The ugly history of the Democrat Party: Part Twenty Four

Coach is Right ^ | 11/1/14 | Kevin "Coach" Collins

[Oldpuppymax]

This installment exposes the worse of the Democrat mayors Chapter Nine: Corrupt Democrat mayors Frank Hague

From 1917 to 1947 Frank Hague, himself a street hoodlum “made good,” was the Democrat boss of Jersey City New Jersey and its mayor. Hague literally punched and stole his way to the Jersey City’s mayor’s office. He was the absolute king of Jersey City and twice used “his” judges and fraudulent paid witnesses to falsely convict a political opponent (a naïve ‘reformer’) and send the man to prison.

He frequently declared, “I am the law.” Hague was so powerful that Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt could not successfully engineer his removal. Ultimately a defeated Roosevelt ended up feeding Jersey City federally funded make- work projects which Hague used to buy still more influence and power through voter fraud and intimidation.

Hague was a tyrant whose greedy rank and file Democrats were happy to sell their votes to but they hated him. A few years after he voluntarily left office, while attempting to make a speech at a season opening baseball game, he was booed so loudly he was forced to walk away. [1] James Walker

Democrat James J. Walker of New York City was the head of his city’s Prohibition era corruption cabal. Walker was personally popular with rank and file Democrats because he maintained the 5 cent subway fare. Nevertheless, by 1932 the revelations of widespread corruption in New York City, which were reported by the Seabury Commission, forced then New York State Governor and Democrat Party nominee for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to force Walker to resign and sail off to Europe until “the heat died down.”

During the life of the 1932 muckraking Seabury Commission which bore his name, Republican Judge Samuel Seabury, an Episcopal Bishop and political reformer relished...

[Theodore R.]

So many in NJ still believe in the “principles” of Frank Hague.