At Monmouth forum Saturday Andy Kim got a standing ovation. Tammy Murphy got polite applause. The bosses may have overreached this time, regular voters are not buying it.
@AndyKimNJ
@FirstLadyNJ
@GovMurphy
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. just voted for Jim Jordan, an enemy of democracy who tried to block the peaceful transfer of power. Why? He won't say.
This is pathetic, and dishonors his father's legacy. At least now, though, he can't deny being a full-throated MAGA guy.
#tomkean
#scaredmouse
So, Tammy Murphy has a conspiracy theory based on nothing, one that doesn't make a scrap of sense.
Andy Kim has a doctorate in foreign policy and served in Afghanistan as a civilian advisor to Gen. Patraeus.
Which one belongs in the Senate? Tough call.
With no bosses guarding the gates, watch for loads of civic minded people to run for office, for lazy incumbents to lose, and for bad actors to lose their portection.
#andykim
How broken is NJ politics? The machines are all backing her to win favors from the governor. Two chairs are lobbyists with business before the gov, another just got a big pension-padding job. ick.
Breaking news: Rep. Frank Pallone is interested in running for Senate, a source close to him tells me. It's a shocker because he's one of the most powerful Dems in the House, and would be a freshman at age 71 in Sen...but no one is more respected.
#Pallone
#menendez
holy cow! this is not just a win, it's a thrashing...afer the forum last saturday, I asked about a dozen people they thought, and got same result, crushing win for kim.
What's worse, the nut jobs who believe in Trump? Or those like Rep. Tom Kean, who know it's nonsense but go along to save their jobs?
#ukraine
#betrayal
Go Sue Altman. We deserve better.
No, it's not safer for a Jersey woman to give birth now, as she claims. And, no the racial divide is not closing. She's doing good advocacy, but how does that qualify her for the US Sen? She won't answer that. Because it doesn't.
#nepotism
@AndyKimNJ
Sitting at Monmouth forum with Tammy Murphy and Andy Kim... Kim was compelling, got standing O from about two-thirds at the end... what doe he bring she doens't? Twice he notes he ran for office 3 times, taking district Trump won twice, (notes he voted to impeach twice anyway.)
He's the sure bet for Democrats to win in November, and at age 41, could hold the seat for a long-ass time and rise to become a key player in American politics.
Also from Rutgers protest: Student harassed a local reporter, putting a hand over his camera, 7 or 8 surrounding him and insisting he leave. Today, several have pestered me, on public property, asking me to leave, and blocking my path.
#screwyou
Platkin can't bring himself to defend the corrupting "line" system, bucking
@GovMurphy
and showing unusual independence. Without that unfair advantage,
@FirstLadyNJ
will surely lose the primary to
@AndyKimNJ
#killtheline
Democrats should watch this revealing debate.
@FirstLadyNJ
Tammy Murphy seemed nervous, dodged questions on her GOP history, refused to surrender her unfair advantages, made nutty attempt to smear
@Andykim
as a Trump enabler.
#njsenatedebate
When your daughter is smarter than you. And better looking.
Second chances for those coming out of prison are great, she argues. But how about a first chance, with education, health care, decent housing, etc?
It's not just the gold. It's the service to the bloody Egyptian dictatorship. If charges are true, Menendez has blood on his hands.
#menendez
#MenendezMustResign
Why flee and wait six hours to report? I can’t think of another reason, and neither can her own people when I ask Was Amy DeGise drunk when she hit that bicyclist in Jersey City? | Moran -
You're welcome, Dan, but we dug deeper now that she's running for U.S. Senate, and her claims dissolved. It's not safer to give birth in Jersey now, as she claims, and the racial gap has not closed.
@tencor_7144
Monmouth has fair rules, the chairman lets delegates decide, and the voting is done in booths. So, the bullying tactics Murphy is using elsewhere don't work
Fantastic piece by Tom Malinowski, dead on...
Core point: The Dem bosses focus on their fiefdoms in hard blue areas, not on winning tough seats in purple areas. He speaks from experience...the bosses handed his district to GOP in redistricting.
Here is Wildstein doing his thing: Sucking up to Murphys so they give him tips. Ick.
I'm an opinion guy. To ask Dems about Tammy's donations to George W. Bush is called journalism. And unnamed sources from a guy who was convicted of a felony? Ick again.
The
@starledger
's endorsement of Tom Malinowski over Rep. Leonard Lance, in a neck and neck race.
@Malinowski
is super smart on policy and politics, a practical progressive. Lance is a good man trapped in the vortex of
@realDonaldTrump
..
This is rich...Tom Kean Jr. slips up on failing to report stocks, no doubt an innocent mistake... But he skewered Tom Malinowski for an innocent mistake, painted him as corrupt, over and over... that should be in this story.
First the bogus claim that offshore wind was killing whales. Now the fear-mongering on gas stoves. When will Republicans just stop the bs on climate?
#ClimateCrisis
BIG NEWS! First video of my Senate campaign is out.
I’m building a different kind of politics, so I made a completely different kind of political video. Something real. No scripts.
Watch to the end as I put my heart in this. Please share and donate:
@wildstein
Yeah, won’t meet or answer a single question in writing from day one of the campaign. Like, your position on abortion? Your view on trump’s big lie? Our “ bias” or his cowardice?
Newark kids in charter schools are now beating the state average on reading and math, and district improving too. Shame so many progressives are not on board, including Gov.
@GovMurphy
.
I hate to be rude, but Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is in way above his head. He still won't say where he stands on impeachment. Now he breaks the very rule on stock disclosure rule that he fried Tom Malinowski on. Oy.
@DavidCruzNJ
@KeanForCongress
@starledger
Wow. A fact check first: I have always asked kean jr. for his response, before every column.From the start of the race, he’s declined.
Second, I challenge them both to point to any factual error, happy to correct. I think it’s bs.
Endorsement coming Sunday.
I'm all for student protest, but the refusal to condemn Oct. 7 is a moral failure, so is opposition to the two-state solution, and relentless harassment of the press...I know these movements are unweildy, but I saw no effort to change hearts and minds.
While tonight wasn’t the outcome we desired, I’m tremendously proud of the campaign we ran. Democracy won, and the people of our District - for the first time in years - had a true choice at the ballot box.
Taking on the status quo, party bosses, the county line and politics as
George Norcross, the overlord of South Jersey politics, is in trouble like never before, after alarming details emerge on a shady $40 million subsidy for Cooper Hospital, where he is chairman.
Chris Christie signed the law launching the state offshore wind effort, co-sponsored by Tom Kean Jr. Now, it's hard to find a Republican who supports the climate fight at all. If they win Tuesday, say goodbye to all of it.
#offshoewind
#climate
Classic bullying...Democracy in Camden is very Vladimir Putin... Not much better in Essex, Middlesex, Passaic, Bergen, Hudson... Shame on
@FirstLadyNJ
and
@GovMurphy
... Every fair fight,
@AndyKimNJ
crushes her... The machines are discrediting themselves
Rep. Tom
@Malinowski
is one of four Democrats who took Republican seats in Jersey last year, in a swing district. So, it takes some guts to stick his neck out on impeachment. This is almost all his words.
@wildstein
This is rich. I do not suspect Kean of corruption, but this is the kind of technical violation he skewered Rep. Tom Malinowski for, even when Congressional ethics office concluded it was innocent.
Why doesn't the story mention that?
Strong point by
@CoryBooker
, only one not to raise his hand when asked if each would rejoin Iran nuke accord. Says he'd like to keep options open to bargain for something better.
Ocean water off the tip of Florida breaks 100 degrees, like a hot tub, killing choral reefs... and in NJ, GOP pols object to optional incentive to switch gas stoves to electric.. Wow.
It's not hyperbole to say that Trump could get us into WWIII. He is laying out a red carpet for Putin, while describe Xi's iron dictatorship as evidence that he's "brilliant"... My god. I'd prefer a decent person with a tad of dementia and a good staff, thank you.
Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies: I said I would not protect our NATO allies. In fact, I would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want
Bridgegate was about abuse of power to create a traffic jam. This is about women behind bars being raped and beaten, despite a clear warning from Justice Dept a full year ago. To me, this is far worse, and Gov. Phil "gag order" Murphy is no feminist.
This is obscene, a 219 page bill full of special interest provision rushed through at the governor's insistence. This is exactly what Murphy complained about Christie doing, now he proposes something more secretive and bigger
Spoke to WCBS radio after Menendez's farcical press appearance today, when he said he keeps $550,000 cash on hand "for emergencies".. Nothing on the bars of gold or new Mercedes...
#menendez
#MenendezMustResign
Big deal: Dem Sen. Troy Singleton says the county line should be abolished, says he would support legislation that would establish block ballots in the state (such legislation is being sponsored by Dem Sen. Shirley Turner).
One bias the media does have that's real is that we focus on scandals and scoundrels, an often ignore good honest service. This guy exemplifies that, will miss him.
#fiordaliso
Having watched Booker closely for 20 years, I regard is as tragic that he's not getting traction. He'd crush Trump, and. remember, after this election, even if Dems win, half of Americans are Trumpsters.