When Roukema announced her retirement last year, Sumers - convinced that the next primary winner would be Garrett or another conservative like him - left the GOP and entered the race as a Democrat.
Roukema herself has remained quiet about how or whether she will weigh in on the race.
This is the sort of crap conservatives get from the GOP in this state.
The way I look at it now, theres one party in power in NJ its composed of all democrats and 80% or so of the Republican politicians. This one party will do anything they can to keep the Schundler wing (of which Scott Garrett is a solid soldier) from gaining ground.
Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.
Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.
I used to live in the 5th. Roukema was a Whitman clone and she kept winning GOP primaries simply because people there find fishing a lot more important than voting in a primary. Then they had no choice but to vote for her in the general election.
I just don't see how a Demo could win that seat. Unless the fine people there would find fishing a lot more important then voting in a general election. And this may very well be the case, given how interchangeable the 2 'maojor' parties have become lately.
Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.
I used to live in the 5th. Roukema was a Whitman clone and she kept winning GOP primaries simply because people there find fishing a lot more important than voting in a primary. Then they had no choice but to vote for her in the general election.
I just don't see how a Demo could win that seat. Unless the fine people there would find fishing a lot more important then voting in a general election. And this may very well be the case, given how interchangeable the 2 'maojor' parties have become lately.