Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 02:19:13 AM EST
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I've not been around bluejersey for a few days. Blogging, it seems, is a full time job. District 37 may very well be the single most important primary in the history of primaries. I will not argue about this. I find Star Wars boring and overrated, but I am a Lord of the Rings fan and you get the idea...this is what we have here in our own little corner of N-E-W Jerz. I'm just waiting for the evil empire to make a move...this will be a quick little post on what seems to be team Ferriero-crat's ticket: Kenny Zisa, Michael Wildes, Cid Wilson. What, in the name of all that is good and pure, are they thinking?
I've included a short clip from Politifax's take on District 37. And I promise in a later post to break down the Englewood Democratic Club's first meeting of 2007. I'm working backwards here. And then I will work my way to my impressions of what will forever be known as 'The Rally.' Just bear with me.
Politifax
A Weekly Electronic Newsletter on Politics in NEW JERSEY
Volume X, # 30 January 24, 2007 DISTRICT 37. It's all but certain that Joe Ferriero
will put up a ticket to challenge Loretta Weinberg, Gordon
Johnson, and Valerie Huttle. (The Record reports
that the challengers will be Ken Zisa, Englewood Mayor
Michael Wildes, and Bergen Community College
trustee Cid Wilson.) The Ferriero forces are pushing
amendment to the party by laws that would require
legislative candidates to get the approval of the entire
County Committee rather than just those members in
the relevant district. The Weinberg team held a large
preemptive rally that attracted labor leaders (including
Charlie Wowkanech, environmental organizations, and
women's rights groups). But the Senator's forces are
smiling even more over the fact that an investigator
from the Attorney General's office is on the verge of
identifying the forger who submitted letters of resignation
for County Committee members who supported
Weinberg back in 2005 when she and Zisa were battling
to succeed Byron Baer.
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I think most readers are familiar with the Zisas, or at least just about every resident in the City of Hackensack. So I'm going to have to break this down, mostly for myself, but hopefully some of you may find this informative, one candidate at a time.
To repeat, I am a relatively new to local politics in New Jersey. If you would have asked me two years ago to name my legislators, let alone my representatives to the Englewood Council, I would have been absolutely clueless. What a difference a couple years makes. What a difference a year makes. I confess that I know nothing about Ken Zisa. I know a little bit about Michael Wildes considering he is my mayor after all. I think I may have voted for him the first time he ran for mayor UNOPPOSED and then supported the wonderfully Independent Dr. Bob Stern during the last mayoral election against Wildes. And I definitely knew absolutely nothing about Cid Wilson. So I did a quick superficial bit of googling and came up with some basic biographical information. |
| lsanchez490 :: Ferriero-crats announce their ticket.....Zisa, Wildes, Wilson???! |
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