By Kevin B. Sanders • 12/20/14 8:57pm
Potential 2017 gubernatorial candidate Philip Murphy and his family pose for their yearly holiday card.
It’s dangerous to be in an Agustin Torres column before he’s had his morning coffee. The Jersey Journal‘s political editor absoulutely unloaded on presumed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Murphy in Saturday’s Journal, accusing Murphy of an unrelenting string of synonyms for “out of touch rich guy.”
It’s clear that Murphy annoys the often-cranky Torres even more than the usual politician. He says of Murphy, who headed the Frankfurt office of Goldman Sachs from 1993-1997 and later served as national finance chair for the DNC, “His place of residency is on another planet” who aspires to Huey Long populism but cannot “relate to the masses” because he is not “one of them.”
Then there’s this brutal chunk:
https://observer.com/2014/12/brutal-journal-story-paints-philip-murphy-as-elitist-dandy/
Two and a half year old story…