Save Jersey’s Top Ten Political Power Rankings

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

State House TrentonOur 2013 New Jersey political power list is a little more simplistic than most, Save Jerseyans, but we’re big into hyper-realism around here.

This is what it all boils down to:

(1) Christopher J. Christie

(2) George Norcross III

(3) Super PACS

(4) A bunch of Big Labor Democrats and campaign pros who answer to GN3 or one of his capable lieutenants

(5) NJ GOP community: a healthy-sized group of Republican electeds/lobbyists/donors/professionals/operatives/socialites who are directly accountable to CJC or one of his capable lieutenants

(6) Assorted smart folks who write/report/analyze stuff worth reading: including but not limited (entirely) to Bob Ingle/Matt Katz/Matt Friedman/Charlie Stile/Art Gallagher/Brian McGovern/Dan Cirucci/NJ 101.5/Bill Spadea/Patrick Murray – tie

(7) Public Sector Unions (down from the #1 spot in 2009 – Chris Christie’s greatest accomplishment)

(8) Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (down from the #2 spot in 2009)

(9) 1,730,896 DEM 2013 legislative votes, all thanks to the late Alan Rosenthal’s embarrassingly-bad and unconstitutional redistricting map

(10) 1,854,422 GOP 2013 legislative votes, see rationale for #9

Note: Cory Booker isn’t included because, as regular readers know, he represents Twitter and not New Jersey.

Did we miss someone/something else?

I’m pretty sure that covers it, but since we also believe in keeping the “social” in social media, feel free to disagree with me in the comments section. 

Matt Rooney
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