Tom Kean Jr. Abdicates to a Democrat Favored O’Toole?
Did Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr. lose his position to Kevin O’Toole? Or did Kean simply abdicate his authority to negotiate on behalf of the caucus?
Kevin O’Toole upped his already significant profile among New Jersey Republicans by directing traffic during the Senate Budget committee votes to release the compromise budget and revenue-enhancement proposals when Mike Doherty went off the reservation and refused to be a part of the proceedings. His leadership on this issue lead us to a question. Was it the Senate Republican Caucus who chose O’Toole for this position, or was it Steve Sweeney…
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Political parties always find themselves in a pickle after a victorious campaign. It’s the question asked by Robert Redford in “The Candidate”: “What do we do now?” How do we govern? Did the campaign mean anything? Or was it a case of polling numbers crunched, chewed, and fed back to the voters in sound bites they could digest. …
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Speaking of off-the-wall GOP consultant Roger Stone and Former New York State Senate Minority Leader Joe Bruno, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating on the theft of honest services law. This statute is the same one under which Gov. Christie, then US Attorney, was able to convict former Bergen County Democratic Organization Chairman Joe Ferriero. Coincidentally, it has been rumored that Ferriero is close to New Jersey State Senator Kevin O’Toole (Norcross-R).
As a former Governor, I would find this this sort of ally-of-my-ally-is-under-indictment dichotomy would be fascinating…if Garden Staters had not already seen it all. …
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Did anyone hear Roger Stone on the “Bob Grant Show” Sunday? It was a privilege to hear the self described “GOP hitman” and anti-Hillary PAC Citizens United Not Timid (get the joke?) founder on the conservative poobah’s air waves. Stone, “Keeper of the Nixon Flame,” popped up in Albany as State Senator and Former Majority …
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