Frank Lautenberg/Rush Holt paid out race-tinged hush money?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 05:30 PM  | 

I believe that the word that both the senior Democratic Senator from NJ, and the Democratic Congressman from NJ-12, would insist on seeing here would be allegedly. As in, allegedly former canvass worker Christopher Nastuk was told that it would be, ah, “demographically undesirable” to use African-American canvassers in Holt’s lily-white district. Or, allegedly the minority canvassers that Nastuk did hire were fired anyway “and | Read More »

Hmm. Meet Mike Halfacre (R Cand, NJ-12).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 30th at 02:09 PM  | 

(H/T: Instapundit) This one is speculative: while NJ-12 is only D+5, its incumbent is Rush Holt, who has held the seat for ten years now, with election margins in the 60s. On the other hand, that’s also enough time to get sloppy; he’s a good bit more liberal than you’d expect from somebody in a D+5 seat; and if this report is correct he’s not | Read More »