Outside Money and High-placed friends aided Bergen County Democrats
NOVEMBER 8, 2014, 4:47 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014, 12:01 AM
BY CHARLES STILE
RECORD COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD
A trio of Democrats launched a fierce and costly courtship of Bergen County Democratic Chairman Lou Stellato, whose blessing could make or break their bids to become the next New Jersey governor three years from now.
They arrived in Bergen County eager to demonstrate the depth of their loyalty. They brought their checkbooks. They brought their donors and operatives. And one brought an expensive “micro-targeting” guru to pinpoint Democratic votes.
Phillip Murphy is a former Goldman Sachs executive and a former U.S. ambassador to Germany.
Together they invested nearly $160,000 in Democrat James Tedesco’s defeat of Republican County Executive Kathleen Donovan on Tuesday and the reelection of Freeholders David Ganz and Joan Voss. The money represented nearly 18 percent of the Democratic campaign, state campaign finance records show.
But money told only part of the |story.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney, an officer of a South Jersey ironworkers local, used his influence to steer ironworker money into the state and helped prevent Donovan’s team from snapping up support from other trade unions.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/stile-high-placed-friends-aided-bergen-county-democrats-1.1129627
I don’t know the other guys but Steve Sweeney is a skunk.
Just enough to make you puke…..
This is what it’s come down too….
A bunch of scumbags in suits….
Let the revolution begin !
So they poured money into Bergen County so that a volunteer fireman with a GED could get into the County Exec office. BE afraid, be very afraid!!
Tell me that’s not true dude……
Hears on for you educated assholes
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick the Great
Uneducated people need a smack in the head…..
Ed Norton