FBI Raids GOP Senate Hopeful's Office in N.J.

NEWSMAX ^ | 4/19/02

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

FBI agents Thursday raided offices of Essex County Executive James Treffinger but would not say what they were looking for.

Treffinger, a self-described conservative Republican, is one of five candidates seeking the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in New Jersey.

There was no immediate comment from Treffinger's office. An answering machine message said no one was available to talk.

Sandra Carroll, a spokeswoman for the FBI, confirmed that a raid took place.

"I can't give you any details," Carroll told United Press International. "The only thing I am able to do is confirm that there was a search at that location."

She said the search was "in connection with a criminal investigation." She said she could not say whether Treffinger was the target of that investigation.

Carroll would not say what was taken from the office, if anything. She did say there were no arrests.

Treffinger, who became Essex County executive on Jan. 1, 1995, is perceived as the front-runner for the nomination to challenge Democrat U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli in the fall.

Also running in the June GOP primary are longtime Burlington County Republican leader and former Philadelphia news anchor Diane Allen; Douglas Forrester, a wealthy businessman from Mercer County; and state Sen. John Matheussen of Gloucester County.

Just last week New Jersey's largest anti-abortion organization endorsed Matheussen as the only Republican candidate who has been a consistent foe of abortion.

"On the one issue that matters to pro-life Republicans, Sen. Matheussen offers voters a clear choice," Marie Tasy, director of public affairs for New Jersey Right to Life, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[Cicero]

Well, I don't know what this is about, but it sounds like politics as usual in New Jersey. Four out of five of the Republican candidates are pro-aborts, and one of them is a crook. Par for the course.

[Fish out of Water]

index bump and fyi

[Mike Fieschko]

Treffinger, a self-described conservative Republican

Because no one with a third grade education would call him conservative.

[Russell Scott]

I smell a corrupt politcal machine at work. Torricelli is so dirty he uses a brillo pad to wash his hands. When will New Jersey wake up?

[LurkerNoMore!]

heheh

[motzman]

NJ is run by unions and hence Democrats. Patronage is immense. Corruption doesn't matter, as long as it's your guy doing the corrupting.

The Republicans are liberals, and are only interested in gaining power for patronage purposes. Those Reps that say otherwise are either:

1) Full of Sh$t

2) Going to lose badly.

There's really no reason to vote for Republicans in NJ; the last good one was Schundler and I wasted $100 bucks on donations because a-hole RINO's couldn't lower themselves to vote for the guy that whipped Bob "Elmer Fudd" Franks.

The only way I'm ever going to vote for anyone in NJ is if I'm offered a job or bribed, and then I wouldn't care what party I voted for, because it doesn't make a dime's worth of difference anyway.

So there.

(</ rant>)

[mtman]

MY VOTE...When the US needs an enema...NJ should be on the receiving end!...almost everyone I've ever met from there was a pompous as*hole!