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GOP Senate Primary - Disclosure Doesn't Pay

by: Thurman Hart

Sun May 11, 2008 at 08:15:45 PM EDT


The Bergen Record has an op-ed today scripted by George Ajjan - who is described as:
George Ajjan is a Republican activist, writer and pundit who was the GOP nominee for Congress in the 8th District in 2004.

There's only one thing wrong with that description (that I'll focus on here) - it's incomplete to the point of being misleading and dishonest.  George Ajjan is working for Murray Sabrin, as is evidenced by his name on Sabrin's press releases.

I give the Record credit for being evenhanded - they have an op-ed for each of the candidates for the GOP.  It's almost as if they looked for the worst possible people to do it, though.  For example - Mike Ferguson writing for Dick Zimmer.  
Thurman Hart :: GOP Senate Primary - Disclosure Doesn't Pay
Ferguson, in case you managed to hit yourself so hard you forgot your own name, is retiring from Congress because he's afraid to face Linda Stender.  Even his childish rhyming games couldn't lift him to a convincing win.  But, maybe everyone else at National Research was busy for the half-hour it took to "polish the pope" for the public (to be fair, we know what Vito Fossella was doing - we're just not sure which family he was doing it with).  Thomas Blakely (who worked for both men) was understandably unavailable.  Dunno about Brendan Riley.  At least Ferguson doesn't actually work for Zimmer - yet.

The award for full disclosure goes to Dan Gallic who described himself as "Joe Pennacchio's campaign manager".  The fact that Pennacchio's last press release can hardly be called relevant to the Senate campaign does exactly bode well for the campaign.  In fairness, it comes from his State Senate job, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?  So far his big issue is the use of Ascension Sunday for political purposes.

So my question is: Is honesty still the best policy when Murray Sabrin can legitimately claim front-runner status?  Also, how sad is it that the only people you can get to write an op-ed endorsing you are the people that work for you?
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