The 2 days that shook New Jersey and national politics. Torricelli's exit brought tug of war

New Jersey Star-Ledger ^ | Sunday, October 06, 2002

[DWPittelli]

Bob Torricelli was missing in action.

Locked in a heated re-election bid and facing mounting questions about his ethics, the senior senator from New Jersey was expected at a Hoboken Arts Festival last Sunday afternoon.

He never showed.

Torricelli was at his New Brunswick headquarters, reviewing results of an internal poll tracking his re-election prospects. The news was grim. Torricelli's support was collapsing, and he trailed by double digits.

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[Old Professer]

That night, he and some longtime friends and advisers met at Marsilio's, an Italian restaurant and haunt for politicos in Trenton. They drank the restaurant's trademark jugs of wine and reminisced. Torricelli remarked that the atmosphere was like "someone's grandmother died."

Why do I keep getting a picture of a fat, aging Brando re-reading this sentence?

[Mute]

Torricelli called Angelo Genova, the Democratic Party's top election lawyer, and asked: Is it possible, just five weeks before Election Day, to put another candidate on the ballot?

And Ange "No Nose" Genova said, "You kidding? This is New Jersey. Anything's possible."

... two state troopers on the Governor's protective detail delivered pizzas

I'll bet these guys are happy they went to college and the academy so they could be pizza delivery boys.

[Ed_in_NJ]

"Tell Frankie Mothballs we got a job for him...."

[Dan from Michigan]

"I made him an offer he couldn't refuse"

[marktwain]

It is amazing how they discuss this manipulation of the electoral process so openly. If there was any sense in New Jersey, all of these people would be strung up from the lamp posts.

[exit82]

I love the way this article attempts to show that Torricelli was the initiator of own political demise. That's a load of manure. He was told by party bosses--Daschle,Clinton,McAuliffe--the jig was up and get ready to step aside. It's absurd to think that Torricelli was so high-minded and unselfish that he willing stepped out of consideration in the race--that goes against anything that we know about his character, or lack thereof, for the last thirty years.

[marktwain]

Excellent point. Obvious, once you brought it up.

[aristeides]

I agree. This is just the DNC line, that Torch chose to go, instead of being pushed.

Anybody know what the national Dem leaders would have against Roberts?

[SW6906]

You notice how in this entire process there's not one discussion about whether or not what they wanted to do was legal or not? Not any consideration given to the law, just what will keep them in power....