Gray beards and the 14th

I posted this as a comment on Blue Jersey, but thought it was worth posting here, as well:

An issue that keeps coming up — I’ll address it tomorrow in a column for the South Brunswick Post — is that the Dems may opt for what I’ll call a graybeard from Hamilton to lend gravitas to the ticket, someone like Gil Lugossy or Skip Cimino who allegedly have deep roots and a better shot at winning. Forget that neither would have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Baroni (not sure anyone does, really), such a move has three main drawbacks:

1. It would replace a woman candidate, of which there are far too few in this state, with an white man with white hair.

2. It would replace an Indian-American with a white man with white hair at a time when Indian-Americans are a growing constituency in the district.

3. With the mess this state is in, we need candidates with a fresh perspective. Not sure how Cimino would qualify.

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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. View all posts by hankkalet