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Editorial page editor/columnist for @StarLedger in Newark, drenched in Jersey politics for a century, roughly.

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@tomamoran
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5 years
. @CoryBooker is in. Been watching him closely for 20 years. If you think he's a showboat, you're missing a great deal.
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4 months
Kim is catching fire. I think the bosses are probably shocked that their efforts to rig this race are falling apart. @AndyKimNJ @FirstLadyNJ @GovMurphy @TammyMurphyNJ
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5 months
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
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8 months
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
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5 months
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.
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Jordan Zakarin
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Tammy Murphy, the ultra-wealthy wife of NJ Gov. Phil Murphy, is running for Senate and has a bonkers conspiracy theory about the Israeli war on Gaza.
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3 months
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
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6 months
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.
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9 years
Aft 14 years of covering christie, my warning: He lies, all the time. http://t.co/6ALXG3XKfX
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9 months
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
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4 months
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.
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Political Election Projections
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Monmouth Democratic Convention Results: Andy Kim: 265 (56.9%) Tammy Murphy: 181 (38.8%) Patricia Campos-Medina: 20 (4.3%)
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3 months
Something delicious about grassroots Democrats defying the bosses. @AndyKimNJ @TammyMurphyNJ
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tom moran
2 months
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.
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3 months
Never thought I'd write this. I didn't leave Israel, Israel left me, as they say.
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9 months
The biggest Democrats NOT to call on Menendez to resign? Sen. Cory Booker. Why is that? #menendez #MenendezMustResign
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6 months
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
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5 months
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.)
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6 years
An ugly end for @USRepRodney Frelinghuysen, a former moderate who danced for @realDonaldTrump and dissed his voters.
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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.
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3 months
Platkin goes rogue, opposes the line, am told the Gov is furious.. Without the line, @FirstLadyNJ loses without doubt to @AndyKimNJ ... #thelineiscorrupt
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tom moran
7 months
Talk about privilege. The gov now will use his leverage with county bosses to ensure she has machine support north and south. Ick. #tammy #menendez
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tom moran
2 months
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
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3 months
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
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tom moran
4 months
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
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2 months
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?
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tom moran
5 months
Tammy Murphy finished, unlike Kim, got tepid applause and no standing O... uninspiring
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tom moran
1 year
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 -
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tom moran
6 months
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.
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Daniel Bryan
6 months
Thank you to the Star Ledger Editorial Board for shedding light on the First Lady’s efforts to combat maternal and infant mortality!
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tom moran
7 months
Is Tammy Murphy a champion of women? Why didn't she help the women her husband gagged to block them from discussing toxic 2017 campaign? What about ignoring the rapes at Edna Mahan? #Tammy #Murphy #MeToo #ednamahan @TammyMurphyNJ @philmurphynj
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tom moran
4 months
@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
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tom moran
3 months
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.
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tom moran
8 years
They want to beat me with a lead pipe? Hmmm, a peak thru key hole to psycho culture of @GovChristie crew.
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tom moran
5 months
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.
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tom moran
6 years
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 ..
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1 month
So, Rutgers had no violence, free speech was protected, he mobilized police as soon as students became disruptive, and rejected their key demands. Shouldn't that count as a win? #rutgers #holloway #encampments @GovMurphy @RepJoshG
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tom moran
9 months
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.
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tom moran
11 months
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
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tom moran
3 months
Watch this video, captures how he is, open, smart, not arrogant like the Demcocratic machine trying to snuff him out.
@AndyKimNJ
Andy Kim
7 months
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:
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tom moran
5 years
Never seen this: Sue Altman yanked from Senate hearing on tax breaks. Way out of line, it seemed to me, to muscle her out like this.
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tom moran
2 years
@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?
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5 years
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 .
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tom moran
9 years
Gratifying to see Obama be able to ride a wave, finally. The man has been dealing with ferocious headwinds since the day he swore the oath.
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tom moran
7 years
Want to defang @realDonaldTrump ? Target guys like Rodney @USRepRodney who is carrying his water in NJ...
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tom moran
9 months
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.
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tom moran
2 years
@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.
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tom moran
8 years
Bridgegate trial: Devastating opening from prosecutors, makes you wonder how Baroni and Kelly think they have a prayer.
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tom moran
2 months
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.
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tom moran
14 days
Imagine that. Graciously conceing defeat after a tough loss. How quaint!
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Ravinder S. Bhalla
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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
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tom moran
5 years
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.
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tom moran
8 months
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
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tom moran
5 months
Just say no the this oligarch trying to screw up Liberty State Park...From my colleague Dave D'Allesandro
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tom moran
3 months
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
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tom moran
8 years
Hugging @realDonaldTrump getting costly for Gov. @GovChristie ... has to defend Trump's racism, sadly willing to.
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tom moran
19 days
Impeccable timing for Kean, about one second before the verdict... Wonder if this will affect the race? Even a small impact could prove decisive.
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Sue Altman
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tom moran
9 months
Wow, Menendez tells a whopper: says he had $550,000 cash in his closet for "emergencies." # #liar #menendez #MenendezMustResign
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tom moran
5 years
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.
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tom moran
9 months
@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?
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tom moran
8 years
Weird that @GovChristie won't release medical records, but attacked Hillary on same.
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tom moran
4 years
A protector of child predators? Lord, it is sad to watch Sen. Tom Kean diminish himself with this lie about Rep. Tom Malinowski.
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tom moran
4 years
But tom Moran never shut down a bridge, lied about it, then threw his friends to the feds to save his own ass. Got that going for him.
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David Wildstein
4 years
@FixNjt @njdotcom @tomamoran @Malinowski @KeanForCongress @TheNJGlobe Tom Moran has two rules: Rule #1 : Tom Moran is always right. Rule #2 : Tom Moran is never wrong.
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tom moran
5 years
What is it about deblasio that is so annoying?
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tom moran
5 years
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.
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tom moran
8 years
Why we need @HillaryClinton not just to win, but to crush...
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tom moran
9 years
.Huckabee is a dangerous psycho advocating defiance of the supreme court. and for what? banning gays from marrying. sorry, nuts.
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tom moran
8 years
Fact check: Christie says cut spending $2.3 bill. His own data says increased by $4 billion. see page 8
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tom moran
3 months
Right on. Towering hypocrisy by NJ Dems to grease the Senate primary like this, while beefing about the number of drop boxes in Atlanta.
@nancyerikasmith
Nancy Erika Smith
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When democracy is under attack worldwide we need to be more openly democratic! Fair ballots, no dark money, one person one vote.
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tom moran
9 months
. @GovMurphy sat back for years after feds showed him evidence of unchecked rape at Edna Mahan in 2018. But this now eclipses that as his worst moment, so many vets left sick and dying. @SenJoeVitale @SenPresScutari @CraigCoughlinNJ
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tom moran
11 months
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.
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tom moran
8 years
Live from Trenton: Dem bosses and Gov. @ChrisChristie can't seem to stuff this dirty bill down legislators throats.
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tom moran
4 months
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.
@BidenHQ
Biden-Harris HQ
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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
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tom moran
3 years
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.
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tom moran
5 years
I smell a rat.
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tom moran
8 years
Bill Baroni's lawyer reveals that Baroni was an FBI information from 2006 to 2010, mostly on corruption cases.Wow.
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tom moran
9 years
Parsing @HillaryClinton e-mail issue. She blew it, yes. But the sin has been blown way out of proportion. http://t.co/8apVUOoBhn
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tom moran
3 years
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
@GovMurphy
Governor Phil Murphy
5 years
Governor Murphy Holds Tax Incentives Press Conference
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tom moran
9 years
About to appear on Rachel Maddow to discuss Christine's habit of lying
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tom moran
3 years
Bought my first flag today, reclaim it from the barbarians
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tom moran
6 years
Why this year is different. And why we could not find a single Republican to endorse in the midterms. It's not us, it's them.
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tom moran
4 months
Singleton is also heroic on affordable housing
@danieljhan_
Daniel Han
4 months
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).
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tom moran
9 months
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
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tom moran
5 years
Tough times ahead for @GovMurphy ... Why do people assume success in business translates into success in politics? ...
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tom moran
7 years
If Congress doesn't dig at this hard, this potential treason, then time for mass civil disobedience:
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tom moran
5 years
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.
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