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So tell me, why vote Republican in Morris County?
Opinion Article, Daily Record: July 5, 2008
I am grateful to R. Gregory Jones for his June 24 column about Democrats "punishing (the) affluent" in Morris County. His column contained one profound question worth noting. "Why would anyone in Morris County want to elect a Democrat to municipal office?"...

Frelinghuysen, Wyka win again in 11th District
Star Ledger article: June 4, 2008
It will be Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen versus Tom Wyka, take two. That's the repeat matchup for the November election in the 11th Congressional District after the incumbent Republican and Democratic challenger both won primary elections in the five-county district last night....

Democratic Candidates Debate at Drew University
Daily Record article: April 24, 2008
Democrats Tom Wyka and Ellen Greenberg said it is time to take the country back from the people who are running it. With the Bush administration in its second term, Wyka said, "it is not the time to stand on the sidelines." Greenberg said voters must act "to end the unrelenting assault on the country by the government." The Democrats were speaking at a debate on Tuesday sponsored by the Drew University Democrats...

Wyka wins party support at Democratic Convention
Parsippany Life Article: April 16, 2008
Committee members rallied around Tom Wyka during the first Morris County Democratic Convention at the Knoll Country Club in Parsippany last week. In a landslide victory, Wyka garnered 111 of the 149 votes cast by committee members. Ellen Greenberg an attorney from Mendham received 35 votes and Harry Hager, a retired banker from Chester, received three votes...

Colombia Trade Pact: Deal Could Hurt Workers
Opinion Article, Daily Record: April 13, 2008
Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, R-Harding, spoke of his recent trip to Colombia in his email newsletter last week, praising a plan promoted by the Bush Administration to establish a Free Trade Agreement. The Democrats in Congress decided to call a time out on such deals over concerns that there are not adequate considerations for protection of workers, which makes sense given our economic state...

CCM Forum: Young Voters Making a Difference
Daily Record article: April 11, 2008
One way or another, the 2008 presidential election will be about change, panelists at a forum on the election at County College of Morris said on Thursday. The change is embodied in the Democratic Party candidates running for president for the first time -- a woman, Sen. Hillary Clinton from New York, and a black man, Sen. Barack Obama from Illinois...

Tom Wyka Joins Candidate Coalition Calling For A New Plan In Iraq
Press Release: March 24, 2008
Following on the heels of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Congressional candidate Tom Wyka has signed on to a pledge calling for strong new policy options to end the conflict...

Let's Put An End to Subsidies for Big Oil
Letter to the Editor: March 14, 2008
Matthew Simmons is the head of one of the largest investment banking firms in the world and a former energy adviser to George W. Bush. Simmons has a great concern about the global use of fossil fuels, but it's not for reasons you might think...

Parsippany's Wyka kicks off bid for Congress
Daily Record article: January 27, 2008
Parsippany resident Tom Wyka kicked off his campaign for Congress in the 11th District on Saturday by saying that he would seek the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, the creation of an affordable health insurance system and the full implementation of the 9/11 Commission report...

We Need to Look at Spending
Letter to the Editor: January 21, 2008
So far, my opinion piece discussing a fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax has been met with such derision from the right wing that I've been called a pick-pocket and a socialist (funny -- I never once advocated government takeover of industry). It's clear I've touched a nerve by advocating a return to a true progressive tax at the expense of billionaire hedge fund managers....

Tax cuts don't pay for themselves
Letter to the Editor: January 5, 2008
Gerry Manning's letter is an example of how, once again, we find it so hard to progress as a society when we accept claims of people with obvious agendas without testing against reality or reason. So I'll again engage in another round of fact-checkwhack- mole for the benefit of open-minded readers...

Pork-barrel spending is wrong
Letter to the Editor: January 2, 2008
I'm sure the wealthiest in Morris County appreciated Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll's admonition to "hold onto your wallets" because a big bad Democrat is asking you to pay your "fair share." Which leads me to my admonition: The next time a far right-winger tries to scare you about taxation, beware of his spin...

Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) legislation
Opinion Article, Daily Record: January 2008
Long before I decided to compete with Congressman Frelinghuysen for his seat in the House of Representatives, I always took a great interest in his email newsletters. His first one of this 110th Congressional session was no exception. As a member of the minority – he’s now faced with a new perspective and new agenda...

Alternative Minimum Tax
Opinion Article, Daily Record: December 2008
The Alternative Minimum Tax has been in effect since 1970 for the purpose of keeping taxpayers with high incomes from paying little or no income tax by taking advantage of various preferences in the tax code. One major flaw of the regulation was that it was never indexed to inflation...

State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Opinion Article, Daily Record: October 2007
The latest battle on Capitol Hill over the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), accentuates some notable ideological differences between Bush-style conservatism and real compassionate conservatism. However, I would tend to think that putting childrens’ well-being in between an ideological struggle should be off limits for any person that calls themselves compassionate...