Hudson county machine looking to move in ?
Question of control over Bergen Dems if Stellato-led party doesn’t win has no easy answer
By Mark Bonamo | 11/01/14 4:56pm
BERGEN COUNTY – The political future of Bergen County will be shaped by the outcome of several elections on Tuesday. The county executive race between Republican incumbent Kathleen Donovan and Democratic challenger Jim Tedesco, the freeholder fight between Democratic incumbents David Ganz and Joan Voss and Republican challengers Bernadette Coghlan-Walsh and Robert Avery and the contest in the Fifth Congressional District, which includes parts of Bergen, between GOP incumbent Scott Garrett and Democratic challenger Roy Cho put much of this November’s election emphasis on the state’s most populous county.
One thread linking all of these races together is Bergen Democratic Chairman Lou Stellato. In recent articles in PolitickerNJ, local Democrats have offered support for Stellato’s leadership, while Stellato himself has talked tough in the days running up to the election.
But even if things go badly for Democrats across the board, there may not be an immediately viable replacement for Stellato, if one is called for, because of the fragmentary nature of power among the Bergen Democrats.
Three prominent Bergen Democrats who could conceivably exert control over the county party are notably preoccupied, and arguably don’t have enough solitary power to take command alone.
State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-37) is a powerful statewide political player, often called “the conscience of the Legislature.” Yet there could be enough loyalists of former Bergen Democratic Chairman Joe Ferriero, who was convicted on corruption charges in 2009, who could try to block any move by Weinberg-backed allies for party control.
https://politickernj.com/2014/11/question-of-control-over-bergen-dems-if-stellato-led-party-doesnt-win-has-no-easy-answer/
Stellato is a thug. His profession suits him seeing as how dead people don’t talk back.
Time for a third party.
Instead of starting a third party, ragtag bunch of statist, race-baiting political thugs that you are, why don’t you all consider taking a, say, fifteen-year vacation from your party’s jihad against civil society, natural law, and republican (small ‘r’) government under a written federal constitution? Perhaps we can start thinking about bringing you into the fold once the pages of the future history books written about this era have begun to yellow a bit, and the pain from the open wounds to our collective polity caused by your power-hungry ways and shamelessly self-serving misbehavior has lost a bit of its edge. In the meantime, would you mind it terribly if we asked you to take a similar break from your two-faced, Taqqiya-like, Alinsky-inspired infiltration of the rank and file of otherwise decent religious, civil, and political organizations in this country? Also, if during your sabbatical you could also take a break from promoting one-world-government and figuring out new and interesting ways to reduce the human population of the earth to the currently-favored number of 1 billion or less (Who Is John Holdren?), you might begin earning some real philanthropic credit and climbing out of the moral and ethical pit you’ve been digging for yourselves for the past hundred years or so.