By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
After looking more than a bit flat at an October 3rd candidate forum in Teaneck, freeholder and county executive candidate Jim Tedesco is allegedly bailing on a Channel 9 debate with the incumbent, Republican Kathe Donovan. That’s what her camp is saying on Thursday morning, Save Jersey
Team Donovan is also saying, for what it’s worth, his “handlers” aren’t making a bad political move.
“It’s really not surprising,” said Mark Campbell, campaign manager for Donovan.
“If I were representing Tedesco I wouldn’t want him debating issues either. With his lack of a record of accomplishment and his connection to corrupt Bergen County political figures the strategy of keeping him out of situations where he can be pressed on those subjects is his best option.”
Which figures?
Tedesco, also the former Mayor of Paramus, had close ties with the defunct (and notoriously crooked) Bergen County Democrat Machine; the Paramus City attorney who served during is tenure there is expected to testify at the federal corruption trial of former Bergen County Chairman Joe Ferriero sometime in early 2015, a point which Donovan hasn’t shied away from pointing out in her recent advertising.
Nor should she.
