It Was a Dark and Stormy Bowling Match

by: jeffpickens

Sun Oct 30, 2011 at 07:18:00 PM EDT

Who is this guy Max Pizarro and who thinks his "writing" is fit to publish?

This stinker was dropped in my Google Alerts this afternoon. It is a PolitickerNJ account of a GOTV rally at a bowling alley in Manville, in support of 16th District Democrats, with an appearance by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, including the story of a friendly $1,000 bowling wager between Booker and SCDC Chairwoman Peg Schaffer.

The article clunks through a description of Booker's motivational remarks, peppered with journalistic slop like:

The Tony Robbins headset messages included team work and never giving up, and these were massage points (did he mean "message points"?) for a county organization long used to getting carried off the field on Election Day - on stretchers, not shoulders.

Redistricting put a crack in the drawbridge of longtime GOP stronghold LD 16 - rerouting the Princetons and South Brunswick into the laps of veteran state Sen. Kip Bateman (R-16) and Assemblyman Pete Biondi (R-16) and giving Dems enough juice to play for an assembly win.

The mayor went first, powering in shot that left him with a single spare. On his second roll he pounded the lone sentinel down with ease.