1/21/2010 The home page exactly as it's appeared from early summer 2009 onward, with several minor insertions on 10/22/09.  As excitement builds and events take hold, pages are added.  After the election the Stein momentum continues and so do the pages.  Chris Christie is sworn in as Governor  on January 19, 2009.  Congratulations Governor are in order, both of us look forward to new challenges.  Nobody minds if I keep adding pages, do they? -----------------------------------------------------

Gary Stein for Governor:  The Colloquial Candidate

 Hello New Jersey voters….. if you found this site then something is working right for a change.

Nice going and thanks. You're here in spite of what seems to me like a “media black out” of  the Independents.  Do we threaten the “set up;” the status quo, Democrat-Republican, Republican-Democrat.  All the players; the press, NJEA, trade organizations etc. not only must line up behind either/ or, they forget who we the Independents are?  Regular folks that’s who.  How about a look-see by you in the media for Pete’s sake!  Let the folks know we’re alive.  I can live with the fact we’re all going to lose by 50 points; all I and the others ask for is a smidgeon of reportage. I'm not sure about thm but I just might have something worthwhile to say.  Some of us ordinary people like to disdainfully throw this term around- “the elite media;” I wouldn’t have that long ago, but count me in now............

(10/22/09   It’s four months since this home page was written and nothing "changes," a line here and there in the NJ papers; useless…..I’ll try a different approach next year, (you'll see)...... when it's Stein for Congress 2010)

  ............ That coverage of any new blood ain’t going to happen either unless the people do more than just say they’re angry.   And that’s not happening because it’s too complicated for stressed out busy people to get organized.  Success for me would be if this web site made the rounds the way a funny, some times off-color e-mail gets passed around.   Is it a possibility if it's more than just dry political mumbo jumbo? 

 I’m not raising a nickel, and as an unknown it’s not in the cards, so creativity, stunts and a $50 dollar web site has to carry the day.   The 2^rd page is a U-Tube extravaganza that I'm crossing my fingers you’ll  tell all your voting friends about, and it has virtually nothing at all to do with politics.  If I'm going to get the word out at all, or be the ringleader of some minor protest, perhaps that might help circulate the site.

Let’s upset the establishment apple cart so speak, just a little.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y16HUOAmT0  Was that 11 seconds of unconventional politicking?  Yes and who cares, I’m free, I’m an Independent!    If this founders and I can’t get 1-2% in the polls, at least I’ll go down swinging! Glad you’re here. Stick around, I don't think I'll disappoint, but who the heck knows?

 

Seriously though, there is one issue I’m supremely qualified yet bold enough to talk about (it's revealed in the next paragraph).  I just might have something to add to the political dialogue.  I didn’t spend precious time bugging average folks for 854 signatures to get on the ballot, just to post you-tubes of my favorite movies and music (2nd page).  And neither is my pitch to blather on and on like the other 8 independents will about broken government, or two bad nominees.  I’ve got other fish to fry, something important to say.  If you’ve noticed, the 8 are rather short on specifics anyway, and I for one, rather like Chris Christie.  Follow his lead and slash the payroll, cut a few departments and we’ll all be better off.  That’s that in a nutshell........... 

10/22/09  Good luck Mr. Christie, I’ll keep my few hundred votes and it’s on to steinforcongress2010.com.

.........As for Jon Corzine, he’s no fool either; we’ve got two formidable candidates, a close race, Trenton is broken, hundreds of thousands of Jersey residents have no health care, and you didn’t need 8 wannabe’s to tell you that.   The real question the world waits for is, will I, a little man with a worthwhile issue, set off fireworks or fire a dud?  Did you know I’ve spent the last 2 years beating an e-mail drum ad nauseam from the computer keyboard in my laundry room, trying to get the media to pay attention to my issue, a problem our stalwart politicians in Washington, never mind Governors, won’t touch unless they have a political death wish.  Who knows if those e-mails where ever opened? Now after getting those 8oo plus signatures, I’m a gubernatorial candidate and somebody, even if it’s one person, is going to listen.  Is any one curious, and will I run out of steam or even care myself soon?   Two years is long time.

 Fellow small fry's and concerned voters, 99.9% of the reason I got into this thing has everything to do with my extensive first hand experience with, swallow hard, the thorny immigration reform issue, and Mexico.  Hell or high water, I’m going to help my best friend of 7 years, sort of a son to me,  who was here in the U.S. for 5 years but is now back home in rotten Mexico and needs my help… if you only knew!  Maybe if I help him I can do myself some good, and believe it or not maybe you and you as well.  If by some miracle I can successfully promote what is a very plausible scenario, all of us, NJ folks included, will have solved the uninsured motorist dilemma for starters, no small feat, but there are, I’m certain, some other paybacks as well; it could be a win-win. If you read what follows and think it has merit, then we as Garden State-rs can be the first in a long line to shame the wicked Mexican government into taking action from their end.  A novel idea and later we might all have a revived trading partner.   Mexico is the one to blame for this whole mess.  It begins and ends as it always does in the third world with political corruption.  It spoils everything.  That’s why their citizens ran here 100 years ago, and why they try getting across the border now every ingenious which way.  Looking on the bright side, consider that a country with so much potential is right on our doorstep- and we as the change agents don’t live far.  This is not some drought stricken, resource barren, terrorist haven.  The people are devout and hard working, there’s also great natural wealth, but there’s that wicked government.   Mexico is a 100 years behind the times, the potential is endless if the economy ever lets loose, and why shouldn’t it?  We might hold the trump card i.e., amnesty.  Let me repeat, amnesty, for a good number of their citizens who where using very good judgment, from their viewpoint, when they ran here.  Are ours and Canada’s geography any better than theirs?  Heck no.  The only problem in Mexico is there's always a few rotten apples in every barrel.  Good people, bad government.

Here's a plan, or is it just more whistling past the grave yard by me? Let’s offer amnesty, and at the same time everybody hold back the money in a boycott; the illegals (blue means that's a link) by not sending remittances and us by not visiting.  The first step- an indication to Mexico that this is a two way street- would be for us in New Jersey to offer drivers licenses to our illegals. Later, after they get their priorities straight,  Mexico get ready for more hotel construction and visitors- if and when you or I can get in our damn car and travel there without fear of being rousted by the Mexican police.  My plan is the necessary first step, and it’s the only plan out there.  As for the drug cartels?  The Mexican government has the horse before the cart; we’ll turn that around!   If they struck hard at a few selected police departments- with us and the whole world watching- the rest of the government scoundrels  would fold like cheap cameras. To be even more blunt about it, for every corrupt official, there must be a dozen close relatives living here illegally in the United States, desperate for that amnesty.  As for the poor in Mexico, some short term hardship for a chance to throw off the shackles, why wouldn’t they?  If it was me, I’d tar and feather my own brother if he was one of the bastards ruining the economy; but that’s a big if unless there was solidarity coming from us in the United States.

This clunker of a country should be the gateway of goods and services to Central and South America, but without putting to fine a point on it, it’s plugged.   There are 12 million illegals here, and 50 -60 million Hispanic-Americans; the wreck is right on our border, and that for better or worse, makes it different from every other lemon in the world.  What other candidate will talk to you this way?  Boycott Mexico, we have the Hispanic numbers, and they need to get organized anyway; and with a lot of fed up non-Hispanics like you and me, the time is right.  "We the people" initiate foreign policy for once.  We- you and me- not Obama, can give the fair number of honest, decent bureaucrats in Mexico the cover they need- their President included.  What choice would they have?  Amnesty is the grease that could get this done.  Isn’t it?  I’ve been saying this for two long years, but this running for Governor  really is my last gasp.  Each day forward now, I'm more and more taking on the old persona of an anonymous, disinterested American with my own worries.

Anyway let me stoke up the fires of indignation just a little while longer.  I’ve been to the interior of Mexico quite a few times now and I’ve had it.  Those notorious police are the reason I never want to go back there, but I got to come home at least.   One result of the “fence,”  a project by the way which I've always supported, is that any illegals living here, if they decide to go home will have a tough time returning- therefore they're staying put right here so let's face facts.  If they went home, as my friend did 2 years ago, this is what they contend with: Just last month his brother lost an entire days pay… for driving, get the antacid,  without his lights on…… two hours before dusk.  Did the money go into the drug cartel's pockets?  No it went to his local keeper of the peace as a stipend, the same guy who gets paid his regular salary, not from local revenue, but from the bosses in Mexico City. I might as well have said “mob” bosses!  If Mexican citizens run here as a result of this craziness, then we have every right to stick a finger in that governments face.

 

You say build a wall.  I say build a wall, but there has to be more to it.   The shame of it is that Mexico is one place on this continent that really is “shovel ready,” if only?  If only they could eliminate most of the corruption, certainly not all of it, but that’s another story, please read my diaries (3rd page).  Let me just say they have enough natural wealth to barter for a substantial amount of our "shovel ready" goods and services.  The carrot and the stick?  Amnesty.  The  projects I have in mine wouldn't increase our deficit, it would lower it, unlike the one time boost (the vaunted stimulus package) that Washington suckered us into this year.  This would be dangerous talk by the way if it was some pipsqueak like me talking like this from inside Mexico. I’m safe here.  That's more food for thought.

And hey I can dream?  For me the writing has been on the wall for two years...no traction, or do I somehow I get my case aired by running for Governor.  Civics 101 and we could all be proud. 

Just one more point and a little more of your time please  Here’s where things stand now with me and my friend.  It's more real life non-sense as only Mexico can deliver.  It's from only two months ago, and it promises to gnash teeth into the foreseeable future.  Maybe later you’ll take the time to read a thousand other similar stories which brought me to this hair pulling point.  I’ve laid it out on the internet, in a left wing blog called the Daily Kos- I used as a personal My Space. 

My friend was in the United States for 7years when he returned home because he missed his family, and his mother is not well. He stayed as a guest in our house for 5 years.  That’s right!  But you can’t stay there long after you’ve had success here.  Incredibly, since May my friend has had a job waiting for him in Canada, all legal and proper.  He’s obviously not allowed back in the States, so we met in Canada and we used my car to job hunt.  I drove to Toronto, he flew out of Mexico City using precious resources- his dwindling money- and we looked for one week.  Canadian customs gave him one week. It’s a whole different ball game with visas and Canada.   We nailed it on the last day.  There was one very large farm run by a Canadian and his Venezuelan wife, and they were more than willing to have him live and work there. Why wouldn’t they, my friend is one the finest people I’ve ever met.  For his part, he was more than willing to start at the bottom of the ladder again as a picker, a migrant. . While he was in the United States he had a skilled job in the pre-cast concrete business, but he started out in the blueberry fields in South Jersey.  But guess where the hold up is now that he has a job waiting.?  Yes, Mexico and it’s symptomatic of why that country is a basket case.  He may never get the paperwork, or maybe he could pay a bribe…..but only when some office re-opens in November!   Until then it’s as if he never went to Canada.  There’s no record now in Mexico now of any of his attempts to work within their bureaucracy, which he did.  They do business differently down there.  Let me be cute and say you'll never hear a message like this in Mexico- "Your call may be monitored for customer service training purposes."   And the Mexican government wants to criticize the United States, and I guess Canada too, for no action on the citizen thing, i.e., amnesty!!!!!   How much more can I keep writing on page one of a web site who’s sole purpose should be to explain why New Jersey’s government is broken, not the one south of the border?   Banana republic is too kind a description of Mexico.  A boycott would do wonders.  I’d be very happy to drag one reporter form the New York Times down there to see how dramas like this and others are played out, far from the 4 star hotels they're used to staying at, but I don’t even know if the creeps open my e-mails.  Let’s elect Christy or Corzine, and may God grant me my one wish?  One professional reporter, instead of rants like this, and do our story justice.  Let me take "you!"  Thanks everyone else.  Maybe we'll have a bake sale and raise money for said hotshot reporter to go back there with me, or maybe I'll ask for $2 dollar donations on this site?  Wouldn't the NY Times look stupid for "change," instead of me?

Now might be a good time for a break and a musical interlude (There are 23 counties in New Jersey.  Candidates had the option of picking a three word slogan to run with.  Your typical politician, if that’s what I am, a politician, uses one slogan statewide.  Yours truly used Rock the Boat, Giv’m Heck Gary and 21 three word Sinatra song titles; Sinatra who was born in Hoboken, NJ; for a total of 23 slogans.)  . 

 Fools rush in  (Slogan: Camden County)
Where angels fear to tread
And so I come to you my love
My heart above my head

Though I see
The danger there
If theres a chance for me
Then I dont care

Fools rush in
Where wise men never go

On the 3rd page are links to my Mexico adventures.  Every last long suffering detail, as well as biographical detail about me is laid out in “diaries” on the very far left political site called The Daily Kos- where I as a Republican had the chutzpah, the temerity, to blog.  I may not have been a brilliant writer, but few where more creative!  That’s a story in itself, but let me say this, for all the far left chants of inclusion, and diversity, they don’t tolerate it themselves very well.  Just for starters, calling illegals, illegals is not acceptable there. They’re phony, they delete some of the me vs. them "folderol" in the follow up to my diary by using what insiders there call  “donuts” to remove whatever they want.  That started a fracas; the world is a crazy place, it really is.  After 32 diaries, mostly recycling my experiences with Mexico, a few on Detroit and one last tongue in cheek one on health care, I was eventually banned.  I wasn’t too happy about that.  No more signing up as Gary Stein, mightyquinntheeskimo, wyattearp, and J Wesley Harding.  I've called it quits.

 For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!

Left side photos:  Finding work in Canada w/ Sunday off.  Beto and me in $9 seats, Toronto vs. Baltimore

Run for Congress...run for Governor.  What`s next, challenge Barack?