Dispatches is up and ready for a read. It’s on the turmoil that has come in the wake of state Sen. Peter Inverso’s retirement.
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Runner’s diary, Thursday
Five miles today in 43:44 on the treadmill while listening to The Beatles’ Revolver and Rubber Soul on the iPod.
Won’t be running tomorrow — meetings all day — so I hope to get outside or on the treadmill over the weekend.
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More on Gonzales
This is funny — from Truth Dig.
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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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Hank Kalet 