THE GREAT ELECTION HEIST

New York Post ^ | 10/03/02 | ERIC FETTMANN

[kattracks]

October 3, 2002 -- FRANK Hague would have loved it.

Somewhere, the ghost of the longtime Jersey City Democratic boss - who famously declared, "I am the law!" - is looking down (or, more likely, up) with a huge grin at the goings on in his state's U.S. Senate race.

[aristeides]

Baroni, one of Forrester's lawyers at the oral arguments in NJ yesterday, said that federal law requires military ballots to be sent out 35 days before the election. Can somebody find the source of this legal requirement? The NJ Justices claimed yesterday not to be able to find it. It's probably not in the statute, but in something (regulation? ruling?) issued by the federal executive branch.

[KeyBored]

"But can Lautenberg win?"

Even now, as I write this, truckloads of dead bodies are on their way from Chicago to New Jersey . . .

[goldstategop]

You can bet your life the ballot boxes are already stuffed with ballots with Frank Lautenberg's name on them. It will a miracle if Doug Forrester wins in as corrupt a state as New Jersey in November.

[TheEngineer]

Still, Lautenberg does rob Forrester of his prime issue: the need to replace New Jersey's sleazy senior senator.

And, in effect, the NJ Supreme Court has robbed Forrester of a great deal of time, effort, and campaign money which he spent defining his prior sleazy opponent.

Has anybody seen a poll of Forrester vs. Lautenberg?

[Vineyard]

How about a declaration by the courts that the "Torch's" 5 million campaign war chest is to be divided amongst the other party candidates, based on primary vote counts, to offset and reimburse for already spent campaign ads, etc.??

takes the money away from the Dems. and if the Torch is out of politics, he shouldn't be able to keep it; and since it is the Dems that did this "bait and switch", why should they keep the money??!

Mike