just dismiss it as deceptive. In NJ the difference between dems and republicans is paper thin.

[God luvs America]

Evidently she has blamed him for fentanyl deaths and Ciattarelli said once the election is over he’s going to use her- i hope he goes through with it...

[bwest]

A Freudian slip there, perhaps?

[Antoninus]

This week, Vanilla Harris has begun running ads saying that voting for Republicans like Ciattarelli will mean higher taxes for NJ families, calling him “High Tax Jack.”

The unmitigated gall of these people.

[jmacusa]

I was born and raised in Hudson County, NJ where political corruption was born. You’re right, there’s really no difference here between the two parties.

You’d have to wonder why we pay the costs we do for gas with the Linden Oil Refinery here.

[pepsi_junkie]

The issue in NJ is that all of them - both parties - run on lowering our outrageous taxes, lowering our outrageous property taxes, lowing our outrageous auto insurance - and in my politically aware lifetime going back to Tom Kaine - nothing is ever fixed, it all goes up. Now they've added outrageous energy costs to the things they will fix, when as with all the other issues, they caused them. This is why we flip flop parties for governor. One party takes power and we get disgusted with how they govern, so we give to the other party and then we get disgusted with how they govern so we give it to the other .... you get the idea.

Christie Todd Whitman was probably the best (I don't really remember Kaine much) and she was no Reagan but she did actually cut some taxes. After her I can't think of one - including Chris Christie - that didn't raise them.

[pepsi_junkie]

You’d have to wonder why we pay the costs we do for gas with the Linden Oil Refinery here.

The answer: Republican Chris Chrstie [spit].

Chris Christie Announces deal to raise gas tax by 23 cents per gallon

[pepsi_junkie]

I had ChatGPT roll the record of governors on NJ taxation:

New Jersey Governors & Tax Records (~1974–2025)

Governor (Party)	Years in Office	Headline Tax Change	Key Tax Actions / Notes
Brendan Byrne (D)	1974–1982	Raised	Established NJ’s first state income tax (1976) to fund schools and property-tax relief.
Thomas H. Kean (R)	1982–1990	Raised	Increased the sales tax from 5% to 6% (1982); pursued some business-tax reductions.
James J. Florio (D)	1990–1994	Raised	1990 package (~$2.8B); raised sales tax to 7% and broadened base; partial rollbacks in 1992.
Christine Todd Whitman (R)	1994–2001	Cut	Phased in ~30% state income-tax cuts (1994–1996).
Donald T. DiFrancesco (R, Acting)	2001–2002	Mixed / Relief-oriented	Short tenure; emphasized property-tax relief, no marquee statewide rate change.
James E. McGreevey (D)	2002–2004	Raised	Signed the 2004 “millionaire’s tax” (top PIT rate to 8.97% over $500k).
Richard J. Codey (D, Acting)	2004–2006	Maintained / Relief emphasis	Oversaw rebates/Senior Freeze; major rates largely unchanged beyond prior enactments.
Jon S. Corzine (D)	2006–2010	Raised	Raised sales tax from 6% to 7% (2006) and expanded the sales-tax base; dedicated a portion to property-tax relief.
Chris Christie (R)	2010–2018	Mixed	Cut sales tax to 6.875% (2017) then 6.625% (2018); raised gasoline tax by 23¢/gal (2016) for transportation funding.
Phil Murphy (D)	2018–present	Raised (top rates) / Mixed later	Expanded “millionaires’ tax” (top rate 10.75% ≥ $1M, 2020); temporary corporate surtax (later expired); recent budgets avoided broad hikes but added/considered targeted taxes/fees.

[Antoninus]

Worse than this, property taxes have been steadily increasing everywhere, on top of what are already the highest property taxes in the nation.

And even worse, health insurance has increased about 5-10% every stinking year in the state. Living here will become an impossibility for young people.

[Fiji Hill]

in NJ we had low low gas costs (the one good economic thing we had in NJ) until Chris Christie - a republican - massively raised the tax on it and now it's high

A similar thing happened in California in 1991 when Governor Petie Wilson, a RINO, rammed through a huge tax increase that sent our economy into a five-year recession. Had he been a Democrat, Republicans in the legislature probably would have blocked it, but they went along with him because he was a Republican.

[USS Alaska]

In NJ the difference between dems and republicans is paper thin.

You cannot mention thin and Christy in the same post.

[jmacusa]

I despise that man.

I live in NJ.

Christie is a fat a** Lou Costello-look-a-like f’ing RINO.

[pepsi_junkie]

Chris Christie is a big mouthed a-hole who spewed a lot of loud empty words with no action and who did nothing at all in eight years except raise taxes at the end of his term and then let his staff go to jail to protect his worthless ass from consequences of his revenge scheme on a small city mayor.

He's despicable and I hated when Trump brought him in to manage personnel in the transition for his first term. No wonder we got so many anti-Trump plants in his adminstration, not the least of which was his own personal lawyer and bridge gate counsel Christopher Wray.

[Dr. Franklin]

She’s so indecisive, I can’t imagine that she was a competent military officer.