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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