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Menendez stumps for Obama in Florida

by: Jason Springer

Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 06:35:36 PM EDT


Via the Huffington Post:
The Obama campaign couldn't have planned it better. At the exact moment Air Force One was touching down here to deliver the president to a fundraiser for what The Miami Herald called "imperiled members of his party" (read: Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the brothers Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart), another much more relevant elected official named Senator Robert Menendez was across town addressing a crowd of Republican Cuban-Americans -- on behalf of Barack Obama.
And then we have this comparison of how the Bush and Menendez appearances went over:
Even better, not one of those "imperiled" congressional incumbents even bothered to show up for the president, either at the airport, the fundraiser (despite the half million in prize money), or even at Havana Harry's in suburban Coral Gables, Bush's last stop in the hour-long drive-by, each citing "prior commitments."

Republicanos por Obama showed up though, and they showed up in force, filling the entire second floor of a Coconut Grove restaurant called Las Culebrinas for an impassioned get-together with the Democratic Gentleman from New Jersey.

It's funny, the NJ challengers rush to the presidential money pot (in private of course), while at the same time incumbents in Florida run as fast as they can from a Presidential embrace.  The Obama campaign certainly kept Menendez busy on his trip:
Menendez was both "pleased and thrilled with the reception" he's received throughout a whirlwind run around town that included radio and television interviews, a town hall meeting out on the campus of Florida International University and a "Phone Bank Drop By" at the Campaign for Change's office in Kendall, another Miami suburb.
This seems like a good use of Menendez by the Obama campaign.  When he comes back to NJ, we have a few close races here that could use a hand from their elected officials.  
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