What Do We Do On November 5th???

by: Nick Lento

Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 10:27:27 AM EDT

Absolutely RIGHT!  There's STILL time for ALL of New Jersey's Democrats with safe seats and deep pockets to get off their butts and open their wallets in support of the WHOLE ticket!

(This started out as a comment in Thurman's excellent diary The Senate Race that Wasn't http://www.bluejersey.net/show...  but it went a bit far afield from his immediate subject......)

..........I wish Lautenberg and Stender had used their financial advantages and momentum to call upon ALL of the NJ congressional delegation to make it a CRUSADE to put win in ALL the contested seats.

Frank and Linda will likely win; but they could have been far more aggressive and won for the whole state instead of just focusing on their own elections.

The same applies to all the congressional incumbents like Rothman and Pallone et al who have safe seats.  Why aren't they all all over the state stumping for every challenger???   Makes no sense to me.   Is that considered "rude"?   Is there an unwritten law against congresspeople supporting challengers to sitting members???

We could have had a statewide reform movement that would have garnered another half a million new voters to vote for Barack and to create a downticket landslide that just might have swept folks like Tom Wyka and certainly Dennis Shulman into office.   As it is they are still fighting long odds

I really do wonder about the intelligence, competence and motivations of the NJ Democratic party.

Do they REALLY want to win big and REALLY clean up/transform our state?   Or is it just about maintaining a corrupt status quo that puts more money into the hands of the same individuals and corporations that have been raping us forever?

Yeah sure, I'll vote Democratic across the line.....but only because the Republicans would be even worse for New Jersey.....but is that really the best we can do???

It's time the people of New Jersey, MOST of whom will back a progressive reform agenda that provides fundamental root to branch change, literally TAKE OVER the state Democratic party from the morally/ethically corrupt hacks who are now in control.

Nothing less will do the job.

The people, institutions and corporations who have been living "high on the hog" off of the hard work and sweat pf NJ taxpayers have to be thrown out of office and thrown into jail (where possible).   There is no more "fat of the land" for them to live off of.