Posted on 06/23/2014 3:24:15 PM PDT by PoloSec
Asad Asif, a 19-year-old college student at Rutgers University, didn’t think much of jotting his own name down as a write-in candidate for an open councilman seat in the June 3 New Jersey primary election. “It was kind of like the ‘Mickey Mouse vote,’ where people write in stupid names when they vote for president,” he explained to New Brunswick Today.
However, he was the only one who actually voted in that category — and, weeks later, he found himself being sworn in as member of the Middlesex County Republican Committee.
It’s not exactly a humongous feat to be elected — the Middlesex County Committee has “over a thousand seats,” with nearly half of the Republican seats currently unfilled — but as an accidental Republican on the committee, Asif is now allowed to help decide which politicians get the official Republican endorsement in local, legislative, county, and state elections.
Though Asif is “confident in his abilities to perform his duty as a member of the County Committee,” he doesn’t particularly identify as a Republican or Democrat, nor does he particularly believe in the efficacy of his position. “If I’m going to donate my time, it’ll be to my religion or to an actual charity that helps people,” he said.
Fun fact: That religion is Islam. And according to him, it made his own inauguration difficult: “At the Old Bridge Town Clerk’s office, the employees all gave him ‘dirty looks’ when he requested to be sworn in on a Quran rather than a Bible.” Because of course.
Regardless of religious affiliation, the kid’s doing a heckuva job stirring the pot, as his Facebook profile photo suggests:
” “At the Old Bridge Town Clerk’s office, the employees all gave him ‘dirty looks’ when he requested to be sworn in on a Quran rather than a Bible.””
Did they let him be sworn in on the Quran?
I know in Hudson County there must be plenty of similar open Republican committeeman & woman spots. Ever few years on primary day there may be no candidates and any Republican could written his name in. ( A city divided into several Wards , each ward a voting district)
He’s a Muzzie and he doesn’t worship The Emperor Hussein? Impossible.
Maybe this young man may be OUR ‘fly on the wall’!
I still congratulate him, for his success. I wish him well.
Agree. This is how Islam spreads into the political system until we come to the point that we have congress critters from either party join ISIS in Iraq.
Taqiyya anyone?
You mean the Queer’un don’t you? After all it was dictated by an illiterate pedophile.
“You mean the Queer’un don’t you? After all it was dictated by an illiterate pedophile.”
That is just soooo judgmental!
MadMo embraced diversity some 1,400 years ago. He even dictated (and I do mean “dictated”) how a Muslim must dispose of a sheep or goat that had displeased him. According to MadMo, the animal must be sold to another village - it could not be used for food in the village of its former sex partner.
Islam - to know it is to loath it.
Thus the danger of the “I don’t really care about politics” attitude.
LaRouchians.
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