By Matt Rooney
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When it sounds too good to be true, Save Jerseyans?
It usually is. Especially in the twisted, mixed-up, and rarely transparent world of electoral politics.
The latest Election 2018 example:
Back on March 1, 2018, the Millburn Patch posted an article titled “NJ Congress Candidate Refuses ‘Dark Money,’ Gets PAC Thumbs-Up” relating how “Tom Malinowski, a Democrat challenger for U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance’s seat in New Jersey’s 7th District, announced that he has received an endorsement from campaign finance reform advocates End Citizens United (ECU).“
The same group is also reportedly supporting presumptive Democrat nominee Congressional candidate Mikie Sherrill up in NJ-11.
Then? Just yesterday?
The New York Times reports “Big Donors Form New Alliance to Seize House From Republicans“….
“Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $10 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans.”
And…
“Paperwork to form the House Victory Project was filed last month with the Federal Election Commission and it listed 10 initial Democratic House candidates: Tom Malinowski and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey…”
Oops.
If Malinowski and Sherrill were true anti-big money crusaders? Dedicated to purifying our political system of special interests’ influence?
They condemn this new shadowy super-group.
But they won’t, because they’re not.
Like I said: if it sounds too good to be true? Then it’s probably just more “do what I say, but not what I do” bull–t from Tom Malinowski or Mikie Sherrill or, in this case, both.
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