Which candidates are better known?
Why either LD 13 slate could still win
Provolone is cheese
By Art Gallagher
Monday night at the Two Rivers Republican Club of Fair Haven Meet the Candidates night, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assembly Candidate Edna Walsh got into it over which slate is better known.
While scolding the challengers for running against “the best, most conservative, delegation in the legislature,” and dismissing the Bayshore Tea Party backed candidates’ justification for running, i.e., that Joe Kyrillos, Amy Handlin and O’Scanlon don’t share the conservative values of the district the challengers say, O’Scanlon said, “Where have you been? I haven’t heard from you and no body has heard of you.”
Walsh retorted, “As I go door to door, no one has heard to you.” To which O’Scanlon scoffed.
Both O’Scanlon and Walsh are probably right. Unless something has happened that nobody has accounted for in the last two years, very few of the legislative candidates in the district, and throughout the state, incumbent or not, are very well known.
In March of 2011, days before the new legislative map was announced, I was disgusted that Dr. Alan Rosenthal of Rutgers, the deciding vote on the commission that was designating the gerrymandered map that in all likelihood would determine the partisan composition of the legislature for the next decade, had on his own created a criteria by which the map should be determined; continuity of representation.
Posted: May 22nd, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 13th Legislative District, Bayshore Tea Party Group, LD 13, Primary Election | Tags: Amy Handlin, continuity of representation, Declan O'Scanlon, Dr. Alan Rosenthal, Edna Walsh, Frank Lautenberg, Frank Pallone, Joe Kyrillos, Leigh-Ann Bellew, Provolone is cheese | 1 Comment »