By Bob Auth, reprinted with permission from Save Jersey.
There was no shortage of meaningful Memorial Day events throughout our New Jersey villages, towns, and cities that our governor, Mikie Sherrill, could have attended to honor the men and women, and their families, who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we enjoy in this great Republic. Instead, she chose to spend her time, as our governor, creating photo ops at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark.
At what has been appropriately labeled “a political stunt,” she stood alongside Democrat federal representatives and masked agitators blocking the private facility and demanding its closure over rumors of a hunger strike by detainees and inhumane conditions inside, accusations denied by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Unlike federal lawmakers, our governor has no right to tour Delaney Hall unannounced. That right is reserved for members of Congress and certain other federal officials with oversight responsibilities and has been repeatedly upheld by the courts. The Virginia born-and-bred former congresswoman has been in the governor’s office only a few months, but seems to have forgotten that she, willingly one assumes, traded Capitol Hill for the golden dome on West State Street in Trenton.
As governor of the great Garden State, Sherrill has influence and executive power to fix the plethora of problems created here after decades of majority Democrat (mis)governance. New Jersey’s 1947 Constitution makes the governor chief executive of all State departments. Since she has demonstrated great concern and compassion for the incarcerated, she might look to the state’s own crumbling prison infrastructure. There is plenty of Click here to read the rest of this commentary.
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