This week’s Dispatches is on the Senate race and the impact that corruption probes might have on the narrative. I still plan to vote for Sen. Bob Menendez (it’s aboaut the war, stupid), but I can’t say I’m all that excited by the choice.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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I appreciate your honest assessment of the senate race and agree with your reasoning for supporting Menendez, despite his possible flaws. I do wonder, however, whether the recent 1996 article that was posted on bluejersey.net (I think it was a Jersey Journal one) that clarifies a) Menendez didn\’t sway the Hudson group to rent the building b) he never actually dealt directly with them c) he could only vote for Head Start as a complete program and not for or against this particular group under its umbrella and d) he kept the rent somewhat under market value, might make this allegation less than compelling for the GOP.