Spencer HQ up and running on Hawthorne Avenue
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
Assemblywoman Grace Spencer (D-Newark) officially opened her district office on Hawthorne Avenue in the South Ward on Friday in a well-attended event. U.S. Rep. William Payne (D-Newark), Essex county Party chairman Phil Thigpen, Sen. Ronald Rice (D-Essex), Assemblyman Thomas Giblin (D-Montclair), Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark), Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Newark) and local elected officials were among the 150 people who joined Spencer for the kick-off. "I plan to have a larger event in September," said Spencer. The office opening comes in the wake of a suggestion by former Assemblyman William Payne (D-Newark) that he wouldn't rule out a primary run against Spencer. Although he bucked the system last year and ran off the line, Payne remains in a powerful inner sanctum. He serves as deputy chief of staff to Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, a job title shared by Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, who in 2007 topped the ticket with Spencer. For her part, Spencer, an ally of Newark Mayor Cory Booker but a lifelong South Warder in her own right and staffer to former Councilman Donald Bradley, isn't exactly cozy with the DiVincenzo wing of the party. West Ward Councilman Ronald Rice, son of the senator, recently told PolitickerNJ.com that he would help generate support for Spencer in the event party brass decides to run Payne against her next year. "If he challenges Assemblywoman Spencer (with organizational support), this would be the only community where the Democratic Party picked the grandfather over the grandaughter," Rice said. "We will send a message that if you don’t get off the stage, we will mobilize to keep you off the stage. We’ll galvanize Obama people this year for next year. "We won't go along like robots, and we don't forget that Wynona Lipman wanted Mildred Crump to have her Senate seat when Sharpe James took that seat for himself. It's dangerous in this era to mess around with an African American woman." 
Assemblywoman Grace Spencer (D-Newark): Politicker photo
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"I plan on having a larger event in September"
This says it all. Why have a larger event? If its not to announce something grand like doing something on behalf of your constitents, please for the love of god, don't. We don't need another photo op for the Phil Thigpens of the universe. PULEAZEE. Do some good work and THEN have a party! Don't get sucked in lady-CHANGE IS GOOD!
For the sake of clarity lets flesh this story out....
This Assembly has been in session since January. Assemblywoman Spencer was sworn in seven months ago. Are we now supposed to be excited that she has opted, in a sadly lackluster way, to be available to the citizens of the 29th district? It is no wonder that there are serious discussions going on from Chancellor avenue to Heller Parkway on what to do with this poor example of a public servant. If this is emblematic of the "New", "Young" leadership we are being offered, it is rather old and quite stale and we are surely sick of it.
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