Posted on 10/30/2008 3:13:17 PM PDT by gridlock
Democrat Linda Stender is running the single sleaziest campaign ad I have ever seen.
Thanks to the national Republican Party, it will probably work.
The ad in question is a flier attacking her Republican opponent for Congress, Leonard Lance, for supporting Christie Whitman's pension bond scheme in 1997 when he served in the state Assembly.
One problem: Lance opposed the scheme. Not only did he oppose it, but he opposed it so publicly and prominently that his fellow Republicans took revenge on him by removing him from a key committee chairmanship.
Yet that doesn't stop Stender, a state assemblywoman from Union County, from circulating a flier that says the following in large type: "[Whitman-Lance] groundbreaking scheme to borrow .¤.¤. in 1997 began a new era of deficit financing."
The quote is attributed to a 2005 article in the Record, which publishes in Bergen County. Why would a Bergen newspaper be singling out a legislator from Hunterdon County for such attention?
It didn't. The article in question alluded to "Whitman's groundbreaking scheme." Some anonymous political hack inserted Lance's name in a sentence that referred not to him but to his leading rival on this issue. In politics, there's a technical term for what Stender is doing here. It's called "lying."
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Stender is a sleazy piece of work. Mulshine thinks that she's going to get away with her lying tactics, but I don't think so. People don't cotton to that sort of thing.
Here is another thread (Divide and Conquer in New Jersey) about a sleazy mailing I got from the DCCC just today.
I am actually grateful for the number of Stender mailings I get, I am saving money on cat litter.
"Hey, I don't care who you are - those are NOT coattails!"
Just curious, why can’t you say Newark?
Ah. I just wondered because I used to work for an affiliate of the (Bergen) Record (forgive me Father for I have sinned), and all of a sudden you weren’t supposed to say “Bergen” anymore. I never quite figured out why, but I hoped it had something to do with the Dinosaur Media Deathwatch.
We've all done things we're not proud of, son... What matters is that you have gone on to make something of yourself.
It’s spelled “Newerk”, Sunshine...
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OK! Well it ought to be!!!
Well I live in New York and work in Jersey these days, so I’ll cut you some slack.
I always heard “Nu-erk,” without any W sound. The one in Missouri is pronounced “New Ark,” though.
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