Posted on 10/02/2002 5:16:31 PM PDT by Politico2
Forrester Statement On New Jersey Supreme Court Decision
(TRENTON, OCTOBER 2) U.S. Senate candidate Doug Forrester tonight issued the following statement:
Today, the people of New Jersey lost. The Torricelli-Lautenberg machines disregard for the rule of law, fair elections and the people of New Jersey will, once again, make our great state the butt of national jokes.
The good people of New Jersey understand what has transpired over the past few days. A few powerbrokers read public opinion polls and concluded that I was going to beat Bob Torricelli, and decided to change the rules of the game. The good people of New Jersey will not allow these political games to win the day.
Today, this election became an election between, on the one hand, those who seek to restore New Jerseys reputation and, on the other hand, those few powerbrokers who will say anything and do anything to rig the system to their advantage. I will continue my fight to restore dignity and honor the office of the United States Senate. And with the people of New Jersey, we will win this fight.
Unfortunately, the New Jersey Supreme Court has now decided that New Jersey law, as written, should not apply to this election. Their decision is flawed.
We will pursue an appeal of this matter to the Supreme Court of the United States, to ensure that the men and women of our military will not be disenfranchised and that the rule of law will be upheld.
This is a fight that the Torricelli-Lautenberg machine began when it decided it could not win this election within the rules provided by state law.
Regardless of the outcome in the courts, I will continue my fight to put the interests of the people of New Jersey before politics.
The TorricelliLautenberg machine has failed to fight to strengthen our national security. The Torricelli Lautenberg machine has consistently voted to cut defense and intelligence spending.
The Torricelli Lautenberg machine voted against a national missile defense system to protect American families and our allies. The TorricelliLaugtenberg machine has failed to clean more than 19 of New Jerseys 132 Superfund toxic waste sites. The TorricelliLautenberg machine has consistently voted for higher taxes and against a Balance Budget Amendment. And under the Torricelli Lautenberg machine, New Jersey has remained dead last among the states in getting a return on the tax dollars we send to Washington meaning our hardworking families continue to bear an enormous tax burden.
These issues continue to confront us. These are the issues I have been speaking about since I entered this race. Theses are the issues I will continue to speak about until Election Day.
Enough is enough. I will continue to stand against the Torricelli-Lautenberg machine. Hang on, New Jersey help is on the way!
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Paid for by Forrester 2002, Inc.
-PJ
So we don't even try? Isn't it worth a try?
Democrats have no regard for the rule of law and they stack courts with judges that have no regard for the rule of law. If conservatives never challenge these Dems when they break the law, we'll never get off the ground. I know you think it's beneath conservatives to actually challenge the Dem lawbreakers in court, but sometimes you have to go down to the level of your enemy to defeat your enemy. The people aren't paying enough attention to reward us for fair play so we have to fight these Dems on more than just the public opinion level.
I, for one, am sick of the rats breaking the freaking law and I want these bastards smacked down in the courts as well as at the ballot box.
Sad to say, however, the former is much more likely than the latter in that cesspool of corruption.
That is a mouthful and over the top and inane. Forrester would have been better off to say the Torricelli-Lautenberg wing of the Democrat party, or just Torricelli and Lautenberg. It is odd to characterize as a "machine" as mechanism whose disparate parts would commit homicide against one another if they could get away with it.
I remember an anecdote where, during a cabinet meeting, a Clinton cabinet member protested a course of action that was highly unethical and most likely illegal, and Clinton shouted her down by saying that if people in 1960 operated the way she wanted that Jack Kennedy would never have been elected, "and your telling me that the law or ethics were more important than beating Richard Nixon."
Clintonism is winning at all costs, it is Hitlerism with a smiley face.
For once I agree with you. These Dems need to be taken to task for their crimes. Ridiculing them isn't working, they keep getting more and more corrupt every year. They're going to cause a civil war in this country if we don't start holding them accountable.
However, this is not fair to Forrester in that his whole campaign was predicated on the Torch being his opponent. Now he has to scrap ads, commission new ones, and change his strategy.
I doubt that Torricelli would have been happy if we had scrapped Forrester at this late date and replaced him with Bruce Willis.
I also hope that those conservatives who have stated they will not vote for their Republican candidate because they aren't conservative enough will reconsider.
FRANKLY, DEMOCRATS JUST
IGNORE THE LA[W]TENBERG
This is beyond Clinton. This race illustrates so clearly what 40 years of the Great Society/Socialism/Relativism has brought to this country. We basically have a handfull of appointees making law. Not interpreting law. Not fitting it within the confines of a state or federal constitution; making law. And, they are making law selectively. The SCOFLA(w) was the first to bring the issue to national attention; NJ has done it again.
This type of judicial activism is exactly why the Republicans need a house and senate majority. Two years can help undo a lot of Clinton's damage. It can also readjust the federal court system to again align itself with the constitution. As for state courts, sadly, they'll not learn until they get slapped down by the feds from time to time.
Forrester has already spent some of his money defeating Torricelli! Lautenburg comes in with a fresh bank account. You want to just roll over for these Democratic lawbreakers?!
I mean, geez, I hate the SCONJ's ruling too, and it's sad, but if Forrester had an ounce of worth it seems he should be up to taking on all comers...right?
So you never want to stop these Dems from playing on an uneven field? They're going to do this over and over if we don't try to stop them. They'll send out a candidate to drain our guy of his advertising, and then send in a fresh candidate that hasn't had to go through the rigors of a year's worth of campaigning in the primary and the general. Yes I want a candidate to be able to win, but the parties are so even that you can't expect your candidate to have to spend money to defeat 2 or 3 different candidates consecutively.
I went to the donation link, and my donation was rejected. It didn't say why, and clicking "help" just opened another window with the same information.
We're doomed!
ML/NJ
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