A Tale of Pallone’s Phoney History
This comment is too good not to put on the front page:
Trochilus said at 4:57 pm on October 27th, 2010:
I can partially explain Pallones’ earlier claim — this one:
“This is not Obama’s bill. This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s bill. This is MY bill.”
I worked in the New Jersey Senate years ago when Pallone was a State Senator. He was known at the time as a bill thief.
Whenever a Republican would post a good bill for introduction, the Senate Democrat staff (who controlled the process, as they were in the majority) would simply take a copy of the intro bill, xerox it, cross out the introducer’s name, and write in Pallone’s name. Pallone would then sign intro copies, and his version would be given a priority number, while the Republican’s bill would be mere listed as “proposed for introduction” and therefore receive a higher bill number when it was actually introduced at the subsequent session. He and the staff did this over and over again in order to boost Pallone’s profile.
One day, they did it to Senator Frank Graves, a powerful Senate Democrat from Paterson, and Graves went verbally ballistic on Pallone on the Senate floor at the next session.
Pallone just stood there with that silly smirk on his face, never bothering to deny it because he knew it was true.
He has been claiming that bills are his for a long, long time! A habit of a lifetime.
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A fellow Senate staffer from back in the day saw my comment and wrote back to me. He reminded me that during his time in the New Jersey Senate, they actually used to call Frank Pallone “Senator Xerox” . . .
Heh. It is absolutely true. I had forgotten that part when I wrote my comment.
As I specifically recall, he stole at least a few Senator Jack Gallagher bills . . . the Democrats wanted to promote the challenge of Gallagher by then-Assemblyman Richie VanWagner from the Bayshore district.
So they gave the Gallagher bills to Pallone for earlier introduction numbers, and Gallagher’s original intro bills were bumped back onto the “proposed list.”
Then they stole at least one Joe Bubba bill.
And when then-Senate President Joe Merlino’s staff went after Democrat Frank Graves of Paterson (to get even with him for having killed Merlino’s Gubernatorial ambition handgun ban bill) Graves went completely nuts on Pallone on the Senate floor.
Senator Xerox also frequently stole Dr. Anthony M “Doc” Villane, Jr.’s bills. Doc represented the same district, but in the Assembly. If Doc dropped a bill in the Assembly hopper, Pallone toadies would make a copy and have Frank introduce the same bill in the State Senate.