THE ETERNAL MONEY GRUB

Take a guess how long it took for Cory Booker to start begging donations for his next campaign.

Go on, take a guess.

It was the very day he was elected in the special election!  In fact, his email stated that he had just gotten ". . . off the stage at our victory rally here in Newark, and before I go celebrate with family, friends, staff, volunteers, and other supporters who made this incredible night possible, I wanted to send you a quick note."

Now I do understand that it's only 14 months until that seat has to be run for again, but my Lord!  Show a modicum of decorum!  Even his opponent waited a week before trying to fill the hole in his campaign war-chest, and his need is much more immediate than Booker's, because he's seriously in debt having, according to him, been thrown under the bus by the Republican organization. 

I should explain that I was on both campaigns' email lists, so I could watch what they were saying about each other.  I've always believed that what you say about your opponent says a lot more about you than what you say about yourself.

Speaking about what politicians say, I do wish that local candidates who buy time on television would be more precise in identifying what they're running for.  Most of us don't follow county and township politics to readily recognize a set of names as opponents in our or some other municipality's.  After all, there are at least eight counties (four in NJ) and innumerable municipalities in the greater Philadelphia market area.  It would certainly help viewers pay more attention if we could hear what seat someone is running for.