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This picture is worth a million words!
Jimmy Margulies deserves a Pulitzer prize (do they have one for political cartoons?) for this work of inspired genius!
It's the kind of politics that backfires and ultimately ends in disaster.
So why is Ferriero and company traveling down this road of defeat?
Wildes can't beat Weinberg. It's really that simple.
He can raise all the money in the world and have his picture taken with every member of Congress, Clinton, Kennedy, The Sugar Hill Gang and the cast from American Idol and it won't change the results!
I wonder if he'll use his Leiberman picture now that he's an Independent? Was it okay for Mayor Wildes to endorse Joe Leiberman over the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont? If so, I guess it was okay for Valerie Huttle to endorse Dr. Stern?
In the end, what's the difference?
Do they think painting Weinberg as ethically challenged with Violet Cherry is a recipe for victory?
99% of primary voters have no idea who she is and really don't care. Some obscure bureaucrat who is in a political battle with Ferriero is not going to take down Weinberg.
JAF really needs to reconsider the kind of campaign he's going to authorize. Already you have The Record coming to Loretta's rescue.
You don't attack a grandmother who doubles as a widow and longtime party activist. There isn't a political person in Bergen County who doesn't know this woman.
Memo to the Chairman. Stop taking advice from those who personally "hate" the opposition. That kind of emotional attack has no place in the campaign and will only gurantee a Weinberg sweep.
Hey Joe, if you want to win you will ignore Loretta and focus on your true target.
focus on your true target.
"Focus..." Focus what? Attacks? Smears? Worse? What?
"...true target" What is that? Who is that? What is it specifically that you want your "good" buddy Joe Ferriero to aim at this "target"?
Please, tell us what you really mean.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Thank you.
That wasn't and isn't a mystery.
His problem really seems to be who will be the next senator after Weinberg leaves the legislature. It seems pretty obvious he wants anyone except Valerie Huttle.
Does that unravel the mystery everyone else seems to already know except you?
If anybody appears to be just along for the ride, it is Cid Wilson. He's got everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Shame on Marguiles for drawing it and shame on The Record for printing it. The Italian-American community deserves an apology.
/snark Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.
It was funny. I don't think it implied anything else.
If Italian-Americans can cope with The Soprano's, Scorcese movies and other ongoing stereotypes, this cartoon is mild by comparison...
"Get the cannolis, leave the gun...."
Remember - they got the gansters on tax evasion. Well this week, when some CC members wanted to actually look at your annual financial reports, which according to the bylaws we should be allowed to simply walk in and get, we were prevented. That's right. The BCDO is hiding something and if they are all above board and alterboys and choir girls, we should be able to easily get that info - but in violation of the bylaws, we were denied.
Tell me you don't think forgery is a crime, or voter intimidation or kickbacks are a crime, or withholding financial reports when they should be available to any county committee members who requests them is a crime or a coverup for one, and if you don't think Ferriero is organized about how he condones this nonsense, then you are the only ones. They don't call it ORGANIZED CRIME for nothin'.
So, even if you don't see the humor, the rest of Bergen County does. We're laughing at the moment but give us at least that - what we really want to do is cry.
There is only one thing I would change on that cartoon. Senator Weinberg is not scared of Joe Ferriero and his goons. She wouldn't look that surprised.
So, in closing - Pleasant dreams. If Ferriero-crats are really honest to gosh golly gee whiz swell kids, you should all sleep like babies. One Vote. Yours. It really does matter.
Come June it ain't going to be duck season or rabbit season...it'll be Ferrierocrat season.
By feigning "outrage" in this manner; you only bring more attention to the underhanded bullying hyper-domineering tactics of your Chairman.
Don't you get it? You're busted. Nobody believes you.
The "emperor" has no clothes! (now that would make an interesting cartoon)
You folks have to realize that the twentieth century is in the past.
There is no future in pay to play.
You don't need all that bloody money to win elections; you just need to be good decent Democrats practicing the politics of common human decency!
Please, evolve, or get out of the way. There is no future for dinosaurs in our party.
If you/Joe Ferriero truly wish to begin healing the rift in our party so that we can get on with the real business of improving the quality of life for ALL the residents of Bergen County; I invite you to consider participating in an open live no holds barred debate/forum where Joseph Ferriero and Loretta Weinberg and a couple of associated "players" on each side can freely speak to each other and address questions and comments from an general audience. Let's have it in a big space so there's room for all...and let it be a full evening; say three hours.
Let's put the results on the web for all to see and let the people decide.
The people is what your line of business is about; y'all seem to have forgotten that.
If Pascrell hasn't called for the head of Jimmy Margulies on a platter to date, then this cartoon is probably kosher.
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