Quote of the Day: The only time a Newark mayor made national headlines before Cory Booker

by: Jason Springer

Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 05:13:07 PM EDT

The only time a Newark mayor made national headlines before Cory Booker was when they were indicted or went to jail," Adubato said.

Quote of the Day

by: Juan Melli

Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 10:53:00 PM EDT

"If Ray [Lesniak], [John] Lynch and [George] Norcross agreed on a statewide candidate, nobody else had a chance."

75 year old to 84 year old: you're too old!

by: Juan Melli

Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 05:39:29 PM EDT

Adubato says he spoke to Lautenberg this afternoon and "told him I can't support him because of his age." Lautenberg is 84; Andrews is 50.

"He was very unhappy," said Audobato, who is 75 years old himself.

Adubato endorses Andrews

by: Juan Melli

Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 04:06:54 PM EDT

Rob Andrews was endorsed by Newark Democratic leader Steve Adubato today, and sources say a screaming match between Adubato and four-term Sen. Frank Lautenberg resulted in Adubato telling the 84-year-old Senator that it was time to call it quits.  More endorsements for Andrews are expected today, as is Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero's announcement that he will back Lautenberg.

Steve Adubato Unearths Vincent Foster

by: nathanrudy

Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 01:48:20 PM EST

But with crap like this (noted by TPM), maybe he should just stay in the bowels of NJ politics.

Bill and Hillary want the media to focus on are only the positive aspects of her experience but won't say a word about such topics as "Travelgate;" "Whitewater;" exactly how Vince Foster died; missing billing records; or Hillary's role as architect of the failed effort for universal healthcare.

Wow!  Maybe Steve can blame Hillary for Mike Huckabee releasing Wayne Drummond to rape and kill again!

This is the problem with Democrats who become talking heads -- as soon as they get any play in the greater media world they instantly start buying into the crap the Republicans have been throwing around for the past 30 years, and in particular into the hateful lies they spewed about the Clintons for the past 15.

Here these are one by one:

• Travelgate: Upon taking over the White House, the Clintons fired a bunch of staffers in the travel office and hired new ones.  Somehow this became a huge deal: a new administration brought their own people in.  Why won't Hillary talk about it on the stump?
• Whitewater: This was the fevered imaginings of the right wing lunatics that Bill and Hillary Clinton were somehow culpable for a screwed up investment scheme on which they lost money and for which four separate Republican special prosecutors found no evidence against them.  That's right: four Republican special prosecutors, and the best they could get was Bill lied about getting oral sex outside of his marriage.  Steve is totally right that we need to investigate and discuss this one again!
• Vince Foster's Death: Again, four Republican special prosecutors determined that Vince Foster committed suicide, was not murdered, there was no foul play, the body was not moved, and Hillary had nothing to do with it!  Of course the sad, private death of a close friend 13 years ago should be a basic part of the stump speech.
• Missing Billing Records: Yep, they were missing and the right wingers were going nuts over them, suggesting that the smoking gun was in them and Bill and Hillary were hiding them!  How nefarious. Then the records were found, turned over to the prosecutor and, shockingly, there was nothing bad in them.  Nothing.  Hillary should answer for that!
• Healthcare debacle: Hillary did screw this one up, and has repeatedly said so on the stump, at debates, in interviews.  She suggests that because she has been through the fire on the health care issue she is best suited for taking it on again.  As Steve says, why won't she talk about it?

Adubato is dredging up Republican smears that not only cost the American taxpayers millions of dollars, but were proven false repeatedly by Republican prosecutors.  Then Adubato raises his own lie about Clinton, that she won't talk about the failed effort to institute universal national health care when she most assuredly has.

Look, I'm a John Edwards guy and I really hope he gets the nomination and Hillary gets to stay in the Senate.  I've never been a big fan of either Clinton, and would have preferred Tsongas in 1992 and my Dad in 1996. 

But that's all besides the point.  When our spokesmen like Steve Adubato make their bones on trotting out disproven right wing lies against other Democrats, then we are fighting a massive uphill battle.

Maybe you can say there's some Karma here after Clinton NH co-chair Bill Shaheen slyly brought up Obama's teenage drug use or Clinton backer and former Senator Bob Kerrey "innocently" repeated the "madrassa" claims.  But if Shaheen and Kerrey were wrong, so is Adubato.

William Payne Forges Independent "Up with Racism and Corruption" Ticket

by: Hudson Observer

Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 11:22:12 AM EDT

Payne, whose name is like tarnished gold in Essex County, is miffed that he was dumped from the Democratic slate when they decided that they would try some democracy.  But he will not go softly into that good night - no, he's going to go screaming and crying like a little girl whose lollipop was stolen.

Join me after the flip.

Praise for Menendez

by: DottieG

Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 11:41:28 PM EDT

"The fact is that Bob Menendez is one of the most articulate, thoughtful and effective members of Congress."

Amen!