In a Shocking and Unprecedented Attack, Sitting Congressman Bill Pascrell Threatens Opponent and Financial Donors
October 3, 2012
By shmuleyforcongress
BILL PASCRELL THREATENS “SUFFERING” FOR RABBI SHMULEY AND SHELDON AND MIRIAM ADELSON
Englewood, NJ, October 3, 2012— Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Republican Congressional candidate in New Jersey’s 9th district, is speaking out against Congressman Pascrell following an October 1st article on NJSpotlight.com (https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/09/30/super-pac-money-enlivens-congressional-race-in-9th-district/), in which Pascrell was quoted threatening Boteach and his financial donors, Jewish mega-philanthropists Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
The article quotes Congressman Pascrell saying about Rabbi Shmuley: “He’ll have to suffer with the people who he’s getting the money from.” Referring to the Adelson Family, who are maxed-out donors to Shmuley’s campaign, Pascrell continued, “We know their record. We know they’re being investigated. If he wants to take money from them, fine.’’
Congressman Pascrell sits on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs and other revenue-raising measure. The implication is clear as day: Congressman Bill Pascrell is using his position to intimidate and silence his critics.
In response to Pascrell’s shocking, unprecedented and reprehensible attack, Rabbi Shmuley has issued the following statement:
“I find it bone-chilling that a sitting Congressman would threaten his opponent for simply engaging in the democratic process. It is one thing for Bill Pascrell to try and intimidate me and my supporters. It is completely another to threaten unspecified retaliation in the form of ‘suffering’ for simply exercising First Amendment rights. We expect harassment of political opponents in Iran and the former Soviet Union. We certainly don’t expect an elected official in New Jersey to act in this manner. The Adelsons are the foremost Jewish philanthropists in America. It is particularly troubling that a sitting Congressman would threaten people who have done so much good in the world.”
Rabbi Shmuley added, “I find it rich that Pascrell who spent $2.5 million to defeat Steve Rothman just three months ago is suddenly whining about money and politics.”
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Amen! And that means the same thing in most faiths. Pascrell should be ashamed of himself. Dirty threats won’t get him elected. More power to RAbbi Schmuley.
Slippery Bill is a dirtbag. And Menendez isn’t much better.
Bill Pascrell is a typical NJ Politico SCUM BAG ,what does he think he is in the mob ?
this is why this state sucks