Ingrid Reed
Ingrid Reed
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You need to implement pay-to-play reform at the county level, because counties are the places where an awful lot of business actually gets done.
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Even though people don't pin the 'R' or 'D' on their sleeve, they pretty much vote one way or the other, and the campaigns know that.
looks numbers
At this point, those numbers look good. It looks like New Jersey.
honest learning
I think he was being very honest when he said he was just learning how to do this.
courting knows needs vote
I think he knows that he needs every vote he can get. To some extent, by courting these groups, he's saying, 'I'm an independent-minded person.
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It all depends. If there's a really heated election contest and people bring it up in a concerted way, there's enough there to hurt him. The tapes are out there and the swaggering we heard is distasteful to many people.
simplicity struck
I was struck by the simplicity of it.
attention paying seen themselves
To the voters, they are not paying attention to this. It's too early. We have all seen lawmakers aggrandize themselves with the gasoline-price escalation.
looking sort
It's sort of like looking at your own salary, and saying, well, I only have about three-quarters of that in hand. What am I not going to do?
ethics exactly rules
It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.
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Banks want to stay clear of risky investments, like those that could be tied up in court. They also are sensitive to the public they serve and don't want their parking lots ringed with pickets.
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Any candidate has to deal with the fact that from the beginning New Jersey was a state of communities.
cynics-and-cynicism
I think to a lot of voters, this kind of thing just reinforces their cynicism. Doug Forrester has campaigned, and is campaigning, in a way to say that 'I'm not like other politicians and I don't do the things they do.' So it cancels out his message.
bringing needs
On balance, I think that he's bringing in new blood, but he's also recognizing that he needs experienced people.