Jersey Mikie Goes From Disgraceful to Unforgiveable – NOBODY Disses Taylor Pork Roll in NJ

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Okay, that does it.

I can do battle over a low-life trying to cover her tracks after being exposed as part of the largest cheating scandal in the history of the United States Naval Academy.

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Along with her husband.

And I am more than glad to ponder the wonder of how these same two sterling examples of service academy honor and integrity managed to pull off the statistically impossible trick of having two – TWO, mind you – of their children selected and appointed to the Naval Academy, BOTH IN THE SAME YEAR.

As a twelve-year veteran of the selection process, I have first-hand knowledge of just how impossible and, frankly, miraculous a coincidence this is.

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill is facing renewed attention after revelations that two of her children were accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy, days after her campaign was rattled by reports of her involvement in a 1994 cheating scandal as a midshipman.

On Tuesday, the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) came under added pressure following news that two of her four children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg, had secured appointments to the U.S. Naval Academy. The announcement, first made in June, noted that the siblings were among just nine students from her congressional district to gain entry to the service academy, which admits fewer than one in ten applicants. According to the academy, each member of Congress may nominate up to 15 candidates for each vacancy, though only five constituents may be enrolled at any given time. Applicants must also meet additional academic, medical, and physical requirements.

The New York Post reported that the children received nominations through New Jersey U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and George Helmy rather than their mother’s congressional office. Sherrill said she directed them to apply through the Senate process “in order to remove even the appearance of a conflict of interest.” It remains unclear if Booker or Helmy listed either applicant as their principal nominee.

Questions quickly surfaced online over how two children from the same family were admitted in the same year given the competitive nature of the process. Sherrill’s campaign communications director, Sean Higgins, denounced the attention on her family as an “attack,” accusing allies of Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli of targeting her husband and children. Supporters of Sherrill have countered that her daughter went through the Navy Preparatory Program before entering the academy, and that the admissions were earned on their own merit. Furthermore, Sherrill’s campaign has rejected calls to release her full Naval Academy disciplinary records, arguing that the disclosure of her unredacted military files was unlawful, while pointing to her nearly ten years of service as a Navy officer. 

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The Sherrill campaign has been nothing but an insult to injury as far as what kind of candidate the Democrats think New Jersey voters deserve.

From stock ethics violations to a skyrocketing income once in Congress, and now with two children attending the prestigious national service academy at taxpayer expense, despite their parents’ disgraceful exit, New Jersey has been awfully good to Mikie Sherrill and her family.

So, part of the criticism of Sherrill is that, besides being a truly appalling candidate, she’s not a native New Jerseyan and has made little effort to be one, despite being a resident for more than fifteen years.  Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t be a good fit for whatever state you’ve moved to, but most of that is dependent on your attitude. 

First and foremost, it always helps if you act like you like where you are, not that you’re stuck and suffering the natives. 

Should you encounter sacred regional treasures off-putting or find the local customs unappealing, maybe even laughable, while running for public office, one would hope that natural intelligence and a respect for the home you’ve chosen would lead you to keep your mouth shut.

If you couldn’t keep it shut, at least be polite.

Sherrill does not display this capacity for critical thinking.

For example – a sacred New Jersey delicacy – and the subject of many ardent arguments over its proper nomenclature – is Taylor pork roll (don’t even tell me ‘ham’ – it says pork ROLL right on the label).

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Unlike regional specialties, Taylor pork roll reigns supreme in all its various guises from the foothills of the Appalachians, where we lived in Sussex County – fried crispy in butter, served on buttered toast for a sammich fit for a king – to the Shore, where it’s a breakfast staple, either a sammich or as a side with eggs.

Taylor pork roll rules the length and breadth of New Jersey.

Bingley sends me pictures when he’s whipping them up, to cruelly make me weep with nostalgia.

Virginian Mikie Sherrill has seemingly just spit all over beloved tradition.

The New Jersey Congresswoman and wannabe governor of the Pork Roll State says ‘It’s gross.’

She thought there was trouble before?

This daffy girlfriend hasn’t seen anything yet.

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It’s a pork roll pile on.

Her opponent and native New Jerseyan knows a good thing, a good opening, and a damn fine sammich when he sees one.

Oh, you bet Jack Ciattarelli had some pork roll in his hand just that fast, and he was rollin’, rollin’, rollin’.

“…Who eats pork roll? I think that’s gross,” Dem Mikie Sherrill exclaimed on an episode of “The Zach Sang Show” podcast last week — in an apparent affront to the Jersey-favorite morning meat.

Ciattarelli turned the moment into a campaign ad, posting it on X, complete with a shot at the Jersey street cred of Sherrill, who was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and moved to wealthy Montclair with her family in 2010.

“Hey Mikie. Tell me you’re not from Jersey without telling me you’re not from Jersey. You know what, don’t worry about it. You remind us of it every day in ways big and small.”

Well, it turns out – to be fair, as much as I hate it – that Sherrill had been talking about pork ROLL versus HAM.

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She’s a Montclair snoot – they’re Taylor HAM types.

The age-old New Jersey mystery meat controversy that refuses to die can roil even the governor’s race.

Once and for all, we can finally put the Taylor ham versus pork roll debate to rest.

Alright, probably not.

Nonetheless, over the past week, we tallied more than 70,000 votes in our quest to definitively examine the breadth and depth of loyalty to the two prevailing terms for New Jersey’s most prized salted pig product. We received votes from all 565 municipalities in New Jersey

We analyzed the results in a number of ways and found that the seemingly even divide between Taylor ham and pork roll is no myth – New Jersey is almost dead evenly split on the issue.

But who won?  Well it depends on how you look at it.

If we just take the popular vote, pork roll wins handily. More than 38,000 votes were logged for pork roll, which is the technical term for the product in the federal government’s eyes.

About 32,000 votes were cast for Taylor ham, the original brand name for the product for 50 years, before regulators forced a change around the turn of the 20th century.

Democrats or Republicans, ham or roll, Sherrill or Ciattarelli.

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The choice of New Jersey pork ROLL sammich champions is clear.

If we thought our job in pushing back against the Academia/media/Democrat censorship complex was over with the election, think again. This is going to be a long fight. Ed, David, John, and I are here for it.

COME AT US, BROS!

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