Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Clinton get hers in New Jersey



(Photo, PoliticsNJ)

Gov. Jon Corzine and a bevy of the Dem power structure endorsed Hillary Clinton's candidacy for President yesterday in Elizabeth, the seat of Union County.

While the mainstream media were busy ticking off this 'coup', more thoughtful observers saw a few blemishes that the airbrush missed.

Wally Edge, the anonymous pundit on the PoliticsNJ website, pointed out that Clinton raked in nowhere close to the haul that Jim McGreevey delivered to John Kerry in 2004 or that Christy Whitman gave George Bush in 2000.

In fact, counties representing about HALF the state's Dem vote did NOT line up behind Hillary. Some have already thrown their lot with Obama and some are 'in play'.

TBM is struck that while State Sen. Ray Lesniak endorsed her -- he IS from Elizabeth, for Pete's sake! -- there is no mention anywhere of Union County Dem boss Charlotte DeFilippo.

Now that is a truly BIG oversight.

Nor is Plainfield Assemblyman Jerry Green mentioned as supporting Hillary.

In fact, TBM ran into him last night and he told me he wasn't even in Elizabeth, as I had predicted elsewhere that he might be.

Guess I owe him a cuppa java.

Here are the details from the PoliticsNJ website --
Corzine endorsements:

Governor Jon Corzine

Congressman Rob Andrews
Congressman Frank Pallone Jr.
Former Governor Brendan Byrne
Former Governor Jim Florio
State Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts

State Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman

State Democratic Party Chairman and Assemblyman Joe Cryan

State Senator and Bayonne Mayor Joe Doria
State Senator Barbara Buono
State Senator Nia Gill

State Senator Ray Lesniak
State Assemblyman Tom Giblin

Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes
Elizabeth Mayor J. Christian Bollwage

Former Cherry Hill Mayor Susan Bass Levin

Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Ron Ruff
Burlington County Democratic Chairman Richard Perr
Hudson County Democratic Chairman Bernie Kenny

Hunterdon County Democratic Chairman David Del Vecchio
Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Vic Scudiery

Warren County Chairman David DeGerolamo

Editor's Note: Later this evening, the Clinton campaign deleted Kenny in Hudson, but added five other County Chairs: Phil Thigpen in Essex, Elia Pelios in Somerset, Wyatt Earp in Ocean, Megan Ward in Sussex and Lewis Candura in Morris.




Links on Corzine's Clinton Endorsement
-- Dan Damon

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