See, Buzzfeed, that’s how you subtly get the point across while still warning your readers about the pictures of perky, naked breasts that can be found at this link.
:pause:
…What? I didn’t put them up myself, did I?
Continue reading STRIPPERS! Nekked pictures of one! Who DMs! With Cory Booker! (Link NSFW)
It is a measure of just how poorly that this woman is doing in her bid to beat Chris Christie in the general election that I will get media points from her campaign for spelling her name correctly* and noting that she’s running for Governor of New Jersey. Another measure:
[Barbara Buono] was by then the party’s nominee, and the party needed a new state chair. In New Jersey, the gubernatorial nominee has always been granted the right to pick the chair, no questions asked. But when Buono picked her guy, the party big shots simply refused to accept her choice and forced her to settle on a different candidate. “They didn’t just throw her under the bus,” says Buono’s former campaign aide. “They threw her under the bus and drove over her back and forth, over and over.”
Hell, even the people in my own party who cordially despise Chris Christie aren’t talking about Buono. That’s how bad off she is.
Via
Barbara Buono latest woman to get little attention from Obama | http://t.co/AkhlQKhu8M
— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) September 13, 2013
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*I am, in fact, a cruel man and a bit of a jerk when it comes to Democratic candidates and politicians. But I’m not a bully. Well, OK, I am a bully to trolls. But only to them! And they deserve it, anyway!
But there’s a picture of him, and everything!
…Oh, Cory. I really am disappointed in the man; it’s such an easy error to avoid. Continue reading … @CoryBooker has an imaginary friend called #T-Bone?
Yeah, they had them yesterday.
With nearly all precincts reporting late Tuesday, Booker had about 60 percent of the vote in the Democratic contest, with Pallone, who had the support of Lautenberg’s family, a distant second. Lonegan had about 80 percent of the vote in the GOP contest.
Obviously, I want the Republican candidate to win – any Republican over any Democrat is my default reaction – but it’s going to be interesting to see how much help Steve Lonegan will actively try to get out of Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie. They, ah, have a bit of a history.
Yes, I know: that is a remarkably bloodless way of putting it, First, do no harm is also something that I try to default to.
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I keep forgetting to bring this up:
New ad: http://t.co/43dLGHvlU9
— Fausta For Council (@Fausta4Council) June 23, 2013
Here’s her campaign website. Fausta is a lovely woman and a good blogger who I have known for years; if you happen to be eligible to vote in Princeton, New Jersey’s Council elections, you should by all means vote for her.
Cory Booker makes it official: he’s running for NJ-SEN (special): he announced it today. Here’s the thing, though: so is Rep. Frank Pallone. For that matter, so is Rep. Rush Holt, but Holt’s brand of progressive is probably not envelopes-of-cash-under-the-table enough for the Democratic Senate primary. In other words: this is a two-man show, and Frank Pallone is going to startle a lot of people outside of New Jersey by not folding like a cheap suit. Pallone has been hungry for a Senate seat for the last decade, and absent a sudden resignation by Bob Menendez this is pretty much going to be the man’s best shot. And… well, I do not want to libel the man or anything, given that I used to live in his district; so let us just say that the Congressman may have a somewhat jaundiced view of the mayor of Newark presuming to switch jobs before Newark is fixed. Or even stabilized. Continue reading Update on the NJ Senate special election.
Tanker truck carrying 6,000 gallons of Scotch overturns, catches fire on New Jersey road
Commuters traveling this week on the Garden State Parkway may find themselves saying “l’chaim” as they drive past Woodbrige.
If there’s a fragrance of whiskey mixed with diesel fuel in the air, that’s because a tanker truck filled with 6,000 gallons of Scotch overturned on Tuesday, spilled its load and then caught fire on King Georges Road in the Fords section.
Oh, God. The humanity. The humanity.
…but you should probably take the argument seriously.
Don’t agree with all of this, but @SeanTrende makes the case for why Christie’s Senate move was shrewd http://t.co/XRqAvbynwW
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 5, 2013
One thing that Sean said rings particularly true: “The battlefield of presidential politics is littered with the bones of politicians who started thinking about Iowa before tending to their own re-election efforts.” I should also note that a lot of people – including me, some days – are simply assuming that Cory Booker’s social media-friendly persona will beat out Frank Pallone’s I-buried-the-bodies-so-of-course-I-know-where-they-are machine politics methodology in a primary. If that does not happen, then the odds of a GOP upset go a little bit higher; after all, it then becomes an off-year, off-date special election where the Old White Guy beat out that nice Mayor who gets along so well with Governor Christie. Every little bit helps.
Again, you are not required to agree with any of this.
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He apparently has passed “due to complications from viral pneumonia.” He was 89 years old, and the last remaining World War II veteran in the Senate.
Our condolences to his family and loved ones.
RT @seanagnew: RIP, Technician Fifth Grade, Frank Lautenberg. 3185th Signal Service Battalion
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 3, 2013
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I was going to write something about Lincoln Chafee’s Hail Mary conversion to Democrat, prior to the 2014 RI gubernatorial election, but this passage about something entirely different made me chuckle too much:
Psst! – Barack Obama, there IS a Democrat running for Governor in New Jersey, as Shush Walshe reports: While President Obama played arcade games Tuesday with Gov. Chris Christie at the New Jersey shore, there was no sign of the Democrat who’s challenging Christie for governor. Instead, state Sen. Barbara Buono was reduced to tweeting, “@BuonoForNJGov It was great to meet with @BarackObama today as we cheer the shore’s re-opening: a testament to all we accomplish when we work together. -BB” http://abcn.ws/174ZTbM (Shushannah Walshe)
Continue reading Sort of scatterbrained gubernatorial observations.
