West Ward Councilman Ronald C. Rice didn't appreciate House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's decision to get in the CD 10 Democratic Primary.

Pelosi endorsed Newark Council President Donald Payne over the rest of a field that includes Rice. 

“We are disappointed to hear about Speaker Pelosi’s involvement in an open congressional primary – without giving all of the candidates their due – it’s un-democratic,” said Mike Makarski, a Senior Rice Campaign Advisor. “At every forum where all of the candidates were given their opportunity, Ron Rice has distinguished himself as the most qualified and been the clear winner by majority time and time again. It is no secret why he has been endorsed by the SEIU, CWA and the majority of his and Donald Payne's City Council colleagues. We would have expected better from National Democratic Leadership.”

Paterson gives off that toughness vibe that politicians here even in the leafiest, lawnmown burghs of Jersey strive to embody, and which they quietly envy, if they’re not from Silk City.

The place has a history of devouring outsiders politically, starting with the Jersey Devil, who legend has it tried to terrorize the locals and ended up getting dropped in the Great Falls.

You don’t mess with Paterson unless you have a game plan, and even then the record’s not good for those who try.

Union City Mayor Brian P. Stack is scheduled to send Stack forces into the City of Passaic tomorrow evening to do a lit drop for U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9), say sources close to the CD 9 contest.

Pascrell is in a Democratic Primary donnybrook with U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman (D-9). 

EAST RUTHERFORD - An industrial river to the west and swamplands to the east, South Bergen sits in its squashed-together residential reservoir of churches, firehouses and gas stations like blue collar heaven, and with the rain beating without end, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell appeared in the bowels of the local station here and started shaking hands.

With him were two roughneck congressmen - Mike Doyle from Pittsburgh and Michael Capuano from Boston, each arriving with ready references to "Billy," and eager to tap the funny bones of the local brass as they referenced loyalties to the Steelers and Patriots respectively.

"Send him back to us," Doyle told the firefighters gathered at the station house.