WATCH: Assemblyman's home robbed, car stolen, while family inside

For Asm. Paul Kanitra, the fight against Democrat-emboldened criminals in New Jersey just got personal.

Hazlet, Monmouth County - Assemblyman Paul Kanitra (R-Ocean) took to Facebook today to recount his horror as his home was robbed with his family asleep inside.

”My home was broken into last night while my wife and mother in-law slept in their beds. They literally were feet away from possibly being murdered,” wrote Kanitra.

Kanitra, Founder and President of LobbyIt.com, a DC-based lobbying firm that makes lobbying accessible to main street clientele, was in DC for his weekly on-site visit. The thugs struck the home shortly before six in the morning. Kanitra’s vehicle, which has NJ Assembly plates, was stolen after the burglars found the keys.

Kanitra detailed their strategy:

“Because New Jersey has such a high prevalence of these instances I keep the keys to my car in a special Faraday box that keeps criminals from being able to electronically copy the signal. I keep it nowhere near the front door. These brazen thugs searched the entire house until they found the keys anyway…After getting the keys, the group then stole my vehicle with State Assembly plates on it and sped off to Newark where they ripped the GPS out of the vehicle to try and keep it from being tracked further.”

”Despite this, our brave State Police just located my vehicle in New York, most likely being prepared to be quickly shipped overseas,” added the assemblyman. In August on this year, CBS reported that the Port of New York-Newark led the country in seized vehicles, totaling 368.

Kanitra took a moment to thank law enforcement while taking a swipe at Trenton Democrats, the media, and Governor Murphy:

I cannot say enough about how incredible and talented our law enforcement is. Every day they're in a fight with one arm tied behind their backs by our crazy policies, yet still they succeed. They have been vilified and are under constant attack from the media. Less and less people want to become police officers as a result of this caustic environment. We owe each and every one of them who steps up and puts their lives on the line a major debt of gratitude.

This all said, it's the lawlessness of Phill Murphy’s New Jersey and the safe haven that Democrats in the State Legislature have created that is the real crime here.

Earlier this year, CJN reported on a car robbery in Rumson where the perpetrators, one from Missouri and another - the driver - from Newark struck a police car and drove towards the cop, prompting the cop to shoot the driver. Commenters decried the state’s bail reform laws and lax approach to prosecuting criminals, a sentiment shared by Assemblyman Kanitra who gave voters a call to action.

”And now, I'm going to make this political. Because this is political,” he wrote.

“New Jersey, please wake up and vote every single one of these weak, woke assholes who votes for weakening penalties for crimes out of office.”

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