Isn’t New Jersey the state where a Democrat candidate died after the legal time had passed for getting a new candidate on the ballot—but the New Jersey Supreme Court let the ‘Rats do it anyway?
yep...it brought lautenberg back to life.
Worse, the guy they put on had alzheimers (or some other form of dementia). He had previously chosen years before not to run for reelection to the senate because of it. But here he could walk in without campaigning and get the job by default. Pure puppet is all he was. And the NJ Supreme Court ensured he would get elected in clear contradiction of black and white letter of the law. They argued that regardless of the law, voters deserved to have a viable democrat on the ballot even if there was one on the ballot already but he was an unelectable crook.
The candidate didn’t die. The incumbent, U.S. Senator Bob Torricelli was exposed as a crook and tanked in the polls so the Democrats switched him out on the ballot with former Sen. Frank Lautenberg. It was against New Jersey election law to do that so close to the election but the state Supreme Court ruled for the Democrats.
Christie had a special primary for Booker in August & special senate election in October rather conflict with his re election in November 2013.