When we first learned of this race baiting attack, we at THESTATE couldn’t help but recall the contentious 1996 campaign between Kathe Donovan and Steve Rothman for the NJ CD-16 House seat vacated by the soon to be Senator Robert “The Torch” Torricelli.
During the closing months of the 1996 race, Donovan launched her “one of us” campaign against Rothman; her aim was to convince South Bergen voters – a largely white ethnic constituency – to support the Irish Donovan over the Jewish Rothman.
In a stunning defeat for political minded prosecutors everywhere, Joe Ferriero’s conviction was vacated in the wake of a Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the federal dishonest services law.
Naturally, Republicans everywhere will bemoan that Democrats always get away with everything and oh how unfair that Joe Ferriero got off the hook. We call BS. Disagreeing with someone’s political views is the LAST reason to wish someone be put in jail. Moreover, jail time handed out on such a vague statute hurts every freedom loving American. If Ferriero was guilty so is everyone else; no man has a right to throw the first stone on this one.
It’s a hard knock world and you know what? Sometimes the price of freedom is that people are declared innocent, especially when they are indicted under vague and elastic laws by headline seeking U.S. Attorneys.
So without further ado, we dedicate this song out to Joe Ferriero. Good looks, sir.
Cops wanna knock me, D-A’s wanna box me in
But somehow I beat them charges like Rocky
H to the izz O, V to the izz A
Not guilty, Not guilty y’all got to feel me
Like many people in THE STATE of NEW JERSEY (we think anyway), our opinion of Governor Chris Christie oscillates between love and hate. However, in all fairness we strive to keep an open mind as far as his policies go and we are more than happy to publish any materials his office provides our site.
New Jersey Democrats are known for stacking the deck. Hence eyebrows went up when a candidate named Peter DeStefano, running under the “New Jersey Tea Party” banner, was suddenly reported to be pulling 12% in a U.S. House race in an internal poll leaked by Democratic freshman Rep. John Adler’s campaign.
Neither Republicans nor Tea Party activists had ever heard of Mr. DeStefano. In fact, he hadn’t even announced a candidacy. Yet the Adler poll appeared to suggest he could draw enough votes from the GOP candidate, Jon Runyan, to hand Mr. Adler a victory in November. Until the poll appeared, Republicans had figured the seat was a good potential pickup — a Republican held it from 1984 to 2008, and Mr. Runyan has high name-recognition thanks to his years as a lineman for the nearby Philadelphia Eagles…
From Working Press Contributor, former State Senator Richard LaRossa. The TEA Party movement has exploded onto the scene as an expression of frustration toward our government and elected officials by regular citizens. The TEA Party believes that their representatives are no longer listening to them. They see their representatives as kowtowing to the national political …
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