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Torricelli's Support Ebbs After Rebuke
Courier Post (NJ) - Gannett News Service ^ | Saturday, August 24, 2002 | LEDYARD KING

Posted on 08/24/2002 7:08:14 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:44:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

This suburban community some 30 miles southwest of New York City should be safe territory for Sen. Robert Torricelli as he seeks re-election this fall.

Nearly 60 percent of voters here, many of them white- collar moderates, went for the Democrat in his first Senate bid six years ago.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: njelection; senate; torricelli
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- This, from a newspaper (Courier-Post) that is never friendly to conservatives.
1 posted on 08/24/2002 7:08:14 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: LibFreeUSA
Robert Torricelli really doesn't have much of a problem.

1st Option - Change his 1st name to Andrea and release his debut CD "The Senator Stings"

2nd Option - Hey he's Italian! If he can't sing then he must be able to cook. Change his first name to Emeril and the Food Channel will have "Emeril Torricelli's Green Dollar Salads " on the air in no time at all.

2 posted on 08/24/2002 7:21:51 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: LibFreeUSA
Imagine the novelty of NJ having an HONEST senator!

I guess Bill Bradley was considered honest... Although he was smart enough to know that his liberal philosophy was intellectually dishonest.

It's nice to see quotes from some New Jerseyans showing some indications that the Age of Clinton may have finally gone too far, even in NJ, home of the Sopranos. Here's hoping for a Forrester victory in November.

3 posted on 08/24/2002 7:24:40 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: LibFreeUSA
Let's give Torrecelli a chance to rest and recover, he has just suffered a terrible admonishment. Not widely known, however, is that he was also forced to undergo a period of retraining so as to never repeat his criminal acts again. After all, the next time he is caught taking bribes, the democrats may not be in chaarge.

The new democrat techniques for hiding bribe taking are, of course, those used by Sen. Dashole and by Texas Sen. candidate, Ron Kirk. In both cases, bribes and all discussions of the "in exchange for" aspect of the payments are covered, not with the politician, but with his wife. The democrat politician never directly enters in to the bribe transaction (all though, he, of course, delivers the vote or influence or makes the decision that favors his wife's "customer"); his bag woman wife does everything. The beauty part is that the democrat politician then refuses to make any tax returns public. So the IRS knows about the bribe income but the voters do not.

It is a wonderful system and allows the weasel democrats to attack those who have earned great wealth while stealing great wealth, themselves. For obvious reasons, Torricelli's conversion to this standard democrat approach has not been widely covered in the press.

4 posted on 08/24/2002 7:25:49 AM PDT by Tacis
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Actually what I think may be happening, is that the public is sort of cofessing to the dishonesty of the 90's and cleansing their conscience by blaming their own willingness to cut the ethical corners on Torricelli. They will kill his political future for their sins as well as his.

I hope this is what is happening. Left to normal dynamics of past elections, Torch will win even if he is down by 10 points due to the dead monkey business, and double voting.

5 posted on 08/24/2002 7:34:19 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: LibFreeUSA
"Torricelli's Support Ebbs After Rebuke

Ebbs? You or I would be in prison.

6 posted on 08/24/2002 7:38:26 AM PDT by blam
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
I see the hand of the voters of New Jersey reaching for the handle on the toilet to flush another turd down the drain.
7 posted on 08/24/2002 7:40:02 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: LibFreeUSA
Torricelli's ethics lapse . . .

Lapse, my eye. More like standard operating procedure. Did the Courier Post talk about Al Capone's ethics "lapse" when he was nailed for income tax evasion?

8 posted on 08/24/2002 7:41:35 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: blam
You mean like Chang? Only in the US Senate can two people conspire to extort and bribe for political favor, and the one who pays the bribe be the only one who goes to jail because he is not an elected official. The federal prison system could open an entire new cell block just to house the bribers during one week of a Clinton election cycle.
9 posted on 08/24/2002 7:44:14 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: hflynn
his progressive views on gun control, abortion and the environment resonate among New Jersey's suburban base.

Let's analyze his "progressive"views on:

1. Gun Control. He strongly favors it. In other words, he believes that all law-abiding citizens should be denied their right to protect themselves which is guaranteed under the Second Amendment. He further believes that, if gun ownership were totally forbidden, all criminals would happily turn in their weapons to the local precinct and sing a rousing chorus of "Kumbaya" with the desk sergeant.

2. Abortion. He strongly favors it. Even partial-birth abortion is cool with him. After all, unlike gun ownership, the right to abortion is right there in The Constitution. Apparently, it was redacted in the copy I keep on my desk. (Note to voters: whatever your personal view on abortion, your Senator will not be able to challenge Roe v. Wade. That can only be done in the Supreme Court.)

3. The Environment. The democrats have demagogued this issue so much that now one must believe that they are for clean water and clean air and those wascally wepublicans are for dirty water and dirty air. Just because we don't allow the environmental whackos of the green movement to ride roughshod over our private property rights doesn't mean we enjoy drinking polluted water or breathing noxious fumes.

As a long-time resident of the Garden State, I hope justice will be done and Torricelli will be gone. What I hope for and what I am afraid will happen are diametrically opposite.

10 posted on 08/24/2002 7:45:56 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: blackdog
When your elected officials allows this to happen, you know what they think of you.
11 posted on 08/24/2002 7:48:10 AM PDT by blam
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To: LibFreeUSA
"I understand politicians and very few of them are honest," said Jim Schleuss, 66, a small-business owner from Barnegat who plans to vote for Torricelli. "The man made a stupid mistake. He stood up and said, `I made a stupid mistake.' I buy that."

Hey Jim, you old cuss, a stupid mistake, eh? That's what all the prisoners in jail call what happened to them, too. You want we should turn 'em loose in YOUR neighborhood?

Jim MUST be a liefelong democRat, 'cause he sure got the talking points and immoral justification thing going good.

My prediction: Jersey WILL reelect this guy. You can't enlighten the stupid.

12 posted on 08/24/2002 7:49:45 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: LibFreeUSA
"...his improper acceptance of gifts from a political donor seeking favors..."

What we used to call bribery...

13 posted on 08/24/2002 7:51:16 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine
I love this picture that was on the Rush Limbaugh site:

THE "TORCH"

14 posted on 08/24/2002 7:54:19 AM PDT by stlrocket
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To: blam
You're right. Torricelli should serve the remainder of David Chang's term. And we're proud of the American criminal justice system?
15 posted on 08/24/2002 7:55:45 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Alas Babylon!
You can't enlighten the stupid.

This would make a great bumper sticker! Not only is it impossible to enlighten them, but we have to let them vote, too. And it is unimaginable that a small business owner, of all people, would support a Dem. That is the ultimate in stupidity.

16 posted on 08/24/2002 7:58:10 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: LibFreeUSA
Former Gov. Brendan Byrne . . . said . . . "I don't think people want to turn over the Senate to the Republicans over a television set,"

I hope the voters of New Jersey remember that a man's felonies are like cockroaches: For every one you see, there are a hundred you don't.

17 posted on 08/24/2002 8:03:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibFreeUSA
Torricelli epitomizes the oxymoron defintion of an "honest politician:"

One who when he's bought, stays bought.

18 posted on 08/24/2002 8:03:41 AM PDT by Liz
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To: LibFreeUSA
"This state is a tax- cutting, pro-environment, pro-education, pro-choice, pro- gun control state and I reflect what I think are the views of most middle-income people in New Jersey, Democrats and Republicans."

The man knows what his customers want.

19 posted on 08/24/2002 8:06:22 AM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: Alas Babylon!
Schleuss means he understands 'democrat' politicians.....
20 posted on 08/24/2002 8:28:58 AM PDT by OldFriend
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