We had our own not too long ago....
"N.J. picks candidates to vie for late senator’s seat
TRENTON, N.J. — A rising star in the Democratic Party and a Republican former mayor won their parties’ primaries on Tuesday to set up a campaign of political and stylistic contrasts as they seek to fill the final 15 months of the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark defeated three experienced politicians — US representatives Rush Holt and Frank Pallone and state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver — in a Democratic primary that may have been more competitive had the field been less crowded. The race was a major draw for them partly because of New Jersey’s history of electing only Democrats to the Senate over the past 40 years. In the Republican primary, Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota, won handily over Franklin Township physician Alieta Eck, who had never run for office before, even though she received support of some Tea Party organizations.
The election is on a compressed schedule. The day after Lautenberg’s death in June, Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, scheduled the primaries for Tuesday and a special election for Oct. 16, 20 days before the voting day on which he is seeking reelection.
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He will be sworn in just in time to vote.
The move drew criticism, with some saying Christie was spending $12 million on an extra election so he could avoid being on the same ballot as Booker, an assertion Christie denies.
Booker is famous in the political world for his life story and his social media fanaticism: He has 1.4 million followers on Twitter, which he uses to field complaints about local issues such as sinkholes and to dispense inspirational quotes.
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Lonegan, who stepped down from his job as state director of the antitax group Americans for Prosperity, focused his campaign on blasting Booker. He held a news conference to ridicule Booker’s childhood poverty plan and another at the scene of a homicide in Newark to question whether Booker has done much to reduce crime. He has also been to the New York headquarters of Waywire, a technology startup Booker cofounded, to criticize his role in it.
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Speaking of upcoming primaries:
"Christie-Paul’s give and take now ‘gimme and take’
LITTLE FERRY, N.J. — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie does not appear to want his war of words with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul to end.
Christie fired back on Tuesday for Paul’s remark that New Jersey has a ‘‘Gimme, gimme, gimme’’ attitude about federal aid after Hurricane Sandy.
Paul said at a fund-raiser in Nashville on Sunday that Christie and New York Representative Peter King — both Republicans like Paul — ‘‘are the people who are bankrupting the government and not letting enough money be left over for national defense.’’
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The evolving spat involves two Republicans many consider potential 2016 presidential hopefuls.
God willing we make it that far as a planet.
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I don't know which primary I will vote in, but it will not be for one of them.
