It’s a good thing it’s New Jersey. As Josh stated in his EdBlog,the Kavanaugh nomination fight is gonna boost GOP turnout to some extent. I hope the fight ends,one way or the other,this week.
State motto.
So much for the Kavanaugh effect. There are always news cycle blips that the losing side ends up getting excited about for a few days. It rarely stays except for certain incumbents with good matchups. Don’t worry about the polls. Donate, volunteer, vote and get others to vote.
The bastard should have resigned…
Something about high standards and what not…
I’ll happily take his vote in the Senate, but I hope he retires after this term (or earlier if governor is a Dem). We need a better human in that seat.
Part of the problem may be an invisible campaign. Menendez has been hammered on the air since June. The election is a month away and I have yet to see single pro-Menendez ad. I’ve never seen or rather not seen anything like it from an incumbent who presumably is well financed.
If I knew that we could somehow have a 51 seat majority without Menendez, I would be very happy to see him lose. Unfortunately, I doubt that that could be the case this year which is too bad. Menendez is currently the single bigest problem the Democrats have in arguing they’re the anti-corruption party. We’d look much, much better without him.
Using a statement from Animal House as a proxy for how I feel about Menendez, as it related to the Deltas pledging Flounder:
“We need the dues.”
The anti-Menedez ads here in NJ feature all his indictments but fail to mention that it was a hung jury. After the Bob McDonnell decision made it more difficult to make bribery charges stick the DoJ dropped the charges against Menedez.
It’s an effective ad that’s getting a lot of air play.
NJ voters must apply this to nose & vote for Menendez
- Huggin is a potential toxic blight - & he is spending money on this campaign like he really thinks he can buy it.
it is rather tough to defend Menendez … yes, he was NOT convicted … but it was not a good look
@jinnj
Term limits for all.
He doesn’t fill me with admiration, but hey, it’s New Jersey. I’ve seen much worse. And he does know where the bodies are buried, which may come in useful.
Nope … if he had resigned then that triple fat bastard Christie would have named a cronie or gotten himself appointed.
Umm. Christie is ancient history, Menendez could resigned when Murphy(?) got elected…
Could have … but it would have been late in the game for a strong candidate to pop up with an organization and $$… plus by then Menendez felt like he was out of the woods (he was not … is not )
Today I spent two hours preparing mailers for the Dem candidate running for a State Senate seat in my district.
Thank you.
By the time the jury hung, in November, we already knew the Dems would have the governorship, and by the time they decided not to retry, Christie was already gone, so there was ample time for Menendez to withdraw long before primary time. As far as I know, nobody even seriously leaned on him to do that, and the County organizations backed him unanimously. (People like Andrews or Holt could easily have held this seat for the Democrats, but declined to run in the absence of any institutional support in the party for a challenge to Menendez. It was a bad sign when McCormick, who didn’t even raise enough money to hit the 5,000 point that requires disclosure, racked up over 37% of the vote in the Dem primary, in spite of effectively running no campaign.)