Courier Post Endorses Zimmer

In the continuing saga of the New Jersey's secret Senate campaign, one newspaper has had enough.

In the spring, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg defeated U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews of Haddon Heights in the Democratic primary for the Senate nomination. Since then, Lautenberg has laid low, so low, in fact, that his race against Republican Dick Zimmer, a former congressman, has gone virtually unnoticed in a year when politics are on just about everyone's mind.

No one in this state is happy with the status quo. Whether or not the Democrats who control it want to admit it, they have performed abysmally. While other states were getting their fiscal house in order the past several years, the New Jersey governor and legislature has been simultaneously stealing the citizens blind (convictions of Democrat politicians number over 100 and rising) and bankrupting the state. They only know how to spend and have absolutely no self control. It is time for a change but the citizens in this state don't get it.

Zimmer, who spent six years in the House of Representatives in the 1990s representing Central Jersey, is not the most electric candidate in the world. But he knows the issues and he's got a pedigree when it comes to opposing any and all tax increases. And he recognizes just how off-kilter things are in New Jersey, where residents pay the highest amount in the nation in total taxes when local, county, state and federal taxes are all put together. We're first in taxes and, as Zimmer also points out, 50th out of 50 states in getting money back from Washington. New Jersey gets just 61 cents back in federal funding for projects here for every $1 in taxes we send to Washington.

Lautenberg, who's been in the Senate since 1982 except for a two-year hiatus in 2001 and 2002, has had his chance to reverse that trend and done nothing. Worse, he failed to really acknowledge the seriousness of this problem at the meeting Thursday, instead defending his performance by touting a few institutions he's gotten money for over the years.

And the biggest joke in all of this is that Lautenberg had to be embarrassed out of his hidey-hole to even participate in the debate this past week. He doesn't feel the need to address the issues and deal with voters. But then, I often wonder whether the real reason he is hiding is that he may no longer be completely in control of his faculties. If he is so proud of what he has done for New Jersey, come out and tell us Frank.

Read the endorsement here.

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Lautenberg comes out of hiding - Debate today with Zimmer!

Our Senator has finally come out of hiding and will be debating Dick Zimmer today from 2-3:30. It is clearly about time for him to make at least a pretense of answering to the voters. I don't care who the candidate is and even if I really liked them, if someone I supported refused to come out of hiding and discuss the issues, that would be the end of my vote. Unfortunately, many voters just don't seem to care.

Click HERE to watch the debate between 2-3:30.

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Still Looking for Lautenberg!

Our state Senator Frank Lautenberg continues to hide from any kind of interaction with his opponent. You see, the Senator doesn't feel he should dignify the citizens of New Jersey with any substantive discussions of policy, priorities or any of his plans for the state for the next six years. Dick Zimmer is trying to get him to come out of his cave:

But Frank Lautenberg, the man who now holds the job, has pretty much ignored Mr. Zimmer, the Delaware Township Republican who entered the primary race at the last minute and went on to win the nomination.


Mr. Zimmer's campaign has appeared at what he calls the boondoogle Secaucus train station named after Mr. Lautenberg, issued press releases on what he calls wasteful spending Mr. Lautenberg has voted for, and used a cardboard cutout of the senator to illustrate that Mr. Lautenberg won't stand on the same stage with him. There's only one scheduled debate, and that's the Saturday night before the election.

"He's showing disrespect to the voters and the governmental process," said Mr. Zimmer. "It's a matter of good government that a man who seeks to represent the state for six years should explain why he deserves to be elected.

We will continue to look for the Senator and see if he decides to every answer anything from anyone in this state. What is actually criminal is that no media or the citizens of this state seem to care. That is pathetic. It is even more pathetic when you consider that he only got the job through a Democrat scam after their former corrupt Senator had to bow out the last time.

Read the entire article here.

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