Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Linda Stender for Congress
The same sources that assured me Jim McGreevey wasn't gay also told me Assemblywoman Linda Stender wasn't running in NJ's 7th Congressional District against Evil Mike Ferguson. Just because he said & she said. But he is & she is. I happen to think Stender has a slim but real chance of winning. Or let's say it isn't a quixotic candidacy this year. But all politics are local, so in addition to the usual menu of obvious issues where Far Right Ferg's out on a limb & out-of-synch with his constituents, Stender has to find some specifically local matters (other than property taxes) that are bugging the educated, affluent suburbanites who hold the only key to to winning in a crazily gerrymandered district, drawn to keep a lunatic safe in office. The district really screws people who live on the "wrong" sides of Linden, Union, Edison, & Woodbridge. All I can suggest is that she sit down for a talk with Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew, preferably in a place far away from the eyes & ears of the Union County Dem Organization, which may have the money but doesn't have a clue about how to reach the 7th's vast western territories. Van Drew built his political career on beating Republicans in contests he wasn't supposed to win, in Cape May County of all places. (Republicans currently hold all the Freeholder seats there, but now they actually have to campaign hard for them.) Stender was mayor of Fanwood, a town with lots of Republicans. They have remarkably parallel political stories, except Van Drew had to build his winning machine from scratch.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
I'll be sure to warn Orange Julius.
Ah, 2000, before the district was redrawn, Bill Clinton was president, Al Gore was a sure thing, & so was that County Manager (whose name slips my mind he was so forgettable) with the reg party endorsement Connelly shocked in the primary. She narrowly lost the general election. That was the year I fully realized I often voted for organization Democrats only because I loathed Republicans so much. Later, my distant Brit cousin noted I was actually a mainstream Labourite like her & began suggesting I relocate to England.
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Ah, 2000, before the district was redrawn, Bill Clinton was president, Al Gore was a sure thing, & so was that County Manager (whose name slips my mind he was so forgettable) with the reg party endorsement Connelly shocked in the primary. She narrowly lost the general election. That was the year I fully realized I often voted for organization Democrats only because I loathed Republicans so much. Later, my distant Brit cousin noted I was actually a mainstream Labourite like her & began suggesting I relocate to England.
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