I like that. Let's just call him Junior."If we can't count on our two senators to fight for New Jersey and a highly qualified judicial appointment, who can we count on to fight for us?" Kean said.
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""We take the views of all our constituents seriously," Menendez spokesman Matthew Miller said. "Right now, the calls into our office are going 83 percent against confirmation, but we'll add Junior's call to the list.""
With the Republican's campaign sometimes omitting the "Jr." in the candidate's name, Democrats have begun pointedly dropping the "Tom Kean." Kean is the son of former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, and his name is probably helping to make him more of a threat to Menendez than most Republicans would be in Democratic-leaning New Jersey."
Let's hope it's just his genetic popularity that's causing the closeness in the race so far: the latest poll figures (from Quinnipiac) show Menendez with a slim 2% lead over Junior, 38%-36%. However, for "favorable" ratings, 64% of residents state that they haven't heard enough to make up their minds about both Senator Menendez and Junior. There's plenty of time; I'm sure we'll hear a lot from both men in the next few months.
(hat tip to bluejersey for the NorthJersey.com link)
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Junior is a perfectly polite and bitchy moniker.
Junior it is!
That was actually my first impulse when I read your earlier post. I shoulda piped up!
I'm thrilled to hear that most of the phone calls to Menendez's office are against confirmation. I did indeed call when I couldn't find an working email for the Senator.
I think we should give Junior, who has accomplished precisely zero as far as anyone knows, the same latitude to form an opinion as we give Paris Hilton, and those opinions carry about the same weight.
Let's see him go do a stint in the Peace Corps. Then I might listen to him. Might.
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