That group of motorcycles, cars and trucks, many sporting American flags flying in raised positions, that raised the concern of some Atlantic Highlands residents last week is known as the Garden State Deplorables, a New Jersey-based organization formed in January 2021.
It was designed with a goal of opposing injustice to American people in New Jersey, which they identified as “one of the highest liberal populated states In the United States. “
Their goal is to “Make New Jersey a place that is affordable and safe again. “ They support and promote only political candidates they believe have the interest of the residents not the lobbyist in the state known for high property taxes, high crime, and extreme utility costs, tolls and road conditions “ There are more than 2,000 members and growing.
The name, was co-opted when former First Lady Hilary Clinton told supporters at a New York fundraiser several years ago that half of Donald Trump supporters fell into what she called a “basket of deplorables” They took their action similar to Revolutionary times when American patriots took the Yankee Doodle derivative that the British overlords used in describing them,
The members of the group treat the former insult as a badge of honor and celebrated at a rally called The Day of the Deplorables in campaigning for President Donald Trump.
In the past, locally they held a protest on Route 35 in Middletown in support of Trump, an anti abortion rally in Shrewsbury, a meeting in protest over the suspected plan Red Bank to be designed as a sanctuary city, something that did not happen.
As Mayor Lori Hohenleitner of Atlantic Highlands said at a borough council meeting she has seen the group several times at the municipal yacht harbor. She said it is a group that meets Sundays and travels together in cars and motorcycles throughout the state and in Monmouth County, frequently travels from Howell to Atlantic Highlands.
Sunday, they have planned another rally by Kohl’s in Toms River honoring the late Charlie Kirk beginning at noon. On October 14, they are asking everyone to wear something in red to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk and is bravery on his birthday, October 14
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