Grassroots win: Challengers NOT Disqualified in New Brunswick!

A Signficant Victory For New Jersey Progresives! (0.00 / 0)

Shamy's sham continues.   By appealing his loss to a higher court he gives the story even longer legs and sheds more light on the ugly machine, there by energizing the opposition and insuring a larger turnout.   (Let's just hope that the voting machines are carefully monitored.)

No doubt the machine will do all it can to suppress the vote and to challenge new voters.....I hope the reform Democrats have their own observers and challengers at the polls and that they have some folks armed with video cams to documenty any "irregularities" as they arise.

Machines fight dirty.   Still....I'll go out on a limb and predict that at least half of the challengers will win.

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by: Nick Lento @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 04:18:41 AM UTC

How many Shamys? (0.00 / 0)

There was a lawyer John Shamy who was on the Franklin Twp. (Somerset Cty., right next to New Brunswick) council in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I think he even was mayor for a while. John didn't seem like a machine type, but I didn't really know him.

There's a lawyer Edward P. Shamy who became the leading figure in the North Brunswick old machine as the previous boss got old and an outsider group actually took control of the committee. That was about five years ago.

And there's this lawyer T.K. Shamy, working for the machine in New Brunswick.

I assume they're all related, but does anyone here know how? And are there more of them fanning out to other towns in the area?

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by: Dvd Avins @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 12:32:01 PM UTC

Whether They Are Related By Blood.... (0.00 / 0)

...or not, there are thousands of "Shamy"s in NJ polictics.  Machine operatives whose loyalty is to money and power over the best interests of human beings.

Sp long as most decent folks are anesthetized and unaware of how they're being screwed by these machines; the machines will continue to screw us.

One of the primary (pun intended) roles of NJ progressives is to wake people up from the machine induced "Shamy" sleep of apathy.

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by: Nick Lento @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 15:09:19 PM UTC

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Team approach (4.00 / 1)

I've met several of the county committee candidates running together as Democrats4Change. They seem very supportive of one another, and intent on each other's success. It's great to see such a team of people emerge and work together for change everywhere in the county with a common purpose and a thought-out point of view.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 16:25:04 PM UTC

Wouldn't It Be Nice.... (0.00 / 0)

.....if one or two could, at some point, tell their own story here in more detail.  It would serve as an inspiration/example for others.  

Whatever happens, they've shaken up the establishment....but I'm still looking to see them win at least half the seats their after.

If any one from that group has call lists for the districts/precincts I suggest they look to progressives throughout the state to volunteer to help out.

What we lack in cash we can make up in sheer numbers, enthusiasm, energy and heart.

Every eligible Democratic voter in New Brunswick should be fully informed as to their options this time around.

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by: Nick Lento @ Tue May 05, 2009 at 16:28:26 PM UTC

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