FOP backs Adler, Stender

is the F.O.P turning into the liberal GESTAPO ? Someone please send them a copy of he constitution , plain english version please

Adler: The Sierra Club, The Recreational Fishing Alliance, (and now) The Fraternal Order of Police

Myers: *sound of crickets*

Since when do many endorsements automatically ensure a victory? Not all union members back their unions on a "suggested" candidate because if that were true, then those candidates who have received the Lions Share of endorsements (like Susan Bass Levin against Saxton) and many others would have always won.

The true endorsement comes in the privacy of a voting booth on election day. 

Why would our Law Enforcement Community endorse a Tax and Spend State Senator?  I guess the FOP does not mind that he cut aid to municipalities, which in turn will cause towns to cut police services, which means FOP members.  I guess the leadership of the FOP really does not represent its members (like Carla Katz and her union).

The NJ Fraternal Order of Police has always stood for decency and for the working law enforcement officer... Now? I guess they are part of the Political Machine in Trenton.

The Law Enforcement Community will be sorry - like the residents of NJ, should Sen. Adler make it to Washinton.

Most of Labor Orgs will back Adler and Stender!

me who the organization should endorse. Brannigan used to be for the LEOs now he's for the je*koff politicians...

I love pablo3/gopgal08's spin that the Democrats got "all" the endorsements in the statewide election, but subsequently lost. That's factually incorrect, as Haines got the AFL-CIO endorsement:

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:1M1rP3Wheg0J:www.ualocal9.org/library/document-library/20070710142848.Endorsements6_13_07.pdf+union+endorsement+phil-haines&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

That was a minor coup for him, as that organizational support gave him a core group of volunteers in the 8th district. Further, the GOP ticket got support from a local firefighters' union, among others.

Fast forward to 2008, where Myers finds himself facing a candidate with union, environmental, police, conservation, and other organizations' backing, combine that with the superiority of Adler as a candidate, an anti-Republican sentiment in the nation and district, and a massive, and I mean massive, cash advantage (2 million to 500k at best for Myers), among other factors, and you've got a perfect storm for Adler.

Hands Down!

I stand corrected Martin about Haines; thank you. But you have to know that endorsements are like opinions.

Do you remember several years ago when Bob Franks ran againt Corzine for US Senator? I googled some stuff and Franks not only got the majority of the press endorsements but many of the Unions and he still lost to Corzine.

I kinda have to wonder if the FOP jumped the gun?

OC makes the valid point. What happened to her will happen to Adler. Voters in Ocean have and are strong, conservative GOP and will back Myers like they did Saxton. That hurt her more than anything else.

I seem to remember a last minute onslaught of ads from her on TV the weekened before the election which had to cost at least 2 mill alone.

From the oc/cowardly lion: "If memory serves me correct - and it does - Susan Bass Levin, not only outraised and outspent Saxton in 2000, but received more endorsements than him as well." Apples and oranges, cowardly lion. Bass Levin was running against a well-known, well-liked, and well-funded incumbent. Myers doesn't fit the bill for any of those descriptors and finds himself in a financial and endorsement hole that he won't be able to climb out of. In basic logic, you've committed the fallacy of false equivalencies: ideas that are given equal weight as substitutions for one another but simply don't add up together.