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Liberals Believe It's Time To Change The Rules Of GamePaul M. WeyrichWednesday, Oct. 2, 2002 The decision of Sen . Bob Torricelli, D-N.J., to withdraw as a candidate for reelection little more than a month before the election presents the opportunity for liberals once again to try to change the rules of the game. This much you can be sure of: they are finding it very difficult to resist the opportunity. Actually, the way liberals envision our nation's laws is similar to the way that baseball players envisioned playing cards in the novel, "Bang the Drum Slowly." These ball...

The Trenton Times said Lautenberg 'has indicated that he is willing to pay for much of his campaign,' but Roll Call reported yesterday that Lautenberg said he won't.The paper also dramatically raises the prospect that Torch 'wages a guerilla war' now against the Lautenberg campaign.But, ouch, one Democrat declared yesterday the Toricelli 'is no longer relevant to the Democratic Party. He's going to learn that very quickly.''After Pallone dropped out (yesterday) Tooicelli was eventually persuaded to let his war chest be used by Lautenberg, the Bergen Record says.

I just heard Clarence Page say it wouldn't look good for the GOP to win the race in N.J. via a Judicial ruling. That got me to thinking. What if the GOP wins their court case and the Torch has to stay on the ballot? He said he's not running again but if he is on the ballot he's on the ballot. If he were to win (no way it happens but just as a question to those lefty losers) and they've spent weeks saying he's not running, let us run someone else because it won't be fair to not...

Calling Freeper lawyers: If the NJ Supreme Court allows the demonrats to change candidates, is this appealable to US Supreme Court?

he New Jersey Supreme Court intervened today in the political wrangling over whether Democrats can name a replacement for Senator Robert G. Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot, saying that it will hear arguments in the case on Wednesday. Lawyers for the New Jersey State Democratic Party had filed a motion in Middlesex County Superior Court this morning in an attempt to remove Mr. Torricelli's name from the ballot and to appoint a replacement. But hours later, the Supreme Court issued an order saying it would hear the case directly instead of waiting for the lower court to act. A...

The New Jersey Democratic party's claim that it can anoint a new candidate, based on the political calculation that incumbent Robert Torricelli will probably lose, appears to be baseless. Although news reports have not specified what parts of the law the Democrats are citing, New Jersey statutes are available on the Internet. Let's start with the basic statute on vacancy (NJ Statute 19:13-20): In the event of a vacancy, howsoever caused, among candidates nominated at primaries, which vacancy shall occur not later than the 51st day before the general election, or in the event of inability to select a...

McGreevey still stauling on names, I dont know if this is just formal filing the paperwork for arguements or an emergency session of the court.Anyway, adlust your schedules accordingly!

<p>WASHINGTON — The high-stakes battle for control of the Senate took a jolt of added intrigue Monday when embattled Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli halted his re-election bid in New Jersey rather than risk a defeat that could give Republicans the majority.</p>

Clinton: Run 'The Boss' for 'Torch's' Seat Ex-president Bill Clinton is urging New Jersey Democratic Party officials to consider mounting a write-in campign for rock star Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen to replace Sen. Robert Torricelli, if the GOP succeeds in persuading the courts that Torricelli failed to terminate his campaign in time for someone else to take his place on the ballot. "Bill Clinton is suggesting Bruce Springsteen," the Hotline's Craig Crawford told a stunned John Batchelor and Paul Alexander on their nightly WABC Radio broadcast. "Bill Clinton is pushing New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen," he repeated, adding, "particularly if...

Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., announced this afternoon that he was dropping out of his re-election campaign. In a long and astonishingly self-congratulatory speech, the disgraced senator claimed credit for everything from saving abused women to cracking down on gun ownership - and failed to mention his corruption, which was ruining his campaign for re-election. He said he was stepping aside to prevent the Democrats from losing control of the Senate. "The is a political campaign devoid of all issues," he complained. "... I cannot be heard. If I cannot be heard, then someone else must be heard." He whined: "When...

19:3-26.  Vacancies in United States senate;  election to fill; temporary appointment by governor    If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this state in the United  States senate, it shall be filled at the general election next succeeding the  happening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within thirty days next  preceding such election, in which case it shall be filled by election at the  second succeeding general election, unless the governor of this state shall  deem it advisable to call a special election therefor, which he is authorized  hereby to do.     The governor of this state may...

Fox News just said that the AP is saying that Torricelli may drop out of the senate race. Details to follow!

Foxnews just reported that the Torch may be dropping out ofthe race. As per a DemonRat Source in N.J..

<p>Now we know why Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., fought so hard to keep New Jerseyans from seeing a government memo about his sleazy relationship with a campaign contributor. The senator can claim that he didn't know its contents, but he had to know that it was all about the cash and gifts that he accepted from David Chang. Torricelli can give it his best "O.J. denial," but it sure looks like his office was for sale.</p>

<p>HASBROUCK HEIGHTS -- U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige campaigned for Republican Senate candidate Doug Forrester at a library Thursday, calling for more federal funding for Garden State schools and including moral and ethical lessons in the classroom.</p> <p>"Leadership matters," Paige said, echoing Forrester's campaign theme, that Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli is ethically unfit for the job. "It is awfully important we have people of very high moral standards. Ethical men and women."</p>

Dear Forrester supporter, Last night, WNBC News 4 New York ran a promo during West Wing that it will air a special report "The Prisoner & the Politician" with new information about Mr. Torricelli's relationship with David Chang. The report will air tonight on News 4 New York at 5 p.m. and is being filed by Jonathan Dienst, one of the driving investigative reporters who has uncovered much of the information on the Torricelli-Chang affair. Tell your friends and families. Sincerely, Bill Pascoe Campaign Manager Forrester 2002

<p>Something amazing happened yesterday. I attended a rally of a bunch of political activists backing an unpopular candidate who is rapidly sinking in the polls -- and they weren't Republicans.</p> <p>The rally was held yesterday afternoon by union activists who are supporting Bob Torricelli, the Democrat who is the senior senator from New Jersey. It featured U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. It followed a far more successful rally earlier in the day featuring the President of the United States.</p>

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — Prominent national Democrats now regard Senator Robert G. Torricelli of New Jersey as their party's most vulnerable Senate incumbent, prompting concern that his endangered seat might cost Democrats control of the Senate. Many Democrats said they had expected Mr. Torricelli to more easily overcome his ethics troubles. Instead, his predicament has roiled the party and stirred resentment toward him among fellow Democrats. Some of them say that Mr. Torricelli's wounds are self-inflicted and that he opened himself to attack — not to mention gave ammunition to his Republican challenger, Douglas R. Forrester — by engaging in...

Insight on the News - Daily Insight Issue: 10/01/02 Torricelli's Terrorist-List Friends By Kenneth R. Timmerman Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) is facing what could be the toughest election campaign of his life, embroiled in a series of campaign-finance scandals that Republican challenger Douglas Forrester skillfully has exploited. The real surprise in this campaign is not Torricelli's sleazy New Jersey politics or his relationship to David Chang, the businessman who has admitted in court to making illegal campaign contributions to the "Torch" [see "Taking on 'The Torch,'" Sept. 23]. It has come from revelations, first aired by the American Spectator...

<p>September 18, 2002 -- FIFTY years ago today, the New York Post published an article that led to one of the most memorable speeches in American history and forever changed the nature of this nation's politics.</p> <p>Decades before Watergate, a furor over ethics almost ended the career of then-Sen. Richard Nixon. And his spectacular recovery has important lessons for New Jersey's Sen. Bob Torricelli, another pol fighting for his political life in the wake of an ethics mess.</p>