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LD37 Incumbents, Senator Loretta Weinberg and her running mates, Assemblyman Gordon Johnson and Assemblywoman Valerie Huttle qualify for more Clean Elections campaign funds. And once again, Ms. Nibot from Bergenfield and her running mates do not.
You could almost pity poor Ms. Nibot according to this Stiles column in the Record. Tsk. Tsk. Actually bribing elderly ladies with the promise of a free dinner if they would be her 400th contributor. Sad. So sad.
However, hold your pity for a moment. Bergenfield does wierd things to folks lately........
Without the slightest sense of even understanding the irony of it all, Nibot has asked the ELEC to look into how Loretta Weinberg is spending her Clean Elections money. After campaigning as the Clean Elections candidate up until the bitter end, while actually never being certified an OFFICIAL NJ Clean Elections candidate (talk about misleading packaging), Ms, Nibot has the raw unadulterated chutzpah to challenge Senator Weinberg about how she spends her newly acquired campaign funds. I feel like Jon Stewart when he rubs his eyes furiously with his palms, shakes his head, looks up wide eyed and says Whaaaaaaa?
Come again, Ms. Nibot? If anyone is a Clean Candidate it is Senator Weinberg. It is certainly not you. According to ELEC, I have the proof. You didn't QUALIFY. You will just have to accept funds from folks like Joe Ferriero, Councilman Mulligan, or whoever else is funding your misleading campaign against our incumbent Senator.
As for Ms. Nibot's indignation that Senator Weinberg is looking into how our public utilities are run, whether for ideas on how to improve them or to root out corruption, what the heck is wrong with that? As a voter in NJ, I'd be happy to know that our Senator is looking after our interests everywhere - especially in expensive places and under rocks we often don't think to look. I hate to tell Ms. Nibot,"It ain't all about you, sweetheart." Just because you don't think a candidate should do any research except to learn all about your failings, doesn't mean Senator Weinberg is doing anything illegal or even unethical. It just tells me, you have more issues than a newstand. I don't know if I care to figure out what they all are before November 6 and I don't know if the voters have the time or inclination either.
See below for more links and articles explaining the real ways campaign money corrupts the political process. After reading them, tell me how a desperate Republican like Ms. Nibot can attack a popular honest Democratic State Senator like Loretta Weinberg who has just persuaded over 800 District 37 voters to give her 10$ each. Tell me that Niibot is the clean candidate when she can't even stay above the kind of nasty smears and innuendos that characterize the dirtiest of politics.
Ms. Nibot, it is you who needs to "come clean" and stop advertising yourself as the Clean Candidate when you are NOT.
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