Where will Herb Conaway do the least harm? State Assembly or U.S. Congress?
New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway is seeking to succeed Rep. Andy Kim (who is giving up his seat to run for the U.S. Senate) in his run for Congress in NJ’s 3rd district.
Tellingly, Conaway has the support of numerous special interest groups.
314 Action Fund - a political action committee that “wants to fight ‘anti-science’ rhetoric by getting scientists to run for office” and sought to shame Republicans who did not take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously (by refusing mask mandates or social distancing) - spent $170,000 on this ad supporting Assemblyman Herb Conaway’s bid for the Democratic nomination for Congress.
Air Force veteran. Doctor. The first Black assemblyman from South Jersey. Doctor Herb wrote the law that helps seniors pay less for the prescription drugs they need. Now Doctor Herb is running for Congress to protect abortion rights and make prescription drugs more affordable for everyone. No wonder Democrats in Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth counties support Dr. Herb Conaway. He stands up for all of us.
(Unless you’re unvaccinated)
In addition to 314 Action, Conaway has the support of a liberal veterans PAC called Vote Vets, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 and all three county Democratic parties in the 3rd congressional district where he’s running.
But to constituents who have come to Trenton to advocate for broader health freedom, including vaccination choice and the full informed consent, Conaway can best be described as the “Medical Interventions for All” candidate. He likes mandates. He likes appeals to authority. Herb Conaway has collected all the titles and certificates that deem him the authority and he has become a critical cog in New Jersey’s political machine.
So my initial response to learning about his candidacy was, NOOOOOOO!
But that’s a knee jerk response… and perhaps a trauma response.
PTSD in New Jersey
As I’ve written before, New Jersey has been through a lot with Assemblyman Conaway.
Since 1998, Conaway has served in New Jersey’s General Assembly and chaired Assembly Health Committee for over a decade. He is also the Director of the Burlington County Health Department, where he has a role in implementing some of the laws he helps make.
Importantly, Assemblyman Herb Conaway is a staunch vaccine supporter and has played a leading role in most of the major health legislation signed into law during his extensive tenure as health chair. His political career can be credited for many of the medical mandates in New Jersey.
…The Democratic lawmaker is skilled at identifying and eliminating any obstacles that stand in the way of vaccine compliance, which may explain why pharmaceutical interests have been so supportive of him. His personal and professional beliefs make him an asset to the pharmaceutical companies and his proposals and assertions have aligned with pharmaceutical agendas throughout his lengthy political career.
Conaway has made his position on vaccines abundantly clear. In 2015, his bill to restrict religious exemptions was met with strong resistance from constituents, who addressed concerns about government interference in personal health decisions and the exercise of religious freedoms. His response:
“We’ve heard too many people playing politics with vaccinations, despite vaccinations having been proven as a vital public health success story. In the end, the only thing government must balance is what’s best for the overall public health, and that means unambiguously supporting vaccinations and making clear that any exemptions must be limited.”
In 2019, when he introduced a bill, this time to eliminate religious exemptions in New Jersey entirely, he explained,
“I was convinced when you took everything together, the uncomfortable nature of asking someone about their religious tenets, and the difficulty government has in deciding whether those religious tenets are bona fide, that it would be simpler to remove the religious exemption, in furtherance of the goal of near universal mandatory vaccination.”
But he flipped the script when it came to opioids:
Conaway’s penchant for government interference in patient decisions shifts considerably when it comes to the regulation of opioids. More than once he blocked legislation that was geared towards limiting opioid abuse, saying,
“The concerns that I have deal with intrusions by the government in the doctor-patient relationship…That relationship is critical to patients receiving the care they need. It’s critical to good outcomes in healthcare.”
In 2016, the Senate passed legislation to restrict first-time opioid prescriptions to seven days, but Conaway would not hold hearings in his committee. “Either you believe that the government can practice medicine or you don’t,” he said.
I recommend reading the post in its entirety here.
On Identity Politics
In his introduction at the New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District Democratic Debate, Herb Conaway stated:
This is a historic election for me, personally. If elected, I’ll be the first black physician to serve in Congress in the nation. And I’ll be the first African American male to represent South Jersey in the Congress.
(You can watch the full debate here.)
Notably, in reference to his opponent, fellow LD-7 assembly member Carol Murphy, he told the Pine Barrens Tribune:
Another distinction between me and my chief opponent in this primary race is my refusal to run on identity politics. Americans are rightly weary of identity politics.
Interesting…
Dr. Rima E. Laibow has some strong words for Dr. Conaway on this front.
In her response to his fundraising e-mail, she writes:
Dr. Conaway,
Am I supposed to vote for you because you are black? Do you recommend choosing representatives on the basis of their skin's melanin content? Would you suggest voting for people because they are white, or not voting for them because of similar reasons? I find that utterly abhorrent.
Am I supposed to vote for you, or support your campaign, because you are a physician? Are you free of the indoctrination and distortions of pharmaceutical medical training? As a physician, I am well aware of the many deceptions and illusions to which we have been asked to become subservient, such as vaccination reverence and natural remedy contempt. Should I vote for you because you adhere to these distortions, or because you have broken away from them? Until I know what the answer is, your qualification as a physician is most definitely not a positive in my mind.
Later on in your fund-raising letter, you tell me that you are running to provide access to every woman to healthcare, including reproductive care and I say, Bravo! You talk about a safety net and again I say Bravo. But you say nothing about compulsory measures and health emergencies that serve to destroy our other rights. What about those, Dr. Conaway? Are you a supporter or removing our freedoms and rights because some authority tells you to tell us that there is an emergency of some sort and we need to give up our Constitutional rights for that reason? Or that something is safe and effective because someone in authority said that it is even if it is a bioweapon dressed up as a vaccine?
You say nothing about the tyranny and insanity of CDC and FDA guidance, the endless health "emergencies", lockdowns and the insane and inane "social distancing" parody of science and sense.
And you say nothing at all about the use of gene editing bioweapons marketed to us as health protections in a stream of lies supported by terrible science and a profound rape of our First Amendment Rights.
And you have failed to speak out about anything having to do with the devastatingly dangerous Agenda 2030/One Health/Social Credit Score/Vaccine Passport provisions, including gender-related mutilation, forced vaccination, synthetic food and the impact of such non-science as masking on early childhood development and life-long mental health.
In fact, other than telling us that you are a doctor (a totally dubious claim to distinction, as I have mentioned) and that you are black (a totally irrelevant claim to distinction), you have given us balsamic platitudes.
And, as a Democrat, do you support and endorse the absolutely unscientific gender madness brought upon us by ideology substituted for logic, science, sense and reality? Are you a supporter of the wildly damaging UN/WHO/UNESCO Comprehensive Sexuality Education atrocity or will you speak out against it and stand against it as a bulwark for your constituents and for the entire country?
Not a word about it, just some nonsense about what color your skin is, Sir, about which I do not, and none of your constituents should, care a whit…
(you can read the full post here.)
Where do we go from here?
The question now becomes How can we limit the damage that Herb Conaway can do in terms of health freedom and medical choice?
Are we better off rooting for him to move onto Congress or preventing him from doing damage elsewhere?
I don’t have the answer, but now is the time to give it some serious thought.
As the Chair of New Jersey’s Assembly Health Committee, Conaway has considerable power over what bills can even be heard. And he has historically used that power to prevent many of the bills that would provide true informed consent and parental rights from coming to committee. In this way, he has become a formidable obstacle for medical freedom and parental choice.
However, a growing awareness about these manipulative tactics may be putting increased pressure on Conaway in his current role. Could his bid for Congress be driven in part by a desire to circumvent this scrutiny? It’s hard to know.
It would be nice to escape Conaway’s stronghold over the Assembly Health Committee, but who would take his place?
Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt is vice chair of the committee, but she is the frontrunner in a bid for Camden County Clerk. If she wins, she would be required to step down from her State Assembly seat as well as her position as Chair of the Education Committee.
According to the New Jersey Globe:
If Herb Conaway, Jr. (D-Delran) wins his race for Congress in New Jersey’s third district, Coughlin will also need to find a new chair of the influential Assembly Health Committee; the vice chair of that panel is Lampitt.
Four other Democrats on the Health Committee chair other committees; Coughlin could opt to put freshman Margie Donlon (D-Ocean Township) in the post—she and Conaway are the only physicians in the legislature.
It’s hard to know. But it will be helpful for all of us to have eyes on this.
Reviewing the Record
Conaway told the Pine Barrens Tribune:
”I trust voters to review the record, assess the relevant facts and pick the candidate who will do the best job of representing them.”
So, let’s.
Bills Sponsored by Conaway
Here are some of the bills that Assembly Conaway has sponsored more recently:
2022-2023 session
A1998 - Requires AG to arrange for certain testing of facial recognition systems.
A2007 - Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
A4112 - (Sole sponsor) Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
A4334 - Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
A4338 (Sole sponsor) - Requires vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be reported to New Jersey Immunization Information System.
A5753 (Sole sponsor) - Requires certain health care facilities to institute COVID-19 vaccine policy for employees.
2024-2025 session
A1823 (Sole sponsor) - Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
A1852 (Sole sponsor) - Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
A1864 (Sole sponsor) - Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
A1899 - Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.
This is just a sampling, but his resume of proposed legislation can readily be used to produce the framework for McMedicine mandates, drive thru vaccinations and mass surveillance.
Bills blocked or suppressed by Conaway
Here’s a sample of legislation that never stood a chance on Assemblyman Conaway’s watch:
A1534 (2014) - Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
A4760 (2015) - Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
A401 (2019) - Provides for identification and study of infant fatalities and near fatalities resulting from vaccination; requires inclusion of vaccination information in sudden infant death reports; and requires use of federal infant death reporting form. (aka the “SIDS Bill”)
A5096 (2020) - Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
A5607 (2021) - Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
So… where do you want Herb Conaway representing you?
Or do you want him representing you at all?
Thank you Ann for compiling Herb Conaway’s disgraceful political rap sheet of bills sponsored and those he blocked or voted against.
Sorry, keep him local in NJ and work on getting him out of office completely. We don't need anyone like this in Congress to join forces with the other dictators. It's going to be difficult enough to get rid of the ones we have one at a time, no use adding to the number.