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What if they deserve unfair publicity?

You guys are incredible. Even Baroni has said that Greenstein deserves the rescue money. This right wing group is coming in to try to "swift boat" a candidate. The candidate is fighting back within the confines of the law. Your implication that this is improper is astoundingly foolish.

Wow! It's always good to get a comment from Wally in this section. Although you are correct that you didn't take a stand on Greenstein's application, your tone in the post suggests strong disdain for the Clean Election Program in general and all those who would benefit from it. Further, you point out that Greenstein wrote the law, suggesting that there is some kind of conflict of interest. Therefore, you can understand where I am coming from. While the language of the law is indeed general, you may recall that during the discussion of the bill, it was suggested that outside groups interfering with the election was the textbook scenario for when a candidate would be entitled to rescue money. However, I encourage you to do research on Brian Brown: the man orchestrating these attacks on Greenstein. This guy is not from NJ and recently came here from Connecticut. He's the head of a group called the National Organization for Marriage, which wants to add a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He's a socially conservative right winger with no business interfering in the 14th district.

Have you heard the ad yet Allen? The ad talks about taxes, not gay marriage and directs listeners to CONTACT the Assemblywoman. The ad does not speak about voting, although it was obviously targeted for election usage.

A union can come in and make bumper stickers and pay its people to knock on union member doors and advocate for greenstein-deangelo and baroni of course. They can use their money for that..but third party ads can't attack an incumbent?

We all know the Assemblywoman will get the money because the commission favors dems and her opposition believes Common Sense is wrong. And you know what, common sense is wrong, they have no place in a clean elections district. Neither does any third party organization using its money to help influence the outcome like union pac's even though they are splitting their endorsements between party lines. All money used for this election need to come from the three campaigns (counting the libertarians running for assembly). That's it.

If your going to shut off a third party because they are negative attacking an incumbent, you should play fair and shut off any outside influence, even if isnt necessarily negative (meaning the union pac's).

But alas, Greenstein will get her rescue money, and play victim to put out ads that she was unfaily attacked, and that money can certainly make all the difference in what is a very close Assembly race.

Since Brown isn't targeting the other incumbent in the 14th who's also in favor of gay marriage, I believe. However that makes sense, since he is attempting to step up and hopefully be part of what looks to be the Senate Minority, barring a miracle. Greenstein, if re-elected, will be part of the majority and most likely have some power in a committee, possibly the committe likely to receive the gay marriage bill.
Of course that is if she is re-elected...she's definately not safe, then again no one is.