Summary of the topics discussed by Seth Grossman on the "Liberty and Prosperity" WPG Radio program. ????️ The New Jersey Governor's Election (Jack Ciattarelli vs. Mikey Sherrill) The bulk of the discussion focused on the election, with Grossman outlining points he believes voters should know. High Electric Bills: Grossman blames high electricity costs on Governor Murphy for shutting down six productive power plants (including nuclear and Beesleys Point) in pursuit of "green energy." He argues that alternative sources (wind, solar, tidal) are unreliable and that only coal, oil, gas, or nuclear can provide consistent power. He states that Jack Ciattarelli has promised to reopen or replace these plants. Critique of Mikie Sherrill's Record: He challenges Sherrill's background, claiming: She was not a "military commander" but worked in an office. She was a lawyer who didn't practice in a courtroom but worked for a firm that bullied and shook down big corporations to promote "woke" causes. (DEI, anti-American). She was "never a prosecutor" but an “outreach and re-entry coordinator”. Her job was to help criminals get housing, employment, health care and counseling when they got out of prison. Sherrill's Stances: He claims Sherrill is in favor of "open borders," "sanctuary" policies in New Jersey, and "reparations for slavery." Teachers' Union Endorsement and "Statewide Property Tax": T The teachers' union pension fund was run as a "Ponzi scheme" fore years. Teacher got low salaries and made small pension fund contributions for years. Then they got big pay hikes just before they retired. Then their pension payments were based on their highest salaries just before they retired! By 2014, the pension funds were insolvent. The NJEA Teachers' Union sued the state claiming that the pension fund was "$50 billion in the hole" as of 2014. The union wants a constitutional amendment to create a new, "mandatory statewide property tax" to bail out the pension fund. In 2017, the NJEA spent more than $4 million to try to defeat former Senate President Steve Sweeney for previously blocking this. In 2021, they finally succeeded. Sherrill's commitment to "secure pensions" a "code word" for her commitment to this new statewide tax to bail out the pension funds.  "Fake News": Democrats and "billionaires" created a "fake charity" to fund a "fake newspaper" called the New Jersey Independent. We don't know who is paying for it because it is registered as a "charity" and not as a political campaign organization. This fake newspaper is mailed voters with the big lie that Ciattarelli "talked about" raising the sales tax. He never did! He answered a question about why Tennessee doesn't have an income tax. Sherrill's TV ads are now quoting this "fake newspaper" as a source for this fake news. In reality, Democrat Sherrill made a commitment to raise taxes to bail out the NJEA Teacher pensions. ????️ Atlantic City State Takeover Grossman criticizes Senator Vince Polistina's proposal for a 10-year extension of the state takeover of Atlantic City. He argues the only reason Atlantic City fell into financial trouble was because of the first state takeover under Governor Chris Christie (starting in 2010). He claims Christie, to avoid conflict with unions while planning his presidential run, allowed Atlantic City to run "illegal budgets" for six years, accumulating $400 million in debt. The purpose of the "takeover" was to keep the City from suing the State to repudiate this illegal debt created by Christie. ☀️ A "Nightmare" in Florida: A Cautionary Tax Tale Grossman discusses a ballot question in Florida, supported by Governor Ron DeSantis, that would give the option to eliminate property taxes and fund schools and services with state taxes instead. He calls this a "nightmare" and uses New Jersey's history as a "cautionary tale." He argues that property taxes are the "most fair" form of taxation because everyone (including renters and owners) pays, and it makes government spending accountable to the taxpayers. He warns against creating "corrupt voters"—people who can vote for more government spending while thinking "somebody else" (through sales or income taxes) will pay for it. He points to New Jersey's 1966 introduction of the sales tax and 1976 introduction of the income tax, both of which failed to lower property taxes as promised. TRANSCRIPT: SETH GROSSMAN:  There's a lot of new stuff posted on the LibertyandProsperity.com website, especially with the election. So if there's anybody that you know who has who has not made up their mind on whether to vote for Republican uh Jack Ciattarelli or Democrat Mikie Sherrill, just go to our website and share the posts you see there. They explain everything. MAMDANI CAN NEVER BE PRESIDENT. HE IS NOT A "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN". HE WAS BORN IN UGANDA IN AFRICA.  First, let me put your nightmare aside. Mamdani's not going to run for president because I believe he was born in Uganda. Article II, Section One of our Constitution makes it clear that you've got to be a "natural born citizen of the United States" to be President. In fact, there were some doubts about Franklin Roosevelt because even though his parents were American, I he was born at their summer vacation home in Campobello Island in Canada. However, he qualified because both of Roosevelt's parents were American citizens.  However, Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda in Africa, and neither of his parents were American citizens. So Zohran Mamdani cannot be President. JOHN DEMASI: Oh, well, that that makes me feel better. SETH GROSSMAN: But there are some very scary nightmares out there that I will try to get to this morning. But since the election on Tuesday is so important, let me go through I guess eight points about what you should tell your undecided or Democrat friends about the election between Republican Jack Ciattarelli for Governor and Democrat Mikie Sherrill. JACK CIATTARELLI'S PLAN TO REBUILD, RE-OPEN OR REPLACE THE POWER PLANTS MURPHY SHUT DOWN IS THE ONLY WAY TO BRING ELECTRIC RATES BACK DOWN.  First of all, electric bills are high in New Jersey because Governor Murphy shut down six productive power plants that produced almost half of the electricity we needed. Before then, New Jersey produced more than enough electricity to take care of ourselves. That is why we had low and affordable electric rates. But then Governor Murphy wanted only so-called green energy from wind and solar. So Murphy shut down the nuclear plant in Oyster Creek in Lacey Township. He shut down the B.L. England plant in Upper Township  by the Milepost 28 Bridge on the Parkway, and four others. So we in New Jersey now have to get half of our electricity from Canada and other faraway places at very high prices. Jack Ciattarelli proposed and has a plan to reopen, rebuild, or replace those six power plants. That's the only way to bring down electric rates. The Democrat Mike Sherrill is promising stupid gimmicks that are just illegal. You can't declare a state of emergency and force electric companies to charge people less for electricity than what it costs them to get it. And by the way, I know you get a lot of calls about alternative ways of to make electricity. The key to electricity is when you plug your toaster oven into the plug, it get 110 volts and 1200 watts of electricity every time. Otherwise, it either doesn't work or burns up.  It has to get the same flow of current all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So if the wind comes and goes and clouds come and go, you can't use wind or solar to power an electric grid. I know you had a caller last week from Ocean City who said, "Well, let's use the waves of the ocean to make power." Well you can't do that because sometimes you have calm days without any waves, and sometimes you waves that are too big and shut everything down. What do you do then? Either the whole grid shuts down, or you have to immediately get electricity from a reliable source. And that means you need tolots of electricity from a reliable source to replace it. There are only reliable ways to make electricity in New Jersey: coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear. You can't have dams and hydroelectric here ins South Jersey because you need lots of water flowing downhill, and we don't have any hills here. So, we need to use common sense and eighth-grade science to understand and fix the problem. Jack Ciattarelli, has training and experience as an accountant and a business owner. He understands the problem and has a real plan to fix it. Mikie Sherrill and the Democrats are spouting absolute nonsense. So, that's number one. MIKE SHERRILL COMPLETELY LIED ABOUT WHO SHE IS. Number two, you got to dissect all the lies of the Mikie Sherrill campaign. No, she was never a a military commander. She was a Private Benjamin. She worked for an admiral in an office on land, not in a ship, not in a helicopter in the Navy. When she gets out of the Navy, she becomes a lawyer, but she's a lawyer who never practices law in the courtroom. She worked for the richest law firm in the world which is also a woke law firm. They shake down big corporations and bully them into doing Diversity Equity and Inclusion in their hiring and promoting all sorts of woke agendas in their marketing. It's all described and documented in detail on our libertyandprosperity.com website. Mikie Sherrill was She was never a prosecutor. Her job with the U.S. Attorney's office was as a counselor. She helped criminals find jobs, housing, counseling and health care when they got out of prison. Things like that. And when he got out the prosecutor's office, where she wasn't a prosecutor, here career goal was finding a job doing criminal justice reform, whatever the heck that means. But then somebody gives her $3 million and she runs for Congress, and now she's running for Governor.