Heat is on for Hamilton Republicans

It’s hot in Santa Cruz, Costa Rica 97 degrees almost every day since our arrival on Tuesday although political temperatures and tempers have reached boiling points in Hamilton Twp. Republican cauldrons.

Love news of inter-party political wars even on vacation while involved romantically in epicurean delights of gallo pinto, papaya, mango, pineapple and strawberries. Still, no chicharrones or ceviche but those targets appear imminent.

Agitation, dissent and bruised egos can produce tremendous shifts of positive change.

The Hamilton Republican Party may implode before ceviche lands on a local table placemat.

Thursday offered tumult as a Hamilton Facebook scandal exploded with all the harrumph of Costa Rica’s Arenal Volcano.

First, Ed Gore spoke truth regarding his retirement as Township public defender, undermining Mayor Kelly Yaede’s subterfuge about honesty, justice and the American way.

Secondly, Gore if not headed for the door, offered a harmless post that poked fun at Democratic leaders dressed in white for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

Kenneth Enderle, an engineering aid for Hamilton, posted “I haven’t seen this many Democrats dressed in white since they created the KKK.”

Gore added, “I couldn’t figure out at first what the white signified. It makes sense now, Democrats returning to their KKK roots.”

These comments barely move any insensitivity needles. All sentences that mention K in triplicate will receive scrutiny bathed in political correctness overkill.

Ms. Yaede can talk equality until Doomsday or Election Day but the proof in her white pudding perspective about opportunity shows in an inability to diversify Township employee ranks knowing that any addition of color or ethnicity and that excludes black-facing, means a termination of whatever racial biases exist or face lawsuits.

Yaede rolls out Sgt. Quincy Hendryx, seemingly her one AfricanAmerican friend, as a childhood recollection that attempts to tether Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of diversity.

Meanwhile, Mayor Yaede holds hands with Bob DiPastina, a township public works employee and Colleen DiPastina, a civilian secretary, who allegedly shared despicable posts that denigrated Muslims.

By the way, if journalism rules decry spelling out the N-word, even though people verbalize the racial epithet, no need to forward the DiPastina anti-Muslim rant.

It’s nasty, ugly deplorable and worthy of review and rebuke, not this lukewarm approach to ethnic cancer.

Gore cried, “I want equal justice,” believing accurately that the DiPastinas’ alleged anti-Muslim posts were much more severe and “inflammatory.”

All these truths appear after extended membership in the power group, hanging with the in-crowd until one uncool decision means exile. The Gore uproar uplifts hypocrisy to new heights.

Gore says Yaede turned and held her nose after he attended a fundraiser for Ileana Schirmer, a mayor arch enemy. Gore referenced core Hamilton Republicans as the “Yaede mob” and identified Yaede as “bully in chief”, inclined to mean-spirited retaliation.

Gore posted, “First John Barrett, one of the best Finance Officers in the State of New Jersey is removed for daring to oppose Yaede and now me ....... ”

Gore asked anyone to forward posts that connect Hamilton employees to racism as the local Republican party spewed hot venom.

Republicans engage in political arson as they douse each other with flammable liquids then play dare by holding lighted matches.

Meanwhile, Democrats wisely said nothing about Republican eruptions, preaching unity, diversity, and brotherhood as their mayoral candidate Jeff Martin eyes Hamilton’s leadership chair.

Democrats may have it made in the shade but for Republicans — the heat is on to find resolution before a key November election.

Either repair fences or burn down the mission