This is funny — from Truth Dig.
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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.
Latest on Greenstein and the Senate seat
From Wally Edge on Politics NJ:
Assembly Democrats went into the field with a poll tonight that will help them
identify their strongest possible fourteenth district Assembly candidates — and assist Linda Greenstein in her decision making process. The survey will test Greenstein against Republican Bill Baroni for State Senate, and will gaugue voter approvals on several possible candidates for the open seat — including former Hamilton Council President Daniel Benson and labor leader Mike Maloney.But Greenstein may have already made her decision. After three CWA locals endorsed Baroni this week, the risk-averse four-term Assemblywoman seems less than likely to risk her political career on a Senate bid. Indeed, at the Hamilton Township Democratic Mini-Convention tonight, Greenstein led Democrats to believe she’ll seek re-election to the Assembly.
This makes the most sense to me — a Greenstein-Baroni battle would be expensive and ugly and a disservice to both of them.
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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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Runner’s diary, Tuesday and Wednesday
Why I never posted yesterday’s run, I can’t say. But yesterday — ah, Tuesday, beautiful, wonderful, an outdoor run down Ridge to Perrine through the Princeton Collection and back down Perrine to Ridge, five miles in all, 46:48, while listening to a nice mix on the iPod.
Today: four miles on the treadmill in 35:44 listening to Highway 61 Revisted.
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D-student
Listening to the FAN and a caller — didn’t catch his name — offers what I think is the perfect analogy to explain how Isaiah Thomas “earned” his new contract with the Knicks. He said Thomas was like a kid who always brings home Fs on his report card. Then, once, he brings home a B and his parents are so happy, they throw him a party. In this case, though, Thomas is bringing home a D and getting a brand new Cadillac for the effort.
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