u/Iamnotbernadette

He also added on to a trail of what seems like exaggerations or fabrications regarding his career, half-truths about his funding, and his general lack of qualifications by revealing he allegedly worked as a diplomat and also worked under president Obama.

Honestly some journalist should pick this up at this point.

Here is my post to him:

Welcome Bayly. The community is now paying attention and asking tough questions.

Well, here are my questions:

Who is your employer?

**What are your sources of income? **

Can you tell us the exact date you domiciled in NJ02?

Can you also tell us the date that you registered to vote in NJ?

Your hometown is Princeton, which is in the NJ 12 district.

6 term Democratic incumbent Bonnie Watson Coleman is retiring and that seat is open. This is a Democratic stronghold and easily winnable for a qualified candidate. Is there a reason you chose not to run in your home district, but rather in a district where you have no established long term ties to?

You have said that we do not need more money in politics. Enormous sums of money from millionaires outside of NJ are listed in your donor list. Some of that money comes from individuals with ties to investment firms (Meketa, Polygon, JP Morgan.) Some of your larger donations come from CO billionaires Douglas & Jill Schatz and CA crypto & AI investor Jean-Phillip Jaber of Plassa. These are just some of the most curious donors.

Your donor list raises some questions. In your first week of fundraising in June of 2025, you received more than double the number of donations (23) from Wyoming residents than from NJ residents (11.) Many of these Wyoming residents who donated to your campaign, including your own family members, appear to be extremely wealthy unemployed senior citizens. Overall, the bulk of the donations received in your first week were from outside of New Jersey (You had 10 from Colorado, 15 from California...)

In all of 2025, of the 68 individuals who have contributed $2,000 or more to your campaign, only 11 of them live in NJ. Of the 22 individuals who have contributed $4,000 or more to your campaign in 2025, only ONE of them lives in NJ in another congressional district. Many of your donors don’t reside in NJ or do not have any serious reason to take interest in this district. Can you explain clearly what their interests are in donating to your campaign, and what that means for the people living in NJ 02, which is ~2220 miles away from Jackson Hole, Wyoming?

(Campaign financials source.)

You have multiple $7000 donations from Act Blue for 2025. You are the Trust & Integrity candidate. Will you disclose the large sum donors, their state or country, and their employers?

You’ve said that you’ve dedicated your life to public service & national security. You have also suggested a 5 term limit for members of the House of Representatives. I have had trouble finding out if you’ve had any real tenure at any job that would suggest you’d be able to commit to more than one term as a representative for every person in the district. You have about 2 years at the State Department, and about 1 year and 3 months with USAID. Your OGE disclosure from 2023 says you were appointed on 9/11/2023. According to your OGE financial disclosures from your time at USAID, you don’t seem to have much of a serious career history beyond these cumulative ~3 years with the State Department & USAID. Is this information correct? Any civilian job interview would require you to account for the many years missing from your work history. Can you expand on your professional dedication to public service and national security?

Your ballot companions Terri Reese, Tim Alexander, and Zachary Mullock are all long term residents of NJ 02 with strong ties to their respective communities and are all well respected. All three are qualified in their own ways to represent the diverse residents of this crucial, flippable purple area. In the past year many ordinary people in south Jersey have realized that even though we might be registered to different political parties, when it comes to unique local issues our grievances are more often shared than not. Having a representative who is fluent in the nuances of this dynamic is crucial for all of us in south Jersey no matter how we normally vote. You've spent most of your adult life outside of NJ and at times residing outside of the country. My question is then what are the specific incentives for NJ02 residents to vote for an inexperienced candidate with no meaningful ties to the district, residents, or culture of NJ02, who is funded in large part by geriatric millionaires from Colorado and Wyoming?

Thanks for your time. Inspired by the person connected to your campaign who filed a signature challenge against your Democratic ballot mate Terri Reese, I'm just trying to be a good citizen. I have more questions if you want them.

I am inspired by this post. I want to repeat that anyone is a better option than Van Drew, and Bayly is right - we deserve better. But it's not him.

While the article linked in the last post isn't super well written, here are facts that I gleaned from it and this article from several days ago.

Fact 1:

There are 4 Democratic candidates for the NJ 02 congressional district primary, currently seated by Jeff Van Drew.

The candidates are three locals and then Bayly Winder. I will link their congressional ticket websites:

Cape May Mayor Zachary Mullock

Tim Alexander a pro 2a civil rights attorney and retired LEO

Terri Reese

And Bayly Winder, who is "local", though not from south Jersey but someone who vacationed on the shore a child and relocated here at some point recently as an adult.

Those are the 4 candidates from which we will choose one person to unseat do-nothing loser Jeff Van Drew.

(Before anyone bellyaches that we can't do that, you're wrong. Dems have flipped a whopping 30 legislative seats so far during Trump 2.0. It can be done. Lots of Independents and Republicans are waking up to the reality of the US right now and are voting across party lines because issues matter more than D or R for many people.)

Fact 2:

Someone named Chris Hohmuth who works for Factiva, a Dow Jones-owned AI-powered research platform used by media companies, filed a signature challenge against candidate Terri Reese to try to get her removed from the ballot. Real dirty shit. She's definitely the underdog and the only woman on the ticket.

Fact 3:

Chris Hohmuth has ties to the Bayly Winder campaign by way of Facebook connection with Andrew Sklansky, Bayly Winder's campaign manager. Like Winder, Hohmuth is also from Princeton which is in Mercer County. Like Bayly and Hohmuth, Andrew Sklansky isn't from here and lives in New York City.

Here is what I think happened. Someone from the campaign enlisted this soft-handed tech worker Chris Hohmuth to do some Temu Roger Stone shit because they think the residents of south Jersey are stupid. Booting the underdog woman off the ticket slightly boosts the chances of their carperbagger candidate Bayly Winder winning. They put her through a 10 hour virtual court hearing to try to sabotage her, then lost, and are now denying having any connection with this Chris Hohmuth guy who was/is Facebook "friends" with the fucking campaign manager Andrew Sklansky.

Winder, a south Jersey outsider who knows that people are sick of "partisan games, political theater, and establishment politicians," is engaging in the very same behavior he rails against. A tale as old as time in NJ, unfortunately. We don't have to accept this anymore. He's not the only choice, or the best, or the most likely to win.

I know Winder's campaign is reading this. Where there is smoke there is fire. You guys got caught targeting the underdog (and only woman, huh) on the ticket. If you had a shred of integrity you would bow out now, apologize to Terri Reese who is an actual local, then apologize to the people who actually live here and have established lives here, then endorse one of the local candidates, and THEN fuck off back to your million dollar homes in Princeton. (Winder and Hohmuth you guys should invest in data removal services just saying!)

South Jersey is special. Yet the whole state shits on us and thinks we're lesser citizens or that we can be bought. The Pinelands National Reserve is a unique ecosystem and it is bigger than Glacier National Park. It's bigger than Yosemite. It's bigger than Shenandoah and Grand Teton. The Revolutionary War could not have been won without the residents of the Pine Barrens. The iron, glass, and paper industries were nurtured here in our sandy soil. We have world class beaches that people visit from around the world. There is a lot here worth fighting for (and over, amongst ourselves....) and we deserve LOCAL leadership who refuse to engage in nasty politicking no matter what their political party is.